The Disney-star-to-pop-star pipeline is still in full swing a good 30 years after Britney, Christina and Justin shot from the Mickey Mouse Club to astronomical real-world fame. Leading the pack of gen Z’s contenders is legitimate generational icon Olivia Rodrigo; trailing, but on-the-rise, is the ribald, outrageously fun Sabrina Carpenter. This cohort’s black sheep is Dove Cameron, a self-styled goth-pop singer who had a UK Top 10 hit last year with Boyfriend, which made up for its derivative post-Billie Eilish sound with an arch, villainously bisexual lyrical conceit. “I could steal you from him,” she sang with a panto-baddie snarl, before slipping into faux-coquetry: “Plus, all my clothes would fit.”
