Perhaps the only people who know (or, frankly, care) that Hannah Montana is having its 20th anniversary this Tuesday\u2014an occasion Disney is marking with a live-interview-concert special with Miley Cyrus, the show\u2019s star, hosted by Call Her Daddy podcaster Alex Cooper\u2014are \u201czillennial\u201d women. This micro-generation, of which I\u2019m a card-carrying member, was born between the early 1990s and early 2000s. We arrived in a world re-shaped by tragedy and the Internet boom, came of age during a financial crisis, and chose as our standard-bearer\u2014ask your twentysomething niece or daughter but, good God man, hopefully not your girlfriend, lest you be pulling a Leo DiCaprio!\u2014a 13-year-old pop star in a platinum-blond wig.<\/p>\n
It all started as the brainchild of show-runner Michael Poryes, who had previously co-created That\u2019s So Raven, a sitcom starring Raven-Symon\u00e9 about a teenage psychic that ran on Disney Channel from 2003 to 2007. Now Disney wanted Poryes to make a new show\u2014this one about a pop star. With a pilot secured, he came up with the dual-identity idea that would become Hannah Montana\u2019s trademark: a small-town girl living in Malibu who, at night, puts on a blond wig and transforms into a pop star. It was Clark Kent and Superman for tween zillennials. \u201cMy feeling was that I want to write about a real person, and the fact that she\u2019s a pop star is a complication to real things,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps the only people who know (or, frankly, care) that Hannah Montana is having its 20th anniversary this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11904,171122,99571,28832,2003,137442,171123,171124,17828,70607,58965,171125,15321,37390,168449,146,171126,20156,171127,18805,85,46,68589,5433,5703,68120,442,171128,171129,20155,171130,409,171131,1886,171132,10945,171133,13818,3595,171134,84764,158803,171135],"class_list":["post-351908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alex-cooper","tag-alexis-texas","tag-billy-ray-cyrus","tag-bob-iger","tag-britney-spears","tag-call-her-daddy","tag-cant-be-tamed","tag-cazzie-david","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-clark-kent","tag-clueless","tag-dahlia-foroutan","tag-disney-channel","tag-dolly-parton","tag-emily-osment","tag-entertainment","tag-gary-marsh","tag-hannah-montana","tag-hannah-montana-miley-cyrus-best-of-both-worlds-concert","tag-ice-cube","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-larry-david","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-lindsay-lohan","tag-lizzie-mcguire","tag-london","tag-michael-poryes","tag-mickey-mouse-clubhouse","tag-miley-cyrus","tag-mitchell-musso","tag-music","tag-natalie-baumman","tag-new-york","tag-oliver-oken","tag-princess-diana","tag-raven-symone","tag-superman","tag-tennessee","tag-thats-so-raven","tag-the-jonas-brothers","tag-the-wayans","tag-zillennial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}