Cruella De Vil - Hayden Panettiere

Hi there. I'm Jamie from over at Fong Songs, a music blog devoted mostly to cover songs and other music I'm interested in. Kurtis invited me to guest post over here and I eagerly accepted since I'm a Disney cover lover myself. With the 2nd season of Heroes starting this week, I thought it'd be apropos to discuss a Disney cover by Heroes star Hayden Panettiere.

The cute-as-a-button HAYDEN PANETTIERE plays the cheerleader Claire Bennet whose special power is "spontaneous regeneration", or alternatively, Wolverine's super-healing on steroids. Panettiere has provided voiceovers for several Disney projects. These include Dot, the little princess ant, in Pixar's A Bug's Life; Suri, a lemur, in Disney's 2000 computer animated film (non-Pixar) Dinosaur; and even the voice of Kairi in the Disney/Final Fantasy mash-up video game Kingdom Hearts and its sequel. She was also in the Disney Channel original movie Tiger Cruise... so as you can see, she is no stranger to the Disney empire. Let us all hope she doesn't become the next Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan, though her upcoming debut album due this year or next is setting off warning bells. This bit of trivia surprised me: she was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for A Bug's Life Read-Along, but lost to something read by Kate Winslet.

Here, Hayden tackles the song Cruella De Vil from Disney's 101 Dalmatians. As with most songs from the DISNEYMANIA series, it suffers from being a wee bit overproduced. But it's not that bad and it's catchy. I'm quite partial to Dr. John's version, but let's leave that for another day. Thanks very much Kurtis for letting me be a guest on your blog. Swing by my blog to check out some Heroes-themed tracks. See you next time, folks!

Cruella De Vil Hayden Panettiere 2007