Lines like these highlight just how dominant youth has become in the consumer market. If packaged the right way, anything will sell as long as it capitalizes on the teen-age pressure to be cool. They might see what their kids are going through. Since no cartoon is complete without a villain, a government-controlled record company gets this role. We are wisely coercing teenagers to try products just to get money.
Teens are the final arbiters of taste.
Despite the corporate demands put upon them, the friendship of the three Pussycats stands firm. But the second you fall into that artificial world, everything starts breaking. We show them in their own world, where they are not surrounded by logos and not tracing trends. But they are the entree into this parallel universe where everyone is wearing the same clothes. Jakks Pacific is issuing dolls of the girls with their instruments and microphones.