Selena Gomez was the lead actor on Wizards of Waverly Place.
Ariana Grande got her start on the Nickelodeon high-school drama Victorious. We got Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera from The Mickey Mouse Club. Millennial pop stars cycle through styles like seasons, in part because, for many of them, the road to recognition ran through kid-friendly outlets that branded them with a stigma it would take deliberate calculations to shake. Photo-Illustration: by Vulture Photos by Justin Bieber/YouTube, Selena Gomez/YouTube and NICK JONɅS/YouTube Pop music goes wherever the national consciousness does, so millennial pop stars are perpetually on the move.
