Among the lessons here, fully graspable whether you caught the movie or not, are the ideas that image isn't everything ("Get Real"), self-esteem can get tangled up in outward appearances ("Perfectly," "Nothing's Wrong with Me," "Notice Me") though it shouldn't, and loyalty and trust add up to contentment ("Tru Blu"). All this is presented rocker-chick-lite style, but it's no less powerful for it. In fact, the music is what's most memorable about the movie. "Pixel Perfect" borrows a storyline or two in concocting the tale of a bootylicious rock idol who doesn't exist except digitally, but the voices behind the masquerade--known in the movie and on this record as the Zetta Bytes--are hardly manufactured. They blow the roof off half the soundtrack's rather skimpy eight tracks and, in doing so, send out a couple of valuable (if unoriginal) messages to 10- to 12-year-olds making their way through their own identity issues.
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