Demi Lovato and Alyson Stoner reflect on viral 'She's really good!' “Camp Rock” meme: 'That's what you played?!'

The former Disney stars caught up in Hulu's "Child Star" documentary, and discussed some of the cringier scenes they shared.

Demi Lovato and Alyson Stoner are reminiscing about the experience of shooting Camp Rock — and the cringe baggage that came with it.

"Do you remember the keyboard scene?" Lovato cheekily asks Stoner in the new Hulu documentary Child Star, Lovato's directorial feature debut (with Nicola Marsh). "I don't know what you're talking about" Stoner replies with a mildly embarrassed grin.

The stars are joking about a scene from the 2008 Disney Channel original in which Stoner's character, a self-identified "camper today, top selling music producer tomorrow," plays a questionable string notes to a room full of campers. The crowd nods along, and Lovato lets out an eager, "She's really good!"

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Stoner, who uses they/them pronouns, remembers that they "played a piano that wasn't plugged in on the day, and didn't know what song they were gonna add." The actor recalls seeing the final cut of the first time, "I was like, 'That's what you showed?' I'm supposed to be a talented producer. That's what you played?!"

Child Star takes viewers inside the "Disney machine," as one interviewee puts it, of '90s-'00s child stardom. Lovato continues mining the personal history the performer explored in Demi Lovato: Stay Strong (2012), Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated (2017), and Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil (2021), but pulls in an all-star cast of former child actors to expand the frame.

In addition to Lovato and Stoner, Child Star features intimate conversations with Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson, Christina Ricci, Jojo Siwa, and Raven-Symoné, who also costarred with Lovato on the latter's sitcom Sonny With a Chance in 2009.

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Lovato and Stoner seem to have retained some semblance of a healthy relationship despite the sometimes ugly working conditions faced by child and young adult actors, chronicled at length in the doc. "Why do I know this dance still?" Stoner jokes, watching a scene on a couch with Lovato while they both imitate moves from Camp Rock. "This is embarrassing. It lives forever in my cellular memory," they say.

But neither star shies away from the more painful aspects of child stardom.

Lovato recalls the time Stoner "followed me into the bathroom in Camp Rock 1, and I had been purging." The singer has been candid about struggling with eating disorders and mental illnesses that stemmed in large part from a grueling work schedule and troubling adolescent experiences.

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An archival clip from the Camp Rock set shows Stoner saying, "I don't think there's one night where we're not hanging out, it shows how close we've really gotten with each other. Everyone in this movie is friends with each other, and that's hard to find."

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But in reality, Stoner says "there were entire projects" that they forgot making, thinking now, "Oh, that film." Stoner explained, "I know I started dancing around 3 years old, and I just went straight to treating it like work. And so I think I was dissociated kind of throughout the whole journey. On the outside you look like everything's okay. And then years later you can't remember a thing."

Stoner and Lovato grew up in front of the public eye, and under adverse conditions. They've also both processed the trauma this experience inflicted on camera, too. Stoner released a series of powerful videos called "Dear Hollywood" on their YouTube channel in 2023, featuring candid reflections on their turbulent career under titles like "Why Child Stars Are Set Up to Fail" and "A Child's Body: Open Access."

The two have been able to get to a place where they can look back on their early work with fondness, and even humor. Lovato posted a series of videos to Instagram stories in which the star laughed and poked fun at various Camp Rock scenes, including Stoner's keyboard shredding.

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Stoner also poked fun at the scene in a 2022 TikTok, briefly recreating the head bop dance move that kicks off the keyboard solo.

Child Star is streaming on Hulu now.

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