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Aly & AJ Dug Themselves Out From the Past: 'It wasn’t sexy for the radio to be playing artists that were on Radio Disney ... we’re not Aly & AJ from the Disney Channel any more'

But their biggest hit, “Potential Breakup Song,” didn’t make it easy.

It was 2007, andthe sisters had already cultivated a groundswell of young listeners thanks to their involvement with the House of Mouse and a 2005 rock-heavy debut, Into the Rush. Aly: I wish we had stayed more organic in our production like Into the Rush and hadn’t followed this electronic-pop phase that labels were encouraging artists to partake in. It was a sore spot for us because it still didn’t get the radio love we were hoping it would get, and it was trying to fight against the preconceived notion that we were very young women in this space writing music.

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