ARLINGTON, Texas — When Harry Potter rode his Nimbus 2000 broom all the way to the top of the Hollywood heap, he inspired "Wizard Rock" bands by the dozens to belt out tunes that delivered more firepower than Ron Weasley's Wildfire Whiz-Bangs.
These days, "Twilight" is taking a similar bite out of the best-seller list on its way to the big screen, so it only makes sense that three 15-year-old vampire-loving musicians are just as eager to stake a claim on the literary tribute-band scene.
They call themselves the Bella Cullen Project, and they've spent more than a year performing original songs such as "Charlie's Answering Machine" and "Sexy Vampire" ("Edward's so hot he can set the house on fire/ Yeah, he's one sexy vampire") for steadily increasing crowds of Stephenie Meyer's minions. Next week, they'll release their self-titled debut CD, and MTV News has the world premiere of their first video, "Out of the Blue." (Head over to the MTV Movies Blog to read about their song, "It's Recreation, Not Suicide," which is so new, it didn't make it on the album.)
Recently, we flew to Arlington and caught up with high school sophomores Ally Kiger, Chandler Nash and Tori Randall as they played to a standing-room-only crowd, making a lot of noise at their local library. As a crowd clad in "Team Edward" T-shirts clapped along, the BCP proved that while there might be other "Twilight" bands out there, everything really is bigger in Texas.
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