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20 Things You Didn’t Know About The New Child Stars of Nickelodeon

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Nickelodeon’s newest crop of teen stars isn’t just landing sitcom roles — they’re cutting tracks, too.

Long before Ariana Grande turned a “Victorious” gig into a Grammy-nominated pop career, Nickelodeon had already built a pipeline from Orange Carpet premieres to recording studios. TheThings Celebrity’s February 2017 video, “20 Things You Didn’t Know About The New Child Stars of Nickelodeon,” digs into the current wave following that same path — actors juggling studio call sheets, on-set tutors, and side gigs cutting singles. The feature zeroes in on four names carrying that torch: Isabela Moner, Jack Griffo, Kira Kosarin, and Lance Lim.

• Jack Griffo, who plays Max Thunderman on “The Thundermans,” released the collaborative single “Hold Me” back in 2011 and followed it in early 2014 with his solo track “Slingshot,” which had already appeared in Nickelodeon’s 2013 TV movie “Jinxed.”
• Kira Kosarin, Griffo’s “Thundermans” co-star as Phoebe Thunderman, sings the show’s own theme song and has built a genuine YouTube following with her music while still filming a network series full-time.
• Isabela Moner, star of “100 Things to Do Before High School” and co-star of the 2015 Nickelodeon original film “Splitting Adam,” has been quietly working on her own studio projects alongside her acting slate.

Isabela Moner’s Double Life Between Sets and Studio Sessions

Moner headlines “100 Things to Do Before High School” for Nickelodeon and previously co-starred in the network’s 2015 original movie “Splitting Adam,” but her name shows up just as often on studio session logs as it does on call sheets. The video details how she’s been chipping away at her own music while carrying a lead role on a scripted series — the kind of dual workload that’s become almost a rite of passage for Nickelodeon’s current roster, echoing the same crossover instinct that turned seemingly ordinary performers into full-blown recording artists once the cameras stopped rolling.

Jack Griffo’s Slow-Build Music Career

Griffo has been at this longer than most of his castmates. His first release, the collaborative single “Hold Me,” dropped in 2011 — years before he’d become a household name playing Max Thunderman. He followed it up in early 2014 with “Slingshot,” a solo track that had already gotten a network platform the year prior when it was featured in Nickelodeon’s TV movie “Jinxed,” complete with its own music video once it went solo.

Griffo debuted “Hold Me” in 2011 — three years before “Slingshot” ever got its music video — proof he was chasing a recording career well before “The Thundermans” made him a household name.

Kira Kosarin Sings Her Own Theme Song

Kosarin’s setup is unusual even by Nickelodeon standards: she’s the voice behind “The Thundermans” theme song itself, not just an actor reciting lines over someone else’s track. She’s parlayed that into a real YouTube following, posting music while still shooting a full-time series alongside Griffo. It’s a live-vocal résumé that stands in sharp contrast to the stars who’ve gotten caught faking it during big television performances — Kosarin’s channel is built on the opposite reputation.

Lance Lim and the School of Rock Pipeline

Lance Lim plays Zack Kwan on “School of Rock,” a series built entirely around teenage musicians covering songs and writing originals on camera — meaning Lim’s music chops aren’t a side project so much as the actual job description. The show gives its young cast a built-in excuse to develop real instrumental and vocal skills week to week, which sets Lim apart from castmates elsewhere in the Nickelodeon lineup who are chasing music careers separately from their day jobs.

Taken together, the four names in the video show two different routes to the same destination: Moner and Griffo built music careers on the side of their acting work, Kosarin blurred the line by singing her own show’s theme, and Lim gets to do both at once because “School of Rock” was built for exactly that. Whichever of them follows Ariana Grande’s trajectory out of Nickelodeon and onto the charts first is still an open question as of this video’s release — but the studio time is already logged.