Same way fans of "The O.C." darlings and Like-colleagues Rooney get shocked that guys prettier than the Backstreet Boys can wield and play their own instruments, L.A.'s the Like make it way too easy to over-credit the super-cute threesome for the couple of catchy minutes they could've just chanced upon. Still, it's just as easy to under-credit them-- they're no Coppolas (bosom buddies, though), but dismissing them as lucked-out industry offspring's a piece of cake, too: Bassist Charlotte Froom is daughter of producer Mitchell Froom; drummer Tennessee Thomas is daughter of Pete Thomas (drummer for Elvis Costello); vocalist/guitarist Z Berg is daughter of Geffen hotshot/producer Tony Berg. They're living teen-girl pipe dreams, straight-out-of-another-teen-movie plots: the Crossroads classmates started up in 2001 at the ages of fifteen and sixteen-- Charlotte had been playing bass for two weeks-- are buddies with uber-pretty boys Maroon 5, Rooney, and Phantom Planet, and have really great legs.