While they were viewed as Green Day " acolytes ", critics also found teen pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ' N Sync suitable points of comparison for Blink-182's sound and market niche.

The film featured a young Blair Underwood as Russell, along with appearances by old-school legend Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys, teen pop act New Edition, LL Cool J, Prince protegee Sheila E., and hip hop's first successful white rap group the Beastie Boys, who were signed to Simmons ' Def Jam label.

In their wake, pop music filled the radio waves, dominated by teen idol crooners who sang cleansed formulas like those about the twist dance craze and " death discs " like " Teen Angel " and " Endless Sleep ".

Credited for being the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s, their debut album, Spice, sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history.

In June 1990, Anthony left and was replaced by Karen Knowles, a former teen pop singer on Young Talent Time.

: Tammy ( McCulloch ) is a vapid teen pop star who sings in a breathy monotone ; her songs are bland, repetitive, and somewhat nonsensical.

* Gil Ofarim, German pop singer / band vocalist and former teen idol

He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and still performs today.

Though he strove to become a respected rock musician along the lines of Mick Jagger or Alice Cooper, his channel of stardom launched him into the ranks of teen idol, a brand he loathed until much later in life when he managed to come to terms with his bubblegum pop beginnings.

One of the features of many teen idols is that their fans ( and, in some cases, the musicians themselves ) tend to develop a distaste for the music once they become adults, and it is not much listened to by adults, except for nostalgia: the legacy of bubblegum pop.

Tiffany, another teen icon, became a pop sensation at 15 years old thanks to an aggressive marketing strategy.

Classic examples of " boy bands " include Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, ' N Sync, and The Spice Girls all becoming the best selling pop groups of the decade and are often cited as the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s.

Brothers Nick Carter from Backstreet Boys and pop star Aaron Carter were both teen idols in their heyday, as was Ricky Martin during the Latin music explosion of the late 1990s.

* Robin ( singer ), Finnish teen pop singer

In the mid-1980s, key artists included solo performer Howard Jones, who mixed synthpop with the optimism of late -' 60s pop, and Nik Kershaw, whose " well-craft synthpop " incorporated guitars and other more traditional pop influences that particularly appealed to a teen audience.

Music attributed to and / or embraced by members of Generation Y includes hip hop, indie rock of the 2000s ( decade ), post grunge, electronic music, techno, dubstep, contemporary R & B, rap rock, Hardcore Punk, Metalcore, teen pop, pop punk, Eurodance, and in Asia, K-pop, C-pop, J-pop and Bhangra.

Examples include The Moog Cookbook ( alternative and classic rock songs done on Moog synthesizers ), Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine ( top 40, including punk, heavy metal, teen pop and indie rock performed in a Vegas lounge lizard style ), and Hayseed Dixie ( a play on the name AC / DC, they started covering AC / DC songs and progressed to other classic rock, playing them as bluegrass songs, similar to The Gourds ' version of " Gin and Juice ".

Several teen pop acts from US label Hollywood Records, such as the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez & the Scene were also signed to Fascination.

Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s.

For the last thirty years, Mexican pop music has been led by teen pop bands and their former members.

Besides the big hits, he noted that the album opener " Let Me Out " is a " teen anthem delivered at full speed " with " delightful backing harmonies, singing, slapping guitars and perfectly tuned drumming ," that the quiet ballad " Maybe Tonight " is " a potential standard ," and that the pleading song " Oh Tara " indicates that The Knack " aren't strict girl haters.

Doo wop diversified considerably later in the decade, with groups like The Crows (" Gee "), creating a style of uptempo doo wop and the ballad style via The Penguins (" Earth Angel "), while singers like Frankie Lymon became sensations ; Lymon became the first black teen idol in the country's history after the release of the Top 40 pop hit " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " ( 1956 ).

Described by Spears as a " soulful " ballad, it draws influence from teen pop and lasts for five minutes and ten seconds.

They helped to establish the new teen idols and wrote the so-called " teeny bopper songs ", which " blends soft rock with pop ballad, is not explicitly physical and only hints at sexual interaction.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Bring It On was followed in 2001 by another teen cheerleading comedy, Sugar & Spice.

The store where the teen actually purchased the album was never named in the lawsuit.

In 2009, Jones was rated second in a list of 10 best teen idols compiled by Fox News.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

" As a teen, she became overweight and her skin broke out so badly she was left with deep scars which required dermabrasion.

* No More Drama ( group ), an American teen group where Howie Dorough was the manager

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce copies of American records, recorded with session musicians and often fronted by teen idols.

Mizell was known for his flashy wardrobe and b-boy attitude, which led to minor legal troubles as a teen.

He was known during his teen years as " Big Tam ", and has claimed to have lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.

Late that year they were replaced by such successful new shows as the Crawfords Produced Cop Shop ( 1977 – 1984 ) on Channel Seven, which was a meld of soap opera and police drama, and The Restless Years ( 1977 – 1981 ) on Channel Ten, which was another teen soap produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.

Gleaming the Cube, a 1989 movie starring Christian Slater as a skateboarding teen investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother, was somewhat of an iconic landmark to the skateboarding genre of the era.

The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema.

His friend Johnny Depp, a teen idol at the end of the 1980s due primarily to his work on the hit TV series 21 Jump Street, was cast in the title role of Edward, who was the creation of an eccentric and old-fashioned inventor ( played by Vincent Price in one of his last screen appearances ).

This was followed by a fairly steady decline in teen sexual activity ( and teen pregnancy ) from about 1991 to the present day, at a time when many presumed the opposite was occurring.

In 2012, it was announced that HarperCollins had hired Scottish crime writer Val McDermid to adapt Northanger Abbey for a modern audience, as a suspenseful teen thriller.

One of the innovators, Ford Models was the first agency to advance models money they were owed and would often allow teen models who didn't live locally to reside in their house, a precursor to model housing.

He acquired wider notice while starring in Fox Family Channel's television series Higher Ground in 2000, portraying a teen who was sexually molested by his stepmother, and then turned to drugs in his despair.