Other Teen Idols (Besides The Freakin' Hott)
I like to think that TFH are the only super-dreamy teen idols that you obsess over, but I know that there were others before us. I don't like to spend too much time thinking about it because it hurts deep down inside, but I feel it's time to discuss the ultra-hot topic of OTHER teen idols.
Have you picked up a Tiger Beat/16/Bop magazine lately? You know who's in there now? 50 Cent, Sum41, and Simple Plan. Can you imagine walking into twelve year old Breanna or Ashley or Madison(or whatever monstrosities people are naming their children nowadays) room and seeing the walls plastered with shirtless pics of 50 Cent? And how about Derek Whibley from Sum41? Here's the biggest problem I have with this: These nu-teen idols are neither teens nor good looking, so why are they considered teen idols? Remember when the ONLY requirements to be a teen idol were to be good-looking, and a TEEN?
Cast your memory back to teen idol glory days from the mid-70's to the mid-80's. Leif Garrett aside, all of the fresh, soon-to-be dating Linda Blair faces had the same thing in common - they were dreamy. From Donny Osmond to Shaun Cassidy to Scott Baio to Corey Haim - not a scary face among them. That whole "scare your parents to death" thing wasn't supposed to happen until you were 16 and you really got into Judas Priest and Krokus. Someone has stolen those three years between childhood and telling your parents to piss off, and I want to know who's responsible. How do you think girls learn how to kiss nowadays, without a picture of Giovanni Ribisi from My Two Dads taped to their mirror?
I'm going to go buy every copy of every teen magazine there is in this I-Zod-forsaken town and burn them in effigy for Corey Haim's career (and for his poor choice of haircuts in the later years). And there's nothing you, or anyone else on this planet, can do to stop me.
Magg-nanimous
Have you picked up a Tiger Beat/16/Bop magazine lately? You know who's in there now? 50 Cent, Sum41, and Simple Plan. Can you imagine walking into twelve year old Breanna or Ashley or Madison(or whatever monstrosities people are naming their children nowadays) room and seeing the walls plastered with shirtless pics of 50 Cent? And how about Derek Whibley from Sum41? Here's the biggest problem I have with this: These nu-teen idols are neither teens nor good looking, so why are they considered teen idols? Remember when the ONLY requirements to be a teen idol were to be good-looking, and a TEEN?
Cast your memory back to teen idol glory days from the mid-70's to the mid-80's. Leif Garrett aside, all of the fresh, soon-to-be dating Linda Blair faces had the same thing in common - they were dreamy. From Donny Osmond to Shaun Cassidy to Scott Baio to Corey Haim - not a scary face among them. That whole "scare your parents to death" thing wasn't supposed to happen until you were 16 and you really got into Judas Priest and Krokus. Someone has stolen those three years between childhood and telling your parents to piss off, and I want to know who's responsible. How do you think girls learn how to kiss nowadays, without a picture of Giovanni Ribisi from My Two Dads taped to their mirror?
I'm going to go buy every copy of every teen magazine there is in this I-Zod-forsaken town and burn them in effigy for Corey Haim's career (and for his poor choice of haircuts in the later years). And there's nothing you, or anyone else on this planet, can do to stop me.
Magg-nanimous
posted by the freakin hott at Sunday, March 13, 2005
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