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Article: NEW KIDS' NEW VID: WHY ARE THESE TEEN IDOLS SO BLAND?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1990
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The history of teen-age pop-idol worship extends back past
Elvis, and forward through Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon,
the Everly Brothers, Herman's Hermits, the Beatles, the Monkees and
. . . well, on into the early-' 70s with the Cassidy brothers
(David and Shaun), the Osmonds, the Jackson 5 and the Bay City
Rollers.
You could, if you had the time or patience, trace the
teenybop lineage into the '80s and '90s (Rick Springfield, Jack
Wagner, Tommy Page), picking up, quite clearly, on the fact that
this is music created by older boy stars for younger,
fantasy-struck girl fans.
Quality, of course, varies.
Suffice to say, though, that New Kids on the Block, Boston's
own and ...