One Direction is in AUstralia and I am of a sufficient age now that I can say that I had barely heard of them until a week ago.
The scenes of teenage girls crying and going crazy have been compared to Beatlemania in the 60s.
One girl said she had the week off school when she couldn't get tickets because she was so upset. A week!?! For me to get a week off school it would have had to involved a hospital stay or the death of a close family member.

(I think that teenagers should be locked up until they turn 20 for their own good .. but that's another thread!)

SO who did you (or would've you had you had the opportunity) go nuts for when you were a teenager?


http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/musi...0406-1wh2v.html

James Dean
Marlon Brando
The bedroom was absolutely plastered with photos and I had scrapbooks full. I saw On the Waterfront 5 times in one week.

I still go crazy for Donny Osmond. As a teen, I had all of the Osmond's on my bedroom walls. I believe they were there until I got married at age 19!

I believe golfmom08 and I would get along just fine. I was just so in love with Donnie Osmond, then a few years later it was Peter Frampton!

I just realised this is about music! Oops! Right, Then it was Elvis. Also Gene Vincent, Bill Haley. Later on Dave Brubeck.

Do I really want to admit this?

It would have been a toss-up betweenNSYNC, O. Town and the Backstreet Boys (I can't separate the three in my mind for the first few years, as I gobbled up their music. Never went to a concert, though it doesn't matter.

Years after that, it was Justin Bieber (though, with his newer songs out, I no longer like him).

As for "One Direction," I only really like one song, and don't see that changing.

When I was a teen...not much. As an elementary school kid...it's a different story. Aaron Carter was HUGE when I was a kid. Never cared at all about McCartney or Bieber, they were just Aaron Carter's replacements....N'Sync was also HUGE at my school, and if you liked N'Sync, then you weren't allowed to like the Backstreet Boys. Everyone liked N'Sync because of Justin Timberlake, and Lance (who crushed a lot of girls' dreams when he announced he was gay). A*Teens was also popular, and I enjoy the music. It's basically just a revival of ABBA for my generation.