Editing Teen pop (section)

== Characteristics ==
Structurally, teen pop may include influences from a variety of other genres, such as [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]], [[rock music|rock]], [[electronic music|electronic]], or [[Hip-hop|hip hop]].<ref name="Allmusic"/><ref name=secondwave/> Usually, it includes catchy repeated chorus lines,<ref name=sociology>{{cite journal| url=https://www.sociology.org/ejs-archives/vol006.002/vannini_myers.html|journal=Electronic Journal of Sociology |title=Crazy About You: Reflections on the Meanings of Contemporary Teen Pop Music|last1=Vannini |first1=Phillip |last2=Myers |first2=Scott M.| year=2002}}</ref> [[Auto-Tune]]d or pitch-corrected vocals, and upbeat melodies.<ref name=popcult/>

Appealing to adolescents, the lyrical content of teen pop usually involves themes teenagers can or aspire to relate to, such as young love, partying, high school social hierarchies, and often incorporate [[sexual innuendo]].<ref name="sociology"/> An element of visual appeal is integral to teen pop, with teen idols usually being an object of desire or aspiration to their fans, often by cultivating an image of being a [[Girl next door|girl/boy next door]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Higashi |first=Sumiko |title=Debbie Reynolds |date=2014 |work=Stars, Fans, and Consumption in the 1950s: Reading Photoplay |pages=47–56 |editor-last=Higashi |editor-first=Sumiko |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431899_4 |access-date=2024-03-21 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137431899_4 |isbn=978-1-137-43189-9|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Stylish fashion, popular hairstyles, and choreographed dance crazes are important commercial elements of teen pop.<ref name=":0" />

According to [[AllMusic]], teen pop "is essentially dance-pop, pop, and urban ballads" that are marketed to teens, and was conceived in its contemporary form during the late 1980s and 1990s, pointing out the late 1990s as "arguably the style's golden era."<ref name="Allmusic"/> [[About.com]]'s Bill Lamb described teen pop sound as "a simple, straightforward, ultra-catchy melody line [...] The songs may incorporate elements of other pop music genres, but usually they will never be mistaken for anything but mainstream pop. The music is designed for maximum focus on the performer and a direct appeal to listeners."<ref name="About"/>

In ''Crazy About You: Reflections on the Meanings of Contemporary Teen Pop Music'' (2002), Phillip Vannini and Scott M. Myers write that teen pop songs "are targeted to youths presumably unaware and unconcerned with the problems of everyday society. Youths are symbolized as mainly in growing up while having a good time."<ref name=":1" /> Some authors deemed teen pop music as "more disposable, less intellectually challenging, more feminine, simpler and more commercially focused than other musical forms."<ref name=popcult/> In ''Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual'', author Melanie Lowe wrote that teen pop "is marked by a clash of presumed innocence and overt sexuality, a conflict that mirrors the physical and emotional turmoil of its primary target audience and vital fan base: early-adolescent middle-and upper middle-class suburban girls."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv17vf74v |title=Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual |date=2004 |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctv17vf74v |jstor=j.ctv17vf74v |isbn=978-0-8265-1451-6}}</ref>