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While reading these lyrics we encountered numerous stories of obsessive thinking, potent feelings of attachment, and mentions of much emotional and physical support received and offered through care and sex that seem to guarantee these lovers vital stimulation and freedom. In short, dependence on love seems to be a form of perceived self-insufficiency, a feeling that one cannot bear one’s existence by oneself. Teen pop music writers and performers narrate vividly the details of these feelings of insufficiency. |
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Future research must address the role of the greater discursive realm of popular music, for example by studying videos as meaningful cultural symbols, and by studying the salience of music identity at the social psychological level. |
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By examining a broad and representative sample of the most popular contemporary expressions of this genre and by exploring some of the main theoretical aspects of music consumption, we offered the following arguments: (a) Teen pop music is a system of meanings used by its young listeners to develop a sense of self and identity, as well as to interpret information about the realities of leisure, love and interpersonal relationships, and (b) … |
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High on Love
Just like a potent drug, the love of teen pop offers a good feeling fix. This sense of getting high off of love may come from fantasizing about or actually meeting a love object. Many of the songs we analyzed contain examples of these emotional ‘hits’ of being swept away.
Today I saw a boy, and I wondered if he noticed me, he took my breath away, he smiled, and I thought my heart could fly (Britney Spears, 2000). |
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