I think we’re always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut.
A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it’s like to be a teenager.
I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don’t think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
Like all teenagers in the early ’60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we’d be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I’d always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it’s probably not because they think it’s brainy.
Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online.
The powers of the teenagers in ‘The Darkest Minds’ were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
Real estate funded our first creative endeavors as teenagers and we were doing what we do long before the show ‘Property Brothers’ was pitched.
Come on, we’re teenagers. Everything that comes out of our mouth is something that’s off. You never say something that’s perfect.
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they’re immortal.
Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It’s pretty twee, but I adore it. I’ve been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I’d read the Nancy Collins ‘Sonja Blue’ series years ago.
Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They’re better than teenagers.
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France.
While ‘Twilight”s popularity was undeniable among both the teenagers they were aimed at and middle-aged women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her share of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they saw as Bella’s mooning over her vampire lover.
My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they’re only, like, 20. I’m the opposite of that.
If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.
Of course Stephen King doesn’t believe in teen novels. I’ve started to suspect he doesn’t even believe in teenagers.
I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.
I think that young people – teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 – know when they’re being pandered to.
In the ’80s, I was the only one who didn’t watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends’ houses to see them. I still don’t have a TV!
I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I’m the youngest of eight – my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later – so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.
As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes… and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.
It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers. We all wanted to be like him.
Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn’t make it a teen movie.
‘Skins’ is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it’s all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it’s a good show because it’s come from a very real place, and there’s a lot of young people involved in the writing.
In my family, we were all rather plump as teenagers.
We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
But I don’t write about sex for today’s teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I’m more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn’t really change that much from one generation to another.
I read ‘The Hobbit’ only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through ‘The Hobbit,’ but it wasn’t something that I discovered until later in life.
I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, ‘Leave (Get Out),’ I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.
I think that is why this is an important show for teenagers to see because the important thing about ‘Heathers’ is that nothing is black and white, and it takes those grey areas and really explores them and really delves in their intricacies.
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
We actively encourage teenagers not to have babies, we applaud young career women in their twenties, then before you know it you find yourself, as I did, aged 32 at a friend’s wedding and being quizzed by everyone about why you haven’t got round to reproducing yet.
That’s my boy; me and Webbie been together since we were teenagers. Since I was 15, 17 years old, we been in the studio together. We from different hoods, but we been in the studio together, you know. Basically we like brothers.
Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you’d think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
It’s a fallacy that people think that today’s teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
Street dance resonates for teenagers. It’s inclusive and brings in different audiences.
Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.
If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
I love it at our shows when there’s the big, tough, punk guys standing next to the weird teenagers and the gay guys. It’s so weird, and it’s so awesome.
They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It’s scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base… But I haven’t found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them… Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I’ve met.
The first thing I organized around was the Central Park Five case for the young men who were accused. We talked about the unfair misrepresentation of these young teenagers in the media. I’ve been fighting back against Donald Trump for a long time.
I like to joke about being gay because it’s something teenagers would never joke about.
I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn’t changed that much. There’s certainly slang that I’m not familiar with, but among the average teen, it’s still the same.
