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{{trope}}
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''Every kid alive is gonna know my name''
''An overnight phenomenon like there's never been''
''A motivated, supersonic king of the scene
''I'll be a teenage idol, no matter how long it takes''
''You just don't know what it means to me''
''I'm gonna find myself a place in history''
''A teenage idol, that's what I'm gonna be
|'''[[Elton John]]''', "(I'm Going To Be A) Teenage Idol", written for his friend Marc Bolan (T-Rex).}}
An entertainer who is idolized by teenagers.
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The most basic way to tell if a celebrity is truly a '''Teen Idol''' is by whether they wind up in magazines aimed at the teenage market (like ''Sassy'', ''Tiger Beat'', ''YM'', ''Seventeen'', and ''Teen People'') and by whether they become a poster celebrity.
Often, if the teens of the era have a social conscience, a Teen Idol will be the way [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man]].
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{{examples}}
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* Lampooned in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0WDr0fJV2I "The Old Payola Roll Blues"] by [[Stan Freberg]]. At the start a record producer is ready to create a new rock'n'roll record, but realizes something's missing. It takes a member of the band to point out he's missing a Teen Idol. So he goes and grabs the first kid walking by the studio to be his singer.▼
* Chronicled in part in the movie ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''.
* [[Elvis Presley]].
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* [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] used to be one in his younger years.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Farrah Fawcett during her ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' days.
* Nina from ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' was said to have been this in her former days as a model. She would frequently run into men who had had a poster of her on their wall as teens.
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* [[Johnny Depp]] on ''[[21 Jump Street (TV series)|Twenty One Jump Street]]''
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Any [[Boy Band]].
* Debbie Harry from [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]].
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* [[The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries|Shaun Cassidy]]
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* Lampooned in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0WDr0fJV2I "The Old Payola Roll Blues"] by [[Stan Freberg]]. At the start a record producer is ready to create a new rock'n'roll record, but realizes something's missing. It takes a member of the band to point out he's missing a Teen Idol. So he goes and grabs the first kid walking by the studio to be his singer.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Pin-up girls of [[World War Two]] (and onwards) fame.
* Many a [[Page Three Stunna]], but most notably Samantha Fox, Linda Lusardi, Melinda Messenger and Keeley Hazell.
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