Teen Pop

Teen pop is a Pop subgenre oriented to teen audiences and almost always made by teens. The genre has changed a lot through the decades, but there are common elements like the simplicity of the songs, repetitive choruses, or teen-oriented lyrics. The genre is oriented to the market, with huge marketing campaigns following the artists, with many of them involved in other sectors like magazines, radio programs, TV series or films. The genre's origins can be traced to the 1940s, heavily influenced by Swing and expanded in the 1960s with artists like Paul Anka and Ricky Nelson. In the 1960s appeared another teen-oriented genre called Bubblegum with The Monkees and The Partridge Family as representative bands of the genre. In the 1980s the genre took a frequent Boy Band formation with bands like New Edition and New Kids on the Block and the genre began to take influences from Dance-Pop and Contemporary R&B. In the 1990s the boy bands and girl groups formation continued with Spice Girls and Take That until in the beginning of the 2000s when solo artists became predominant again with Aaron Carter and Britney Spears. In the middle 2000s some artists began their careers within Disney like Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, who are oriented to Pop Rap, Contemporary R&B and Country Pop.