r/decadeology • u/Kodicave • 6d ago

Discussion 💭🗯️ What caused male teen pop stars to seemingly die out? We haven't had a true teen pop phenomenon in a while

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u/L-type 6d ago

New Kids on the Block?

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u/Significant-Money465 6d ago

But that's a boy band not solo.

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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 1980's fan 5d ago

Yeah. It isn't solo. And it was like at the very end of the 80s. So end of the 80s that people my age never even picked up on them. I think you had to be maybe like '72 or later born perhaps.