page_title: Teen idol
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Teen idol / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: Tiếng Việt: Hình ảnh các ca sĩ, diễn viên, nhóm nhạc thần tượng teen của Mỹ, đính kèm báo Hoa Học Trò - tuần san của báo Sinh viên Việt Nam. English: Images of American teen idols, attached to Hoa Hoc Tro Magazine (Vietnam).
context_page_description: A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan-base. Teen idols are generally young but not necessarily teenaged. Often teen idols are actors or musicians. Some teen idols began their careers as child actors, like Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus.
  The idol's popularity may be limited to teens, or may extend to all age groups. Many teen idols are targeted for adults for nostalgia purposes.
  There were teen idols before there were teen magazines, but idols have always been a permanent feature in magazines such as Seventeen, 16, Tiger Beat and Right On! in the United States, and in similar magazines elsewhere. With the advent of television, teen idols were also promoted through programs such as American Bandstand, The Ed Sullivan Show, Soul Train, and in the UK, Top of the Pops. Today's teen idols have spawned an entire industry of gossip magazines, television shows, YouTube, social media, and whole television channels such as E!.
  Many American teen idols achieve "cross-over" success internationally; however, this list is not limited to American artists alone with some people such as German popstar Bill Kaulitz of the pop-rock band Tokio Hotel.
context_section_description: The manufacturing of teen idols has been marketed more aggressively and with greater sophistication since the 1980s. Many of the major teen idols in the 1990s were bands and musical acts. The rise of MTV in the 1980s and the success of the boy bands and girl groups during the 1990s and 2000s continued to fuel the phenomenon. Besides a combination of good, clean-cut looks and a ubiquitous marketing campaign, such bands typically include a variety of personality types (e.g. "the shy one", "the smart one", etc.)  These idols were often found on the covers and pages of teen magazines during the 1990s as teen idols as well. Classic examples of boy bands include Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Take That, Backstreet Boys, and 'NSYNC, all becoming the best selling pop groups of the decade. Hanson was initially marketed as such a band, but eventually outgrew this label to become a successful indie band. Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, and Britney Spears, along with mega girl groups the Spice Girls, TLC, and Destiny's Child, also became very popular at the end of the decade. Pop star Mariah Carey, was very popular with teens in the 1990s. 
  One major exception was the situation comedy Home Improvement 's Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played Randy Taylor from 1991–1998; "JTT" (as he would come to be known during this time), uncomfortable with his teen idol status, left the show (and, for the most part, the entire acting scene) one year shy of the show's last year on the air.
  Other notable examples from the 1990s are:
  Alternative rock artists of various subgenres such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters (ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl’s current band), the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Korn, Tool, Everclear, Green Day, Blink 182, Sum 41, Rage Against the Machine, Third Eye Blind, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, the Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox Twenty, Bush, Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, Phish, 311, The Bloodhound Gang, The Cranberries, Alanis Morissette and many others were also popular among teenagers, changing the image for "clean cut" idols.
  In sport, Ronaldo was an idol for teens around the world, with Jacob Steinberg of The Guardian writing, "In 1998, no one was as ferociously talented as Ronaldo, whose supernatural mixture of power, pace and skill had made him the player every child in the playground wanted to be.
  R&B singers Aaliyah, Monica, Mýa, and Brandy. After Brandy's television show Moesha went on the air, it brought her many teen fans and she was always on the cover or in the teen magazines for many years. Also on Moesha is where teen R&B singer Usher would make his television acting debut one month after the release of his breakthrough album My Way.
  Freddie Prinze, Jr. who skyrocketed to teen heartthrob status after starring in successful teen horror films.
  Edward Furlong, who became famous for his performance as John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
  Nick Carter from Backstreet Boys and his brother pop star Aaron Carter were both teen idols in their heyday, as was, to a much lesser extent, sister Leslie.
  Robbie Williams of boy band Take That had teen idol status as did Ricky Martin during the Latin music explosion of the late 1990s.
  Rappers such as Tupac Shakur, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Snoop Dogg, The Notorious B.I.G also had large teenage fan bases, many of whom were following the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry.
  The 1997 film Titanic made Leonardo DiCaprio a teen idol; during "Leo-Mania" his face appeared on many teen magazines.
  Most of the cast of Saved by the Bell, Joshua Jackson and James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek, Ben Savage, Will Friedle and Rider Strong of Boy Meets World, Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock From the Sun, Jonathan Brandis of seaQuest DSV
  Jared Leto of My So-Called Life, Joey Lawrence of Blossom (and to a lesser extent, Joey's brothers, Matthew and Andrew), Jason Priestley and Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, and Erik Von Detten of various TGIF shows.
  Sarah Michelle Gellar was a major teen idol in the late 90s, as a re
caption: Images of American teen idols, attached to Hoa Hoc Tro Magazine (Vietnam)
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