Talk:Teenage tragedy song

message: Would the Rascal Flatts song, "What Hurts the Most," qualify as a teenage tragedy song? I ask this because of the subject matter of the video (a young girl mourning the death of her boyfriend, before switching over to their courtship and the events leading to the boyfriend's fatal car accident); I also seem to remember that, much like "Leader of the Pack," the original video that aired on CMT had a conservative father who disapproved of his daughter's boyfriend for being on the wrong side of the tracks (the mother being more open-minded) and in a fit of grief-filled rage tells her father (after learning of the boy's death) she hated him. The events leading to the boy's death, from what I could tell, were similar to "Leader of the Pack" (the father telling his daughter the boy must go, they break up and he drives off in anger, she tells him to slow down and then the crash). [[Briguy52748 17:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What Hurts the Most

message: Does this article really need so many examples?  It seems more like a list of every song with a tragic theme of some sort than an illustration of the teenage tragedy genre.  "Leah" speaks of a "lost love" but not directly of any tragedy.  "Seasons in the Sun" is the story of a dying man, whose original lyrics make it clear he is more than a teenager. Maybe someone could trim this down to the examples necessary to define the genre. Gr8white (talk) 02:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: - thank you for your work on this.  I think that removing some of the most marginal examples is a big improvement - but of course more work needs to be done on sourcing.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:26, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Too many examples

message: Wouldn't that be considered a very early example of a teenage tragedy song? Stonemason89 (talk) 14:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a need for a well-sourced paragraph describing the development of this type of song from the folk ballad tradition, and a song like "Clementine" could well form part of that story.  But, we need reliable (probably scholarly) sources.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Oh My Darling, Clementine]]

message: can the song Hobo and the rose for Webb Pierce be considered teen tragedy? the song is told by the view of a witness--41.254.1.70 (talk) 21:44, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hobo and the rose 

message: Is this really a "teenage tragedy" song? Certainly, it is "narrated" by a dying man, but there is nothing in any version I am familiar with that indicates this is a teenager and/or that he died tradgically. Indeed, it seems to me just as likely to be an old man recalling all his life on his deathbed, although I will admit when the listed version came out, I sort of interpreted it to be a soldier dying of injuries received in Vietnam Nam. But Nam was something weighing much on people's mind in those days, especially those of us who were subject to the draft. Wschart (talk) 18:14, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasons in the Sun 

message: How does one re-submit an article for review, over the 'multiple issues' that have been addressed? or perhaps it is not quite there yet?  Ghmyrtle -- what do you think?
Dano67 (talk) 17:07, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Per H:MTR, it seems to me that the issues have been substantially addressed, so I'll remove the tags and see if anyone objects.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:36, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review of 'issues'

message: What about The Homecoming Queen Has Got a Gun
100.15.117.34 (talk) 23:46, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: .. it's in the parody section! Dano67 (talk) 05:03, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  but but 

message: The first picture a reader sees is the Beatles, but they're never mentioned in the article. If they're not even on the list of examples, shouldn't we replace that with a band more relevant to the topic? -Warhorus (talk) 13:30, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beatles Picture