Rules Of The Game #5: What's Wrong With Pretty Girls

[koganbot]

Latest column. Comments welcome here.

What's Wrong With Pretty Girls?

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

Re: Why mainstream girls are suckers

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Everything was better when you were twelve.

Re: Why mainstream girls are suckers

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

There might be a slight UK/US discrepancy here, because most girls I know were into boybands into their teens, and BSBs, for instance, had a significant teen audience (though probably not extending TOO far into the teens, maybe 14-16 or so). E.g., girls at my high school liked boybands, though not in the same way they might have when they were 11, and recent nostalgia kick was in full effect even before boybands were totally out of popular favor (c. 2001-2002).

Re: Why mainstream girls are suckers

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Cf. the massive popularity of "Pop" by *NSync, which all girls at my high school that were into pop absolutely adored even in 2001 or 2002, whenever it came out.