“I Want It That Way”: Teenybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands

March 1, 2002

You are my fire The one desire Believe when I say I want it that way. – Backstreet Boys, “I Want It That Way” [1] Among recent trends in youth music culture, perhaps none has been so widely reviled as the rise of a new generation of manufactured “teenybopper” pop...