Kitty Flanagan - On Screaming Teenage Girls (I love this woman)
I am not a One Direction fan but I can relate to this, as I remember during my younger years, kids on Countdown squealing to whatever teen idols were on stage e.g. Sherbert and Bay City Rollers during the 70's; Duran Duran and Culture Club during the 1980's. Even when the Beatles were no longer around, I still vividly remember the cartoon shows screened on TV (even during the 70's and 80's) with girlies chasing them during the credits. What a scream (excuse the pun)??? The amount of hysterics amongst the teenage girls is unbelievable. Kitty compares the sound to some squawking peacocks, but to me, it sounds like they are on a Roller Coaster ride or watching a Horror Movie. But what if some 'disaster' were to really happen on one of the rides at a carnival, and people were really going to be killed. Then we'd really have something to scream about, wouldn't we? My own memories of being a 'swooning' teenager were many. I remember writin...