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[I was a Seventeen kind of gal]
Apr. 13th, 2020 10:22 amThere was a Oh No They Didn’t post about why Issa Rae the star of Insecure was on the cover of Teen Vogue. Getting herself out there I think.Her show is starting a new season(just started a new season.)
I’m many years past reading teen magazines(I used to save my money so that I could buy 16(which has been around for-EVER!), Bop and Star Hits(and Smash Hits when I could afford it and was someplace where they sold it). Star Hits always seemed like a watered down version of Smash Hits-the one upside was that they had a LOT of coverage of Duran Duran, which, to me, as a fan of Duran Duran at the time was *GREAT*
Later on I moved into Seventeen and YM. I thought they were both good, but I have to give the slight edge to Seventeen.Teen Vogue is a relatively recent thing. YM hasn’t been around for almost 16 years.Given the way trends change and all I’m not surprised that more than a few teen magazines have gone by the wayside in all of it
(16 went out of buisness in 2001. They covered the most trends, from Elvis and the Beatles to the Osmonds and Duran Duran. There were others(like Menudo-I never got the appeal of Menudo quite frankly-I didn’t know anyone that liked them-it wasn’t like they were getting the radio or MTV play..Were they known?Yes but not to the extent that Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet were.
During the 90’s I had a love/hate affair with Sassy.I got what they were trying to do there, bucking the trends that *other* teen magazines were trying to do. Look,I’m a feminist but I thought what they were doing was a bit much(and they embraced Riot Grrl in a big way and tried to make it like they were the FIRST magazine to discover it and guard it preciously. In point of fact, quite a few of the bands were of the opinion that Sassy was trying to co-opt the scene(which they definitely were).
The ultimate irony is that Sassy went out of buisness-well actually it was absorbed into Teen magazine-but not before there were a couple of issues of what fans of Sassy called “Faux Sassy”. The offices were moved to Los Angeles as well.The staff of Sassy found out that they were being fired and had too move all of their shit out of their offices in a short amount of time.
Sassy’s writers and editors didn’t do themselves any favours by constantly sniping at their competition(YM and Seventeen),If you read any sort of criticism of Sassy that is something that comes up.A lot.But to be honest Sassy never sold nearly as many copies as their competition.Those two things explain quite a bit why Sassy failed the way that it did.
I’m many years past reading teen magazines(I used to save my money so that I could buy 16(which has been around for-EVER!), Bop and Star Hits(and Smash Hits when I could afford it and was someplace where they sold it). Star Hits always seemed like a watered down version of Smash Hits-the one upside was that they had a LOT of coverage of Duran Duran, which, to me, as a fan of Duran Duran at the time was *GREAT*
Later on I moved into Seventeen and YM. I thought they were both good, but I have to give the slight edge to Seventeen.Teen Vogue is a relatively recent thing. YM hasn’t been around for almost 16 years.Given the way trends change and all I’m not surprised that more than a few teen magazines have gone by the wayside in all of it
(16 went out of buisness in 2001. They covered the most trends, from Elvis and the Beatles to the Osmonds and Duran Duran. There were others(like Menudo-I never got the appeal of Menudo quite frankly-I didn’t know anyone that liked them-it wasn’t like they were getting the radio or MTV play..Were they known?Yes but not to the extent that Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet were.
During the 90’s I had a love/hate affair with Sassy.I got what they were trying to do there, bucking the trends that *other* teen magazines were trying to do. Look,I’m a feminist but I thought what they were doing was a bit much(and they embraced Riot Grrl in a big way and tried to make it like they were the FIRST magazine to discover it and guard it preciously. In point of fact, quite a few of the bands were of the opinion that Sassy was trying to co-opt the scene(which they definitely were).
The ultimate irony is that Sassy went out of buisness-well actually it was absorbed into Teen magazine-but not before there were a couple of issues of what fans of Sassy called “Faux Sassy”. The offices were moved to Los Angeles as well.The staff of Sassy found out that they were being fired and had too move all of their shit out of their offices in a short amount of time.
Sassy’s writers and editors didn’t do themselves any favours by constantly sniping at their competition(YM and Seventeen),If you read any sort of criticism of Sassy that is something that comes up.A lot.But to be honest Sassy never sold nearly as many copies as their competition.Those two things explain quite a bit why Sassy failed the way that it did.
