If you range anywhere between the ages of 16 and 22, then without a doubt you recognize these young faces in the pictures above! I mean, these pictures just make me (at 18 years old) feel all fuzzy inside and smile from ear to ear just reminiscing about their impact on my childhood! You have to admit that almost every little girl was a "FanGirl" during the prime times of B2k, LIL Bow wow (emphasis on the LIL), Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child and even Chris Brown (when he was just a sweet innocent 16 year old).
It takes you back to the days where every magazine your parents bought you had to have this most prized possession and if it didn't have this, you tossed it out: the pull out poster! Yup, hidden underneath your bed, placed in a box in the back of your closet and occasionally just laying in the trash are posters of your favorite artists! With lip stains from imaginary kisses and hearts etched around their faces, posters are prized possessions from everyone's childhood and just looking at them makes you sigh with a smile. At 9 to 10 years old, no one could tell me that I was not going to marry Lil Fizz or Omarion from B2K (who were both about 16 or 17 years old at the time). I just knew that one day, they would hold me in their arms or feature me in their video...which, giving me the biggest reality check, didn't happen of course! But in 2005 at age 11 I was ready for love and the man who stole the key to my heart was 16 year old Chris Brown! Lord knows that during every single 90 minute REM cycle of sleep, Chris Brown was the star of my dreams. I bought every CD, every magazine that had his face; I owned everything Chris Brown related and was not ashamed! It truly brings back memories of a childhood worth reliving thanks to the artists who made me blush, smile and sing aloud!
Luckily this new generation of Children and Adolescents, have the same opportunity to fall in love with artists who almost MIRROR their predecessors!!
I Present to you GENERATION 2K12:
Show a 9-15 year old girl any of these pictures and they are bound to screech! From top to bottom we have Mindless Behavior, if they aren't the mirrored image of B2K then I don't know who is, the OMG Girlz, Diggy Simmons, Justin Bieber and Jacob Latimore. Young, fresh, and ready to take over the world, these fresh faces of music are what I consider the New Generation! They've built up huge fan bases most likely surpassing the amount our beloved artists thanks to the new era of technology; Facebook and Twitter. With thousands and thousands of followers (Justin Bieber has the 2nd most followers on Twitter: 20+ million, following Lady Gaga with 24 million, and is the exception in this list) these lovely children have the support of loyal "stans" across the world! They have been embraced and loved by young ones all over, and have taken over the covers of teen magazines that B2K, Chris Brown and more used to dominate.
These young ones have rejuvenated the new generation and are all the rave. Every group member and solo artists featured above has been making their mark on the music and entertainment world! They have stepped into the huge shoes of successful teen artists of the past and they are definitely proving their worth! So lucky for them, the younger generation has artists they can grow and fall in love with. And I most definitely approve, speaking as a dedicated Diggy Simmons fan myself, of the career paths that all of these artists are taking! Their drive got them noticed, just like artists in the past, and it will surely lead them to success.
-India
