OMG you guys...so like remember BOP Magazine and Tiger Beat? Yes---I know they are currently in syndication and faces like Justin Beiber and Taylor Lautner grace the covers of the tweenie magazine. However, I want to take it back a couple of decades here to MY generation. Remember when Jordan Knight and the "two Coreys" were one the covers?
BOP Magazine for me was my source for wall art in my bedroom as a tween. I would have the walls plastered with images of the New Kids, Bobby Brown, the guys from 90210, and even images of my favorite wrestlers. Oh yeah...I was all about the WWF back then. I had pictures of Sting, Flying Brian, and Brett Hart. GEEK ALERT!
So now as I look at the new version of Bop Magazine on the news stand as I'm waiting in line to check out my groceries, I think to myself---are these guys this just manufactured Hollywhite kids carved into an image that should be socially accepted to all tween girls? And why does every kid on the covers of the magazines look relatively the same?
So is the guy with the Justin Beiber-swagged to the side-haircut supposed to make me go all crazy and googly-eyed? As a 12 year old girl going through puberty it didn't hit me what these magazines are doing now that I am in my thirties. I loved the Bop Magazine of yesteryear but I'm not really a fan of the Bop Magazine of today. I mean---why should I be? It would be pretty creepy if I was seen buying a copy of a magazine that features boys that could quite possibly be young enough to be my son. EEk!
Where are the black tweens on these mags? Is there a magazine for Black tweens? If so, can anyone comment about it? I'm just a little disturbed right now after seeing these magazines on the stands and thinking that I once was a loyal subscriber for many years. In hindsight---there were very few black tweens featured back when I was reading them. C'mon BOP Magazine---get it 2getha.
