W h y s p a c e ?
Is the death of Myspace also the death of new music? The year was 2007 and I had finally made the migration from Bebo (oh the shame!) to MySpace. A lot had changed about me that year; I had banished my tracksuit bottoms in favour of skinny jeans and had an entirely new wardrobe of friends to choose from. One day I stumbled across a girl‟s profile through mutual friends and instantly knew I wanted to be her friend. She was cool, older, and every time I went on her profile the thumping intro to The Teenagers „Homecoming‟ exploded through my speakers. The lyrics “last week I flew to San Diego to see my auntie / on day one I met her hot step daughter / she‟s a cheerleader, she is a virgin and she is really tanned” sung in an ironic monotonous French accent intrigued me no end, so I decided to check out their profile. It was there that things really began to kick off. I discovered other songs such as “French Kiss” an unusually romantic song about kissing a girl while watching Dirty Dancing, and “Sunset Beach” about one band member having a one night stand with a girl who then stole his Jazz Master keyboard while he slept. I also learnt a bit about this fascinating band. The Teenagers, consisting of Quentin Delafon, Michael Szpiner and Dorian Dumont, were formed one drunken boxing day in the heart of Paris around a table of frozen pizza and vodka in 2005. Initially the band, fronted by 26 year old Delafon, was to be a joke, mocking internet bands and their virtual groupies. Sure enough, within a week, and despite having no music on their page, the band had received their first fan message. A naïve teenage catalyst named Nicole (who had kindly included some naked pictures of herself for the band‟s enjoyment). Thus, the band‟s first song „Fuck Nicole‟ was born. It soon became apparent that it was not only Nicole who enjoyed their tight T-shirt clad, French charm image that the all-male trio emitted and luckily they weren‟t too bad at the music side of things either. They produced a debut album in early 2008 and soon made