When girls scream together: A front row view of the fangirl experience The documentary I Used to Be Normal is a welcome riposte to the ususal condescension
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Documentarian Jessica Leski was a teenager during the 1990s, a decade when such sleek, harmonised boy bands as: New Kids on the Block, NSync, Backstreet Boys and Boyz II Men dominated the charts. Leski, however, remained immune to their charms, a view she carried well into the 21st century.
In 2012, upon hearing a track by One Direction on the radio, her first thought was: “Do they think we’re idiots? They just repeated the same chorus 10 times over.”