Teen Choice Awards = Teen Culture?
Author: DavidJones // Category: Movies, Music, Pop Culture, TV, Youth Culture
I’m always intrigued by awards shows that cater to teenagers and kids. Seeing the nominees and winners gives you some sort of an idea of where their culture is and where it is headed (or maybe the direction in which corporate American wants their culture to go).
The nominees have been listed for the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, which takes place on August 9. Here are a few things that caught my eye. Feel free to draw your own conclusions about the state of teen culture:
- Eclipse led the way with 17 nominations. 11 of those nominations were for Taylor Lautner
- Katy Perry of “I Kissed a Girl” fame is hosting the Teen Choice Awards
- Here are the shows nominated for Best Teen Drama:
90210
Gossip Girl
Grey’s Anatomy
House
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- Nominees for Choice TV Show: Comedy include primetime network shows (The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Modern Family) as well as Disney Channel Shows (Sonny With a Chance, Wizards of Waverly Place)
- Here are the nominees for Choice TV: Animated Show: (Looks like the days of SpongeBob SquarePants are long gone)
American Dad
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy
South Park
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- The awards show includes the following categories:
Choice TV: Reality Show
Choice TV: Reality Competition Show
Choice TV: Male Reality/Variety Star
Choice TV: Female Reality/Variety Star
- Miley Cyrus is nominated for 13 awards
- Presenters include Khloe, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian
- Salt has been nominated for Choice Summer Movie, even though it doesn’t release until July 23 and voting is already underway
- 3 of the 5 nominations for Choice Movie: Comedy carry an R-rating, meaning teenagers 13-16 can’t even see them on their own. 4 of the 5 nominees for Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller carry R-ratings.
- Marmaduke was nominated for Choice Movie: Animated, although it can be argued that it’s not even an animated movie (There’s no point to this statement…other than it looks like the panel had to stretch hard to get 5 nominees)
- Nominees for Choice: Music Rap Artist:
Drake
Eminem
Jay-Z
Ludacris
Pit Bull
Just some things I found interesting. Like I said, whether this depicts teen culture or only the organizations that have the most money within teen culture…I don’t know. But regardless I think we can learn a lot about today’s youth culture thru these award shows.
Tags: Teen Choice Awards
July 14th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Check out the audience–it’s made up almost entirely of young teens and preteens. To me, the show doesn’t represent what teens enjoy as much as it represents what young teens and preteens think older teens enjoy.
Just my opinion–you know how those go.
July 14th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Looks like Seth McFarlane is dominating. I think he only has 3 shows and they are all nominated.
July 15th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Jeff, I could definitely see that. I’m stuck trying to figure out if this is where teen culture is, where teen culture is going, where teen culture is leaving, where the people with lots of money are pushing teen culture, or where the entertainment industry is pushing teen culture for the next generation of teens. Crazy stuff.
Gowdy, good observation. Three shows and they’re all up against each other.