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{{Short description|French synth-pop band}}
{{About|the French synthpop band|the American doo-wop group|The Teenagers}}
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* [[Synth-pop]]<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news| url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2223080,00.html | publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited| title=First Sight: The Teenagers| date=2007-12-07 | accessdate=2008-03-12 | location=London | first=Caroline | last=Sullivan}}</ref>
* [[indie pop]]<ref name="Independent">{{Cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-teenagers--dedicated-followers-of-frivolity-795352.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220620/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-teenagers--dedicated-followers-of-frivolity-795352.html |archive-date=2022-06-20 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | publisher=Independent.co.uk| title=The Teenagers - Dedicated followers of frivolity| date=2008-03-14 | accessdate=2008-04-06 | location=London}}</ref>
* [[Electro (music)|electro]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
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* Quentin Delafon
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'''The Teenagers''' were a French [[synth-pop]] musical trio formed in late 2005, originally as a joke.<ref name="Gigwise">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=41281 |publisher=Gigwise.com |title=The Teenagers - Reality Check review |date=2008-03-05 |accessdate=2008-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305215230/http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=41281 |archivedate=2008-03-05 }}</ref> They achieved some degree of notoriety with the song "Homecoming", both for its catchy sound and for its explicit content.<ref name="Drowned in Sound">{{Cite web| url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2951325| publisher=DrownedinSound.com| title=Triple X Teens: down and dirty with The Teenagers| accessdate=2008-03-11| archive-date=2008-03-04| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304105458/http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2951325| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Gigwise Korova">{{Cite web| url=http://www.gigwise.com/contents?contentid=31574 | publisher=Gigwise.com| title=Wednesday 09/05/07 The Teenagers @ Korova, Liverpool| date=2007-05-11 | accessdate=2008-03-11}} {{Dead link| archive-date=October2022-03-10| 2010archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310060953/https://www.gigwise.com/contents?contentid=31574|bot url-status=H3llBotdead}}</ref> Their debut album ''[[Reality Check (The Teenagers album)|Reality Check]]'' was released in the UK on 17 March 2008<ref name="NME album release">{{Cite web| url=https://www.nme.com/news/the-teenagers/33352 | publisher=IPC Media| title=The Teenagers announce debut album details| date=2007-12-21 | accessdate=2008-03-11}}</ref> and 18 March 2008 in the rest of Europe and the United States. On October 12 2020, the band announced<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Teenagers - Facebook Post|url=https://www.facebook.com/theteenagers/posts/197011145316250|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Facebook|language=en}}</ref> that they arewere no longer active and havehad not been for some time, and posted a link to a farewell song titled "Do You Remember".<ref>{{Citation|title=Do You Remember|url=https://soundcloud.com/user-870049295/do-you-remember|language=en|access-date=2021-06-23}}</ref>
 
==Critical reception==
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*[[Kate Nash]] – "Kiss That Grrrl" (2010)
*[[Alizée]] – "Les Collines (Never leave you)" (2011)
*[[Solomun (DJ)|Solomun]] – "Forever" (2012)
 
==References==