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Teenage tragedy song

The “teenage tragedy song”, also known as death rock or a “splatter platter,” is a style of ballad popular between the late 1950s and early 1960s, that lamented the early deaths of teenagers, either sung from the viewpoint of the dead person’s sweetheart, or sometimes from the viewpoint of the dead (or dying) person.

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    rock, “tear jerker”...1960s. These songs...teenagers and...
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  8. mildperil reblogged this from readmorewikipedia and added:
    As always, Mitch Benn has a song about this!
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    RIP austin lindsay
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    Tell Laura I love her~ Tell Laura I need her~ Tell Laura not to cry, my love for her will never dieeeee
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    i made a teenage death mixtape in high school. can you think of some great teen death songs?
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  14. kveerkvlt said: I didn’t realise the term death rock predated the gothpunk genre…
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