Quote by Rick Springfield

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the

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This quote suggests that the speaker's public image portrayed them as a teen idol, despite their music not aligning with the typical content produced by teen idols at that period. It implies a mismatch between the image created for the artist and the actual artistic expression they were presenting. The quote highlights the clash between marketing strategies and the artist's creative intentions.

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