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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.

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Rick Springfield is saying that the way he was promoted was as a popular young star aimed at teenagers, but the music he actually made was different from the typical style of teen idols back then. This created a mismatch between his image and the content of his songs.

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