Tiger Beat

Adolescent idol magazine

Tiger Beat is an American magazine aimed at preteen and teenage girls, featuring celebrity news, posters, and interviews with young heartthrobs.

The name became shorthand for a certain flavor of breathless, wholesome teen idol coverage: He's more Tiger Beat than Rolling Stone.

The magazine helped define fan culture for generations of young readers from the 1960s onward.

Related

celebrity · crush · pinup · idol · fangirl · sixteen · glossy · centerfold · boyband · dreamy · swoon · bedroom · wall · staple · pullout · fan · fan mail · scream

Categories
Opposites
journalistic seriousness

Tiger BeatThe Atlantic

American current affairs magazine

The New Yorker · The Economist · Foreign Affairs · The Washington Post · ProPublica

target demographic

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American business publication

Harvard Business Review · The Economist · Foreign Policy · The Wall Street Journal · National Review

cultural prestige

Tiger Beatliterary journals

Publications featuring creative writing

Vanity Fair · The New Yorker · academic journals · art house

Family

tiger, beat, tigers, tigress, beats, beating, beaten, beater

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G