Teenage Crime (song) explained

Teenage Crime
Cover:Adrian Lux - Teenage Crime.png
Type:single
Artist:Adrian Lux
Album:Adrian Lux
Released:11 June 2010
Length:2:48 (radio edit)
Label:Axtone
Producer:Adrian Lux
Prev Title:Can't Sleep
Prev Year:2009

"Teenage Crime" is a song performed by Swedish dance music producer and DJ Adrian Lux, released on 11 June 2010. The song features guest vocals by Linnéa Martinsson[1] of and was placed at number six on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010.[2]

Music video

The music video was directed by Tobias Hansson in Stockholm, Sweden.[3] It depicts a story about a middle-aged mother who cannot hide from her past by leaving her family in the night as a modern-day cougar catching young hipster boys at a partying nightclub to spend and make out with.[4] [5]

Cultural impact

The "Axwell & Henrik B Remode" of the song was included on Swedish House Mafia's debut album Until One in 2010.[6]

Greenpeace have used the song in an advertisement[7] targeting Coca-Cola for its stance against Container deposit legislation in Australia. This ad was banned by the Nine Network and has since become popular on YouTube.

Track listing

  1. "Teenage Crime" (Radio Edit) - 2:48
  2. "Teenage Crime" (Original) - 6:07
  3. "Teenage Crime" (Axwell & Henrik B Remode) - 7:03
  4. "Teenage Crime" (Axwell Remix) - 6:56
  5. "Teenage Crime" (Instrumental) - 6:06

Charts

Chart (2010)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Global Dance Songs (Billboard)[9] 21
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[10] 97

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adrian Lux - Teenage Crime. Discogs.
  2. Web site: Triple J Hottest 100 2011 Complete Winners Chart List – Undercover.fm News. Undercover. 12 May 2011.
  3. Web site: DemotiX . www.demotix.com . 22 May 2022 . https://archive.today/20130121174817/http://www.demotix.com/news/480285/behind-scenes-swedish-house-dj-star-adrian-lux . 21 January 2013 .
  4. Web site: Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime | Director Tobias Hansson . 2012-09-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101217114853/http://www.tobiashansson.tv/adrian-lux%E2%80%93teenage-crime/ . 2010-12-17 .
  5. http://www.cityofhouse.com/archives/528{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
  6. Web site: Swedish House Mafia –Until One at Discogs. Discogs. Zinc Media, Inc. 12 May 2011.
  7. Web site: Stop Coke trashing Australia. Greenpeace. 12 May 2013.
  8. Web site: Teenage Crime - EP - Adrian Lux. iTunes. 31 May 2010 . Apple, Inc. 3 June 2012.
  9. Adrian Lux . 1 May 2022 . Billboard . en-US.
  10. Web site: Dutchcharts.nl – Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime. Single Top 100. Hung Medien. 12 May 2011.