"It truly was the definition of young love," she said.
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But tales of young love have been ringing alarm bells.
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Young love is real, and The Kissing Booth proves it.
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How many songs and movies have focused on young love?
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"The big beat, cars and young love," Mr. Chess outlined.
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The stage seems set for a classic tale of young love.
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the quintessential story about young love.
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Arc Symphony is a celebration of young love, in a way.
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"It was this crazy young love that is not sustainable," Shaw says.
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She should be worrying about young love, and getting her heart broken.
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The forbidden intimacy masterfully captures the excitement and energy of young love.
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It's a familiar story, chronicling the ups and downs of young love.
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Oh college—those halcyon days of young love, bong hits, and communicable diseases.
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The result is a heartfelt novel about coming out and discovering young love.
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But this theme is charged instead with the jubilation of hopeful young love.
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It is also sending health-ministry officials to lecture students about "young love".
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I performed for everyone else, desperate to experience young love without ever experiencing myself.
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This video has it all — gym class choreography, young love, steel drums, ramen. Nice.
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He dated his The Kissing Booth co-star, Joey King As yes, young love.
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"Everyone was identifying with the [movie's themes of] young love and angst," she recalls.
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JON CARAMANICA Young love can feel eternal and precarious at precisely the same moment.
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" Despite their distance, "It all felt like that kind of young love we romanticize about.
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"Young Love" spent the better part of six months on the country and pop charts.
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Boy marries girl, with a humorous anecdote or two about the vicissitudes of young love.
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But three weeks is a long time in the newly discovered country of young love.
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A couple of regular teenagers out together becomes an iconic portrait of young love. Why?
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"You know how young love can be," Brangman vaguely says, of the reason behind their split.
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Grande/Davidson and Bieber/Baldwin are embracing our lust to know everything about their young love.
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Just beyond the reeds were some nesting geese, and they had no time for young love.
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Only You High stakes romances are at the heart of two sensitive novels about young love.
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Ah, young love — and a ray of sunshine after the biggest, most thunderous episode of the season.
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The talented songstress' newly released song "Escape My Mind" touches on that young love most everyone experiences.
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After all, fans will never tire of watching Rebecca and Jack Pearson bask in their young love.
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Kaitlyn: Young love is obviously what's special about this video, and we shouldn't have to say so.
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Here they offer a show focusing on young love and all its attendant foibles, embarrassments and letdowns.
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His young love interest is intimidated, and realizes she can never fit in with this rich family.
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Romeo and Juliet is as inescapable as the weather, gum on subway seats, and young love itself.
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Grab a box of tissues because the poster kids for young love have officially called it quits.
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His biggest hit, "Young Love," hit the top of the country and Disk Jockey charts in 1957.
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Hunter also launched a career in music and had his first hit single "Young Love" in 1957.
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Luke's bad boy nephew with the literate soul was Rory's most elusive and short-lived young love.
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Like Shakespeare's tragedy, it tells of an impossible young love that leads to the lovers' untimely deaths.
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Ms. Landreau has remade the spunky part, which pays homage to young love, with her fearless verve.
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"I think 'Favorite' is a song that portrays young love really well," Young told THUMP via email.
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After all, there's a reason it's a trope in so many movies about young love (The Notebook, anyone?).
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"I think he'll always be a reminder of maybe the purity and possibility in young love," she said.
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It's not the kisses in the rain, and the way young love acts as a vehicle for maturing.
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So, recently, I called Choi to talk about beautiful devices, young love, and a subgenre that should expand forever.
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In any case, it's the story of young love, which mainly involves young people acting out terrible gender roles!
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Los Angeles-based band The Molochs video for "You & Me" is a Marilyn Monroe-inspired ode to young love.
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However, the glow of success and young love is darkened by a shadow from the past pulled into the present.
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This parallels BTS' gritty 2014 anthem "Boy In Luv," a song about the angst and inner turmoil of young love.
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Classmates of the couple at Mat-Su Career & Tech High School say they were an inspiring example of young love.
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" Cailin explains, "September Rose is about a young love relationship happening and isn't working because it's not the right time.
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Young love is difficult for any teen to navigate, from decoding flirty texts to stealing kisses in high school hallways.
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Young love is filled with ups and downs, and Chloë Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham are clearly on an upswing.
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Less indelible is Mr. Clark's depiction of young love, which has the dancers too often gazing meaningfully into the horizon.
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Aciman's words are chosen with almost chemical precision to create a vivid and exact portrait of how young love consumes.
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But, despite that, Glimpse the Electric joy of young love, The pious intensity to create, In a devastatingly mundane world.
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"Grateful," off of Mahalia (née Mahalia Burkmar)'s album dropping this summer, shows off the carefree energy of budding young love.
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FFVII was a strange, bombastic cyberpunk epic, while FFVIII was a melodramatic story about young love set against a futuristic war.
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There are really few parallels between the two stories beyond the very broad themes of young love, and tragically, early death.
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Defiant and androgynous, she stares down the camera on the album cover, a photograph taken by her young love Robert Mapplethorpe.
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But, as can be the case with young love, the source cautions that "circumstances could change" and the couple could reunite.
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I think we'd work harder than anyone to preserve the memory of that young love and everything that went into it.
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But in addition to its nuanced explorations of trauma, young love, and addiction, "Euphoria" also offers an aesthetically thrilling viewing experience.
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Ms. Dargis called it "an elegy for young love and its lingering ache" in her review for The Times in March.
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Near the end of "My Golden Days," an elegy for young love and its lingering ache, a wind starts to stir.
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These are French photographer Pierre Baëlen's compelling images of young love surrounded by the gritty landscapes of a polluted manufacturing town.
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Shot in Warlpiri language, the film mixes up a traditional story trope — young love battling tragic surroundings — with cutting-edge directorial flair.
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His failed relationship with Seo only reveals her strength of character as she weighs her priorities between family, career, and young love.
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In comparison, this season would almost be a palate cleanser — an intricate piece of pop art, that took inspiration from young love.
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The first track, which I think is called "Young Love," or maybe "A Rose in Harlem," for its sampled intro, is good.
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Summer-set YA romances are starting to arrive, and the familiar tropes are in bloom: young love, beach trips, bonfires, theoretical physics.
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Young love is always a joy to watch — and This Is Us' latest episode was a slice of life put on screen.
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Her latest body of work, a personal view of her own relationship, focuses on the performative and dependent nature of young love.
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It's not particularly compelling, but as they seem so far to be mostly a generational place-holder for young love, that's fine.
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But as it does anywhere, young love still flourishes, and smartphones and chat applications have made it easier to be in touch.
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It's been almost a month since the Biebs popped the question in The Bahamas and the young love buzz is clearly still strong.
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It's fine, it's not like we were depending on two 24-year-olds in the throes of young love for our personal happiness.
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Her music videos are all narratively driven, and portray the intensities of young love in ways I've never seen before in this medium.
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In an impressive take on the island-inspired track, Tobz enlists two young teenagers for the video, showing the beauty of young love.
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And they're images that I was sort of shocked to be so moved by—young love, marriage, a desire to see the world.
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"Call Me by Your Name" is a realistic depiction of young love that is amplified by several tender original songs from Sufjan Stevens.
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A tale of young love, adapted from a novel by Saeko Himuro, it was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki, who supervised junior staff artists.
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From the writers of Deadpool and Zombieland, Wayne is a gritty, hilarious, and sometimes bloody roadtrip adventure tale of young love and reckless youth.
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Brooks's novel demonstrates how Maud Martha's experiences of sexism, colorism, and poverty intersect with experiences of young love and adjusting to a new city.
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If you're exhausted by modern hook-ups, unsuccessful dating app adventures, and young love flaunting their engagements, here is a breath of fresh air.
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Anyone who's been a starry-eyed adolescent knows how fragile young love can be—how quickly the good can turn bad, and vice versa.
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There isn't enough of the rough texture of family life or the complications of young love to give the older Saroo a full identity.
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Amid this budding young love, the pair and their friends are drawn into a complex war involving, among other things, a time-traveling sorceress.
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Boy gets to the gym and we do separate workouts and awkwardly smile at each other from across the weight room (ah, young love).
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It stars Reese Witherspoon in her first ever on-screen role and is filled with Southern charm, young love, and a strong bond between sisters.
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Millie Bobby Brown became the definition of "young love" while watching her pop star BF from backstage -- and after watching this ... you'll be saying AWWWWW.
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Young love can make you do some crazy things — in the case of Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, it includes getting a pretty misguided hairstyle.
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"Before Sunrise" (1995), the first film in the director Richard Linklater's "Before" trilogy, is cute and cringing in equal measure, as young love often is.
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There are middle-aged dissatisfactions and listless teenage drug use and, happily, young love, which is a pleasure to read in Hallberg's rich, empathic prose.
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On January 31, Netflix will expand its Italian Netflix Original offerings with Luna Nera, a series about witchcraft and young love in 17th century Italy.
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PARELES Cool-kid pop made by the kids hiding out under the bleachers, "Homework" is a soothing, crypto-melancholy anthem about reflecting on young love.
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From arranged marriages that have lasted over 40 years to young love between teenagers, these pairs prove that love has no age, gender, race, or sexuality.
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The narrative concerns love: budding love, young love, uncomfortable love, and moves at an erratic pace, just like a first date at a "grown-up" restaurant.
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In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to bimbo summer.
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Maricoa's yearning melodies and Jio P's elegiac production illustrate the tension between the timeless intensity of young love and the bracing awareness that nothing lasts forever.
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The other relationships in the series are treated with similar tenderness toward experiences ranging from young love to exploring one's sexuality to dealing with an age gap.
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Much like young love or your first crush, the small reptile is overcome with emotion and just wants to show its owner how much it loves him.
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The page turns take us back through Nana's life: a rural childhood, teenage frolics, young love, marriage, moving, taking us up to the moment of the grandchild's birth.
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These scenes are painted with scars, blobs, and drips of stenciled flowers, a graffiti-like mess Marshall pairs with the idylls of sunshine, blue birds, and young love.
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Malachi, a handsome new student in Emoni's culinary arts class, who persistently (and respectfully) pursues Emoni, is a deft conduit for her softening and blooming into young love.
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It represented some, though by no means all, of what "hit radio" delivered in 2017: hardheaded women and eagerly importunate men in the eternal strivings of young love.
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They shared a first kiss at the ticket booth inside the Tameike-Sannō subway station, neither realizing that their young love was about to be thrown off course.
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The Four standout Zhavia Ward released her debut EP 23 on Friday and is giving fans an inside look at her challenging upbringing, journey to fame and young love.
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The video for the track shows a couple engaged in the high highs and lowest of lows of young love; navigating their feelings while set against a metropolitan backdrop.
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What seems like a play about free speech becomes a play about family dynamics and repressive religion and budding artists and young love and probably some other stuff, too.
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Her new play, "Black Is the New White," which opened in Sydney in May, is about an affluent indigenous family dealing with urban life, young love and white supremacy.
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A 214-second trailer for the animated short film In A Heartbeat has social media users buzzing, particularly for its brief but beautiful portrayal of young love between two boys.
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I talked to Daniel Jones and Miya Lee of the Modern Love team about what they're looking for in submissions, common themes of young love and college students' inevitable procrastination.
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Among the many things for which he blames Dennis Wilson, who died in 1983, is leaving two young Love children with Susan Atkins, who helped kill Sharon Tate, as their babysitter.
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It's a story of young love and secret family entanglements, with a bit of the era's social ferment in the background, competently brought to the screen by Mr. Miyazaki's son Goro.
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As nostalgic twaddle goes, "Me and Phil and the New Wave Girl" (I mean "Pretenders") initially feels like an innocuous treatment of the joys and sorrows of cinephilia and young love.
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Steve Lacy's "4Real," which the polymath guitarist released on SoundCloud earlier this month, is a stew of delicious production; it's got gushing bass, teenage quirk, and the sweet urgency of young love.
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But unlike To All The Boys I've Loved Before or Set It Up, this movie deals not with young love, but with adults, wizened by their years and set in their ways.
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That about covers his formative adolescent years, which is a difficult stage in life for anyone, let alone someone whose every move and young-love fling is being documented by the media.
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It's almost as if Drake and Rihanna feel more like Richard and Judy on a trip out to BHS than two free, horny spirits caught up in the throes of young love.
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One of the most iconic scenes in the movie is when a lovestruck Sam goes running through the airport to say goodbye to his young love (we're tearing up just thinking about it).
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"Young Americans" documents the ecstasy of young love, but it's stained by a fundamental sadness: even young Americans get older, and the white-hot burn they feel is going to fade with time.
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Though by his own admission he was not much of a singer, his recording of "Young Love" rose to No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart in 1957 and stayed there for five weeks.
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Also I don't want to gloss over how integral hip-hop has been in the late-reality-TV era, thanks to the Mona Scott-Young "Love & Hip Hop" empire and its many imitators.
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Dallas Austin is paying tribute to late ex-girlfriend Kim Porter by revealing that his relationship with the model inspired the young love depicted by Nick Cannon and Zoe Saldana in the movie Drumline.
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There's palace intrigue, young love, closeted homosexuality, illegitimate children, war, assassination — the list goes on, much of it absurd, such as a kaleidoscope of monarch butterflies that land on David's head like a crown.
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Despite only running for little over 90 seconds, the performance still felt deeply emotional, bringing to mind some of the beautiful scenes of young love and peach fucking in Call Me By Your Name.
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The story for "La Fille Mal Gardée" (13) goes back to pre-Christian comedy: The heroine's mother wants her daughter to marry the wrong man, but cannot prevail against the evident rightness of young love.
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It is a record of unbound joy, of Balearic fantasy, of young love, of hearts racing at 140 beats per minute, and if you don't believe me, just take a look at the album artwork.
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In Abhishek Kapoor's "Kedarnath", the forces of nature collide with the force of young love, and you get a tale that seeks to marry themes of faith, religion, intolerance and the destruction of the environment.
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Today, the To All The Boys I've Loved Before sequel P.S. I Still Love You, was released on Netflix, which means we have a lot of tears to shed over young love ahead of us.
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The original production of the musical, a wistful story about young love, opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1960 and had a record-breaking 17,162 performances during its 42-year run.
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There's perhaps no better example of this than Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, a truly ridiculous tale of young love and teenage rebellion loosely based on songwriter Jim Steinman's Peter Pan-inspired musical, Neverland.
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Readers enter a world they would otherwise never know: of lethal electricity wires and persistent mud, the brutal rule of the camp's drug lord, women's struggle for autonomy, the hope born of music and young love.
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All but the last of these were, like "Young Love," released by Capitol Records, and virtually all were recorded in the smooth, sophisticated style of the reigning Nashville Sound, popularized by Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline.
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Michelle and Barack Obama are celebrating their 25th anniversary today, and the former First Lady marked the special occasion with a beautiful black and white photograph of the two young love birds on their wedding day.
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On this episode of VICE Talks Film, we talk with Mitchell about punk's history, what it was like to teach a young cast about the scene's roots, and how young love can feel foreign and otherworldly.
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The film courted some controversy both for its sex scenes and for how its director treated the two actresses, but the film itself is often lovely and striking, a terrific portrayal of young love in full bloom.
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Love, Simon may be a celebration of young love in all forms, but the soundtrack of the coming-of-age story is an unabashed love letter to John Hughes and the youth-celebrating films of the 1980s.
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Directed by John Cameron Mitchell (loosely adapting a Neil Gaiman short story), this loony romantic comedy, set in the London suburb of Croydon in 1977, encourages young love to bloom in the soil of an alien visitation.
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But as the seasons change with the two still seemingly connected at the hip, the playfully candid and admirably un-staged intimacy of their "Secreto" music video stays meaningful as a genuine display of their young love.
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There's not much more plot than that, but director Andrea Arnold is so sharply, smartly fixated on the unsure rhythms and pivots of young love—and on the ways poverty has pockmarked America—that you really won't care.
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" But also reminds us of her amazing ability to use nostalgia to capture the innocence of young love with songs like "8th Grade," singing, "I'm that security when you're insecure / I'll be that baby girl when you're immature.
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The new game is the debut release from Mountains, a new studio headed by former Monument Valley lead designer Ken Wong, and it tells a familiar tale of young love, and all of the ups and downs that entails.
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Mexican actress Camila Sodi (known for roles in Tear This Heart Out and The Night Buffalo) will play Miguel's young love actress, the Stephanie Salas, who is the mother of the superstar's daughter, fashion designer and blogger Michelle Salas.
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The most stirring moments, even as characters experience the treacherous highs and lows of young love, are tender exchanges between friends — new friends, old friends, friends of compatible sexualities who aren't "thinking about shagging," at least for the moment.
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"As a movie about young love, 'The Enigma of Arrival' hopes that every person who has love in their heart can be healthy and safe," one film said in a statement posted on Weibo, a Twitter-like social media platform.
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Grace VanderWaal, a 423-year-old known for winning the "America's Got Talent" televised talent show (trusty ukulele in tow), will make her acting debut in "Stargirl," a bespoke little musical about being yourself and the thrill of young love.
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UNCLE ROMEO VANYA JULIET Bedlam, a company already known for pushing the envelope with pared-down productions featuring actors playing multiple roles, will push even further this season, mashing up Shakespeare's tragedy of young love and Chekhov's classic about unrequited ardor.
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The film's director, Drake Doremus, first made an impression on me with his 22013 picture "Like Crazy," a story of young love fraying apart because one character, a British woman with a limited visa, might have to leave the United States.
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The most stirring moments, even as characters experience the treacherous highs and lows of young love, are tender exchanges between friends Of course the tangled threads of love and sex interplay, but they overlap almost as often as they don't.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is the evening's most promising performer; the group's most recent album, "Days of Abandon," mixes bright pop melodies indebted to 1980s groups like the Cure with the frontman Kip Berman's tales of young love.
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Nicknamed the Southern Gentleman for his affable manner and stylish mode of dress, Mr. James was best known for his 1956 hit, "Young Love," a romantic ballad accompanied by acoustic guitar and doo-wop harmonies that topped the country and pop charts.
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I know things have been pretty hectic lately, what with Model 3 production in high gear, all that talk of Mars, and the throes of young love making the world seem so fresh and new, but you're the CEO of three companies.
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That last one may not seem like it fits in with the more common plot points of a YA romance, but Harriet Reuter Hapgood's debut novel The Square Root of Summer proves that time travel and young love go hand in hand.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 90%What critics said: "Season three of Stranger Things has stayed true to its sci-fi origins in the best way that it could - banking on its viewers' empathy with experiences of young love, friendship, and loss.
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The song affirms the classic pop panacea, young love, as a corrective to aimlessness, pressure and uncertainty, first for the kids and then for herself: "It doesn't matter if I'm not enough/For the future or the things to come," she sings.
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The documentary's first episode strives to describe their relationship with the heady allure of young love, even animating a cartoon version of the couple walking hand in hand through flowers and featuring classmate after classmate who describes Syed in glowing and admirable terms.
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Taking place mostly in 1962, in an England teetering between the staid and proper 1950s and the very beginning of the looming sexual and cultural revolution of the 1960s, this adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2007 novel starts out as a story of young love.
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At that age, I did not know my own value, and was so caught up in the thrill of our young love that I made excuses for him when, shortly into our relationship, he started to call me names and was physically rough with me.
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In "What A Heavenly Way to Die," (a title that is surely a nod to that famous Smiths track about young love, "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out") he creates his own ode to youthful love with a ticking clock on it.
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One group of collages features reproductions of 1930s movie actresses surrounded by floral images, as well as one of Tab Hunter, a blond, all-American heartthrob who starred in movies in the 1950s and '60s, and had a hit single, "Young Love," in 1957.
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Though there'll be a slight time jump before season three begins, the Duffers have said that both pairs will still be together, but the onset of puberty — and the trials of young love — may test the group's bonds just as much as any monsters.
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Badmouth, a youthful, wry, and noisy in all the right ways indie group, covered much of the same thematic ground as the Ramones—young love, the subway—to a crowd of punks in leather, little boys in baseball caps and women in hijabs/chadors.
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But they're also intrinsic to memory, to the passage of time, and to attempts, like this one, to communicate: Young love is irrecoverable, and however personal the recollections the artist may expose, there can never be any real contact between him and the viewer.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Their forbidden young love forever dislodged their lives, sending them into exile in the high mountains of central Afghanistan, briefly to Tajikistan and even to jails in order to find protection from vengeful family members who sought to kill them in the name of honor.
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Having a group to squeal with when Fisher appears in a sharp white suit, to laugh with when Kitty continues her meddling mischief, to scream with every time Peter Kavinsky makes an entrance — of course — added another dimension to a story rooted in sisterhood and young love.
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For the most part, the music is spacious and languid; Cuco's signature use of repetition imbues many of his songs with a genuine tenderness—themes of heartbreak and longing are tentpoles for the album, which mostly finds the 21-year-old balladeer explicating on young love.
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"If Beale Street Could Talk," the director's latest movie — adapted from the James Baldwin novel of young love and ingenuity under white supremacy, and a three-time Oscar nominee this year, including for best adapted screenplay — was written with Baldwin's sister, Gloria Karefa-Smart, in mind.
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Jesse Ed Davis, who played alongside the Rolling Stones and, over time, every one of the Beatles, is here, as is Buffy Sainte-Marie, the protest singer who composed songs about everything from young love and spirituality to cultural genocide and the theft of Indian lands.
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Moments on the album paint a story of a dysfunctional relationship and young love — and I haven't really had the experience in being in a ton of relationships — but I think as an artist, I can paint a picture and a vibe for other people to relate to.
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The two may not have much of a relationship onscreen, where Henry plays Nick Young, love interest to Constance Wu's Rachel Chu, but as they interact in a group interview at the Refinery29 office, one can see the qualities that made Awkwafina an obvious choice for the role.
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I accept long novels about young love written by old maids in South Dakota, detective stories concerning wealthy clubmen and female apaches with "wide dark eyes," essays about the menace of this and that and the color of the moon in Tahiti by college professors and other unemployed.
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We love to see young love blossom, but if The Bachelor wants to actually hold a mirror to our world, teach us how to fall in love, and show viewers how to have successful, supportive relationships, they need to fill the mansion with Lactaid and IcyHot and start at 30.
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C's favorite texts include "The Hate U Give," by Angie Thomas, which is about a black teenage girl from a poor neighborhood who finds herself embroiled in a national story involving an officer-involved shooting; and Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West," a young-love story that explores immigration and the refugee crisis.
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Starting over as an assistant at Empirical Publishing, Liza reclaims her youth while struggling to hide her secret from her uptight boss (Miriam Shor), her 20-something co-worker Kelsey (Hilary Duff), a young love interest named Josh (Nico Tortorella), and the head of the publishing house, Charles (Peter Hermann).
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" He further teases: "There's going to be some moments where people will say, 'Okay, I definitely see a lot of Randall and Beth in Malik and Deja, or even Jack and Rebecca in Malik and Deja,' because it's young love that's just starting to bud and you kind of see it grow over time.
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Standouts tracks on this album also include "Fearless," an easy listen that captures the sweet feelings surrounding new romances; "Fifteen," a young love story that unfolds over several verses; "White Horse," a slow tune featuring lyrics about heartbreak that cut deep; "Love Story," a romantic tale with a fairytale edge; and "The Best Day," an emotional song that is filled with sweet childhood memories.
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These subplots about young love temper the grotesque bombast of the new season, because the Duffers seem to have learned that Stranger Things works best in the lulls—in the low-stakes, quiet moments between Mike and Eleven, or Steve and Dustin, or Brett Gelman's character and a random Russian hostage, in scenes were the show catches its breath and we're allowed to live alongside the characters for a minute.
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A prime example of the genre is a snooty New Yorker article by Alexandra Schwartz which portrayed support for Sanders as a hipster affectation, comparable to sporting a handlebar mustache: I sense a whiff of historical fetishism in the young love for Bernie, a yearning for an imaginary time of simpler, more straightforward politics that aligns with other millennial tendencies toward false nostalgia for past purity, in fashion or food, for instance.
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