You haven't watched the 'Meteor Garden'?" One of my classmates asked me in great surprise.

"No. I've got no knowledge of it." I said calmly.

"And F4?"

"Isn't it a button on the keyboard of a computer?"

"Oh, great Caesar! You're out, Alf."

"Am I?"

Before I could prove I wasn't that hopeless, he had already walked away to talk with those "in" students.

"I still know Harry Potter," I murmured, "Though I haven't read any of his stories."

I must confess I'm not a "new-type human", neither am I a person that can be called "in". Although I have tried very hard to catch up with the fashion, I'm always falling behind. When I begin to listen to pop music, they say rap is in; when Iget to know Backstreet Boys, they tell me N'sync is better; when I start to watch "Pearl Harbor", they turn to talk about "Harry Potter". I'm just not so used to the rapid changing of the voguish culture.

Am I really out of style? Maybe I should learn something about the fashion so that I can have the same topics with my classmates and friends. But I have never been a star-follower or a crazy fan of a certain pop singer. Perhaps I could try todo it on the basic level and then move up. Reading newspapers and surfing the net should be a good choice. So I start to concern about what's new. Soon I found that the entertainment field is always a good place to find new stuffs. Every now and then it produces a wonder star or group that attracts audience's attention. On one level, people getting information about their favorite stars seem noble. But at the heart of the phenomenon, there's always something miserable. What we want to know most when a Yanzi Sun, an Edison Chen, an F4 appears on the scene are: A) Does he/she have a girl/boyfriend? B) Can they possibly survive the attention that the crazy fans heap upon them? The answers to both questions are almost always unknown and heatedly discussed. But it suits us just fine. The more mysteriousit is, the more interesting and attractive it becomes. It doesn't matter whether you like or dislike a certain artist; to keep getting the latest information is all that matters.

It seems that it is not hard for me to keep up with the fashion, and I begin to understand why young people like us especially concern ourselves with the vogue culture. As information can often be obtained easily and efficiently, it is natura l that we are able to lead the varying vogue culture trends. The contrast between our full energy and dull study life causes us to be curious about something outside. Peer influence seems to be another important reason why we are so interested in the voguish culture. The need to feel accepted by classmates and friends makes most of us pay attention to the social circle far from our own life circle. The media also plays an important role in bringing news about pop stars, sometimes scandals or rumors into the public eye.

But it's not at all a bad type of activity as adults consider. For instance, the stories of the magic boy Harry Potter can motivate us to be imaginative while the society needs more and more people full of creativity; the popular TV series "Meteor Garden" can give us a lesson of what pure love is while people nowadays tend to believe in the so-called "practical" marriage; and pop singers, as well as actors/actress can teach us, consciously or not, how to gain success and deal with the price of fame.

So if our parents and teachers still cling to their own attitudes towards it and simply forbid us to touch it, the problem might never be solved. Since students of our age are likely to be a little rebellious, the taboo may not have effective results but more or less hurt our feelings. Generation gap, distrust and misunderstanding between children and adults, and even runaway from home or school can be resulted. Actually most of us understand the love from our parents and teachers, we just can't put up with the rough way they treat us.

However, history has proven that there will always be controversies about what should be allowed to ulnerable teenagers especially middle school students like us. We value the hope that adults give us free space to live our various fantasies. Vogue culture is nothing bad as long as it provides us a great deal of space for imagination, just like meteors, which come and go rapidly, but leave us a beautiful scene.