What the heck was wrong with girls in 1964?

Watching the Beatles Anthology again. Never ceases to amaze me how insane the girls were for them. Or maybe they were just insane in general.

What the hell was going on that made presumably normal girls act the way they did when the Beatles arrived in America?

 

Rock & Roll Hormones.

 

INSANE is the word.

 

Idk, same thing that makes girls go nuts over justin beiber, or the jonas bros or whoever the big deal is these days.

 

Pretty sure I see a couple of forum members in that photo.

 

So that's where @Gaslight got his avatar from.

 

It was like that in the movie theaters when Hard Days Night came out, too.

I didn't hear a line of dialogue, the first time I saw it.

 

Nothing special about girls in 1964...

 

Girls behaved like that whenever I walked down the halls in high school. It was so embarrassing.

 

I got chased by a herd of girls in 6th grade at a school dance.

 

Frank Sinatra causes riot at Paramount Theater.

 

Wow

 

Ha, but not anywhere remotely near the same level of insanity.

 

The same that's wrong with them in 2015 ...

 

I dont know why girls act in this way either....it is bizarre to me and I have been asking the same question for years

 

The little fella with the glasses is thinking the same thing.

 

These crazy broads need to get it together like me, a 42-year-old guy who can tell you when a picture of the Beatles was taken based strictly on Ringo's facial hair.

 

I think people who are passionate about and moved by music is very cool. Don't you?

 

He's also thinking "And how can I get this to work...for me ?!"

And that's when he decided to become a roadie as soon as he was old enough ..

 

I've seen guys react the same way
(have you ever been to a Morrissey show?)

 

Since you asked - I see little to no difference between the girls in the above 1964 photos and the innumerable threads posted here in 2015 on the same subject.

 

Nowadays at the same age they're more likely be in the hospital having their second baby. By that other guy. While following tweets between contractions.

 

Not to sound overly clinical, but it was basically a case of the exact right product reaching a new and very pent up market. Many Americans born immediately post-WWII enjoyed a period of unprecedented economic expansion and standard of living, and the suburbs were exploding. Eventually you have this mass of teens with enough means to buy stuff poised to get into and consume something, and a lot of the something turned out to be The Beatles and the other invasion bands.

 

Some things are just plain wrong.

 

I believe you have insightfully touched on The Big Picture.