“They call themselves jitterbugs,” Adorno had written, explaining one of his ideas that has held up least well over time, “as if they simultaneously wanted to affirm and mock their loss of individuality, their transformation into beetles whirring around in fascination.” Dempsey was misquoting this, playing superficially off of the available beetle pun-and defending the teenage girls by calling their passions stupid and harmless. He cited the German cultural theorist Theodor Adorno’s famous essay on the conformity and brainlessness of the dancers in Harlem’s jazz clubs. For The New York Times, the former war correspondent David Dempsey attempted a “psychological, logical, anthropological” explanation of the phenomenon. They didn’t see a reason for so many girls to be so obviously disturbed. “Like a good little news organization, we sent three camera crews to stand among the shrieking youngsters and record the sights and sounds for posterity.” Ultimately that footage didn’t air-it was deemed too frivolous for the nightly news.Īt the time, the media couldn’t figure Beatlemania out. “All day long, some local disc jockeys been encouraging truancy with repeated announcements of the Beatles’ travel plans, flight number, and estimated time of arrival,” the NBC news anchor Chet Huntley reported the evening the Beatles arrived. (Bettmann / Getty Staff / Mirrorpix / Getty) New York City police officers hold back a crowd of Beatles fans outside the Delmonico Hotel in 1964. When the Beatles visited Dublin for the first time, in 1963, The New York Times reported that “young limbs snapped like twigs in a tremendous free-for-all.” When they arrived in New York City in February 1964-a little more than a month into the U.S.-radio-chart reign of “I Want to Hold Your Hand”-there were 4,000 fans (and 100 cops) waiting at the airport and reports of a “wild-eyed mob” in front of the Plaza Hotel. Yet the screaming fan doesn’t scream for nothing, and screaming isn’t all the fan is doing. Every time we see them, we’re like, They’re screaming. But it’s also emblematic of a bigger lack of information about people who behave like her. In this specific circumstance, that’s because of medical-privacy laws, which are good.
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I’ll never know who she is or hear her personal explanation of what made her scream so much. “But she was too bashful!!!! Classic teenager,” he said, adding a laugh-crying emoji. Her doctor wrote to me that he’d asked, at the time, for her permission to tweet at Jimmy Fallon about the incident-he’d argued that maybe she would get to meet One Direction. I know nothing else about the girl who loved One Direction so much that she collapsed her lungs over it. It was parody made real, and recorded with the deepest of seriousness, for all time, in a medical journal. This was a novelty news item: an easy headline and a culturally salient joke about the overzealousness of teenage girls.
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The lead physician wrote that such a case had “yet to be described in the medical literature.” Doctors were familiar with military pilots, scuba divers, and weightlifters straining their respiratory tract, but this case presented the first evidence that “forceful screaming during pop concerts” could have the same physical toll. But the incident was described in all its absurd, gory detail in a paper published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine three years later. It wasn’t really a big deal-she was given extra oxygen and kept overnight for observation, and she required no follow-up treatment. The exertion, they hypothesized, had forced open a small hole in her respiratory tract. The doctors were confused until she said that she’d been screaming for hours the night before at the Dallas stop on One Direction’s Where We Are Tour.
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But when the emergency-room doctor on duty pressed on her neck and chest, he heard noises like Rice Krispies crackling in a bowl of milk-spaces behind her throat, around her heart, and between her lungs and chest wall were studded with pockets of air, an X-ray confirmed, and her lungs were very slightly collapsed. She had no history of any lung condition, and no abnormal sounds in her breathing. She was short of breath but had no chest pain. On the morning of August 25, 2014, a 16-year-old girl arrived at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in baffling condition. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.