High School Dream is an aesthetic that glorifies high school culture (usually American high schools) and every aspect of it, such as:
- Stereotypes such as cheerleaders, jocks, nerds, goths, stoners, etc.
- Lockers
- High School Sweethearts
- School bathrooms
- Yellow school bus
- Football
- High school parties
- Prom
- Baseball/soccer fields
- Teen angst
- Cliques
- Bullying
- Best friends
- Clubs
It also glorifies youth and teen spirit (teenagers' life and culture, teen angst) and portrays it as a dreamy, nostalgic version of teenage life during high school. The aesthetic is mainly influenced by teenage high school movies.
Visual[]
A lot of the popular visuals associated with High School Dream include:
- Football games
- Lockers
- Pictures in lockers
- Cliques
- Graduation
- School buses
- Parties
- Dances
- Hallways
- Posters
- Notes
- Libraries
- Auditoriums
- Balled-up school work
- Stacks of books
- Classrooms
Fashion[]
The fashion includes daily, trendy, ordinary teenage fashion, usually worn in school. Since it is based on high school in general, fashion doesn't matter as much as it does in other aesthetics. Stereotypically, High School Dream fashion includes:
High School Dream aesthetic
Examples of High School Dream fashion from Riverdale
- Letterman jackets
- Converse/Vans shoes
- Checkered shirts
- Check print skirts
- Ringer t-shirts
- Polo shirts
- Gym uniforms
- Cheerleader uniforms
- Blue jeans
- Classic band tees
- Band uniforms
Media[]
The Breakfast Club is a prime example of the High School Dream aesthetic because of its theme; high-schoolers from different cliques bonding- a very popular idea in lots of High School Dream media.
- The Breakfast Club
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Pretty In Pink
- Heathers
- Clueless
- Freaks and Geeks
- Saved By The Bell
- Degrassi
- Riverdale
- 13 Reasons Why
- Mean Girls
- A.N.T. Farm (2011)
- Glee
- Daria
- Nancy Drew (2019)
- My So-Called Life
- High School Musical trilogy
- Lemonade Mouth
- Grease
- The Kissing Booth film series
- What's with Andy?
- CODA
- Bottoms
- Booksmart
- Lady Bird
- High School (1968)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- A Goofy Movie and An Extremely Goofy Movie
- Drake and Josh
- Victorious
- Teen Wolf (2011-2017)
- Everything Sucks! (2018)
- School Spirits (2023-present)
- Almost any other show/film about teenagers.
Songs[]
- "Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince" - Taylor Swift
- "So High School" - Taylor Swift
- "New Romantics" - Taylor Swift
- "Fifteen" - Taylor Swift
- "American Teenager" - Ethel Cain
- “Queen Of Disasters” - Lana Del Rey
- "Dance, Dance" - Fall Out Boy
Albums[]
- Sour - Olivia Rodrigo
- K-12 - Melanie Martinez
Music Videos[]
- Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u
- Conan Gray - Crush Culture
- Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
- 5 Seconds of Summer - Good Girls
- Austin Mahone - Say Something
- Mad Tsai - Stacy's Brother
- mxmtoon - prom dress
Spotify Playlists[]
- High School Dreamin playlist by elucas32
- high school dreams playlist by iriswest05
- high school dream land playlist by skylar_zygmont
- high school dreams playlist by Lauren Malinowski
- high school dream playlist by Lynaea Pace
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