My Teenage Dream Ended is the title of both the debut autobiographical book and the accompanying album by American reality television personality, singer, and writer Farrah Abraham.
The album was met with strongly negative response from general audiences, as well as both bewilderment and acclaim from contemporary music critics, who considered it to be a bizarre example of outsider art.
[6] The book chronicles her teenage pregnancy and the problems she faced during the time, including depression, drug use, the arrest of her father, and the death of Derek Underwood, her on-again, off-again boyfriend with whom she had a daughter.
[10] Feminist website Jezebel called the lead and sole single, "Finally Getting Up from Rock Bottom", "the most horrible combination of sounds to ever be assembled in the history of audio recording.
"[16] In a commentary for Dummy, Steph Kretowicz praised My Teenage Dream Ended for "its realistic portrayal of a mind mashed by mass media" and accidental camp aesthetic, stating that Abraham "present[s] a truly thought-provoking challenge to the status quo".
On the other hand, she commented that the album "offers few dynamic shifts, no hooks and nary a sustained rhythm"; and opined that it "certainly" was not the most challenging record of the year, favoring Laurel Halo's Quarantine and Maria Minerva's Will Happiness Find Me?
[19] In 2014, Mitchell Sunderland of Vice interviewed Abraham, and referred to My Teenage Dream Ended as a "critically acclaimed noise album", to which she replied "I just create therapeutic music.
"[20] In a 2017 review for Charli XCX's Pop 2 mixtape, Meaghan Garvey of Pitchfork retrospectively summarized: "Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012's worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded.
It is a baffling work, to be sure: frantic layers of dubstep, EDM, witch-house, and breakbeats seem to run in the opposite direction as Abraham's absurdly AutoTuned narratives about surviving the death of her husband.