High School Crush

He's all you think about, that boy in homeroom. When you see her in the hall, you can barely say hi, she looks so good. You're trippin' just like Fergie when she sings "Clumsy," and you know just what Usher is talkin' about when he tells you "U Got It Bad." This crush is messin' with your head and taking over your day-to-day, and if your life were a musical, you'd be breaking into song right about now, just like Gabriella & Troy on "You Are the Music In Me." Luckily, you've got iTunes to do the musical duties for you — 'cause bustin' out in class? Awkward!

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When words fail, there's no better way to let your wanna-be boo in on the contents of your heart than by slipping just the right song into a playlist. Gotta boy in chemistry class you need to come clean with? Try "Chemicals React" by Aly & A.J. Feeling confident about the hottie with the locker next to yours? Go for broke with *NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me." Maybe you can't bring yourself to say the words, but when the Fray's heart-spiller "Over My Head (Cable Car)" pops up in her ear buds, or Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" starts whispering from his iMix, your meaning will be crystal clear.

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The football player and the physics whiz, the band geek and the drama queen, the easygoing senior and the too-shy frosh — everybody gets a high-school crush. So while B2K is asking the all-important, soul-style question "would you?" on "Girlfriend," Vanessa Carlton's making a dedicated pop-rock promise with "A Thousand Miles." And while Kylie Minogue is busy breakin' out the moves on a beat-heavy "Can't Get You out of My Head," the Pussycat Dolls are finding a nice quiet corner for a slow-dance "Stickwitu."

So, you see that sweet thing at school every dang day and it's making you crazy. What you need now is music and lots of it, 'cause there's something about a song that makes you feel just like you do when you're crushed-out. Like when Alicia Keys lets loose with her head-over-heels confession "Fallin'" and you get that sweet, dizzy sensation; or when the Jonas Brothers hit that heart-swelling chorus in "When You Look Me In the Eyes" and you wanna jump up on a cafeteria table and spill it once and for all. Whether you line up Mariah Carey as your own personal cupid and slip "We Belong Together" into an otherwise just-friends iMix, or simply lay it on the line with Tamia & Fabolous's "Into You," we've got the tunes to make all your teen dreams come true.