diegetic and non diegetic sound is used in wheatus ' song 'teenage dirtbag' to represent and attract the target audience (15-24 old, straight, white British/American c1-E males and females) in a number of ways.
Firstly, young males are represented because the male protagonist sings the lyric; ‘I have a dream about her, She rings my bell
’’ This sexualises his teenage crush represented other youths who also fantasize about people out of their league. This fits two representation stereotype theories, Laura Mulvey’s 1975 theory that; ‘women are used as erotic objects of desire to represent males in the narrative and audience,’ (Mulvey, 1975) and Stanley Hall’s theory that youths seek excitement in sex (Hall, 1904) because a male youth, who the target audience can identify with, is lusting after a attractive teenage girl.