Does anyone else find boy bands intellectually fascinating?

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05 Jul 2016, 2:26 pm

The Beatles during the Beatlemania peroid were a proto boy band. They sung in harmony, wrote about romantic love and appealed to young girls and had an extensive array of Beatle products sold to market the band. Like Hanson in the late 1990's where they do not fit the definition is they were a real act writing there own songs and playing thier own instruments. Starting with the Monkees the Beatles were the inspiration for the boy band phenomenon.

This is a song by the Four Preps "Letter to the Beatles" knocking the Beatles as a marketing act.

The Beach Boys with cars and surfing appealed to guys, thus not a boy band

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05 Jul 2016, 6:26 pm

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The late Nineties' Spice Girls started the whole thing, even though they were a girl group. The modern age of boy bands came in the wake of the Spice Girls. Fabricated invented groups targeted for a demographic of the early 21st Century (Backstreet, Nysync, Savage Garden, One Direction, Il Divo, etc).

But there was precedent in earlier decades.

The Beatles were... boys who formed a band, but they were not a "boy band".

But the "pre fab four" created to imitate the Fab Four for TV, the Monkees, was an early boy band.

But the first ever boy band even predated the Monkees. That was Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Even the Monkees took control of their own recordings at points, and their film Head is brilliant and tears apart their own image more than the Beatles or Stones ever would.

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09 Jul 2016, 10:03 pm

I don't find them intellectually fascinating but I'm a big fan of em & girl groups but I'm immature & love pop music.

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10 Jul 2016, 4:46 am

nick007 wrote:

I don't find them intellectually fascinating but I'm a big fan of em & girl groups but I'm immature & love pop music.

I'm a big fan of that music too. It doesn't make you immature.

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10 Jul 2016, 6:53 am

I agree. Although I personally abhor boy (and girl) band music (in fact I abhor pretty much all of modern popular music), I would never condemn anyone else for liking it. Their taste, their choice, their business.

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10 Jul 2016, 12:08 pm

Intellectually fascinating? Not really, but the Korean boy bands sure are dreamy.

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10 Jul 2016, 3:26 pm

HighLlama wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I don't find them intellectually fascinating but I'm a big fan of em & girl groups but I'm immature & love pop music.

I'm a big fan of that music too. It doesn't make you immature.

That statement didn't suggest liking pop music makes one inherently immature, only that nick007 is immature and a fan of pop music.

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10 Jul 2016, 3:59 pm

I've seen this thread for a while, the 'intellectually fascinating' part has given me a chuckle a few times.

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10 Jul 2016, 8:26 pm

To defend, I mean intellectually in that I am interested in their and fans experiences and the sociological phenomenon, not that I listen to their music or have crushes on them, (though it's fine if one does.)

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11 Jul 2016, 1:10 pm

Not really....no, I find them very hard on the ears though.

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11 Jul 2016, 4:18 pm

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HighLlama wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I don't find them intellectually fascinating but I'm a big fan of em & girl groups but I'm immature & love pop music.

I'm a big fan of that music too. It doesn't make you immature.

That statement didn't suggest liking pop music makes one inherently immature, only that nick007 is immature and a fan of pop music.

It implies they are connected. Otherwise why say it? That's like saying, "I had breakfast and I like pop music," in a thread about pop music.

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13 Jul 2016, 5:10 pm

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But The Beatles played their instruments and composed music/created lyrics.

I thought the boy-band format was young men singing terrible lyrics and doing lame synchronized dancing to canned music that isn't actually being played by the band.

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13 Jul 2016, 6:39 pm

HighLlama wrote:

funeralxempire wrote:

HighLlama wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I don't find them intellectually fascinating but I'm a big fan of em & girl groups but I'm immature & love pop music.

I'm a big fan of that music too. It doesn't make you immature.

That statement didn't suggest liking pop music makes one inherently immature, only that nick007 is immature and a fan of pop music.

It implies they are connected. Otherwise why say it? That's like saying, "I had breakfast and I like pop music," in a thread about pop music.

I've been called immature for liking them & I'm immature in some other ways too. I've also been called gay for liking boy bands but it was OK for girls to like girl groups so I don't get why a guy liking a boy band is wrong.

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14 Jul 2016, 6:40 am

Neither do I, Nick. Maybe you see them as role models to emulate and aspire to. It's no different to men idolising Bob Dylan, David Bowie or Elvis. That's fine, at least you are admiring someone who has earned their fame and success in a decent way. The hifrean with what others think, if you like that music, keep listening to it.

My avatar even named his eldest son 'John' after John Lennon.

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16 Jul 2016, 2:36 am

Never listened to them but I do like Donnie Wahlberg and think he's turned into a really good actor. I like him in Blue Bloods.

Several people say my youngest son looks just like this one guy in One Direction. They showed me a photo and he really does.

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27 Jul 2016, 8:17 am

Well, when I was an MA student, one of the PhDs in our department did a really interesting presentation analysing a Backstreet Boys video. Not so much about the music. More about the choices the producers made about who sings which bits and how the shots are composed, with the object of building up a "relationship" between a fan and their favourite band member.

As with all things pop-culture, one man's trash is another man's immortal cultural touchstone*. The student giving the presentation, a classical composer, knew very well that the Backstreet Boys are a "manufactured pop group" of the kind that all serious musicians are supposed to despise. He likes them anyway.

*Disney cartoons: manufactured corporate pap for the proles, how dare you enjoy them! as is too the original Star Wars trilogy, strictly speaking....

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