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TheWalletUnknown
1 year 5 months ago
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I'd say it is Jump Off a Cliff Day! Who's with me?
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ReallyRetroRat
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Are you talking about Boyzone and Westlife? Nope, I'm not with you.
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stake n sheak 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 1772	Did you like boy bands pre-1997, or post-2000? I say the year doesn't matter, boy bands always suck
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Casey_Jones 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 373	Back in my day, knowing the words to boy band songs got you laid.
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thecrow174 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 9807	TheWalletUnknown wrote: I'd say it is Jump Off a Cliff Day! Who's with me? Uh, no one?
	There is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most. http://unbelievableyou.com/a-native-american-cherokee-story-two-wolves/
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bklynbren 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 868	I remember when New Kids on the Block first started. They were huge, but I believe it all took a turn for the worst when band members started coming out the closet.

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RomanBlade86 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 289	I liked the Backstreet Boys and to me they were the ultimate 90s boy band and actually had catchy songs that I liked hearing time after time. They came around a good time in my life and I appreciated their songs. N'Sync was ok as well but nowhere near the Backstreet Boys. Then there were other boy bands like LFO, BB Mack, Savage Garden, O-Town and a bunch of others that I would see on MTV and hear on the radio and think nothing of it. These groups would often have a bunch of good looking guys singing and girls seemed to like them from their reactions on MTV. This was damaging to an impressionable and troubled kid as myself when I was 12 and 13 because I wanted to have it all. It really screwed with me psychologically on top of the other stuff I was dealing with at the time. I put too much pressure on myself even at 12 and 13.

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Rodimus
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The Beatles were the first boy band.
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Casey_Jones 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 373	Rodimus wrote: The Beatles were the first boy band. there were boy bands long before The Beatles. they go back to the 1800s with the formation of Barbershop Quartets. But if you mean "boy bands" in the sense of groups of boys that teenage girls swooned over. That took place really for the first time during the late 30s with the creation of doo-wop groups.
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stake n sheak 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 1772	Define boy bands. To me they are definitively masterminded by a label executive who is not in the band to make money from yes, swooning young girls. A la Menudo and NKOTB. Not simply a group of young males.
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stake n sheak 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 1772	TheWalletUnknown wrote: I'd say it is Jump Off a Cliff Day! Who's with me? stake n sheak wrote: Did you like boy bands pre-1997, or post-2000? wallet, will you ever answer anybody else's questions, or are you only here to spout whatever whimsies happen to float through your head and ignore the ensuing conversation?
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Timothy1964
1 year 5 months ago
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Would Hanson ("MMMBop") be considered a "boy band"???
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princecali00_SxA1793Ll 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 3	Timothy1964 wrote: Would Hanson ("MMMBop" be considered a "boy band"??? Personally, I wouldn't. Boy bands to me are like New Kids of the Block, Color Me Badd, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, BB Mack, LFO, O-Town, etc. Would Boyz II Men be considered a boy band?

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stake n sheak 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 1772	wrote: A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Being vocal groups, most boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage, making the term somewhat of a misnomer. However, exceptions do exist. Most boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. Some such bands form on their own. They can evolve out of church choral or gospel music groups, but are often created by talent managers or record producers who hold auditions. Due to this and their general commercial orientation towards a female audience of preteens, teenyboppers, or teens, the term may be used with negative connotations in music journalism. Boy bands are similar in concept to their counterparts, girl groups. It's not just age. Hansen started independently, and they played instruments. On those criteria I don't think they are a boy band. They're not a GOOD band, but they're not a BOY band either.
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Casey_Jones 1 year 5 months ago Posts: 373	stake n sheak wrote: wrote: A boy band is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Being vocal groups, most boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage, making the term somewhat of a misnomer. However, exceptions do exist. Most boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. Some such bands form on their own. They can evolve out of church choral or gospel music groups, but are often created by talent managers or record producers who hold auditions. Due to this and their general commercial orientation towards a female audience of preteens, teenyboppers, or teens, the term may be used with negative connotations in music journalism. Boy bands are similar in concept to their counterparts, girl groups. It's not just age. Hansen started independently, and they played instruments. On those criteria I don't think they are a boy band. They're not a GOOD band, but they're not a BOY band either. Yeah, I wouldn't classify Hanson as a boy band. That would be like calling Nirvana a boy band. They didn't just sing and dance. They played instruments, wrote and produced their own music. So in retrospect, on my last comment. Not only would I disagree that the Beatles weren't the first boy band. I'd disagree that they were a boy band at all.
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