They were rock/pop group. At a stretch you could say early Beatles were a boy band, but I don't even think that qualifies, except in the sense that they were a band, and they were all boys.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frank Sinatra, The Everly Brothers etc etc all had fanatic teenage fans too.
If The Beatles were a boy band, so were the Rolling Stones. Or any band with a teenage audience for that matter!
Labels are dumb anyway.
I'm not complaining tho, I'm just pissed because I missed the opportunity to record a Beatles song (:
There is a lot of heteronormativity happening in this thread in regards of boy band qualifications and I think we need to give more credit to the gays for their success.
There is a lot of heteronormativity happening in this thread in regards of boy band qualifications and I think we need to give more credit to the gays for their success.
There is a lot of heteronormativity happening in this thread in regards of boy band qualifications and I think we need to give more credit to the gays for their success.
They were rock/pop group. At a stretch you could say early Beatles were a boy band, but I don't even think that qualifies, except in the sense that they were a band, and they were all boys.
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Frank Sinatra, The Everly Brothers etc etc all had fanatic teenage fans too.
If The Beatles were a boy band, so were the Rolling Stones. Or any band with a teenage audience for that matter!
Labels are dumb anyway.
I'm not complaining tho, I'm just pissed because I missed the opportunity to record a Beatles song (:
Not quite the same as the Beatles. If there aren't teenage girls having actual arguments over which one is their "favorite", it is not a boy band. Nobody argued for their favorite Everly Brother, but you'll see women come to blows over which Beatle or which NKOTB or which One Direction guy is their favorite. Hell, I have a vinyl copy of Hard Day's Night that my mom went and wrote on each image which Beatle it was. You just don't get that level of teenage fanaticism with Chuck Berry.
This is why the Rolling Stones and Doors don't qualify- though they had teenage fans, you don't get any girls arguing violently over whether they like Jim Morrison or Ray Manzarek. Sadly, this does put Duran Duran into the boy band category.
How can you have any pudding if you won't eat your meat?
Yeah I think they all have to sing to be a boy band. I would say dancing too but I guess modern boy bands don't. Instruments are optional but they aren't really making their own music. Maybe one plays a little guitar for show
There is a lot of heteronormativity happening in this thread in regards of boy band qualifications and I think we need to give more credit to the gays for their success.
There is a lot of heteronormativity happening in this thread in regards of boy band qualifications and I think we need to give more credit to the gays for their success.
I'm regretting not submitting a song by Panic! at the Disco, but initially didn't think they fit the "boy band" theme well enough. Now I know to just go with it next time
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