Does anyone else find boy bands intellectually fascinating?

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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

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 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.

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

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

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.)

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

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.

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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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....