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I have NEVER heard anyone refer to the Beatles or Beach Boys as boy bands. The songwriters from these groups wrote brilliant music, both bands played their instruments and did many live gigs, and got together by themselves, no by someone like Maurice Starr. These bands should be taken out of the article. To call either of them a boy band is to misunderstand the meaning of the term.
Typically, each member of the group will have some distinguishing feature and be portrayed as having a particular personality stereotype - such as "the baby", "the bad boy", "the nice boy", but this device is not limited to boy bands.
I would argue that the specific practice (picking members and marketing them to a personality sterotype so as to attract the broadest possible audience of preteen girls) *is*, whilst maybe not limited to boy bands, is far more identifiably used with these groups (and girl bands) than with any other type of pop groups. Who is the bad boy in, say Radiohead? --Robert Merkel
- Typically, one of the members of the group will come out as gay in the closing chapters of the band's history.
I was guilty of making the same snide remarks in the original article - I know sniping at boy bands is fun and an easy target, but it's not NPOV. --Robert Merkel
By the way, has anybody got a link for Just 5, the polish boy band mentioned in the main article? It sparked my curiosity now :) --Robert Merkel
[edit] Band Additions Should Be Discussed First
I think that additions of new bands should always be discussed on this page before being added to the real one. Many people are complaining about various bands that they feel are not boybands being added the the page. I think that in general, it is definately NOT a boyband if: each member plays an instrument (except for the lead vocalist), and they have a sort of dark, punk/emo image.
[edit] another non-boyband
A-ha is not a boyband, since they wrote their whole material and are high skilled musicians, also never did a dance routine they should be erasen from this article. Boyz 2 men are more of a street corner group: doowop, than boy band. I took them off the list at the end.
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A lot of confusion seems to have arisen between those acts which are marketed to tweens and those who are vocal harmony and urban acts, so a separate section has been given to these mostly American acts
[edit] Rammstein??!
It would seem some person added Rmmstein on to this list, possibly as a joke or an attempt at vandalism...I see no possible correlation between them and the concept of a boyband, other than the fact that they comprise of a bunch of males....I would remove them myself..but I'm fairly certain I'd screw up and delete the article at the same time!..
[edit] soulDecision Isn't a Boy Band Either
soulDecision doesn't fit your term of boy band either. They were a trio who had been writing songs and working their butts off trying to make it in the industry since 1998 - if not earlier. They all play instruments, they didn't dance and they weren't manufactured. It's really not their fault that the record label "brought them out" when all the pop boy groups were getting big.
I agree, Hanson isn't a boy band - and neither is BBMak which is also listed. If someone is going to argue the point, then I have to ask - why isn't Savage Garden or even the BeeGees on the list? I'd classify them in the same grouping as soulDecision, Hanson and BBMak.
Just noticing Simple Plan is on there - totally not a boy band. If they were then you'd have to add Blink182 and Green Day to the list. ;) By the way, they're Canadian not American.
[edit] Vandalism
I don't know where it started, but there seems to be a fair bit of vandalism on the description. Also, I'm not sure about the standard of placing locks on pages, but I have a feeling this page could do with one. laparaparapa 2:18, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] 1960s poorly researched
Poorly researched. The Four Seasons (with Frankie Valli) The Four Lads, The Kingston Trio, The Four Preps (one of whose members was Glen Larson, Creator of Battlestar Galactica and other hit shows) and all the "Doo-Wop" Groups (Dion and the Belmonts, etc) go completely unmentioned. Yet THESE are the sources of "Boy Bands" not late-comers like The Osmonds and so on.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.13.47 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 21 July 2011
