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the song

The song "The Great Escape"'s link leads to another song with the same name.

Genre

they are radio friendly, pop-ish rock band with indipendent and unique music style with alternative feel ---> pop-rock,indie,alternative rock they have nothing to do with pop-punk or emocore, no matter they have been influenced by some emo/pop-rock bands like jimmy eat world. Xr 1 20:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The whole section about their style needs to be changed or deleted. Their sound is not that different from other bands to require a section like that.-alex —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.209.96 (talk) 06:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why emo isn't under the genre list. If they are "a self declared emo band" and they have "various emo and pop-punk influences" then why isn't emo under their genre? Razorblade666 18:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They are emo. its pretty obvious if u listen to them. look at the lyrics for Broken Man,"I want to swallow these pills to get to sleep","But I guess you were better off without me"," But I will stand a broken man" thats pretty emo. I don't get why people always think its a bad thing to be emo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iandrummer204 (talk • contribs) 02:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

why don't we just stick with the genres that their myspace says? i guess they know what genre they are, they say Alternative, Pop Rock and Emo. Even though they do sound a little pop punky too. Matt 2601 atl (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They might sound a bit pop punky but they have yet to call themselves that. Caden S (talk) 18:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If they were emo wouldn't they be dead? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.214.77.65 (talk) 00:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about your "dead" statement but they do classify themselves as part of the emo genre. Caden S (talk) 04:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

Is there a reason we have at least 14 references in this article and they don't lead anywhere? Looking back at the history it appears they used to link to something but someone has deleted them all. Perhaps someone could fix that? --BHC 08:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)\and is married to a girl named Jenna and has a young daughter named Sabrina THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by XOchelseyXO (talk • contribs) 15:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Music from Boys Like Girls

they Rock i love their songs Hero/Heroine and The Great Escape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.249.3.233 (talk) 19:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:FORUM. Wikipedia isn't the place for this.13Tawaazun14 (talk) 18:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They are not emo

They are not emo, if you go to the article on emo it is a type of hardcore punk and they are pop-punk. hardcore punk is heavy fast and has your average punk lyrics. So emo is the same thing just emo lyrics. They sing about falling in love not wishing their wrists were bleeding. I will not lie they have emo lyrics in one song but the style of how they play it is not emo.... the only true emo band is my chemical romance and they deny the whole thing.

p.s. I like boys like girls, im just saying there not emo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.248.244.189 (talk) 01:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article does not say that the band is emo. The infobox does not show this either. Caden S (talk) 16:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ya the articale says their emo and wiki is stupid if keeps it like that —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.226.74.247 (talk) 20:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to know where was that article about The plane crash that killed them. I have been trying to look for it and i can not find it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kcastro27 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

wtf, they're not dead. Wtf are you talking about?72.72.215.178 (talk) 20:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

They are emo. Go to their myspace (myspace.com/boyslikegirls) and one of their genres is emo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwertluis (talk • contribs) 23:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Geez please Louise, they are influenced, or inspired, by emo, just as much as they are influenced/inspired by alternative, indie and pop punk. Nobody claims they are 100% emo. If you don't like non-emo bands to be influenced by emo-bands that's a personal matter, not an encylopediatic one. -- 78.34.40.254 (talk) 13:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Think about this: 1. My band's myspace page says that we are pop punk/zouk/folk, I don't know what zouk is, and avoid pop punk as much as humanly possible.

2. You can say, and even believe you are a pterodactyl, but you are NOT a pterodactly.

3. A reliable website can contain an article written by someone who has absolutely no idea what the underground genre really sounds like. Do you think John Lenon knows what emo really is?

Here are some notable REAL emo bands:

-Cap'n Jazz -Rites of Spring -Frodus -Heroine -Sleepytime Trio

Here are some bands that are NOT emo:

-Fall Out Boy -My Chemical Romance -Panic! At the Disco -Weezer -Jimmy Eat World -At the Drive In -Dashboard Confessional

Which category do Boys Like Girls belong in?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.222.232.134 (talk) 20:18, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Which image to use

We need to gauge consensus on which image will be used in the lead. The image that is not used in the lead, can be placed elsewhere in the article. The options are this (Image A) or this (Image B). Let's keep this civil folks. — R ² 11:20, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It makes more sense to show the entire band as the main image, don'cha think? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 16:12, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Bugs. Let's remember this article is about the rock group Boys Like Girls. It's not an article on Martin Johnson who's the singer. I believe Image A is the best choice for the main page. It's better quality, has better lighting and has two members of the band in it. Image B, I'm sorry to say is awful. Caden S (talk) 21:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The current picture is over exposed and grainy and has only one hundredth of the resolution of the other picture. While a high quality image of all four band members would be ideal, it is best to go with the one good image that wikipedia does have

Anybody have one with the whole band???? =] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.245.1 (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Improperly Formatted Table

Hi. Someone improperly closed a table, making it difficult to read the studio albums. I fixed the issue. I also accidentally signed the page. That error has been corrected.

Silvarus (talk) 23:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clean Up June 2009

I've made some major edits to the article structure, mostly based on the Switchfoot article (which is a good article). Hope it's okay with everyone. Andrew Duffell (talk) 21:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've continued the clean up, and I'm now happy with the introduction. It contains just what is needed to introduce the article, and any further detail can be written into the main body of the article.
I'm going to continue to work through tidying up the article as and when I have time, but any help would be appreciated. I think all the information is there, but it just needs structuring better from its piecemeal form.
Andrew Duffell (talk) 14:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 I don't understand why emo isn't under the genre list. If they are "a self declared emo band" and they have "various emo and pop-punk influences" then why isn't emo under their genre? [[User:Razorblade666|Razorblade666]] 18:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- They are not emo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 They are emo. its pretty obvious if u listen to them.