Why did a lot of bands in the years following 2000 start calling themselves "the" something?

Answer 1

spin off of 70's punk rock

Answer 2

Why did they do it in the 60's
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
The Dave Clark Five
The Byrds
The Hollies
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Temptations
The Four Tops
The Supremes
The Shangri-Las
The Platters
The Drifters
The Shirelles
The Grateful Dead
The Band
The Teddy Bears
The Four Seasons
The Letterman
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Box Tops
The Buckinghams

Answer 3

Bands have always used "the" way back to the first jazz bands.
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers ('58)
The "insert name here" "trio/quartet/quintet..."
The Count Basie Orchestra
The Hot Fives (Louis Armstrong in the 20s!!)
The Hot Sevens (another Armstrong group from the 20s)

Its always been there. (Wonder why bands haven't started using "a" or "an" . That would be new and weird.

A Jimi Hendrix Experience
A Clash
Some Beatles
A Rolling Stone

Answer 4

It was also very common before the 1980's. So it's a thing that's gone in and out of style and is in again. Notice that "Smashing Pumpkins" later became "The Smashing Pumpkins" on their later albums. Then there is the ultimate use of the word "The" in the band that is called "The The" (great band, by the way).

Answer 5

this has partially already been said but im expanding on it.

its referring to the 60's 70's and 80's (The Who, The Doors, The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols etc) the new trendy music is "punk" more mainstream popy punk music. since they are considered by the mainstream fools as punk they refer to themselves as "the". however anyone that knows anythign about music and understands that what they are doing is not nearly punk rock sits back and has a good laugh at the wanabes.

Answer 6

I think it's a throwback to the early 60's when many bands were "the somethings also. The who, The strawberry alarm clock, Mott the hoople, the velvet underground, etc.

Answer 7

this seems to be a cycle. It happened in the early sixties, in the seventies, the nineties (strange, I can't think of any examples from the eighties). Every ten years or so, there's a couple of years that new bands start using "the" in their name.

Answer 8

I don't know, but it was just as irritating as the number at the end of band names.

Answer 9

"THE" is the hot word of the decade.