When I was growing up in the 80s Boybands were the biggest commercial musical genre - Bros, New Kids on the Block, Brother Beyond, Take That blah blah. A never ending line of them.
They don't really seem to exist anymore. We had Busted and now McFly in the UK but they do play instruments (unlike the ones in the 80s and early 90s who just danced).
Has the boyband had its day?
2007-01-19 05:12:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
ROFLMAO at "My Chemical Romance #1 Fan" - I like MCR and my BF says they are just a "GothRock Boyband" hehehe!
2007-01-19 05:17:58 · update #1
I think that the problem is they have no stay power. Yeah, there SHOULD be a lot of money in it at first but there really isn't. You get the popularity and nothing else. Being a boyband means you are owned by someone else. A good chunk of your money goes there. Then after so many albums, so many drug/alcohol problems, so many fights they break up or the public looses interest in them so there goes their career. Just Timberlake seems to be the only boybander who actually made it solo and is still going strong. The rest are hiding under the influx of all the other artists out there.
By definition of a boyband, MCR isn't a boyband. They write their own stuff, they play their own music, and they don't dance. So there really aren't that many boybands if any...there is just no money or stability in it!
2007-01-19 05:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by afichick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boybands certainly do exist and always will (unfortunately), In the 60's it was the Beatles (yes they were a boy band!!) but they were a lot more original. They were seen as a gap in the market and The Beatles outgrew that Market to something much bigger. In the 80's we saw numerous one minute wonders all singing other people songs like Duran Duran. The 90's saw Take That and Boyzone. In this day and age they are a dime a dozen but are only Commercially driven with no real talent, Westlife and Boyz II Men. The market gap has now evolved in somewhat of a joke spilling rubbish into our ears through an exhausted industry!
2007-01-19 05:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by Guigsy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady...they never went away. Check Take That - they're back with a vengence (but only God knows who's screaming at them now). Boy bands have been doing it since the mid sixties, The Monkees...and even the Jackson 5 - well, I could never see any instruments while they were singing! The formation of such bands in the eighties and nineties was more to do with sex, rather than if they knew their A sharps from their D minors.
Five boys, yes...The Thoughtful one - The Mischievious one - The Sensitive one - The Camp As Christmas one, and yes...Macho Harry, who looked like he had done a stretch in Strangeways - attitudes for everyone to embrace! The Stock-Aitken-Waterman trio, along with the rest were well read-up in psychiatry and sociology. People like them knew how to press the wee button of 13 year old Sarah - or were they called Kylie then...(and millions like her).
Sex.
They searched for boys who could hold notes - and the right ones...damn the instruments, and ones who could shake their booties horny-stylee - and they sure did, having Sarah and all faint, with some discovering there and then what happened between their legs during intense excitement.
Boy bands - may have had their day right now...but if the UK hangs on to sexualising everything from Polyfilla to airlines, they'll rise again, and again...and again. But damn - some'll just be afraid to call themselves such!
2007-01-20 02:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The have for the next few years.
Girl groups did away with them for a while and the return of Take That certainly shows their day is passed - People will argue the opposite but Take That are popular through nostalgia. When it is nostalgia that is making something popular it means the "craze" is over.
As with all things in music - give it until 2010 and there will be a massive boyband
2007-01-19 05:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by fatboyslick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mcr aint no damn boyband, matching outfits and of male gender YES, but there is no cheesy choreography. they write and play their own music, and deserve alot more credit than they are getting. I've noticed that boy bands come in cycles, like in the early 90s nkotb and menudo were HUGE. Then we got hit worse with bsb, naync, 98 degrees,lfo, etc.....they disappear then come back every generation, remember the teens grow up and their tastes change, you know nick carter, the mall, and lip gloss aren't their lives anymore. Now is the time where the respective members try solo careers, or settle down. They'll be back in a few years, new and "improved" guarenteed. my poor ears :(
2007-01-19 09:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they have had their day, kids are not into that so much these days. I left school 7 years ago and none of the boys had long hair, I go past school now and hundreds of them have long hair, all the girls look like Avril Lavine. I think most teens are into punk type music now, or hip hop and rap like Eminem or 50 cent. I think they have had their day. I can't think of a single new boyband.
2007-01-19 05:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by gemwi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bye Bye Nsync
2016-05-24 07:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably, but there's other stuff around keeping them out of the public eye. Take That were, of course, a boy band - should we now refer to them as a "man band"?
2007-01-19 05:16:21 · answer #8 · answered by catsmeatuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take that have resurfaced. Westlife is still out there. And they are trying on the x-factor, but they do seem to be a dying emblem.
2007-01-22 00:00:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take That have made a comeback with an amazing new CD full of new material
2007-01-19 05:18:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋