BoyBands
___A boy band, written in some countries boys band or boy's band, is a type of featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music. Although there are no distinct traits defining a boy band, one could label a band a "boy band" for following mainstream music trends , changing their appearances to adapt to new fashion trends, having elaborate dance moves, and performing elaborate shows . They can evolve out of church choral or Gospel music groups, but are often put together by talent managers or record producers who audition the groups for appearance , dancing, rapping skills, and singing ability. Boy bands often seem to be prefabricated.
Most do not play musical instruments , and the acts are essentially vocal harmony groups (though there are some exceptions, such as groups like A1, The Moffatts, South65, Busted). Due to this and their general commercial orientation towards a teenybopper ,teens , or preteen audience, the term has negative connotations in music jurnalism . Boy bands are similar in concept to girl groups.
Maurice Starr is usually credited with starting the trend, with his New Kids on the Block, though the term "boy band" did not exist until later in the 1990s. Starr's idea was to take the traditional template from the R&B genre (in this case his teenage band New Edition) and apply it to a pop genre. This formula was in turn redefined by a number of European managers beginning with Nigel Martin-Smith's Take That in the Uk, followed by Louise Walsh and bands like East 17, which by the late 1990s, saw the UK pop marketplace saturated with the genre.
TV Producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson got four members to perform catchy pop tunes while also acting in a television series. The Monkees are often considered as the original pioneers among boy bands. Formed in 1965 the group disbanded in 1970. Although the term is mostly associated with groups from the 1990s onwards, antecedents exist throughout the history of pop music. The Temptations, popular in the 1960s, and The Bee Gees, The Jackson 5, The Osmonds, and Earth, Wind and Fire, popular in the 1970s, have also been considered a form of boy band by some[citation needed]. Latino boy band Menudo was founded in 1977.One of the most successful boy band managers is Lou Pearlman, who is responsible for extremely commercially successful acts such as the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC until he was convicted of fraud. In the UK, producer Simon Cowell (noted in the U.S. for the American Idol/Pop Idol franchise) is also known for having managed boyband Westlife, which was created by Louis Walsh[7] and promoted by a former boy band member Ronan Keating of Boyzone.
Since 2001, the dominance of traditional boy bands on pop charts began to fade to be replaced by what Gil Kaufman of MTV describes as "new boy bands" that are "more likely to resemble Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance, Simple Plan or Dashboard Confessional".
Although most boy bands consist of R&B influences, other music genres, most notably power pop, country music, folk music and pop rap are also represented. South 65 and Marshall Dyllon, for example, were both considered country music boy bands. Il Divo, created by Simon Cowell, are a boy band that perform Operatic pop. Since 2001 there has been some crossover with power pop and pop punk, though this is obviously from boy bands that play live instruments.
One key convention for boy bands to follow is to follow what genres are fashionable, as opposed to creating something original. For example, as of 2008, boy bands often imitate pop punk, 1960's garage rock, post punk revivalists, pop rap, power pop (a perennial genre) and dance-punk.After scouring the country for five boys who could belt out tunes while doing the splits, (Lou Pearlman) assembled a clean-cut collection of effeminate white and Latino-looking boys, all pink cheeks and crew cuts with peroxided tips. Just like the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, there's the cute blond guy, one with curly hair, the dark one with big dimples, the guy with the funny facial hair and the less cute, but really sensitive, guy.
Pearlman herded them into a tiny apartment, forcing these guys in their late teens and early 20s to share bedrooms (hey, less opportunity for illicit sexual activity - at least with the opposite sex), and forbade them to stay out past midnight. He dressed them in coordinated red and silver "rave" outfits and spoon-fed them sugary-sweet lyrics like "Would I cross an ocean just to hold you ... Would I give up all I have to see you smile?" And then he set them loose on concert halls full of 12-year-old girls, who dutifully screamed their lungs out in a kind of mass orgasm fueled by all that scrubbed-clean testosterone.
Though some fans are wildly supportive of the music, the commercial success of specific boy bands does not tend to last long. As the fans (mostly teen girls) age and musical tastes evolve, they tend to outgrow such groups' appeal. If success is sustained, often one or more members of the band will leave and seek a solo career (particularly if they have some songwriting ability), often with some success, for instance: Michael Nesmith, Jordan Knight, Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, Jesse McCartney, Ronan Keating, Brian McFadden, Nick Lachey.
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