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A very specific kind of five-man vocal group. Typically, you're in a Boy Band if you began recording while still in your teens; if you and your bandmates are all extremely pretty; if few, if any of you, play instruments; if your boss is a large and often intimidating man; if you can't get any respect from the Serious Music Critics; if you have a hard time crossing over to an adult audience; and especially if the girls can't get enough of you. Can generate a Periphery Hatedom when a boy band is popular enough. You definitely were in a Boy Band if, years and years after the fact, your fandom looks back on your early albums as an embarrassing phase, Guilty Pleasure, So Bad, It's Good, or (if it's old enough) Camp. Songs from said groups often qualify as Silly Love Songs, many of them trying to convey warm and fuzzy feelings. The term "boy-band" is generally reserved for groups which are assembled by a record company or other entity, whereas most bands form organically (although there are exceptions, in both directions). Some of the tropes and musical stylings typical to Boy Bands started with The Monkees and several other groups of The '60s era. note Technically, they could be considered boybands as well, but they are missing several of what are generally considered important aspects of the "boy-band" — see below When most people hear "Boy Band" they tend to think of the late-80's — late-90's bands listed below. Most Boy Bands follow a particular Five-Man Band archetype, established by New Edition and New Kids on the Block, that differs from the traditional one used on this wiki. It is as follows: |
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The Simpsons: The Party Posse featured the well-known heart-throbs Bart Simpson, Millhouse Van Houten, Nelson Muntz, and Ralph Wiggum. The band was in fact a front for the US Navy to recruit people via subliminal messaging (their manager, Lt. L.T. Smash, explains it's "part of a three-pronged attack — subliminal, liminal, and superliminal", which basically amount to him leaning out a window and yelling at people to join the Navy). And *NSYNC appeared in a cameo to parody themselves. |
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Two of Horrible Histories' trademark music videos full-on parody this genre: 'The Four Georges', who sit under moody spotlights to sing "Born 2 Rule" (and identify themselves as the sad one, the bad one, the mad one, and the fat one), and 'The Few', a group of slickly-choreographed WWII RAF pilots who specifically spoof Take That (Band). | |
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Totally Spies! had an episode where a washed up boy band kidnapped a "hip" boy band and stole their faces. | |
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British-Irish group The Wanted have been around for the few years; after initial success in their native UK, they're starting to enjoy Stateside success as well, thanks in part to their hit "Glad You Came" and new management in the form of Scooter Braun. Despite (or perhaps because of) marketing to a generally older audience, they were completely outperformed by One Direction, and their international popularity quickly plummeted. | |
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The Paul Reveres gives us the American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, and his lengedary Green Mountain Boys. Some historians might call it disrespectful, others want it thaaaaat way. | |
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In Hot Chip's video for "I Feel Better", directed by Peter Serafinowicz, a bunch ofpretty boys called Kyng, Mar'Vaine, Octavian and Popeye are attacked by a floating man as well as a Scary Black Man with Eye Beams. | |
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In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Musical Episode "Subspace Rhapsody", the Big Finale Crowd Song features the arrival of a Klingon battlecruiser whose bridge crew is briefly turned into a K-Pop band. The captain's gruff voice even shoots up to a tenor. | |
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MTV's Made-for-TV Movie 2ge+ her was an Affectionate Parody of Boy Bands and their formation. It later spawned a TV show and album, and several of their songs got played on TRL. The main clue-in that the group was a joke (aside from their goofy lyrics) was that one of the members was Chris Farley's brother Kevin, who was over 30, fat and balding. Sadly, the show was quickly canceled after the death of member Michael Cuccione at the age of 16 from lymphoma, which caused many a Harsher in Hindsight as his disease was written into the story — as a gag. Amusingly, *NSYNC loved the parody and joked about wanting to collaborate with the group. |
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An episode of King of the Hill has Bobby becoming a fan of a boy band, which Hank supports after hearing their supposedly clean, Christian act. Then he accompanies Bobby to a concert and is horrified to discover it's actually Lyrical Dissonance as their act is highly sexualized. | |
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Parodied in Shirokuma Cafe with the Yama Arashi, which is a mockery of Arashi. Except they're porcupines. | |
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In the Total Drama "Celebrity Manhunt" special bridging Season 2 and Season 3, Justin, Trent, Cody, and Harold make up a boy-band called The Drama Brothers. Many tropes are played, such as the band spiraling out of control, breaking up, and reuniting, most of which is revealed in a Where Are They Now segment. The Drama Boys perform in the first Total Drama World Tour Aftermath segment at Blaineley's behest. | |
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The 2000 Teen Choice Awards opened with a parody of Making the Band, starring the geriatric and aptly named Old-Town. Despite the name, they were more a parody of *NSYNC, performing a mash up of the group's songs and one member rocking Chris Kirkpatrick's infamous braids. The members of *NSYNC present for the awards loved it. | |
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In the Sonic Boom episode, "Battle of the Boy Bands", after Justin Beaver's manager brainwashes all of the village's girls into becoming Fan Girls of Beaver, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles form a boy band called "Dreamboat Express" (later renamed "Dude-itude") to stop the brainwashing. | |
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The musical Altar Boyz! is an Affectionate Parody of boy bands and Christian Rock. | |
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Starting from The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem loved mocking boybands in order to poke fun at the fact that he'd started out as a Hardcore Hip-Hop artist but had ended up developing a Periphery Demographic of Teen Pop fans who swooned over his Pretty Boy appearance. The beef also covered for what seems to have been some genuine fondness for their work - and provided the opportunity to satirically work elements of their sound into his work, cementing his appeal to the boyband fandom. Eminem's satirical beef with *NSYNC was mostly intended to differentiate himself from them, because people were calling him a 'pop rapper'. He performed garish stunts (like throwing a bucket of pig's blood over them on TRL) and dissed them in interviews, but would also sing silly anal-sex themed parodies of their songs as part of his stage show and copy their dancing. When Slim dissed Chris Kirkpatrick ("you can git-yer-ass-kicked!") in "Without Me", music critics noted that it was impressive that Eminem could name a specific member of the group (and one who wasn't Justin Timberlake or Lance Bass). (Chris Kirkpatrick was apparently delighted to be referenced by his favourite rapper.) In the music video for "The Real Slim Shady", Slim dresses up as a Tom Green-style superhero character and antagonises a bunch of boyband-like men, forcing them to kiss his ass. A lot of the production on The Marshall Mathers LP, fitting its concept of Eminem dealing with becoming a pop star, satirises the boyband style Teen Pop of the day, particularly the Max Martin-esque panting and boombap on "I'm Back", the panned-out vocal harmonies and Latin guitar in "Marshall Mathers" (which even has Slim singing an offensive Song Parody of "Summer Girls" by LFO in the middle-8), and the campy, stompy pianos in "Criminal". Of course, while they might sound like something by a boyband, the impression vanishes as soon as you listen to the lyrics. (Assuming Eminem's shortcomings as a singer didn't destroy the illusion for you already.) In the song and music video for "My Band", Eminem sends himself up by imagining Slim Shady as the douchey lead singer of a boyband, resented by the rest of D12 for hogging the spotlight from them. In the song's middle 8, it goes into a stereotypical, glittery boyband-pop vamp with Slim singing in a harmonised, vocal style, "girl, why can't you see, you're the only one for me..." with himself and the rest of the band dressed in cheesy white Backstreet Boys-esque suits. |
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AAA had "Los Spice Boys" Jimmy Boy, Billy Boy and Vangelis, though they later dropped the boy band gimmick when Vangelis left the group and was replaced by Decnis in what became Los Warriors (The now Nazi's Vangelis's group) vs. Los Barrio Boys (Decnis's group) feud. | |
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In Turning Red (which takes place in 2002, when boy bands were still popular in North America), Mei and her friends are huge fans of a boy band called 4*Town, and a major conflict is how Mei's mother Ming won't allow her to go to their upcoming concert. While the film plays the boy band angle completely straight with almost no irony, supplementary materials state that Jesse is a bit too old to be in the band (despite his youthful looks, he's a former art student and has two kids) and Robaire is likely the only one who will have a successful solo career when the band dissolves. | |
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Grand Theft Auto III and its prequel, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories feature fictional boy bands on the Lips 106 radio station with hilarious names. | |
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Early in Schlock Mercenary, Tagon's Toughs are hired to guard the "New Sync Boys" — who turn out to be the holographic creation of a single AI owned by the record company, who ends up "defecting" to the mercenary company. "Ennesby" is still a main cast member. | |
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Parody artist Jon Cozart, aka Paint, sings about the crass marketing and eventual obsolescence of several popular boy bands in his "Boy Brand" video. | |
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The American Dad! episode "Can I Be Frank (With You)" thoroughly explores this through a twelve-person boyband named Boys-12; specifically, they show how similar they can be through covering every imaginable boyband characteristic: | |
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In Jon Lajoie's "Pop Song" he sort of parodies this (though it's mostly a parody of Justin Bieber). | |
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The Middleman has an episode in which a boy band turns out to consist of aliens trying to get back to their home galaxy. The Middleman has apparently read this page, because he identifies all of them by role. | |
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In Milo Murphy's Law, Zack is revealed to have once been The Face of a regionally-famous boy band called the Lumberzacks. He's not proud of it. This actually sets up a storyline where he, Milo, Melissa and Mort form their own band, which winds up going up against the Lumberzacks (now signed with a major music company and renamed the Lumbermaxes after their new leader) in the local Battle of the Bands. | |
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Blossom, Bubbles, and Bubblecup from 'The Powerpuff Girls (2016)'' are fans of the boy band "The Sensitive Thugz". The first episode revolves around Bubbles winning two tickets for their concert and having to figure out which of her sisters to take. | |
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Angel Moxie has N'Tune, part of Candi Shugari's (a powerful demon who mixes cute with evil) plot to eliminate Alex, Riley and Tristan. | |
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In (of all things) Arthur, boy band Binky is not real... sort of. In concerts, holograms are used in concerts, somehow, without anyone noticing at all. Which kind of leads to the question — who does the singing? (Though, by the sound of the only example of their music in the show, which consists of "wheeowheoowheeo" repeated over and over, it could be Yoko Ono.) | |
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Howard the Duck tackled boybands in the first issue of the MAX miniseries, when Howard's girlfriend Beverly gets a job marketing a boyband called, imaginatively, the "Backdoor Boys." She finds it suspicious that the songs (with names like "U R 4 Me," "I M 4 U (remix) and "Love Puppy") are all recorded and the bios for the band members before the actual members have been cast, but Howard mentions Milli Vanilli and The Monkees as examples of similar "packaging a band name for a demographic segment, Bev, it has nothing to do with actual music or atual people." Turns out that there is something more sinister going on, as the band members (A.J, B.J, T.J, J.T. and Justin) are actually clones being grown in a vat, and if one band member doesn't perform well he's killed off and replaced with an identical clone. | |
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Parodied in one Steven Universe episode, where Steven attempts to use a time machine to form a boy band using only versions of himself for Beachapalooza. A number of boy-band roles are namechecked, although none of the different versions of Steven can remember which one they were actually supposed to be, and the whole thing dissolves into chaos before too long. | |
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Phineas and Ferb has the Paisley Sideburn Brothers, a pretty obvious nod to fellow Disney Channel-associates The Jonas Brothers. | |
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One of the Megastar groups for No Straight Roads are 1010 (pronounced Ten-Ten). Five androids that act as The Dividual. 1010 satirizes over-produced boy bands as identical, synchronized, autotuned androids only superficially distinguished by color and hairstyle. Their manager, Neon J., can also replace any of the band members that fall in combat instantly with a portable manufacturing machine, making them a literal manufactured band. They are, in-universe, quite effective, as main character Mayday gets weak-kneed at the sight of them. She shows more remorse fighting 1010 then when she fought a literal child. | |
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Inside Amy Schumer features a skit with a boy band that magically appears in Amy's apartment to sing a song about how she doesn't need makeup to be beautiful. They change their minds after seeing her without makeup on. | |
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Leave it to The Onion to take this one on. | |
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Becoming was made during the height of the boy band craze, and many were imitated on the show. Both the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were done twice, as well as O-Town. | |
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In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Star, Marco and Tom are fans of the boy band Love Sentence. The lead singer Justin Towers is voiced by former 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey. | |
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Less a parody, more an affectionate homage: Season 3 of Glee, specifically the Valentine's Day episode "Heart", saw Mario's "Let Me Love You" performed as a classic boyband routine performed in the choir room. Interestingly, the sequence involved some revision of the typical boyband tropes; though the lineup included a Heartthrob (Sam), a Bad Boy (Puck), an Older Brother (Mike), a Cute One (Kurt) and a Shy One (Artie), the leader of the group was definitely Artie — partly because the song was a step in his courtship of Sugar Motta, and partly as a reference to Kevin McHale's stint in the boyband NLT. Also, in the third episode of the first season, "Acafellas", Will's all male a cappella group has boy band elements In the season 2 episode "Comeback", Sam, in order to get Quinn's attention, forms a Justin Bieber one-man cover band called The Justin Bieber Experience, that expands into a full-on boyband when Artie, Mike and Puck decide tag along in order to impress their respective love interests at the time. |
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Menudo: A Puerto Rican group best known to non-Latino people as "Ricky Martin's Old Band" (it was much more popular in Latin America and it was the Trope Maker / Trope Codifier there). Notable because they combined this with a rotating cast; when you turned sixteennote this rule was terminated in 1988, grew facial hair, or underwent a voice change, you were fired. The group lasted from 1977 to 1997, and about 30 singers passed through the band in that time. The Menudo name was retired in 1997, and their management kept the final lineup together under the new name MDO, which continued until 2008. There's also another successor group, El Reencuentro, which formed in 1998 and features a lineup of former members, including a few from the original lineup. | |
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Boyz Will Be Boyz from The Loud House from "For Bros About To Rock". They also made a cameo on TV in "The Green House". | |
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McFly: (named after the character from Back to the Future), an early 2000 band, largely fitted the mold. They were considered a "brother"-group to Busted that also played instruments on stage and were inspired by pop rock/power pop music. That the band members played their own instruments, did their own songwriting, and mentioned having contemporary rock n roll influences has brought many fans to strongly insist that they're not quite a 'boy band' (many fans just don't care either way). In the 2010s, the members of McFly and the two members of Busted who weren't Charlie Simpson reformed jointly as a five-piece called McBusted. | |
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Kim Possible has the ''Oh Boyz' in the episode of the same title. A four-man boyband, they'd outlived their popularity (which lasted about a week) with only Ron and Rufus liking them by then. Señor Senior Snr. kidnapped them on Señor Senior Jnr.'s birthday (the plan was their safe return for Junior to be made a pop star). The kidnapping brought back their sales up and they fired their weasel of a manager once the thing blows over. (Two of the band's members were actually voiced by Lance and Joey from *NSYNC.) | |
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All Grown Up! had an in-universe boy band called The Sulky Boys. You know they're meant to be a parody when all the members' names are two initials (JT, TJ etc.), they dress Totally Radical and the one song we hear is a Silly Love Song about math. | |
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Japanese Professional Wrestling promotion Toryumon X tried this. They cast Taiji Ishimori as a pop idol and identical twin brothers Shu and Kei Sato as his backup singers. Then they pushed the trio as the top faces of the promotion, even going so far as to have them actually release an album. Fans didn't take to them. The funny part? Their rivals were "Los Salseros Japoneses" — a salsa band. And they DID become popular, with the Salseros gimmick outlasting the promotion itself, going into Michinoku Pro Wrestling and Dragon Gate. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has an in universe band called "outta Sync" and another band called Graystar. | |
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Bob's Burgers brought us Boyz4Now, a group whose concert Tina dragged the entirely uninterested Louise to only for Louise to entirely fall for the Cute member of the group, Boo-Boo. | |
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Odd Squad has Soundcheck, which is a direct parody of One Direction. They're extremely popular across the globe, with songs that are hilariously corny and rife with Word Salad Lyrics, and are even a hit with the employees of Odd Squad — all except Olive, who can't understand their appeal (at least for a time before she too is eventually swayed by them in "Disorder in the Court"). | |
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5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS) technically doesn't fit the definition of a boy band. The band was formed out of interest between friends, not by a label. Not only that, but they write their own songs and play their own instruments, something that most boy bands don't do. Nonetheless, they still warrant being an example here, due to being marketed as a boy band and being very strongly associated with One Direction (they opened for their 2013 and 2014 tours). Also, since they target the same young/teenage girl demographic that other boy bands do, have photogenic appearances, put emphasis on each member as "equals", and have heavy merchandising, they seem to be straddling a line between "boy band" and "authentic musician". 5SOS are also notable for being the only Australian "boy band" (and only the second international boy band, period) to achieve popularity in the United States, and although not nearly as popular as 1D, they are easily the second-biggest boy band of their generation — and with 1D going on a very likely breakup at the end of 2015, they'll be the only ones left. | |
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Friendship is Witchcraft has BBBFF, a band which Francis Sparkle is a member of. It's a pretty obvious parody of *NSYNC, like how the band's name is an acronym of the members' own names (Ben, Ben, Ben, Francis, and Francis). | |
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Hammerhead's ending in Twisted Metal: Small Brawl has him wishing to become a rock star. Because Calypso is a Jackass Genie, he puts the young metalhead in a flamboyantly-dressed Y2K-era boy band called the Silky Boys. Cue the Big "NO!" as the kid, looking around at his costume and his bandmates on stage in front an audience of screaming girls, realizes what's happened to him. | |
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Boyzone: Irish boy band who took over from Take That (Band) after their split and were hugely successful in the UK (Despite several attempts at the market, they never cracked America). The band lasted for three albums, most of the tracks on which were written or co-written by the members themselves (though their most well known song, "No Matter What", was written by, of all people , Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber for their musical adaptation of Whistle Down the Wind), and broke up in 2000. Ronan Keating was the only member to have a successful solo career, and the band eventually reunited in 2007. Stephen Gately of the group was the first member of a really successful boy band to come out as gay, but sadly died at 33 in 2009. Boyzone released four new albums with a more mature sound after his death, and called it quits for good in 2019. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: The episode "Monkey Business" introduces a boy band made of three Surfer Dude monkeys — Bingo, Bango, and Robespierre. Their main song consists of saying the words "dude" and "girl," and lampshading that they don't know many other words. They're very popular (especially with girls... and the Chief), but Dudley doesn't like them for most of the episode. Bird Brain attempts to use their melodious voices to open a portal to a world of other blue-footed boobies. At the end of the episode, after foiling Bird Brain's plans, Dudley realizes he loves the band's music, and it's another band, the Hunky Donkies, who he hated. | |
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One episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? features a three-man band called Fate's Fools. They want to replace female singer Lindsay Pagano as the opening act, making them suspects. | |
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Saturday Night Live did a number of sketches featuring a boy band called "Seven Degrees Celsius", in an obvious parody of 98 Degrees, *NSYNC, and the Backstreet Boys. The members of Seven Degrees Celsius usually included a Heartthrob/Sweet One, one with a crazy hairdo (a nod to Chris Kirkpatrick's box braids), and an Older Brother type that was a lot older than he claimed. In one episode, the Backstreet Boys' famous folding chairs were replaced with inflatable hippity-hops, giving a not-so-subtle impression of the band having massive testicles. One notable "Seven Degrees Celsius" sketch featured a boy band called No Refund, who sang in nothing but food innuendos... and were portrayed by that night's musical guests, *NSYNC. They were pretty fond of the sketch, having once made a video shout out as the fictional boy band during one of their visits to TRL. |
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Rock of Ages has the Z-Guyeezz ("Double the E, double the Z, double the flava!"), an early (Rock of Ages takes place in 1987) parody on boygroups, complete with ridiculously colorful and oversized clothes, and yes, complete with lip-syncing at what's supposed to be a live concert. Their manager even reminds them of shutting off their headset microphones. | |
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Fourth, their critical reputation has actually grown with the passing years, including and especially for their then-disastrous film, Head. | |
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Sons of Provo, a mockumentary of a fake boy-band trio called Everclean. The group is a parody of the Osmonds, from their origins (Provo, Utah) to their religious affiliations (Latter-day Saints) — one of the members even asks "What Would Donny and Marie Do?" when confronted with a moral dilemma. | |
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FoxTrot: Bratty Teenage Daughter Paige is naturally a fan of several different boy bands. While the strip usually has her fawn over real ones, one arc centered around her getting mailed an autographed photo from the "Backsync Boys" and the ensuing fallout when it gets eaten by her brother's pet iguana. | |
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5ive: Another late 90s boy band, but British. Known for being slightly edgier than a standard boy band with funk, rap and rock influences in their music. Mostly remembered by being considered the most successful British boy band in the United States until 2012 note Although Take That's "Back for Good" was a much bigger hit than 5ive's one hit "When the Lights Go Out", 5ive had the Disney Channel backing them in the United States, which boosted their album sales significantly. and for releasing a cover of Queen's "We will Rock You" which was successful in the charts but draws very polarizing opinions to this day. Attempted to reunite twice, once in 2006 which failed, and again in 2014 with far more success. Two members have left the band, one in 2012 and another in 2014. The band has performed as a trio since. | |
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B5 started out as a boy band featuring five brothers. They began in the 1990s with four of the brothers but hit the mainstream in the mid-2000s thanks to Disney. The group is best know for their Jackson 5 cover "All I Do". B5 was more R&B-geared than pop-geared. By their second album the boys had outgrown their "boy band" image and were a straight up R&B group. They lasted a few more years but the brothers split up either to go solo, focus on their kids, or do something else. | |
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During the 1990s British boy band boom, there was a short-lived TV sitcom called Boyz Unlimited, about a parody boy band. It's chiefly notable because the writers went on to create another series called Little Britain. | |
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JLS, from England; like One Direction, they rose to popularity after their season of The X Factor. Much like 98 Degrees, though, they formed independently and initially auditioned for X Factor together. They never made any impact in the United States (or in Europe). | |
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The Mighty B!! brings us "The Sugar Boyz" A fake parody of several boy bands although they only use one repetitive hook no matter what lyrics they sing. Their career is comically ended when all four of them hit puberty onstage. This lowers their voices, fills their faces with acne and gives them crooked teeth, not to mention lots of facial hair. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has Boys Who Cry, a three-man boy band that Pearl and Squidward are fans of (the latter even claims that he knows all of their songs by heart). All of them are identical, save for their hair and skin color. Apparently, it charges a million dollars just to hire them for a performance. | |
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Celtic Thunder is essentially Public Television's answer to the Boy Band — too bad they're about a decade too late. Basically, they took five incredibly attractive Irish guys who could sing and range in age from about 15 to 40 in order to attract as many women as possible. Though not as well-known or well-merchandised as some of the examples above, they have a big international following. | |
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Josie and the Pussycats (2001) features a boy band called Du Jour. To make fun of the effeminate nature of many boy bands, their hit single was called "Backdoor Lover". When they find out that their record label is putting Subliminal Advertising into their music, their manager (who isn't a big burly dude, but is instead an evil Alan Cumming) tries to have them killed by causing their plane to crash. They survive, having managed to safely land the plane on their own... only to find that they had landed in the parking lot of an arena hosting a Metallica concert and subsequently get the ever-loving crap beaten out of them (sans Les, who only comments "I thank god every day I know the lyrics to 'Enter Sandman'!"). | |
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Big Time Rush: Known as a current day version of the Monkees and Sony Music and Nickelodeon's answer to the Jonas Brothers (and later, to Allstar Weekend). They are often credited for reviving the boy band for The New '10s and for making One Direction possible, for better and for worse. | |
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Auryn, Spanish boyband established in 2009. They didn't really take off until a failed Eurovision bid in 2011, and still their first album was financed by themselves and their manager before landing a deal with Warner. | |
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Central Park: In Season 3 "Money Candy", Money Candy is a fictional band based on popular K-Pop groups. Members consist of Min-Jun (the best singer), B (the second-best singer), Ki-Moon (the best rapper), Bugs (the best dancer), and QT (the best looking). | |
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Galavant has the Monks of Valenzia, who have taken a "vow of singing" and are portrayed as a boyband. They're led by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and the other four monks introduce themselves as "the smart one," "the cute one," "the shy one" and "the bad boy (but not so bad 'cause I'm a monk)." | |
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And *NSYNC appeared in a cameo to parody themselves. | |
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Brütal Legend starts off with Eddie Riggs as a roadie for Kabbage Boy, a Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore band that sounds like Linkin Park mixed with The Jonas Brothers. Needless to say, Eddie is far from pleased with this gig. | |
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The crew of The Chaser's War On Everything dressed up as a parody of boy band and did a live song. The song started out normally with dancing and singing lipsyncing at a nice and steady pace. Then the music skips on a few words and starts to rewind and start over, then proceeding to speed up and slow down randomly. Forcing the "boy band" to improvise quickly and beautifully. | |
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Kamen Rider Den-O created one out of the series People in Rubber Suits to sing the "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune. No, seriously. | |
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D☆DATE, a Japanese Boy Band formed from members of the D-Boys acting troupe, is quite possibly the only place where you can find a Kamen Rider and an Ultraman singing with a Super Sentai villain. (And a couple of other guys.) | |
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The Replacements had Todd, Sheldon and the rest of the Boy's Choir become "Boy's Rock" when he replaced his choirmaster with a Large Intimidating Boss in an episode fairly similar to the South Park and The Simpsons examples. | |
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In spite of only having three members, Alvin and the Chipmunks parodied the Unbuilt Trope as far back as 1959, but especially in their 1980s and 2000s versions. The genuinely aim for the same "tween" audience. | |
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The Japanese comedy sketch show Warau Inu no B�ken (Adventures of a Laughing Dog), has the song "Yatta!", with the ficticious boy band Happa-tai (Green Leaves) dancing and singing in underwear with a fig leaf attached, singing about optimism in hard times. | |
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Kirby Buckets features a boy band called Ume4ever, which Dawn and Belinda are huge fans of. In the episode "The Year of Fridays", Dawn mentioned that Kirby vandalizing the band's poster in her room was the most "unforgivable" thing he had ever done to her, and their parents banned Kirby from hanging out with Fish and Eli that Friday night right when they were about to hit the one-year anniversary of their tradition. Dawn and Belinda's plot in that episode involved them going to stay in the band's hotel, only for them to get locked outside that night and never getting a chance to meet them. She has better luck in the episode "Get a Grip", when a lot of good things suddenly begin happening to her after Kirby breaks his hand and is unable to draw. She wins a date with Chadwin, who sings a Silly Love Song about sandwiches to her. Unfortunately, the date quickly goes downhill after Belinda (who felt Dawn was ignoring her) taught Kirby to draw with his left hand, and Dawn subsequently throws up on Chadwin. | |
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Big Time Rush: While the titular band would go on to be a real life example (as mentioned above), the boys' In-Universe manager has managed multiple cookie cutter boy bands in the past, all of whom had the word "boy" in their names and had hit songs about girls and nothing else. He tries to force BTR into the same mold in the pilot, but they manage to convince him to let them do their own thing. | |
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South Park: The gang form the band FingerBang in the episode "Something You Can Do With Your Finger". Lampshades the Five-Man Band aspect (they hold auditions for their 5th member with Wendy being selected and later Randy after Kenny's usual episodic death and archetypes). "The Ring" was also focused on The Jonas Brothers, if one considers them a boy band. They were characterized as Clueless Chick Magnets who really were as wholesome as they seemed, but with the Disney Company (portrayed by a violent, very unwholesome Mickey Mouse) as the evil manager forcing them into doing things they didn't like. |
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"It's My Party" from Summer Camp Island has a boy band of tiny magical Pretty Boy creatures (voiced by little kids) called "Boy Band". Hedgehog and Alice are huge fans of them. | |
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BTS, years after their debut in 2013, has become the most successful Korean boy band in the world, being the first Korean group to get into the Top 10 in Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in Billboard 200 and achieving records worldwide, and rivalling only One Direction in global popularity. With heavy influences mainly from Hip-Hop, a wide range of musical genres, members with backgrounds in the underground rap scene and heavy involvement in the creative process, and music with an underdog coming-of-age narrative heavy on social and political messages, the group managed to gradually build a diverse audience (both in cultural backgrounds and ages) on a global scale. The group is also notable for their huge presence in social media, their unusually close relationship with fans with an emphasis on genuineness, and their use of multimedia storytelling through what's known as the BTS Universe. | |
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LFO — A Power Trio who acquired the all-important Joey McIntyre Elder Boy Band Statesman Seal of Approval; he had them as openers for some of his solo shows. LFO stood for "Lyte Funkee Ones", and they had to use that full name in the UK due to the existence of a popular pre-existing techno group also called LFO. Unlike most other American boy bands, LFO wrote almost all of their songs themselves, but they are mostly well-known today for their debut hit "Summer Girls", which has some of the most random lyrics in music history. Tragically, they would remain a Two-Hit Wonder ("Girl On TV" was their second most known song) as lead singer Rich Cronin died of leukemia at the age of 36 in 2010, and Devin Lima passed from adrenal cancer in 2018 at age 41. | |
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An actual musical example, Big Bad Bosses is one for video game villains. | |
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In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the main character as a child wanted to watch a Pay-Per-View concert of the boy band "Room Temperature." She never got to, but later on, she imagines her crush Josh Chan in a boy band. A boy band made up of four Joshes (each one with a different outfit). | |
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Self-Insert is an experimental group consisting of three singers that functions as a sort of boy band with extremely exaggerated and mechanical singing and voice modifications, strange choreographed live dances, a lack of any played instruments, and surreal love songs that bring in bursts of violence and inanimate machines. | |
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Westlife: Irish group founded by the same manager as Boyzone, Louis Walsh. Also co-managed by Simon Cowell. Took over from Boyzone as top UK boy band as they started to decline, scoring 13 #1 hits throughout their career. Credited by non-fans with helping to end the 1990s UK boy band boom by being so sentimental and lacking in musical or lyrical edge or sexuality that they seemed to be designed more for the over-sixty demographic than the under-sixteen. Which made their win at MTV's Boy Band Battle even more baffling and earned Death Glares from all the losing fandoms, especially since the big ones like the Jackson 5, NKOTB, Backstreet, and *NSYNC were all wiped out in the first stages. The group disbanded in 2012, but reunited in 2018. | |
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Boyz II Men: Took NKOTB's place in the early-to-mid 90's, but had a more traditional R&B sound and were marketed more towards the adult/general market instead of directly at teenagers like many of the bands they would inspire. Were one of the most successful groups of any genre in the 1990s, scoring four #1 hits and several more that made the Top 5. Their 1992 single "End of the Road" remains the best selling single in Motown Records history. They directly influenced many of the bands listed below, particularly the ones that strayed more towards R&B. | |
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Osomatsu-san turned the Matsuno brothers into this for the first episode, complete with Otome Game-styled visual Art Shift. The shift didn't stick for long, though, as the brothers had trouble maintaining their cool appearances while keeping their outdated comedy origins under wraps. | |
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The Australian comedy film BoyTown is about a boy band of the same name from the 80s who, in the 2000s, decide to reform as middle-aged men. Their songs are geared towards the demographic who were teenage girls in the 80s, so their new album has titles like "Picking The Kids Up From School", "Cellulite Lady" and "Dishpan Hands". | |
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One episode of Mission to Zyxx mentions that AJ used to be in a boy band named CLINT-SYNC. He claims to have been the Bad Boy. | |
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Gravity Falls features Sev'ral Timez, a boy band who came a decade too late. (The show even got Lance Bass himself voice them.) It turns out that they're actually a group of clones who their manager keeps in a giant hamster cage, and they know absolutely nothing about the outside world as a result. Mabel and her friends rescue them, leading to a Batman in My Basement plot. Note that the show didn't just "get Lance Bass" to voice the band. Alex Hirsch's Real Life sister (whom Mabel is based on) was such a huge fan of Bass when they were kids that Hirsch made this episode specifically so that he could hire Bass, then invite his sister to the studio to meet him. |
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Law & Order: UK: DS Brooks' corrupt ex-partner cites the numerous favors that he did to cover him during his drinking days, apparently feeling that all this should have warranted Brooks turning a blind eye to his involvement in criminal activities, given that he then blasts him for "letting your boy-band partner come after me", (a derisive reference to the youth and good looks of DS Matt Devlin) | |
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