Best boy band ever?

[666]

I'm going with Backstreet boys first and giving a couple other legendary boy band tracks.







I'll always choose backstreet boys

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

 

[H41ph_84k3d]

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

The OG

 

[666]

The OG

No instruments allowed.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

No instruments allowed.

Damnit! I’m lost now. Menudo?

 

[Sweater of AV]

I'm going to politely ignore your no instrument rule.

 

[THEfightsAREfixed]

nsync is technically better but Backstreet Boys are more iconic

 

[666]

I'm going to politely ignore your no instrument rule.

They're exempt from the rule.

-SherJudge.

 

[Chad The Limey]

Linkin Park

 

[Jay Crawford]

Backshots

 

[Madmick]

The OG

But that's only if we pretend bands like the following didn't exist. We always have loved to steal shit from black artists.

 

[Lucas1980]

Damnit! I’m lost now. Menudo?

Laughing..I forget about Menudo. They used to play them on Saturday Mornings after watching cartoons. But the New Kids have to be ranked in the top.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

But that's only if we pretend bands like the following didn't exist. We always have loved to steal shit from black artists.

Were they a corporate creation? Gathered by the record company? Eagles were. Not sure if The Beach Boys and others were though.

 

[Madmick]

Were they a corporate creation? Gathered by the record company? Eagles were. Not sure if The Beach Boys and others were though.

Nah, none of them. I'm pretty sure the "bubblegum pop" craze is attributed to producer Maurice Starr who assembled New Edition, but more famously New Kids on the Block (in 1986). Far more successful personalities like Simon Cowell followed this trend with The Spice Girls and others. If we're going back, that's where it started. Unless you want to point to Boyz II Men as the original, but that was a group that formed in a special Philadelphia high school devoted to the theater arts by the students themselves. Sort of an accident they got as big as they did.

I think most of us intuited bubblegum pop is what the thread cheekishly probed, knowing that musical subculture isn't exactly popular with Sherdog's demographics, but if all that isn't concretely defined, why not discuss the real originals. After all, The Beach Boys were effectively assembled by the Wilson brothers' father, Murry Wilson, and he knew what he was doing. He had ambitions.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]