Boy band

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A boy band or boyband (English boy band ) is a pop group with only male members in the teens - and Twen -Alter that often synchronized dance to the song. This term does not usually include all-male bands whose members play instruments.

history

The term has only been used since the 1990s, even if the concept of groups put together by managers or in a casting , analogous to girl groups, was already successful earlier. Examples in the 1960s were the Monkees , in the 1970s the Bay City Rollers and the New Kids on the Block in the 1980s.

It was only with the increasing emergence of almost identically conceived groups such as Take That , East 17 , Worlds Apart and Caught in the Act in the mid-1990s that the term boy group became common in German-speaking countries. With over 100 million records sold, the Backstreet Boys group founded by Lou Pearlman is the most successful of its genre to date. Pearlman was also responsible for the similarly successful boy group * NSYNC . One Direction was internationally successful in the first half of the 2010s, and the South Korean group BTS was particularly popular in the second half .

Boygroups are characterized by their commercial character, as they target one of the most important target groups in the music market, the teenage girls. The music follows current trends, vocals are typical. A music producer usually oversees the overall concept from the music to the choreographies to the image .

literature

  • Georgina Gregory: Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity . Routledge, New York / London 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-64731-2 .

supporting documents

  1. ^ Dpa : Boy band maker Lou Pearlman died in prison. In: Stern.de . August 21, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Till Krause: The boy band maker's last plan. In: SZ-magazin.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 25, 2016, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Boy Group . In: Peter Wicke and Wieland & Kai-Erik Ziegenrücker (eds.): Handbook of popular music . Schott Music , Mainz 2006, p. 113 .
  4. ↑ K-pop stars BTS: the biggest boy band in the world. In: The Times . October 6, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  5. ↑ TK Park, Youngdae Kim: How BTS Succeeded Where Other Boy Bands Couldn't. In: Vulture. October 25, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ boy band . In: Riemann Musiklexikon . 13th edition. tape 1 . Schott Music, Mainz 2012, p. 270 .