History Main / BoyBand

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* Music/{{Busted}} were a British trio from the early 2000s that tried to fit in with the pop-punk fad of the time by playing (or "playing") instruments on stage and having the odd noisy guitar riff, but were still essentially a boy band. Shortly before the band broke up, their leading member Charlie Simpson formed Fightstar, a [[GenreShift hardcore punk band]]. That band actually became quite successful and acclaimed, and as a result, Simpson tended to [[CreatorBacklash downplay his involvement with Busted for some time]], before saying "you know what? I had great fun in that band and I don't care who knows it" and joining the original lineup reunion in 2016.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' turned the Matsuno brothers into this for an episode, complete with OtomeGame-styled visual ArtShift. 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shift didn't stick for long, though, as the brothers had trouble maintaining their cool appearances while keeping their outdated comedy origins under wraps.

* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'' featured a boy band called ''[[MeaningfulName Du Jour]]''. To make fun of the effeminate nature of many boy bands, their hit single was called "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Backdoor Lover]]". When they find out that their record label is putting SubliminalAdvertising into their music, their manager (who isn't a big burly dude, but is instead an evil Creator/AlanCumming) tries to have them killed by causing their plane to crash. [[spoiler: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 Music/{{Metallica}} concert and subsequently get the everloving crap beaten out of them (sans Les, who only comments "I thank god every day I know the lyrics to 'Enter Sandman'!").]]

* Music/{{Menudo}}: A Puerto Rican group best known to non-Latino people as "Music/RickyMartin's Old Band" (it was much more popular in Latin America and it was the TropeMaker / TropeCodifier there). Notable because they combined this with a [[RevolvingDoorBand rotating cast]]; when you [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday turned sixteen]][[note]]this rule was terminated in 1988[[/note]], 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.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E09SubspaceRhapsody Subspace Rhapsody]]", the BigFinaleCrowdSong features the arrival of a Klingon battlecruiser whose bridge crew is briefly turned into a {{Kpop}} band. The captain's gruff voice even shoots up to a tenor.

* Boyzone: Irish boy band who took over from Music/TakeThatBand after their split and were hugely successful in the UK (Despite several attempts at the market, they [[AmericansHateTingle 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 , Creator/JimSteinman and Creator/AndrewLloydWebber for their musical adaptation of ''Film/WhistleDownTheWind''), 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.

* Boyzone: Irish boy band who took over from Music/TakeThatBand after their split and were hugely successful in the UK (Despite several attempts at the market, they [[AmericansHateTingle never cracked America]]). The band lasted for three albums, most of the tracks on which were written or co-written by the members themselves, 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.

* The Osmonds: A [[TheSeventies 1970s]] Boy Band from Provo, Utah, composed of six brothers and on occasion one sister, who were collectively renowned for their super-excellent gleaming dentition and for their open and positive representation of their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) faith. Posterity also grants them a couple of not-bad tunes (including the [[GenreAdultery incongruously]] HardRock "Crazy Horses").

* Music/NewEdition: Remembered mostly nowadays for being [[FaceOfTheBand Bobby Brown's old band]], but they established the typical R&B-lite musical style used by boy bands ever since. They were all teenagers, all cute and wholesome (despite being from gritty [[{{Southies}} Roxbury, MA]]), and had the all-important Large Intimidating Boss (Maurice Starr). One of the first boy bands to have one of their lead members leave for a solo career: The other members fired Brown at the end of 1985, and he went on to have a very successful solo career. The group lasted four more years without him before going on a "hiatus" in 1990; Three members subsequently formed the NewJackSwing group Bell Biv [=DeVoe=] and had a huge pair of hits with "Poison" and "Do Me!". New Edition reunited in 1996 with all six members - both Brown and his replacement Johnny Gill were on board - and still tour and record from time to time.

* '''The Heartthrob / Sweet One:''' The unofficial FaceOfTheBand, and the one who was put there to draw the {{Squee}} of millions of adoring teenage girls (at least, the most {{Squee}}). Most likely a former model and the MrFanservice of the group, often appearing shirtless in posters and photo shoots. He is also the one most likely to have a [[BreakoutCharacter successful solo career]] once the group disbands. If the band gets a movie, count on him to be TheHero. In the most extreme case, [[SpotlightStealingSquad he might be far more popular than the rests of the band.]]

* ''Series/KirbyBuckets'' 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 FaceOfTheBand Chadwin, who sings a SillyLoveSong 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.

-->'''B1''': "[[BigFun Fat boy!]]"; '''B2''': "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Bad boy!]]"; '''B3''': "[[ForeignFanservice Japanese!]]"; '''B4''': "[[TroubledButCute My sister died.]]"; '''B5''': "[[NiceGuy I'm sweet!]]"; '''B6''': "[[FaceOfTheBand I can sing!]]"; '''B7''' "[[BlatantLies Gorgeous!]]"; '''B8''': "[[SweetPollyOliver I'm B8,]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I've got the penis of a man!]]"; '''B9''': "[[StoicWoobie My parents got divorced.]]"; '''B10''': "[[WheelchairWoobie Hypoglycemic!]]"; '''B11''': "[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs I'm grumpy.]]"; '''B12''': "[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs I'm sleepy!]]"

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' [[OnlySaneMan Zack]] is revealed to have once been the [[FaceOfTheBand face]] of a regionally-famous boy band called the Lumberzacks. [[OldShame He's not proud of it]]. This actually sets up a storyline where he, [[BornUnlucky Milo]], [[UnfazedEveryman Melissa]] and [[GranolaGuy 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.

* ''Film/RockOfAges'' has the [[XtremeKoolLetterz Z-Guyeezz]] ("[[CatchPhrase Double the E, double the Z, double the flava!]]"), an early (''Film/RockOfAges'' 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.

* The musical ''Theatre/AltarBoyz!'' is an AffectionateParody of boy bands and ChristianRock.