History YMMV / TheBeeGees

* DeaderThanDisco: Being associated with disco, when disco's popularity tanked in the 80s, so did the group's popularity ([[AmericansHateTingle at least in the States.]])

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Maurice sang lead on only a select few tracks, such as "Trafalgar," but he was arguably the band's best instrumentalist, being skilled at playing bass, keyboards and (sometimes) guitar. The distinctive basslines on tracks like "Jive Talkin'" are his contribution. Because of this, he has a large fanbase.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Maurice has a large fanbase despite singing far and away the fewest lead vocals of the three brothers.

* EarWorm: Notably "Stayin' Alive", "You Should Be Dancing" and "Jive Talkin'". Away from their disco period, try "Lonely Days", "I Started a Joke", "Massachusetts", and the chorus to their last single "Alone" if you want good earworm material.

* ColbertBump: The DarkReprise of "I Started a Joke" in the trailer for ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' made them more relevant than they'd been in decades.

* DeaderThanDisco: even after [[WereStillRelevantDammit shifting their sound to be contemporary]] in the 80's, the U.S. still associated them with the Disco Craze, causing their 80's releases to be flops.

* MemeticMutation: AH AH AH AH Stayin' ALIIIIVE!
** Which turns out to be very useful for CPR training as well.

* {{Wangst}}: Why a lot of their early, more downbeat songs eventually stopped selling. "I Started A Joke" would most likely be labeled s "whiny" emo song in the 21st century.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' period was actually the Bee Gees' ''second'' wave of popularity. The first was actually as a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatlesque]] rock group in the late 60s, which completely lacked both disco and the falsetto that would become their trademark. Listen to songs like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5oqjFsT5g Massachusetts]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU8iSKkJR0&feature=related To Love Somebody]]"; if all you know are the disco songs, you'll be surprised it's the same band.

* ColbertBump: The DarkReprise of "I Started a Joke" in the trailer for ''Film/SuicideSquad'' made them more relevant than they'd been in decades.

* CoveredUp: "Rest Your Love on Me", written by Barry Gibb, was an obscure B-side for the Bee Gees. Conway Twitty covered it and took it to #1 on the country charts.

* EarWorm: Notably ''Stayin' Alive'', ''You Should Be Dancing'' and ''Jive Talkin'''.
** Away from their disco period, try "Lonely Days", "I Started a Joke", and "Massachusetts" on for size if you want good earworm material. The chorus to their last single "Alone" is also a good earworm.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The ''SaturdayNightFever'' period was actually the Bee Gees' ''second'' wave of popularity. The first was actually as a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatlesque]] rock group in the late 60s, which completely lacked both disco and the falsetto that would become their trademark. Listen to songs like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5oqjFsT5g Massachusetts]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU8iSKkJR0&feature=related To Love Somebody]]"; if all you know are the disco songs, you'll be surprised it's the same band.

** "More Than a Woman" is an odd case. The Bee Gees originated it for ''Saturday Night Fever'' but their rendition and a CoverVersion by Tavares were both included on the soundtrack. Tavares released it as a single and it became a hit, but that take has long been forgotten and the Bee Gees version still gets airplay.

** "More Than a Woman" is an odd case. The Bee Gees originated it but their rendition and the cover by Tavares were both included on ''Saturday Night Fever''. Tavares released it as a single and it became a hit, but that take has long been forgotten and the Bee Gees version still gets airplay.

** "More Than a Woman" is an odd case. The Bee Gees originated it but their version and the cover by Tavares were both included on ''Saturday Night Fever''. The Tavares version was released as a single and became a hit, but that version has long been forgotten and the Bee Gees version still gets airplay.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Once disco fell out of fashion, they became personas non gratis in the United States, even though they weren't recording disco songs anymore. For instance, their 1987 single "You Win Again" was a number one hit in ten different countries; its US peak was 75.

* GenreRoulette: All through their career. From Rock, Baroque Pop and ballads in the 60s and early 70s, to Disco in the mid/late 70s, to AOR, R&B and Soul from the 80s onward. An album example is their final new release, "This Is Where I Came In", which features - among other genres - acoustic rock, Eurodance, and ''even Tin Pan Alley''.

* GenreRoulette: All through their career. From Rock, Baroque Pop and ballads in the 60s and early 70s, to Disco in the mid/late 70s, to AOR, R&B and Soul from the 80s onward. An album example is their final new release, "This Is Where I Came In", which features - among other genres - acoustic rock, Eurodance, and ''Tin Pan Alley''.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The ''SaturdayNightFever'' period was actually the Bee Gees' ''second'' wave of popularity. The first was actually as a [[TheBeatles Beatlesque]] rock group in the late 60s, which completely lacked both disco and the falsetto that would become their trademark. Listen to songs like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5oqjFsT5g Massachusetts]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykU8iSKkJR0&feature=related To Love Somebody]]"; if all you know are the disco songs, you'll be surprised it's the same band.