The resurrection of boy bands (insert scary/ cool looking font)
I am a little late on reporting this, but I still will report on the resurgence of this brand new idea of boy bands. Websters definition with the Keveeno explanation of a boy band is; a band acumalitive of mainly boys with the subtraction of a female presence meaning that possible there is a female presence within one of the boys soul, hence the Lance rumors. Boy bands usually are used as marketing around a female pop sensation, as with Britney and N’Sync/ Backstreet Boys. Today though has gone younger to try and ressurect record sales with this Hannah Montana and The Jonas Brothers. So pump up the vocal enhancers, hide the wardrobe malfunctions, this is the ressurection of The Boy Bands
Without looking up the statistics, I’m pretty sure with the hype the Jonas Bro’s are getting, they sell out shows more often then sell out their records. This all shows a striking resemblence to when I was in Middle/ High school and N’Sync was huge. The girls at my school though was more into Usher/ B2K and more of the RnB pop sensations, but there were a few that caught on with this boy band craze. Well, as does these political debates right now, it gets old. There was a break where they pushed artists who just were not ready as there was a steady decline in music sales accross the board. I guess there was a breaking point where they need something… anything. They found it in The Jones Bro’s.
Success in todays market is strongly pointing toward a more live performance rather than cd driven. When will the statistics of billboard top 200 become irrelevant and selling out shows become more of what defines success today?
From the mind of
Keveeno Reeverts
September 10, 2008 at 4:49 pm
N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys experienced an incredible amount of success–much more than the Jonas Brothers. I don’t know why, but the Jonas Brothers haven’t been able to sell nearly the number of CDs that their boyband counterparts of the 90s managed to sell.
September 10, 2008 at 10:29 pm
They won’t sell a quarter of what N’sync and Backstreet boys sell because of the state of the industry, and I agree. In the 90’s, a good producer could have made anybody sell a million, but that will not happen again