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This track represents K-pop at its peak, balancing commercialviability with experimental songwriting. If theres one thing weve learned about pop music over the last half-century, its that while the boy band might not always be at pops center, its somewhere orbiting around it and will be back soon enough. MTV cobbled together a fake boy band as a response to the pop music explosion in the late 90s and the sudden proliferation of all-male groups. But each time they come, pop music is never the same afterwards nor are the lives of tens of millions of screaming youngnswhose early adolescences will come to be defined by their songs. The haunting 2002 trackhit No. One of the most hyperactive songs ever written about the need to keep things chill, Cool It Now is effervescent from its opening drum count-off, and stays a Pixy Stix-like energy rush for its entire three-and-a-half minute runtime. Following their lead, other popular scene bands - big names like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Panic! boy band N.F. It learned nonsense lyricsfrom ABBA, it learned bridges from Diane Warren, it learned key changes from Bon Jovi, and it mixed its history with an eye to the future, where pop music would expandto such sizes that rock would begin to look puny by comparison. We didn't start the fire. But the lead single from *NSYNCs blockbuster No Strings Attached LP also signaled a clean slate for the group as well:Bye Bye Bye was their first release after a messy split from late ex-manager Lou Pearlman, and its commercial success the stomping, quintessential Max Martin beat and echoing hook helped No Strings Attached go platinum in one day proved the group would never againspend a second in Backstreet Boys shadow. While Summer Girls is inarguably LFOs staple tune, West Side Story is the hit that shouldve been from the trios self-titled debut album. Bad Boy quartet 112 emerged in the back-end of the 90s with better harmonies, fresher beats and more unshakeable songs than the great majority of their contemporaries and a not-so-secret weapon in the longingvocals of Marvin Slim Scandrick, one of the decades most inimitable vocalists. The Notorious B.I.G., Only You (1996). Pass the Dutchie was a retooling of a marijuana-themed Mighty Diamonds song, made into a more despairing poverty lament (a dutchie is a cooking pot) but that wasnt what listeners latched onto as much as the songs infectious bass groove, singalong chorus and unforgettable ad libs (Ribbit!). Its hardly even obvious that the guys sing nothing more than the songs title in its chorus, as the bouncy melody makes it impossible to not dance and sing along. Each member wrote at least one number 1 hit for the group. The third-album JT vocal showcase that proved that there would be life after *NSYNCfor at least one of its members, Gone was also a heartbreak ballad of musical and emotional sophistication that wouldve been unimaginable in the days when the quintet wascovering Bread slow jams and dressing up in straitjackets for super-literal music videos. But a half-century later, the songs pristine poppiness remains overpowering; like all truly great productions, it remains captivating from its opening piano plinks to its sweeping orchestral fade, and like all truly great chourses, its lyrics (Cheer up, Sleepy Jean/ Oh what can it mean, to a/ Daydream believer and a homecoming queen) can mean as much or as little as you choose to believe. of All Time Theearwormof a hook is built around ascale-sliding whistle sample,while the acoustic guitar adds an earthy dimension to theEDM-heavycollage of sounds. Fanghua Guangyuan Electronics Co., Ltd. 1 for two weeks) Key Billboard 200 Album: No Strings Attached (No. The final reverberation of the Color Me Badd era of boy bands before the Max Martin era officially took effect, Long Beach quartet Nu Flavor showed up in 97 with a pair of pillowy soft post-New Jack Swing R&B ballads to scrape the Billboard Hot 100: Heaven and Sweet Sexy Thing. Of the two, the latter was the less resistible, a mid-tempo groove and seductive vocal so gentle that the quartet literally showed up outside their girls window with a bedspread for her to jump into in the video. T.H. New Edition, Can You Stand the Rain (1988). Somehow, I Want It That Way only peaked at No. The groups breakout hit Iesha is most stunning for itssheer forcefulness, built on a squall of synth stabs and Public Enemy samples that the groups pre-pubescent voicessound fairly out of place over butpotent enough to have kicked down the doors onthe youth movement from the Atlanta area that decade,which would seeKrisKross, MonicaandUsher allbecome teenage megastars before the turn of the millennium. The 12 best boy bands of all time - Evening Standard 33. The Beatles Were the Greatest Boy-Band Ever, Actually S.J.H. 1 mega-hit. D.W. Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally BBMak, derived from their combined surnames engineered one astonishingly effortless pop-rock single during their time in the spotlight as guitar-toting counter-programming to *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys. The Beatles The Beatles are the most successful and influential rock band of all time. An almost-unthinkable55 years (!!) Bay City Rollers, You Made Me Believe in Magic (1977). In honor of our latest Billboard magazine covers, featuring The Wanted and One Direction, we bring you the best the teen phenomenon has to offer: the top 10 boy bands of the last 25 years, according to our charts*, One Direction & The Wanted: The Billboard Cover Story, *(scroll to the bottom of the page to read about how this chart was formulated. But as extra as Allor Nothing is, dont pretend youre belting along with thatchorus at karaoke just to be ironic you know damn well its a catharsis you badly need. The 10 Greatest Boy-Band Songs Of All Time. The Beatles, I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963). Key Hot 100 Hit: Step by Step (No. Many consider The Beatles to be the first boy band, and the success of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison led to the creation of The Monkees, The Osmonds, The Jackson 5 and many other groups throughout the 60s and 70s. 10 on theHot 100, proving there were plenty of boy band fanswho wanted to get their freak on in poor visibility. The British boys of Busted were hot for teacher on their 2002 debut single, and while their hormonal ogling was hardly subtle I fight my way to the front of class, to get the best view of her ass/ I drop a pencil on the floor, she bends down and shows me more the songs gentle blurring of reality and schoolboy fantasy was sweet enough to inspire this sanitized Jonas Brothers cover. Some groups, like 5 Seconds of Summer, were deemed eligible even though their structural makeup wasnt classically boy band, because the way they were marketed and fan-devoured was. Visually lets just say the wardrobe choices and dance moves have remained unrevived in the decades since for a reason. 100. Huanhua Road The 50+ Best Boy Bands of All Time - Ranker 4) Key Billboard 200 Album: Part III (No. Want to know what everyone in the music business is talking about. S.F. And becauseCan You Stand the Rain? is an R&B song, even more than a boy band cut, the guys find a way to work hard-fought, post-trauma make-up sex into the track, as the the sound of gentle rain appears three minutes in and Mike Bivins whispers, Cmon baby lets go get wet. Cue thunder. A.U. 1hit incredibly enough Its Gonna Be Me benefits from pop mastermind Max Martins magic touch and an insanely catchy cascadinghook. B.G. One of the less-celebrated singles from the trios breakthrough 1997 albumMiddle of Nowhere, Weird is a gentle, delicately written ballad that showed the brothers strengths outside of upbeat pop. P. Diddy, Bump Bump Bump (2002). 62 in 1985. But their harmonized croons of puppy love is what gives the track its boy band appeal. WebNSYNC ( / nsk /, / n -/; also stylized as *NSYNC or ' N Sync) [3] was an American boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 [1] [2] and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. As the boy band era ended, Nick Lachey inked a reality TV deal, Justin Timberlake moved into acting, and most band members waited in the wings, ready to jump on a comeback whenever opportunity knocked. But the Backstreet Boys took the grateful for our fans playbook that NKOTBused with Tonight and turned it up a notch for the turn of the millennium. The L.A. groups self-titled debut included their monster cover of country hit I Swear, which stayed at No. The vocoder. T.W. On the surface, the track is immediately compelling as anR&B jam due to its subtle New Jack Swing influence. A.U. But besides being an underrated, uncharacteristic New Kids on the Block gem, the song also serves as a tribute to the fans who screamed and cried for NKOTB as they boundedtheir way to the top, paving the way for other boy bands to do the same most notably with Backstreet BoysLarger Than Life. D.W. 55. The Korean septet, consisting of members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, debuted in Is Queen the best Band of All Time Serving up powerful vocals, notably MAXs belting andXIAs crooning, over a reverse bass beat, fizzy synths, and layered harmonies, Mirotic is the magnificent epitome of what K-pop sounded and felt like in the late2000s. Put together by boy band mastermind Maurice Starr who also also assembled New Kids on the Block later in the decade the quintet managed to hold their own with their up-to-date style and sound, thanks to production from Starr and Arthur Baker, sending their 1983 debut albumCandy Girland its title tracksingle to chart success. The groups breakthrough single kicks off with some perfectly harmonized vocalization, anda slamming beat that throws back to the Fresh Princeera. New Kids on the Block, Tonight (1990). J. Lipshutz, 65. Cheesy, yet timeless. The bridge is downright surreal, as the sparse beat drops out entirely, the meter all but dissolves, and the five members sound like theyre swarming Timberlakes subconscious, until he breaks out for a final chorus of matserful ad libs. ROSS SCARANO, 76. But even the cynics couldnt fully resist the Rollers theres an exuberance and guileless joy to their delivery that, well, rolls through your defenses. 17: B2K Like most boy bands of a certain level, the groups of the late 90s and early 00s were relatively chaste. But the groups horny energy iswell-harnassedby the squelching beat and clever songwriting,and the overstuffed chorus is as sticky as, well weve already said too much. New Edition, Mr. T.W. The bouncy New Jack Swing beat, those tight Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooh! harmonies and lead singer Bryan Abrams breathy vocals added to the formula that shot this songNo. Comments. By Jillian Mapes. Although J.C. Chasez takes most of the lead vocals on the track, the harmonies provided by the rest of the group on the chorus make it about as quintessential as boy band songs come, with the rolling pop melodyand funky pre-verse breakdown helping itreally soar. 89 on the Hot 100.) 5 Seconds of Summer, She Looks So Perfect (2014). 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1966, where itd remain for a seven-week stretch. And in the way that Summer Girls made every girl want something from Abercrombie & Fitch, this one likely resulted in those A&F-wearing girls rushing to change their names to Veronica. Discerning rock fans clocked it for the blatant Beatlemania cash-in that it was, but for young listeners who were growing alienated by the increasingly experimental Beatles, the TV quartet scratched a profitable preteen itch that the industry was only just beginning to realize had existed for some time. And the London-bred 5ive preferred to get down and dirty with songs like When The Lights Go Out. Dont let the dance-pop production fool you this was not the typical Max Martin bubblegum jam. This classic was released in May 1997, ahead of their debut album, and it eventually went platinum and climbed to No. No. 48. 2-peaking British smash The Harder I Try. The swinging Stock/Aitken/Waterman-engineered single threw back to 60s Motown better than any U.K. outfit since Wham!, though it was kept off the top of the charts by a couple ofactualsoul covers: Yazzs The Only Way Is Up and Phil Collins Groovy Kind of Love. A.U. They are also the best-selling band in history. But as their most successful single proved, they also had the musical ability to be equally successful outside their TV framework:Boyfriend has an irresistible hook, suave verses, and a chorus that not only shows their range, but also makes it near impossible to not sing along. At times, this approach could cross the line into condescension see their sophomore albumsLittle Things, which finds the boys of 1D running through an alarmingly detailed list of a lovers insecurities as proof of devotion but at least the giddy enthusiasm of Beautiful came from a genuine place: Hitmaker Savan Kotecha says he wrote the song for his wife after she was down on herself during a rough morning. [Online]. If the answer is at least very to all three of these, youre already 80 percentof the way there. Most relevant [Chorus] We didn't start the fire. The Chipmunks, The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Dont Be Late) (1958), The animated rodentOGs of the boy band game, Alvin, Simon and Theodore set pre-adolescent hearts of all species aflutter in the late 50s with this sweetly harmonized Christmas classic. The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take on Me" by A-ha in the United States, which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).This list Room 8055, 5th floor. Queen are the only band to have all members write a number 1 hit. All Rights Reserved. JASON LIPSHUTZ. Theyre original, theyre the only ones, theyre (occasionally, unthreateningly) sexual, and theyre definitely everything you need. TheRedBull28 5 yr. ago No other bands can claim that. T.H. McFly always had a bit of a bad-boyvibe to their guitar-heavy tunes, especially thanks to the gritty vocals of co-frontmen Danny Jones and Tom Fletcher, and 5 Colours In Her Hair was the perfect introduction to that. 1. The pillowy guitar snap and four-part harmonies are doused in an earnestness that impressively resists anything resembling an edge. Pleasant is a word that could describe Back Here, but that sells short how successful it is at being aw-shucks likable and worthy of return. T.W. G.G. One of the most woefully underrated boy bands of the late 90s era was LFO, led by singer-songwriter Rich Cronin and rounded out by Brad Fischetti and Devin Lima. That LeaveIt to Beaverversion of courtship mixed with the urgency of their Chuck Berry-meets-girl group sonic palette with no shortage of harmonies orhandclaps changed pop music and teen culture forever. 43. Aside from the voices, the mix of the evocative piano in the beginning and the dynamic violins throughout the song help the guys heartfelt lyrics truly land, making this as timeless as it is classic boy band material. 1s on the Hot 100 the second of which was ABC, a carefree, spirited crowd-pleaser hooked onto one of the must fundamental aspects of humanity: letters and numbers. But She Looks So Perfect doubled as both, catering to those who appreciate guitar-heavy jams and the girls who were squealing over 1Ds adorableness. In the 90s, Magneto conquered charts internationally with Vuela, Vuela.The title track from the Mexican boy bands seventh studio album was the Spanish version of Voyage, Voyage, a French song recorded by Desireless in 1986, but it was even bouncier and more transportivethan its predecessor. But Hot 100 top 5 hit Never Lie endures as a disarmingly tender acoustic ballad, recently remixed by Stones Throw producerKnxwledge to memorably stripped- and pitched-down effect. A.U. 34. But now, having been successful, we wanted to freak out and make our own music. A.U. Sure, any boy band song could light up a club for the sake of nostalgia, but there arent many that can do so without being completely obvious that its even coming from a boy band in the first place. More than two decades later, the hook makes it easy to understand how this was a No. Built around a guitar riff borrowed from the McCoys 1965 track Hang on Sloopy, What Makes You Beautiful had the effect of breaking pops fourth wall, practically doing away with a fictional love interest to provide a confidence boost directly to their listeners. Few pop songs in general hit their mark as cleanly as Back Here, and for that, this British trio and earned a place in boy band history. 1 in countries including France, Germany, Italy and Austria, and topped Billboards Eurochart, compiling sales from 18 countries. 56. The genius of Why Dont Wes first hit is in itsinfectiously hooky chorus whichonly says two words. (Added bonus: The video that accompanies Steal My Girl is one of the best the lads released, witha surreal cast of characters including a marching band, a friendly chimpanzee, some sumo wrestlers, a cluster of ballerinas and Danny DeVito.) N.F. Theres a sense of heartfelt fervor in the tune, as breathy verses lead into the surge of the tick-tocking chorus, before dropping back into a soft, repeated refrain of oh, only for you. It may not have seen the virality of its predecessor, but Its You served up melodic glory from the boy band, and remains one of their finest moments. Energetic is pop formula tweaked to such perfection that it transcends beinggeneric:Small wonder why it was the fan-voted debut song for the reality television-created K-pop group, Wanna One. 4. Color Me Badd, I Wanna Sex You Up (1991). Before officially releasing S.O.S. as a single in 2007, Joe, Nick and Kevin had already established that they were more rock than a typicalboy band with hits like Year 3000 and Hold On. Yet this track from their self-titled debut LP set that in stone. The English-language song featured a new generation of members withCharlie Mass,Roy Rossell,Robi Rosa,Raymond Acevedo and, of course, Ricky Martin and a sparkling synth-pop sound, to go with an impossiblyinfectious chorus, whichmade it a seamless fit in mid-80sAmerican pop. 1 single on the Hot 100 still feels a live wire from its very first measure: the briefest of Ringo drum fills, and then straight to the hook(She loves you,YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!), essentially the genesis of the entire power-pop genre before the song really even starts. From Tin Pan Alley to the Brill Building, The Beatlesto Boyz II Men, this is what it seemed like it had all been leading up to: A boy band mid-tempo ballad so big and so brilliant that youd lived a lifetime with it by the time it was done its first spin. A.U. The song, a light, hip-hop-inflected take on the boy band sound set before them, was fresh and innocent, with a chorus every bit as tooth-rottingly sweet as youd expect fromthe title a prelude to the maturation that would unfold across their records through the next century.
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