At least in Asia they aren't.
In Japan, China, and especially South Korea, boybands have been, and probably will be for quite a time to come, the main source for music in the popular genre.
In Japan boybands like, KAT-TUN, Arashi, SMAP!, HeySayJump, and EXILE have been around between 5-10 years and they are still dominating the Oricon Charts and stealing all the #1 hits.
In China, Fahrenheit (yes that is how it's spelled), and Quest are also dominating the charts and rank the highest in netizen approval ratings.
In South Korea there are enough boybands to last a lifetime, such as, DongBangShinKi (whom you may remember my presentation about), Super Junior, SHINEe, BigBang, SS501, 2AM, FT-Island, Fly to the Sky, SG Wannabe and many many more.
DongBangShinKi (my favorite boyband who I am not ashamed being a fan of), are the most popular boyband ever to come out of Asia, their Korean fanclub claiming more than 1 million people, while their Japanese fanbase is at 980,000 as of December 2008.
My question is, why is it that America in-particular seemed to give up on the boyband craze/music and "move on" to what we claim to be more "mature" music.
What makes music written and composed by a boyband so taboo here all of a sudden?
Girl bands are still okay though boybands are still constantly made fun of and people are led to think they are just full of talentless good-looking men who prace happily around the stage.
Note: I do understand that American boybands, such as N'Sync, weren't exactly the most talented bunch of guys around, but you still have to admit, you can't help but groove to "Bye Bye Bye" when it comes on the radio.
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Haa haa Meg I know you would post something like this on the site. Well good for you and I support your love of DBS... DBS ROCKS!!!
I think the main problem with BoyBands in the US is that they are created. They really have no talent. The only one out of N'sync that had talent was Justin Timberlake because he was not only good looking but talented as well and look how far he has gone. Also We have a lot of good regular bands that get together which kinda defeats the purpose of creating a boy band.
I think boybands only came out in the U.S. for that temporary amount of time because it just seemed to be a fad at that time. It was like every other hit in the '90s was from one boyband or another. And like any other fad here, they weren't "cool" anymore and/or the "boys" grew up and grew out of it.
I do agree with you. Boybands are dead in this country, I'm afraid -- unless they decide to do some sort of reunion album or some crap. Though, I do rock out to some Backstreet Boys here on occasion.
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