Now firmly part of the British songbook, even the drunkest of traffic-cone-wearing rugby players could wipe a tear from their eye and bellow out “Whatever I said, whatever I did - I didn’t mean it!” “The songs I write quickest seem to come out the best,” he told biographer Justin Lewis. Having finally proven his songwriting chops, Gary Barlow later boasted to have written “Back For Good” in less than 15 minutes. With the boys smartened up in Versace suits for the single cover, “Back For Good” signified a new maturity for the band, which disappointed those fond of TT’s campier disco origins - the NME called it “just too classy.” It’s doubtful Take That’s 2006 comeback would have been quite as successful without “Back For Good” having laid the groundwork, preparing adolescent fans to become a grown-up pop audience. teenage obsession to national treasures to international stars. In 1995, a simple tale of kitchen-sink heartbreak was enough to elevate Take That from U.K. … I couldn’t wait to … see their faces when they climbed up this 40-foot ramp of neon, up to this 35-foot-high sculpted stage that they’re on top of.” ‘N Sync would never be bigger. They wanted something with size, scope, scale and fun. “It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever worked on,” he told MTV. The drama was played to surreal effect in the song’s video, helmed by veteran director Wayne Isham, who cast the boys as living dolls. Written by Swedish hit-makers Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson and Rami Yacoub, the lyric juxtaposes the hesitancy of the song’s love interest with the determination of an eager-to-please beau represented by both JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake. Released shortly after the start of ‘N Sync’s phenomenally successful No Strings Attached tour, it remains the group’s sole Hot 100 topping single. Perhaps not as memorable or as danceable as other ‘N Sync hits, “It’s Gonna Be Me” nevertheless benefited from perfect timing. Musical Youth, “Pass the Dutchie” (1982).Aided by pop savant Ryan Tedder, the catchy, guitar-driven banger is sexier than anything the boys would have attempted back during their early days, and the pay-off has been crystal clear. “Sucker” pays tribute to the boys’ partners, all of whom they are now married to. In fact, the former Disney trio were able to perfectly mesh nostalgia with a huge new musical step that brought them their biggest single yet. With “Sucker,” the Jonas Brothers proved that idea very wrong. The magic formula for these specific types of bubblegum pop vocal trios relies on their youthful charm and charisma songs about marriage and fatherhood don’t typically cut it in the same way. Prior to their latest run, boy band reunions based around the release of new music weren’t usually guarantees for success. Six years after splitting up, the Jonas Brothers released their fifth full-length album, Happiness Begins, and redefined what it meant to be a freshly reunited boy band. In honor of their continuing impact and dominance, here are the boy band heartthrobs’ pop confections worth screaming for. The main defining factor? The venues full of screaming fans - always young, mostly girls - who help turn a boy band into a cultural artifact worth admiring and singing along to even after their inevitable disbandment or “hiatus.” But like any other form art, you know a boy band when you see one. Sometimes they are literally boys, sometimes they’re twentysomethings with boyish charm. Sometimes they sing words they’ve written themselves, sometimes they sing other people’s. Sometimes they are total strangers, sometimes they have known each other since birth. Their existence is a pop constant but parameters have always been blurred: sometimes they dance and sometimes they don’t. From the scripted TV shenanigans of the Monkees to the charming folkiness of One Direction, as long as there are junior high school notebooks to deface, there will be outfits providing pop spectacle in its purist, least filtered form.Īs music has evolved, so have boy bands. Irresistibly catchy, unapologetically inauthentic, sexy and they know it - the boy band is the most fabulously pre-fab of all musical outfits.
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