Mint Condition had the perfect teen romance in 1991 with the slow-dance swoon of “Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes”) - when they hit that soul chorus, it’s just agonizingly beautiful. The group, (which recently lost member Chris Trousdale, who died from complications related to COVID-19), took a dark turn soon after, with their parents suing the band’s creators for engaging in “conduct and activities that plainly threaten and impair the minors’ well-being.” To paraphrase their signature hit: They were the imperfect dream. In the video, the group gets chased by girls around New York City and dances on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. “It Happens Every Time” was their pubescent centerpiece, a Radio Disneyfied take on “As Long As You Love Me”-era BSB. “It’s weird, if you think about it.” Dream Street - which featured a young Jesse McCartney - was poised to be larger-than-life when the New York quintet released their self-titled debut during the height of 2000s boy-band craze ( five months after BBMak, two months before O-Town ). “With the Backstreet Boys, you’re looking at nine-year-old girls worshipping 25-year-old-guys,” Dream Street’s co-creator, Louis Baldonieri, said in 2002. The premise was simple: a boy band with actual boys. 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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