Boy Bands, Now Featuring Grown Men

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Why are boy bands so central to pop music?

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0:00.0	One's in the New York Times Popcast, your You Got It, the Right Stuff, of music news and criticism.
0:15.0	I'm your host, John Caramonica. I got mixed emotions.
0:18.0	Did I finally find me a river that could leave me out to the ocean.
0:24.0	Because I've only ever known the kind of love that leaves you by that it and broken.
0:29.0	So forgive me for my mixed emotions.
0:34.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:37.0	I'm not that kind of person who can fall in and out of love with you.
0:42.0	That's not what love love supposed to do.
0:45.0	I'm not that kind of person who can fall in and out of love with you that's not in love supposed to do.
0:55.0	Baby don't go breaking my heart breaking my heart.
1:00.0	Baby don't go breaking my heart. Backstral. Backstreet's back.
1:15.0	Back.
1:17.0	If you guys are dedicated popcast fans, there is a very strong chance that you are also fluent with comfortable in and
1:26.5	excited about the ecosystem of boy bands style of music that has been unfairly
1:31.8	maligned time and time again and always as in need of critical rescue.
1:36.5	And I hope in my criticism I've helped do some critical rescuing over the years, but there's always more work to be done and I've been
1:44.5	thinking a lot about boy vans recently because there is a weird long tail
1:48.6	thing that has been happening with some of the sort of essential boy's in the late 90s and early 2000s
1:54.4	that have been kind of creeping back into the popular consciousness.
1:58.5	Backstreet boys who you just heard that is don't go breaking my heart
2:01.6	which was the first single from
2:02.6	DNA which is a new backstreet record that I have not looked fully listened to sorry I
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