Boyband/Girlbands Reviews

OK, yes, Smerin is about to get judgemental... For this lovely comment by me, I have looked the definition of 'band' in the dictionary. BAND (music): A group of players who perform as an ensemble, a group of musicians who play music other than classical music Example: a rock band. Hmmmm, me thinks that this means that you have to ...  Read the complete review

When will it stop!. For ten years now the music industry has gave us Boybands,Girlbands,mixedband and whatever else they throw our way. In my day, it was New Kids On The Block. Yes I was mad for them. Sad but true. Now it's just getting stupid, when will they give us something new?. Have they just run out of idea's or do they ...  Read the complete review

Ok, I just have to put in my two cents here. First of all - let me make my opinion on the whole subject quite clear: I think that all those teeny bands are clogging up the precious radio frequencies with their computerised, manufactured, hear-one-and-you've-heard-them-all, over-marketed and totally over-rated rubbish. I hope that ...  Read the complete review

I will be the first to admit that I absolutely cannot stand listening to boy and girl bands. Whether it be identically-sounding dance-esque numbers where the lyrics make absolutely no sense, or the dreary slow ballad numbers, which *always* seem to have videos where the band members get drenched in rain, the music is universally poor. In ...  Read the complete review

The main problem that I have with the current crop of Boy/girl bands is that they never ever pick up an instrument. Even the Monkees, who were arguably the first manufactured group, could play their own instruments even if they were rarely allowed to. Davy Jones was often shown playing a tambourine ; a skill which seems to escape A1, ...  Read the complete review

The excellent thing about boy and girls bands are how talented they are. I love the fact that groups like Five, Backstreet Boys, Steps, Cartoons and Boyzone are so good at writing their own songs. For example, the song 'life is a rollercoaster' is so profound in it's lyrical content - who could fail to be moved? Ronan ...  Read the complete review

In the old days, boy bands at least would write their own songs. The Beatles/The Rolling Stones and even The Osmonds would write the songs they sang. I think it is very insulting nowadays for people to celebrate Westlife getting seven number ones when they can't even write music themselves and all of their songs sound the same. What is also a ...  Read the complete review

These days we like to label people/things/groups. Not just in the music industry but in other walks of life. You only have to pick up a tabloid and you'll see people pigeon holed. That's why the likes of Britney, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson are always compared because they're all teenage American girls then ...  Read the complete review

Boy and girls bands have been around for years and Im afraid that all the time there are hormone high teenagers around...they are here to stay. These bands arent about talent. Im sure that you would find more singing talent in a local working mans club but talent isnt what it is about. Its all about their good looks and kids buying their ...  Read the complete review

There have always been 'boy bands' and 'girl bands' since 'pop' music started being seen as a packaged (and packagable) commodity in the early 1960s. The Beatles (bless 'em) were a 'boy band', although they weren't packaged in the same way they are today. But not long after The Beatles became ...  Read the complete review

I must say when i read in the newspapers about Mel C's outburst regarding boyband Westlife, i was gobsmacked. She hit out at them at the Spice girls launch party for their new album, and called them a bunch of talentless w*?!*?! and that they were just a manufactured pop group. Excuse me, but the Spice girls have got to be the biggest ...  Read the complete review

Boy Bands & Girl Bands [Background: Believe it or not, despite the rather misleading and deliberately controversial title, this is not yet another one of those spleen venting opinions that only looks at one side of the argument. Instead I will attempt to take a more neutral and objective standpoint, looking at both sides of this issue. ...  Read the complete review

Girl/Boy bands do what they do very, very well. Thats not making music but making money! The idea behind the Girl/Boy band was never really to produce good music (although there are the odd few that are quite good) but to entertain and to make children between the ages of 5 - 18 buy any paraphanalia conected to the group. They produce whole false ...  Read the complete review

Much has been said about boybands making very disposable pop trash. But I guess it wouldn't hurt to throw in my two cents worth about why rock bands are better than boybands, any day. Boybands are usually pop groups consisting solely of good-looking adolescent boys or young men that have been put together by a record company or talent ...  Read the complete review

I'll waste no time in saying it, I don't like girl bands, and I detest boy bands even more. There is the odd exception, but what I'm refering to is the manufactured bands who churn out one pop tune after another. Week after week manufactured groups hit the top of the charts, not because of their musical skill or lyrical ...  Read the complete review

Everybody to there own taste in music. What is so wrong with the fact of a boy or girl band. If you like the music you will buy it!!! Does it really make a difference if its a band or a solo artist, music is music. If we all had the same taste that would be boring. There has to be a variety, the spice of life remember!!! ...  Read the complete review

The majority og boy/girl bands redo old songs ie Westlife who are prime culprits, it is a shame when there are some many talented musicians, who can play their instruments, and don't get a chance to show this to the public, because of these amnufactured bands, that use old songs, also what chance to songwriters stand, who is going to want to ...  Read the complete review

Why do these boy bands bother? We all know that ever one of the bands: A. Cant sing B. Cant dance C. Cant write songs D. Are very ugly and dull They all don’t act there ages, act like there are men and all could be said to be complete waffs. Every song that they seem to release into the charts, we have ...  Read the complete review

I dont think that there is much room left for more boybands and girlbands,they are on the out,solo artists and mixed bands are on the in.Artists such as Craig David,Ronan Keating,Britney Spears,Christina Aguilera and all the other blonde american girl singers,Robbie Williams,Kylie Minogue,Samantha Mumba,Eminem,Steps,S Club 7,all of those artists ...  Read the complete review

I dont know how the guy who chooses boy/girl groups ever got into the music industry but he's making millions of pounds a year throwing these jumped up little brats at us, Please!!, can't anyone help us!!, ok, New kids on the block came along and we thought, "ok, It'll all be over when the curly haired one's voice ...  Read the complete review