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''Ten million tween girls and old perverts can't be wrong!''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7CHfqg0wd8&list=PLD2F668DC2272FC96&index=64&feature=plpp_video The Key of Awesome]''' ''[[One Direction]] parody''}}
A very specific kind of [[Five-Man Band|five-man vocal group]]. Typically, you're in a [[Boy Band]] if you began recording while still in your teens; if you and your bandmates are all extremely [[Pretty Boy|pretty]]; if few, if any of you, play instruments; if your boss is a large and often intimidating man; if you [[Dead Horse Music Genre|can't get any respect]] from the Serious Music Critics; if you have a hard time [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|crossing over to an adult audience]]; and ''especially'' if the girls can't get enough of you. Can generate a [[Periphery Hatedom]] when a boy band is popular enough, to the point that all straight males over the age of 14 will automaitcally hate their guts.
You definitely were in a Boy Band if, years and years after the fact, your fandom looks back on your early albums as an embarrassing phase, [[Guilty Pleasure]], [[So Bad It's Good]], or (if it's old enough) [[Camp]].
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* [[SHINee]] is a Korean band that debuted in 2008, sliding into the R&B/pop genre. They've started something of a fashion trend with their style of tight pants, boots, and colourful jackets.
* [[Super Junior]], from Korea, is known for having a grand total of fifteen members (it depends on whether you ask the purists or those who are willing to accept the Chinese sub-members). Since debuting in 2005, they have broken records and pioneered a unit system for K-pop groups, in which members of the band were put together in smaller sub-groups catering to different fanbases.
* Mindless Behavior is a boy band. Fairly different from most on the list, in that they are all black, sing [[R and B]] / [[Hip Hop]], and there's only 4 of them. They started out opening for acts like [[Janet Jackson]] before releasing "Mrs. Right" in 2011.
* [[One Direction]], The current sensation nowadays. They are the newest boy band to come out of England. They were 5 separate boys auditioning for [[The X Factor]] until Simon Cowell put them together in a band. Though they finished third, they now have a very successful album that, when it debuted in the States, went straight to #1 and massive amounts of fangirls on both sides of [[The Pond]].
* British group [[Music/The Wanted|The Wanted]] have been around for the few years; after initial success in their native UK, they're starting to enjoy Stateside success as well, thanks in part to them being managed by [[Justin Bieber|Scooter Braun]].
* JLS, from England; like One Direction, they rose to popularity after their season of [[The X Factor]]. Much like 98 Degrees, though, they formed independently and initially auditioned for X Factor together.
== Boy Band Parodies ==
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* In the [[Total Drama Island|Celebrity Manhunt]] episode of TDA/TDWT, Justin, Trent, Cody, and Harold make up a boy-band called ''"The Drama Brothers"''. Of course, a lot of tropes are played, such as the band splitting in that same episode. The boys also reunited in the first TDWT Aftermath, under the suggestion of Blaineley.
* In [[Hot Chip]]'s video for "I Feel Better", directed by [[Peter Serafinowicz]], a bunch of [[Uncanny Valley]] [[Pretty Boy|prettyboys]] called [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Kyng, Mar'Vaine]], [[Awesome McCoolname|Octavian and Popeye]] are attacked by a floating man with the [[Fan Nickname]] "Cancer Jesus", as well as a [[Scary Black Man]] with [[Eye Beams]].
* In [[Jon Lajoie]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr4rwb2WbE "Pop Song"] he sort of parodies this (though it's mostly a parody of Justin Bieber).
* An episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Bobby becoming a fan of a boy band, which Hank supports after hearing their supposedly clean, Christian act. Then he accompanies Bobby to a concert and is horrified to discover it's actually [[Lyrical Dissonance]] as their act is highly sexualized.
* [[Law and Order UK]]: DS Brooks' [[Dirty Cop|corrupt ex-partner]] cites the numerous favors that he did to cover him during his drinking days, then blasts him for "letting your boy-band partner come after me", (referring to [[Fair Cop|DS Matt Devlin]]), apparently feeling that all this should have warranted Brooks turning a blind eye to his involvement in criminal activities.
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