Random music news for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
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How crazy are pop fan clubs in China? This one caused a food shortage.
The internet in China is overseen by the Cyberspace Administration. Besides keeping out capitalist influences from the global internet, they have their own challenges at home. According to a story in this week’s
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Can a boyband save the full European Union?
Meet the Breunion Boys, a band concocted by an animation artist – featuring real human people – whose single is a kind of torch song asking Britain and the European Union to make
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There’s Something Different About This Chinese Boy Band. First of All, They’re All Girls
Katy Perry has about a million followers on Weibo, the Chinese social network. Close behind is FFC-Acrush, a boy band that has toured the country and has millions of fans. One twist, though.
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Please Welcome the Parody Boy Band, One Erection (Probably NSFW)
Take one part boy band (in this case, One Direction) and mix in a little gay porn and you end up with the Cockyboys parody of boy bands which they call One Erection.
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What is the Shelf Life of a Boy Band?
The problem with being in a boy band is that the members and their audiences grow up. No matter how successful a group might be, there is a demographics-powered expiration date to their
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Random Music News for Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The crabgrass situation in the front yard is out of control. I miss industrial-strength residential herbicides. (Save your emails; I know they’re bad for the environment.) And now, the music news. More on
Read MoreWhat Are the Financial Implications of Keeping an Artist in the Closet?
If you’re watching the Fox soap opera Empire, you’ll known that label scion Lucius Lyon has a real problem with one of his sons–a smooth R&B singer–coming out of the closet. Not only
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What Happens When a Boy Bander Isn’t a Boy Anymore?
Great question. Wondering Sound takes a look: For most celebrities — hell, most people — the fear (or the realization) that you’ve peaked is relatively easy to avoid. It’s healthy, at least, to
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Why Do Young Girls Scream at Boy Bands?
Never thought about it, actually. I just figured it was something the young female of the species is programmed to do. The Washington Post tries to figure it out. Why do young women
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Lyrical Analysis of Boy Band Songs from the 90s Helps Explain Why They Were So Popular
At the 2013 Music Matters conference in Singapore, I saw a fantastic session by Ralph Murphy on songwriting. One of the more interesting things he brought up was “playing the pronoun card,” which
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