OK, forgive me if this has been stated before, but I don’t spend much time in the Pit so I haven’t read all the threads. I was watching Entertainment Tonight (No, I can’t explain why I watch that stupid show, so don’t ask me. We all have our failings) and they had what I think was the 1,000th story this year on NSYNC. Now I hate this gaggle of bleached-hair teenybobbin’ poster boys as much as the next guy, but it’s nothing personal. Heck, I know that 11 year old girls have to start listening to music somewhere and these shmucks fit the bill. During my formative years, I had to suffer through Sean Cassidy, Menudo, and even New Kids on the Block. As long as there are pre-teen girls, there will always be groups like this. I can’t change it, so I accept it.
But lets get one thing straight, Entertainment Tonight: They are not a goddamn BAND! Bands have musical instruments. Bands PLAY these musical instruments. Bands do not dance around in synchronized choreography while wearing ridiculous outfits without a single fucking musical instrument in sight.
So call NSYNC a group if you like. Call them a travelling song and dance revue, or an off-Broadway road musical. Or a pre-packaged video entertainment product, but stop calling them a BAND! The Glen Miller Band was a band. The Rolling Stones are a band. Metallica is a band. Hell, even goddamn Hanson is a band! So knock it the fuck off, ET. Same goes for you, every other media outlet that has the temerity to refer to these dancing bubblegum glitterboy fucknuts as an actual band. Pick a different word.
There, that’s all. I feel better. I’m gonna throw a Ramones cd in my player now and go about my business.
I’ll jump on that band-wagon. I have this exact screaming fit, directed at the TV every week when “Making the Band” comes on. (I don’t have cable, I’m forced to watch the network dregs).
When I first heard about this show, that is, just the title and nothing else, I thought - Cool! - I’ve been in bands, This will definitly something I’ll watch.
Oh, imagine my dismay. 50 bleached, artifically tanned, tongue ring sportin’, talent dificient, NSYNC wannabe’s, prancing around as if they could actually dance in the first place, screeching god-awful nasally prattle about being someone’s man, when not a one of them even has testicles which have fully dropped yet. Jesus, it’s amazing my TV survived. I just wanted put my boot through the screen.
I say give each one of them either a guitar, a bass, a piano or some drum sticks, and if they can’t produce something remotely musical with it - kill them with it. And if they can produce something musical, just maim them a little.
Oh, Kee-riist, I’d forgotten all about Making the Band. What a crock. My wife actually watched this show more than once. I just sat there, dumbfounded. I think the guy that is producing the group in that show is the same one who unleashed NSYNC on us. Well, he knows the successful formula, so this bunch of made-for-TV singing dorks will probably be gracing teen magazine covers after NYSNC’s steam runs out. God help us all.
I concur here . . . a couple of us in chat (a while ago) were debating this and I pointed out that if 'N SYNC is a band, then I am a band when some friends of mine and I sing along to prerecorded music. Or when I sing along to Winamp.
Anyway, the best BAND these days is none of the following:
BDB, NSTINK, 32 degrees, spice girls, Ricky Martin, Bwitched, “the band,” 2gether, christina aguilera, britney spears, mandy moore, jessica simpson . . . you get the idea.
further nominations? Other than former NKOTB, that is.
The word “band” means “group”, as in a bunch of folks banded er, bound together. Instruments have nothing to do with it. Although you may enjoy definition #2 below.
I appreciate the clarification, Bill. But I was referring to a more colloquial definition of a band as a group of instrument-playing individuals. Using the Websters definition, I suppose NYSNC can be considered banded together as a group, but this doesn’t change the fact that they don’t meet my own definition of what makes a band (my rant, so I get to define the terms).
If the Websters people had the virture of foresight, they would add a clarification at the end: “when used in conjunction with the music industry, not an appropriate term to describe blow-dried, whiny-voiced, sissy-boy, sugar candy bubblegum crap groups who lip-synch to canned music and shake their underdeveloped privates at screaming hordes of taste deficient preteens.” Or something like that.
But, semantics aside, I did like the part in definition #6 about “serving chiefly as decoration.” Sums up their purpose in the world pretty nicely, I would say.
Yes, Lou Pearlman (the big fat guy on “Making the Band”) is the same guy who gave us N’Sync and the Backstreet Boys. The name of the band (group, whatever) on “Making the Band” is O-Town, and they’ve already been on MTV. I’ll call Korn a group, but they play instruments. To me, it’s all the same.
They are definitely not a band. Bands sound way better than that.
And their voices? Think “digitally enhanced.”
Nothing is more disgusting to me than watching bunches of pre-pubescent girls screming over such groups. It’s nothing to get excited about–all of their songs sound exactly alike and have no meaning.
Great! Then one tactical strike will prevent him from spawning his horrible Cheez-Wiz, Tan-In-A-Can, featherfluff (not to be confused with marshmallow fluff, which is good and holy), bubblegum “groups” ever again.
First of all, neither the Partridge Family, nor the Monkees claimed to be a band. They were TV shows and anybody with three or four brain cells knew that they couldn’t really play (except for the members of The Monkees themselves, but I’ll leave that alone).
And I know Making the Band is a TV show too, but they have announced that the purpose for the show is to create a musical group. Curse them for that.
Now. All that being said, I would gladly move in with the Partridge Family and let Davy Jones give me daily swedish massages, if NSYNC and the dorks from Making the Band would promise to off themselves, right now.