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Originally Posted by desertblues
Like the Monkees in my days.
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And boy bands since then. In my younger days, it was New Kids on the Block and 'N Sync that all the girls were dripping over and all the guys hated (for not unrelated reasons.)
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And the strategy works best on men (?): look in the ' who are you listening to' thread to see dozen of pretty young girls. How popular they are.
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In the US, the trend for the past few decades has been the males collected in "boy bands" but the females as individual singers. In Japan, the "girl band"
industry is huge-- and much more blatant about their manufactured nature. There are
groups were members are "retired" at 20 (the age of legal majority in Japan) with constant auditions for new, younger members. There is even one
48 member "girl band."
I really admire their talent.