Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 2
b'When you hear \\u201cboy band,\\u201d what do you picture? Five guys with precision dance moves? Songs crafted by the Top 40 pop machine? Svengalis pulling the puppet strings? Hordes of screaming girls?\\n\\nAs it turns out, not all boy bands fit these signifiers. (Well\\u2026except for the screaming girls\\u2014they are perennial.) There are boy bands that danced, and some that did not\\u2026boy bands that relied entirely on outside songwriters, and those that wrote big hits\\u2026boy bands assembled by managers or producers, and quite a few that launched on their own.\\n\\nFrom Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers to New Kids on the Block, the Monkees to the Jonas Brothers, Boyz II Men to BTS, New Edition to One Direction, and\\u2026yeah, of course, Backstreet Boys and *N Sync, boy bands have had remarkable variety over the years. (In a sense, even a certain \\u201960s Fab Four started as a boy band.)\\n\\nJoin Chris Molanphy as he tries to define the ineffable quality of boy band\\u2013ness, walks through decades of shrieking, hair-pulling pop history, and reminds you that boy bands generated some of our greatest hits, from \\u201cI Want You Back\\u201d to \\u201cI Want It That Way,\\u201d \\u201cBye Bye Bye\\u201d to \\u201cDynamite.\\u201d Help him \\u201cbring the fire and set the night alight.\\u201d\\n\\nPodcast production by Kevin Bendis.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'