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anyway, my main take on sex pistols: boy band or no? is that you have to come up with a consistent set of criteria that a group meets to be considered a boy band, and the pistols were so inconsistent that it’s impossible to see how you could apply it to the without applying it to basically everyone
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Alex 🏳️🌈
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Boy bands are any bands who have songs about beaches, including bands where all the members are girls Boy bands job is beach
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chbarts
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They were a boy band to the extent The Monkees were a boy band: Both were created by an executive to fit into a fashion and both had actual musical ability. Neither were "True And Honest" bands like Nirvana which formed from webs of friendship and/or want ads.
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WildGorillaMan
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Were the Sex Pistols a stunt act assembled by promoters? Clearly Other than being assembled by promoters were they a boy band by any recognizable metric for such? Not by my reckoning
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Dag.
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My criteria is non organic, formed by producers. So the Spice Girls and Bananarama would be girl bands. But the GoGo's wouldn't.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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fwiw, my criteria is: 1. plays music written by producers/managers/label 2. public/personal life largely controlled by label (this one is subjective, i know, but important) 3. are part of a marketing strategy to sell items other than music the pistols only meet 1/3 here
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a head full of serpents and a mouth full of spiders
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taxonomy is, as ever, a spook
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Franklin Piss🇺🇦
@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social
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The Clash, on the other hand, absolutely a boy band, down to the slightly rancorous ambiguity over who was the leader.
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Mr Why do you Fucking Want to Know?
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Well the Pistols were a bunch of petty criminals fronted by a numbskull and a sociopath, so no, not what I would call a boy-band.
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The Chillennial
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Tragic Lovers continues the excellent boy band tradition, and in this essay i will
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strive for pithiness. land on glib.
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Well ok but it was WELL known McLaren was a CIA operative so...
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