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Chapter 1: What is Boy Throb and why is it significant?
hi david hi rosabelle how are you i'm good how are you i'm good look i know we're both a little bit stretched for time right now so i'm gonna cut straight to the chase uh-huh today's episode looks into the american boy band and i'm just wondering growing up in new zealand did you ever have a boy band that you particularly gravitated towards backstreet boys five five i remember five
I think five were from the UK maybe.
I think they were actually. That's okay.
But then Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter had a little brother called Aaron Carter and he had songs as well.
I might be wrong, but there was an American drama that was Christian based and I feel like he played one of the Christian sons.
Oh, okay.
Which is a side dish. Were you attracted to the music or were you like a little bit horny for the people?
Yeah, of course.
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Chapter 2: How did the members of Boy Throb come together?
Horny, musically attractive, physically attractive, it's the whole package.
Did you have any posters on your wall?
Of course I did. You know, it's quite weird for the music industry to target 10-year-old girls.
Yeah, because they're not, I mean, they call them boy bands, but they're not boys, they're men, right?
They're fully grown men.
Yeah.
And then it must be so strange for those men to go do a little gig and there's 10-year-old girls being horny for them.
Yeah, that is weird, actually. I hadn't really thought about it like that, but that is really, it's really odd.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Darshan face regarding his visa?
Okay.
Thanks, Rosabelle.
You're welcome.
I'm David Farrier in New Zealand, accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick. Now, back in October of last year, a new American boy band arrived on the scene called Boy Throb. Now, whether you're deeply aware of Boy Throb or have never heard of them before, I like to think this episode will have something for you.
Because the idea of boy bands is just inherently kind of fascinating. And because the members of Boy Throb have all been chasing fame for some time, from auditioning on American Idol to creating huge social media followings on their own for their singing and dancing.
And the story of Boithrob is also a story close to my heart, because while three members are Americans, their fourth member Darshan is in India, and ever since the formation of the group, they have been heavily campaigning to get Darshan an O1 visa so he can join his bandmates in the United States of America. To get an O1 visa, you have to prove you are an alien of extraordinary ability.
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Chapter 4: What was the experience like at Boy Throb's first live show?
That's the actual term, which basically means you need to get famous enough for the US government to let you in. So while Boy Throb want to get famous for all the usual reasons, they also want to get famous to get Dashaan an American visa. Recently, as part of this journey, they played their first ever live show at an iconic music venue in New York City. So, of course, I had to go.
So prepare to become a throbber and join the throb mob, because this is the boy throb episode.
I'm a flightless bird touchdown in America.
Now, I'm deeply aware that this is a very specific topic. Yeah. But I think boy bands in general are kind of interesting.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How do fans perceive Boy Throb's authenticity?
And very American. Very American at one point. I feel like other cultures, I mean, K-pop is a little adjacent to that. Totally.
And have taken the popularity away. Yeah. Because we haven't had... I guess that's part of the thing about Boy Throb that's kind of fascinating is it's a boy band. And since... I guess One Direction in my mind was like the last big- Last boy band. Boy band, I guess.
Chapter 6: What themes are explored in Boy Throb's music?
Yeah.
Maybe.
I mean, what constitutes a boy band? It's multiple males- Multiple boys. Singers harmonizing. Yes. They have to share different parts and then do crossovers. And they're not playing instruments. They're just singing.
That's a good point.
Chapter 7: How does the band address the question of being a joke?
It's all vocal chords and dance moves.
Almost like an extension of an acapella group. Kind of. With tracks, maybe sometimes a live band, depending on what size.
Yeah, and I think some real legitimate bangers. And I also feel like, because they all have their own skills, I feel one of them is always going to rise to the top and maybe be more talented than the others.
So the Justin Timberlakes, the Harry Styles.
Although a fascinating thing has happened with Timberlake where I don't know, he was amazing for quite a while. I remember him being a good dancer and a great singer and charismatic. I feel since that DUI he got where he was pulled over-
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Chapter 8: What is the impact of social media on Boy Throb's success?
his current tour is a train wreck it's popping up on my feeds and he's just kind of lost the ability to be what he was sloppy the shows you're seeing yeah he's dancing but it's like if i was trying to dance it's really for some reason tim blake
side dish has really gone south i mean he's also getting older so he's getting older the expectations of how he can dance on stage this is true maybe need to be lowered but this is true i will say if it's as awful as you're saying it's maybe it's pretty tragic maybe someone should have flagged it to him they need to during rehearsals that
they need to that's not the route to go as a side dish to this i just thought i'd mention because i was thinking growing up if i was into any boy bands boys to men were weird that's a boy band i weirdly was really into them like very solely and very uh i know for whatever reason they captured my attention other than that it was mostly christian boy bands like the newsboys
And as a side dish, is that a boy band? They're playing instruments. Maybe it's not a boy band.
I mean, you had NSYNC and Backstreet Boys and New Zealand, right? We had all of them in New Zealand.
I just wasn't actively a fan of. Are you sure? I'd admit it if I was. Okay. But as a side dish with the Newsboys, we did that Christian Chaos episode about how the Newsboys were falling into disrepute because of their singer. Yeah. Just wanted to leave a note. They are suing the shit out of everyone at the moment. This is an article from Ministry Watch, which is a Christian website.
And if you remember in that episode, Christian Chaos, we talked about their manager, Wes Campbell, who we described as the devil. He's like this very ginger nightmare looking man. Yeah. So this is from Ministry Watch.
Wes Campbell and the musicians of the Christian band Newsboys have filed a federal lawsuit against World Vision, The Roys Report, who broke the story, and concert promoters for an orchestrated campaign to drive Campbell and Newsboys out of the Christian concert. So Newsboys have gone full batshit insane. They've gone nuclear. They've gone nuclear.
Anyway, they were probably the boys that I loved the most as a kid, and they have really fallen.
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