Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Demographics & Psychology of Boy Bands

All of a sudden boy bands became such a big thing again. People wonder why girls are so crazy about boy bands. Maybe it’s because of their good looks or their songs. But it’s not just their pretty faces that get them to where they are; it’s their fans. Boy bands usually market to the female population between the ages 10 through 19. Now, the way I see it is that many of the teen girls say the boy band has “saved their life.” I wonder why that is. For example, One Direction the biggest boy band in the world has had a big effect on the female teen age population. No other boy band has caused so much hysteria beside the Beatles and that was all the way in the 60s.

According to the article from the Guardian it states that, “Psychologists say girls get together and scream at boys as an expression of their fears about reaching sexual maturity. They can't imagine feeling desire for anyone, least of all the kids at school, so they fixate on unreachable, unthreatening stars – usually clean-cut, pretty lads – and practice feeling lovelorn and rejected in a group therapy context instead.” What that means is that girls prefer so “in love” or obsessed with a boyband then with a real boy from school. Also a neuroscientist explains that these girls get shivers, they scream, and cry but that doesn’t mean that the girls are crazy they are just excited.




I think that the type of girl that listens to boy bands is someone who is shy, not very confident, or maybe feeling sad. Like I said in the first paragraph, some girls have stated that boy bands have saved their life. On the social media website Twitter, I have seen many teenaged girls express their feelings about boy bands and what they did for them.  

2 comments:

  1. Wow! This is very interesting to me. I've always had no interest in boy bands, and wondered how people could ever like them. But now that I've read your post, i can see why people relate to boy bands so much. More people should know why girls go so crazy over them, because most people just think their crazy for acting the way they do. Whats your favorite boy band?

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  2. That's actually pretty interesting to think about. I don't think I ever obsessed over anything, but when I was younger and started to actually like music and tried to pay attention to, and learn the names of songs and bands, the first bands i listened to were Fall out Boy and Panic at the disco. I still like listening to them, now but they were the first band names I knew. Personally, i don't like one direction, but its at least interesting to know why boy bands get such a big audience...And why the audience is so young in comparison... don't know if this makes it less creepy, but at least i have a good understand.

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