in defense of the boy band

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SOURCES
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCRs0Ic3FI
Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity by Georgina Gregory
Multiple damnations: deconstructing the critical response to boy band phenomena by Mark Duffett
Unpacking K-pop in America: The Subversive Potential of Male K-pop Idols’ Soft Masculinity by Jeehyun Jenny Lee
Parasocial Relationships with Musicians by Kate Szer Kurtin, Nina O’Brien, Deya Roy, and Linda Dam https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/502/305
“At War for OPPA and Identity”: Competitive Performativity among Korean-Pop Fandoms by Brittany Tinaliga https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1818&context=capstone
Beefing Up the Beefcake: Male Objectification, Boy Bands, and the Socialized Female Gaze by Dorie Bailey https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1815&context=scripps_theses

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3709785&page=1#:~:text=While%20some%20boys%20and%20young,massages%20and%20openly%20propositioned%20them.
https://icds.ee/en/the-capitalist-control-of-k-pop-the-idol-as-a-product/
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https://www.allkpop.com/article/2021/10/the-ugly-side-of-k-pop-culture-modern-day-stalkers

0:00 - intro
3:40 - history of the boy band
16:25 - boy band: manufactured
28:28 - the fandom

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