'If history is written by winners,' author Maria Sherman says, 'music history is written by rock critics, and they don't typically get along with boy bands.' Her new book gives critical consideration to the pop phenomenon. 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺
Maria Sherman's new book gives critical consideration to a too-often maligned phenomenon within pop music: the boy band.Alex Fine/Courtesy of Black Dog & Leventhal
Maria Sherman's new book gives critical consideration to a too-often maligned phenomenon within pop music: the boy band."If history is written by winners," author Maria Sherman says,"music history is written by rock critics, and they don't typically get along with boy bands."Larger Than Life: A History Of Boy Bands From NKOTB To BTS
, Sherman says boy bands don't get the same respect as other music acts, especially their rock peers. "I do think a lot of it is this internalized perception of what is"good," and that's the rock songwriter — and that's not what boy bands are," she says."I tackle the idea of Beatlemania quite a bit in the book because one of the main characteristics of boy bands are that they have this frenzied — but I think really lovely — fanaticism about them. But if you call the Beatles a boy band, people get really dismissive about it.
Sherman was already a music critic when she fell in love with One Direction, and she says that the band's songs helped her appreciate new ways of thinking about music. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Maria Sherman about challenging preconceived notions of authenticity in music, how race affects the marketing of pop groups and giving into the joy and freedom of a boy band pop song. Listen in the audio player above and read on for highlights of their conversation.
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