OK, let’s stop this Beatles “boyband” comparison shit. I know that when a band (person, actor, leader, artist) is the biggest thing ever, people just can’t stand it and they have to go on the attack and disassemble them, but this is utter rubbish. I don’t know who started it or where this idea that the Beatles were the first boyband came from, but I’m announcing the end of it here. We are no longer allowed to mutter some crap about the Beatles being the first boyband… as a culture we are done with that. Yes, I, Justine, have the power to make such proclamations and changes of cultural norms and manias, I simply haven’t used that power for good up until today.
The Beatles were far closer to a Punk band early on than a boyband… see attached photo! Yes, they were more like the Ramones than NKOTB, and in so many ways, let’s list them quickly so we can all just drop this:
1) They were not a boyband, boybands aren’t bands. The Beatles were a band. If you can’t see that difference, stop reading.
2) The Beatles endured serious trials of fire in dangerous clubs, toured their asses off and gigged in sweaty little shitholes like any band worth their salt.
3) The Beatles played their own instruments.
4) The Beatles wrote their own songs.
5) The Beatles kicked ass! Their early rock was incomparable, no one could touch them when they were hot, and that includes the fucking Stones!
6) They were little hoodlums from Liverpool, a hard-ass seaport town… not models or refugees from Disney TV.
If it looks like a punk, acts like a punk, plays like a punk and lives like a punk… it’s a fucking punk!
Can I stop here, or do I have to hammer this home? I’d like to stop here.
Barefoot Justine 
Never heard of them. Nice feet by the way.
Thank you so much Justine you are *so right*! Here is my important blog with a lot of great strong information debunking this extremely stupid,ludicrous,myth that The Beatles were ever a boy band.
https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/thebeatleswereneveraboybandtheywerealwaysagreatrocknrollpoprock.wordpress.com
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Here is a great educational you tube video by Mean Mr Mayo, The Beatles Were NOT a ”boy band”
Thanks, will watch!
You’re welcome,if you watched it already what did you think about his video,do you think he did a good enough job debunking this ignorant nonsense?
Yeah, the video was spot-on. And though I despise YouTube comment sections, it was nice to see so many people sharing their frustration with this nonsense.
This is a very good January 2002 Toronto star article,The Monkees:The Original Boy Band? comparing them to NYSNC,New Kids On The Block and The Back Street Boys with quotes from Micky Dolenz and it says Micky Dolenz singer for The Monkees doesn’t exactly bristle at the idea of the popular 60’s pop group being promoted as the first boy band,but it’s clear he isn’t interested in plumping his reputation with that analogy either.Micky said it’s a misnomer to call,NYNSC,The Back Street Boys and New Kids On The Block, a band at all because there’s no instruments involved,it’s a vocal group and those groups are in the tradition of the black Motown acts like The Four Tops,vocal groups that sang and had dance steps,and then he said that’s what the origins of that are.The writer of the article Vit Wagner says,but the comparison is not without it’s merits as well,The Monkees as Dolenz willingly concedes came together in a similar fashion as contemporary acts such as O-Town:through audition,originally The Monkees weren’t even a real band at all.
Thankfully there is no ludicrous mention of The Beatles in this article.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2002/01/03/the_monkees_the_original_boy_band.html
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Thanks for your enthusiasm and your sharing my post… AND opinion… hell… it’t not an opinion, the Beatles were never a boy band. Regardless of what Macca said… love him to death, but he makes it hard on his fans sometimes.