How a Fan Would Manage a Band

Fans know what they like.  Sometimes, it really doesn’t seem like the management of the bands that fans follow know what fans like.  Either that, or they ignore what they know fans want. There might be obstacles in getting there or maybe Management has priorities other than pleasing fans.  With a fan base large enough, you’re bound to have some smart cookies who come up with managing plans that seem quite a bit better than what’s actually happening.  The suggestions below are gathered from a few years time spent in boyband fandoms, as well as some thoughts raised by other fans.

(+ > -) :How the Internet Positively Affects Fans

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Last week we did our best to list some of the ways that the internet age has affected how fans perceive their boy band and girl band idols, but when we got to the end, we realized that everything we went over sounded rather negative.  That’s not fair!  There’s always a good side to every bad, a silver lining to every cloud, and we think the positives deserve an equal airing, so here we go.

Cult of Personality

It’s Not JUST the Music

Many detractors of girl and boy bands like to hit out at the music.  “How can you listen to that stuff?”, “That’s so generic”,  and “They don’t even write any of it themselves”, are often heard complaints.  With some groups these are valid statements, so how is it that they still have humongous armies of fans ready to get sassy in their defense at a moment’s notice?