boy band
noun
: a small ensemble of males in their teens or twenties who play pop songs geared especially to a young female audience
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Bigsby walked into his middle school the next day, recruited classmates for his own boy band and started rehearsing cover songs with them after school every day at his house.
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Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 Aug. 2025
There’s often shallowness among fans, evidenced by select Drag Race viewers who compared King of Drag's boy band challenge to Drag Race‘s girl groups.
—EW.com, 28 July 2025
The residency also marks the first boy band to play The Sphere.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 17 July 2025
Fellow Squid Game star Yim first debuted as a member of the K-pop boy band ZE:A before transitioning to acting and starring in films and K-dramas like Misaeng: Incomplete Life and Run On.
—Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
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Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 Aug. 2025
There’s often shallowness among fans, evidenced by select Drag Race viewers who compared King of Drag's boy band challenge to Drag Race‘s girl groups.
—EW.com, 28 July 2025
The residency also marks the first boy band to play The Sphere.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 17 July 2025
Fellow Squid Game star Yim first debuted as a member of the K-pop boy band ZE:A before transitioning to acting and starring in films and K-dramas like Misaeng: Incomplete Life and Run On.
—Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
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“Boy band.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy%20band. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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