Popslashers?

[and_chocolate]

Can I get a little help from the popslashers on my f-list? I just need some basic background info on...well, pretty much any of the boybands, really. It's for a story, but it's not a popslash story per se. Um. Yeah. That's confusing, isn't it?

Let's try this. Questions I'd like to have answered:

1. Do any of the current crop of boybands have young-ish members. Say, early 20s?

a. If so, what's the basic background and make-up of that band. Members' names/ages/towns of origin, and when the band started, and maybe the names of anyone particularly important to their history -- agents, previous members who left, etc.

2. Is there anything I need to know about boyband concerts, etc., that's different from non-boyband band concerts, etc., so as to avoid making a fool of myself when including them in a story?

And if y'all are looking at me now and saying, "Dude, that's not how it works. You don't even know what you're asking," then maybe someone willing to walk me through a brief overview of the whole popslash thing can email or IM me and we can chat in more detail about what I'm trying to write. *g*

Thanks!

Comments

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

crack_van has overviews of all sorts of fandoms, the one's for NSYNC and BSB are really good. Links: nsync overview (http://www.livejournal.com/community/crack_van/5882.html?style=mine) backstreet overview (http://www.livejournal.com/community/crack_van/396646.html). As far as concerts go the only thing I can think of is that there's a LOT of screaming and I always brought earplugs, they helped cut out the high pitched shreiking but you could still hear the music fine. Other than that, most of the nsync converts I've been to were huge stadiums of thousands and thousands of people. But when I saw Justin it was a small club show of only a couple thousand, so it was a lot more intimate. Oh an the big boyband concerts are never general admission, there's always assigned seating. Hope this helps!