First Ever “Country Boy Band” Being Cast
I can’t make this up folks, there is actually an effort out there to put together what is being called a “country music boy band.” So if you have the ambition to be a musical monkey, then shave your balls, shove a sock down the front of your pants, spike your hair and bleach the tips and get your ass to CountryBoyBandSearch.com to sign up!
Our favorite radio station operator Clear Channel Radio, has partnered with a company called Rodeo Entertainment, run by entertainment moguls David Schulhof and Jeff Rabhan to form a “new country music supergroup that will go on a nation-wide tour, work with the best songwriters and producers in the industry, and release an album on a major label!”
Great, I can’t wait.
Open casting calls are being conducted in Austin, Tampa, Nashville, & LA from mid-November into December, looking for the “best undiscovered talent and giving them the chance of a lifetime,” according to casting director Shaggy Bairami. Hmm, Saving Country Music has a correspondent based in Austin. Maybe we’ll send him down to whatever Chuck E Cheese this casting call is being held at to poke around. And I love the statement from Clear Channel senior VP Clay Hunnicutt.
Clear Channel loves to ignite creativity among talented artists living in local communities across the U.S. This is a great way to inspire our local listeners to show off their talent.
Wait a second, excuse me? Didn’t just yesterday I post an article about how Clear Channel was screwing local communities by firing hundreds of local DJ’s and replacing them with national automated programming? And didn’t anybody think to tell any of these knuckleheads that the term “boy band” is derogatory? Boy bands don’t like to be called boy bands, even during their heyday in the 90’s and early oughts. And of course 10 years ago, the idea of a country boy band would’ve gone over like a poop in a punch bowl. The fact this idea has made it this far gives us a very clear barometer reading of where country music is today.
But I’ll be honest with you, I can’t wait for this. It’s going to be so much fun wizzing all over this project, poking fun at Donnie and Johnnie and Ronnie and Bobbie as they work on their choreographed dance moves and premier their haircuts. It’s gonna be like Rascal Flatts sans the middle-aged chub!
Let the games begin!
November 1, 2011 @ 8:08 am
Don’t you mean second ever? Rascal Flatts already exists, altough they are now pudgy and middle aged
November 7, 2011 @ 1:22 pm
I was going to say the same thing. But who knows, maybe this will be good, and it will push people back towards real music? doubtful I know…
November 1, 2011 @ 8:31 am
From the site “If you have the voice, the moves, the look, and the personality that make you stand out, then we”™re looking for you! Seeking all types of performers whose style fits within the country-pop spectrum.”
No actual musical talent or creativity required.
Might be fun to fill out a bunch of their online applications, but can’t be bothered to mess with them..
November 1, 2011 @ 8:57 am
Just signed up and sent a video. Maybe one of us can make it, and tear down nashville from the inside. Viva La Boybanda!
November 1, 2011 @ 9:12 am
I would rather listen to disco… At least those assholes could play their instruments. …And sing.
November 1, 2011 @ 9:21 am
Should we expect anything less from them? And they wonder why people are switching to XM/Sirius radio.
November 1, 2011 @ 12:00 pm
Satellite is having their own problems, declining subscriber base and a bloated contract for Howard Stern.
November 1, 2011 @ 10:30 am
Afterwards I’ll start an “Outlaw” boyband…………..
November 1, 2011 @ 10:41 am
Join now! The Anticonformist Group. Everybodys doing it!
November 1, 2011 @ 1:41 pm
You know one of them will be “Outlaw Spice,” or whatever the hell the male equivalent is. (Yeah, I know that the Spice Girls are old news now, but I am an old lady… at least by these standards.)
November 3, 2011 @ 5:10 pm
I think one of the “Pistol Annies” might already have that name
November 1, 2011 @ 11:56 am
Maybe this boy band can do a cover of a country/rap song that was penned by Michael Jackson Montgomery.
November 1, 2011 @ 12:02 pm
I was thinking Michael Jackson Montgomery should try out, but even with spiked hair and a tight fitting Affliction T-Shirt, I don’t think he’d pass for under 25.
November 1, 2011 @ 2:03 pm
I honestly thought this was a joke at first.
November 1, 2011 @ 2:39 pm
Is this any different than American Idol? I have never followed the show but have heard that a few of them were country singers. Same thing, just as a group.
November 1, 2011 @ 5:21 pm
Cmon Triggerman! I just had supper.
November 1, 2011 @ 7:48 pm
This definitely comes as no surprise.
On the show X Factor that’s on right now, they put together a country girl group. They took 4 girls that auditioned individually and put them together as a group when they didn’t make the cut. None of them sang country, but now they are singing pop country. FWIW they actually sing really well together, and should probably go far in that competition. But yeah, they were all basically transformed overnight.
Rascal Flats came to mind immediately when seeing the title of this article.
I’m surprised it’s taken pop country this long to produce a boy band “sans the middle-aged chub”.
And yes, I do watch the X Factor. lol
November 1, 2011 @ 8:19 pm
I must be missing something. I thought Rascal Flatts already held the title of “country music boy band”.
November 1, 2011 @ 11:04 pm
I love to poke fun at Rascal Flatts just as much as anybody, and I am sure I have called them a boy band myself, but there is actually a formula to what makes a boy band, a boy band.
Boy bands are almost always started by producers, who create the band through a casting call, just like is being done here, with pre-arranged support from record labels, tour promoters, radio (Clear Channel in this case), and writers and studio producers. Everything is lined up from the beginning, so there is little risk.
As bad as we might think Rascal Flatts is, they actually all started out as musicians in other bands and came together as a “group” organically, like most bands, and played small bars and clubs and such before hitting it big. Boy bands usually go from rehearsal to stadium shows. And I’ve always given credit to Rascal Flatts for being honest about who they are. They’ll tell you they’re a pop country band, and they don’t try to hide behind “Outlaw” branding or any other nonsense. It doesn’t make them good, but in a business rife with dishonesty, it is somewhat refreshing.
November 2, 2011 @ 7:53 pm
No no no the true formula for boy bands is laid out in an episode of South Park where they form a boy band. Watch it. Personally although I am a 43 year old ex-con , i want a seat on this train to musical forgettability. I will be the ” bad boy ” who wears the bandana and get the vocally weak solo where I go ” OOOOOOOOO girl … you”re so totally girl. OOhhhhhh girl”. Then we break into a chorus of ” gonna fingerbang you into my life”
Then when the brief record exec generated spotlight fades i will put a shotgun in my mouth and atone for my sins of musical turdness.
ok ok i am joking…. fuck all that.
November 2, 2011 @ 5:52 am
The greed of some people simply disgusts me…
November 2, 2011 @ 9:38 am
I guess I don’t see a whole lotta difference between the formation of the Pistol Annies and the formation of a country boy band with the exception of a POP country lead singer. Workin’ with Tbone could make a difference but looks to me like Miranda and co. are trying to play both sides of a Nashville fence.
November 2, 2011 @ 10:53 am
The formation of a boy band and The Pistol Annies couldn’t be any more different. Boy bands are put together by producers through an audition process, the definition of “manufactured” music. The Pistol Annies all knew each other through their mutual love of songwriting and decided to start a band as a side project, the definition of “organic” music. Now that doesn’t mean that The Pistol Annies are not “pop country” if that is how you want to characterize them. Certainly there are some pop country elements there, but the origins are in no way the same.
November 2, 2011 @ 1:08 pm
Can’t say I’m surprised by this, it was only a matter of time I suppose…
That being said, I look forward to future rants/mockery of whatever group they come up with by you Triggerman. 😛
November 3, 2011 @ 5:07 pm
Haha they could open for Blake Shelton and do a group “Footloose” thing!
( I’m going to puke now)
November 22, 2011 @ 10:18 am
This is not the first “teenage” boy band. We did the same thing FIVE years ago. The Springs band are now 20-23 years old, have charted three releases on the main Music Row Country chart, thus far, and performed 200 shows in both 2010 and 2011. They have did this all by themselves. Their site is thespringsband.com Since Clear Chanel controls a lot of radio play, and they’ll have big money behind them (most of us in this business knows it has nothing to do with talent, just the money behind you), this band may be successful, but they are not the first!
November 22, 2011 @ 10:34 am
I stand corrected. The organizers of this new “boy band” are the ones asserting it is the first.
February 24, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
I am assuming there will be “junkie monkey boy band member’, “drug habit boy band member” and “gay but not out of closet” boy band members”? Cant wait….
March 4, 2012 @ 4:04 pm
…Whats really funny about all this trash talk is that NONE of you have put any thought to how much these chosen few may have struggled to get to where they are now. Or that they could possibly be helping write their own material AND how country they really are!!! How about you all NOT judge something before you see it or hear it! This is a genius idea that is giving some very deserving MUSICIANS the chance to finally get their music and voices heard…shame on you all…BUT it figures that you all would try and dog the talent, success, and music of good, young, country guys!!!—saving country music? looks like you are doing just the opposite…Haters gonna hate…Snakes are gonna snake!
June 3, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
Do we have any idea what became of this project? The link is dead and I think it is safe to say that, while the project was not a step in the right direction, a good “wizzing” would have made us all feel better about “country” keeps sinking lower. Hey, does Florida Georgia Line count as a boy band? There are three of them if you count Nelly!
May 16, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
Actually, I don’t know if they were the first, but South Sixty Five was a country boy band from the 90s. So yeah, this country boy band that’s being “cast” is not the “first ever.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_65