OVERRATED: Boy bands, again

Just when you thought a stake had been driven through the "five boys and a melody" pop formula that begot <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB005386" title="New Kids on the Block (music group)" href="/topic/entertainment/music/new-kids-on-the-block-%28music-group%29-PECLB005386.topic">New Kids on the Block</a> and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB0000011154" title="Backstreet Boys (music group)" href="/topic/entertainment/music/backstreet-boys-%28music-group%29-PECLB0000011154.topic">Backstreet Boys</a>, the phenomenon is back with the U.K.'s chart-topping One Direction. Brace yourselves, everyone &#8212; this is how the siege begins before these groups start reproducing on our shores. Honestly, England, we'd apologize for that whole revolution thing if you'd just quit exporting this stuff.

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Just when you thought a stake had been driven through the "five boys and a melody" pop formula that begot New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys, the phenomenon is back with the U.K.'s chart-topping One Direction. Brace yourselves, everyone — this is how the siege begins before these groups start reproducing on our shores. Honestly, England, we'd apologize for that whole revolution thing if you'd just quit exporting this stuff.

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