The Boy Bands & The Man Bands

Let’s be honest…

You all knew this was coming.

If you don’t know who 1D is, let me enlighten you.

1D is a boy singing group consisting of 5 no, sorry 4 members of the names ~~Zayn~~, Harry, Niall, Louie, and Liam.

And let’s be honest yet again, because I’m nothing but, if you don’t know who One Direction is then you probably wouldn’t be reading this.

Now there is 5SOS, a boy band with four members of the names Calum, Michael, Luke, and Ashton. Note I said band because they are in fact a band who are in fact boys who do play there own instruments and sing.

1D is more like a glorified Acapella group. But I’m not batching! I love One Dierection (as the British say it you know). I love their songs.

I like 5SOS too, although…they have problems…and so does 1D.

“Baby you light up my world like nobody else.”

I’m not making fun. I promise.

I can’t help but find this whole fan girl thing slightly amusing. I must admit, I had my fan girl stage in life when it came to Big Time Rush (may that fandom rest in peace).

But, in the other corner of the ring we have the man bands, the bands that are mature and sing about things other then girls and romances gone wrong. For example, OneRepublic, The Script and American Authors (all of which I saw in one concert haha I don’t know how the roof stayed on under all that awesomeness but anyways…)

Note, I took this from Twitter and I found this really funny. I don’t claim any rights to it whatsoever, so please, whoever these two people are! Don’t sue me….

So, I guess what I’m trying to say is, you can’t really compare these two types of bands because eventually the boy bands, might become man bands…

Or not.

They might just run their course and never be seen again like N’Sync…or they could be like the Backstreet Boys *coughs awkwardly*

That seemed slightly pessimistic, but I really don’t see One Direction lasting very long. Honestly though, they can only go one direction…they can’t all go in opposite directions…

Or can they?

No, I don’t see that happening.

Wait.

Anyways, moving on…

Of course, let’s be honest, boy bands seem to lack sophisticated lyrics like the man bands do.

Examples:

Hey, hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey – 5SOS “She Looks So Perfect”

I walked a minute in your shoes –
They never would’ve fit
I figured there’s nothing to lose.
I need to get
Some perspective on these words before I write them down
You’re an island and my ship has run aground – One Republic “All We Are”

Okay, a bit of an exaggeration on the boy band’s lyrical abilities, but I think I’ve made my point.

Like honestly, any song you ever have loved was probably written or co-written by Ryan Tedder.

Anyways, I know that I have been primarily focusing on OneRepublic in this post, so let me give recognition to all off the other man bands: Snow Patrol, The Script, American Authors, Imagine Dragons, The Fray, Barcelona, Coldplay, SafetySuit, Kodaline, and oh so many more.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this random and pointless post 🙂 Please go and check out all these bands if you haven’t already 😉

In The Now.

My life so far has been nothing but busy. I’m all over the place and wired on coffee. I’m already facing another busy week starting tomorrow, and the only thing that is keeping me motivated is that it will all end in about…6 weeks. Thanksgiving break is coming up, and then after that just a couple more weeks of school and then Trudi is going to be hibernate for five weeks until another semester full of bad weather begins.

Woohoo.

I’m seriously so hyper right now. Maybe it’s just the stress of two big assignment in one week coming up and the coffee.

Now, here is something totally random…but not really. I know I said I’m not obsessed with One Direction, and I’m not, trust me. But…

Aren’t they just too darn cute???

Last night I watched Titanic. Every time I get anxiety and just want to go cry in a corner. Mostly because Jack dies. Isn’t that awful? A gigantic ship goes down after hitting an ice berg and I’m bawling my eyes out because Leonardo DiCaprio froze to death. Rose didn’t deserve him. Yet, I feel that way about every female lead that gets some cute, sweet guy. That movie just tears me to pieces in general though. Such an awful event. This movie and Pearl Harbor make me cry every time.

Anyways, I am going to go eat supper now. Have a wonderful week everyone!

My Infinite Obsession

Okay, so like any normal girl, I tend to be…obsessed with certain things. Not like it’s bad to like stuff. A lot. But I tend to take it to extremes…maybe not as bad as some people, but nevertheless, I am a fangirl.

What is a fangirl? It’s kind of like a disease, plaguing the minds of girls in their tween to late twenties, and should be classified as a disorder for some. I suppose you have heard of that band called One Direction, right? Maybe you haven’t…if you haven’t you probably don’t have the internet, which means you probably won’t be reading this…
One Direction consist of five ~~lovely~~ boys of the names Harry, Louie, Zayne, Liam, and Niall. To be honest, I have a favorite among the group, but for fear for my life I won’t say. But, I’m not obsessed with them…which is funny, because I normally get obsessed with a lot of things but because every teenage girl is obsessed with this band, I decided to not be. Yeah, I’m lookin at you, you thirteen year old girl, screaming and crying over a picture of food that Niall tweeted an hour ago. Pull yourself together! To be honest (because I’m all about honesty today), these fangirls are proud to be completely crazy. They weep and moan over twitter because Harry ignores their tweets that they send every minute on repetition; they get angry when someone insults their fan base; they cry out for war when one of these boys ends up in a relationship…say with T-Swift. It’s sad.

But anyways, enough of this. This post is the start of a series of posts called “My Obsession” which will be posts on my past and present obsessions.

Now, what am I obsessed with today? Today that obsession goes out to the band Infinite.

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Yes, this is a Kpop group. But infinitely times better than One Direction (see what I did there?) and I don’t even understand Korean. They sing AND dance. They dance so good that it makes me want to cry…but I don’t.

If you don’t like them after that then I’ll have to play the L card.

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Isn’t he adorable? And yes, I do have a cup with his face on it, and no, that isn’t creepy at all. His actual name is Kim Myung Soo, but for some reason once you enter the Kpop world you have to change your entire identity from head to toe. Yes, I watched a documentary and no, I’m not talking about plastic surgery. Geez.

I have a Korean Obsession that has been going strong for the last year, so don’t be surprised when you find Korean things popping up here and there. Stop by my Pinterest board to see more…

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Have a great week! More obsessions to come!

~ Trudi