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I know we hate Simon but.. he's right :rip: We do need more Western boy groups and the UK pop scene is drier than a Popeyes biscuit right now; I'm not sure he's the right man for this though :gaycat7:

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Simon Cowell wants to create an artificial product to profit from for new generation

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Nightmare fuel

 

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Everything they do will be compared to 1D, not sure they can live up to that.

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He's tried and flopped several times since 1D. Give it up

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Older people are so out of touch... now more than ever. Talk to teens and tweens, they don't care about boybands, actors, etc. They follow influencers... that's where the $$$$ is nowadays.

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Just now, Janet said:

He's tried and flopped several times since 1D. Give it up

Yeah PRETTYMUCH never took off despite having some decent music. Simon was never any good at promoting his acts or properly developing them as artists. He just got lucky with One Direction. 

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We literally had BTS for the new generation. They are the ultimate boy band 

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Didn't he try again with PRETTYMUCH in the late 2010s and tank?

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He means he wants a WHITE boyband.

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"I don't think there has been one to have the success of One Direction in over 14 years"

 

Not trying to defend that KPop boyband but surely he meant from the UK, right? Because...

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7 minutes ago, glitch said:

Nightmare fuel

 

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Isn't BTS kinda the boyband of this generation?

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I'm by no means a BTS fan but erasing their success in the English-speaking world doesn't sit right with me

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4 minutes ago, ToMmY said:

"I don't think there has been one to have the success of One Direction in over 14 years"

 

Not trying to defend that KPop boyband but surely he meant from the UK, right? Because...

Boyband is usually used for UK boy groups specifically. Busted, JLS, Take That were called Boybands. The show is being shot in the UK so I think that's what he meant. 

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One Direction blew up because they had massive exposure in the UK at first due to X Factor, which at its height like 1/5 of the country watched. Then that attention trickled into online communities which formed a fanbase for them elsewhere.

 

K-Pop has a system in place but it also originates from media exposure in Korea then trickling into online fan communities that take the acts global. But you need that initial momentum coming from Korea itself.

 

Clearly Simon means a Western boy band, but the problem is no one watches TV anymore in the west, certainly not the 13 year old girl target audience for this type of boy band. New stars are being created mainly through social media.

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NO.

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13 minutes ago, sherloid_bai said:

I'm by no means a BTS fan but erasing their success in the English-speaking world doesn't sit right with me

Dynamite is bigger than any act produced by Simon Cowell

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Kpop has completely swallowed the market for boy/girl groups, even in the west. Labels need to let this go, it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

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30 minutes ago, imabadkid said:

Older people are so out of touch... now more than ever. Talk to teens and tweens, they don't care about boybands, actors, etc. They follow influencers... that's where the $$$$ is nowadays.

Then why do the kids and teens fawn over k pop ones?  Lol

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Good luck booking that boy band you speak of

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whatever happened to that band from X Factor he created, emblem3?

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Is there really any demand out there right now for a boyband (that's not K-Pop)…? 

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