Boybands Forever

[maytoseptember]

Just watching episode two and it’s so good! My love of boy bands started and ended with Take That but I remember the later bands so well.

I remember Scott from Five was quite local to me, and once or twice visited the supermarket in Basildon where I had a Saturday job right at the height of their fame

It’s quite sobering too, listening to Robbie say that no one can have that level of fame and come out of it with mental health intact. He’s right. I hated him for ditching TT and being such an arrogant prick, but modern day Robbie is so eloquent and speaks so well about what fame did to him.

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

Yep, definitely all 5 of them reuniting

 

[Marshallmum1982]

I really don't like Brian McFadden at all, I wish others from Westlife were involved more in the show.

He laughs and seems so offended by talking about Kerry. Say what you will about her, but he wasn't there at all to bring up their kids. I think his daughters have spent more time with his parents than him over the years.

Westlife are so much better without him.

Yeah he comes across as an absolute dead beat dad. Didn't he move to Oz when he was with Delta Goodram?? Say what you want about Kerry but she's never abandoned her kids. Thank god for his Mum who seems to have an amazing relationship with the girls. I can't believe Vogue ever gave him the time of day

 

[LByrne74]

The lads from Boyzone came across well in the documentary. Louis Walsh, well, didn't. In fact it left me wondering whether or not he was the person who gave the story to The Sun about Stephen being gay. The reporter from The Sun did say it was someone from their inner circle.

 

[kachoochoo]

I honestly feel like there's a phd that could be written on the highs and lows (literally) of robbie williams

from hanging out in his dad's pub to writing the greatest song that has ever featured in a cat food ad (isn't his tour next year sponsored by felix?), via the drugs and booze and the breakdowns and the terrible thing that was rudebox

from what I've seen tonight, it seems he is actually properly put together eventually

 

[Very traditional]

Simon Webbe is a good looking man, he’s definitely aged the best out of everyone I’ve seen so far. Gutted for him that he had to shave his Afro to be signed though

 

[LaBlonde]

here it is

this is very beautifully written and so sad. the if we’re ever in the same room together just ignore me, it’s for the best, gosh robbie is incredibly self-aware isn’t he? i don’t know a huge amount about him personally but he seems to have a very deep understanding of how his mind/emotions work (gonna guess he’s been in therapy for quite some time based on how he speaks about himself).

the 16 when he joined the band and 21 when he left part got me. they seemed so grown up to me as a tween fan but they were just so young. it’s so much, too much, to put on a kid. living your formative years in a completely unreal world.

 

[BugglyWuggly]

3 part Take That documentary coming to Netflix. Looks like all five are involved

 

[YetAnotherObsessionx]

wyclef jean perfect gentleman we gonna elope to Mexico tell my mum I'm in love with a stripper yo!

I can still sing this word for word. Laughing back at the days of 5 of us skinny white girls crammed into a Nissan Micra, driving though the city with the windows down singing this I can flex in 25 positions but I only work here to pay my tuition
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Binge-watched the 3-part documentaty today, a lot of it made me feel really sad, how upset some of them still are about it, and then smug Simon Cowell just sitting there with his silly tiny coffee cup & too-long fingernails, saying those boys should have known what it would be like. But apart from that, wow Simon Webb is SO attractive even now.

 

[NowIsGood]

Higher by the Saturdays was a bop but they were the girl group equivalent of a new build decorated with grey paint and a live laugh love sign

 

[Warriorqueen]

Bless you! I never liked him, still don't!

I accepted his apology after he did rehab and apologised to everyone he had hurt. Figured I am included within that group

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

Kerry seemed bitter about Jenny. It’s not her fault you walked away. All their big songs apart from Whole Again were with Jenny

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

Kimberley Walsh was just on Good Morning Britain. She said they were approached to take part in the Girlbands documentary, but they were on such a high and in a good place off the back of the recent reunion tour that they didn’t want to go over the negative aspects as they weren’t in that negative place, hence why they turned it down

Still odd there wasn’t at least an honorary mention in the doc though

 

[YetAnotherObsessionx]

I like that Chris Herbert (Five's creator / manager) put his hands up and said that they got it wrong in terms of the mental health / wellbeing support that wasn't provided to the lads.

I liked that too. Unlike that News Of The World guy who still seems proud of screwing up those lads lives so much.

 

[UnresolvedYin]

Geri leaving was the Moon Landing of our generation.

 

[Redline]

Watching this really shows you how someone like Liam Payne can get into a dark place

 

[Warriorqueen]

I’ve got more fangirl tea but, so old, it’s now evaporated.

PJ and Duncan as we knew them back then literally jumping out of a hotel door only to be caught by a gaggle of thatters on their way to hang around capital radio. Poor PJ was terrified and looked like he was going to cry, Duncan loved the attention, or put on a good performance of loving it. This scene was then re-enacted in a music video by them. Not sure if it was a reissue of ready to rumble.
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Dr Fox tried it on with my 13 year old friend and tried to get her to go in his sports car. We only went to get a picture with Take That who had interviewed and left. Fortunately my friend was a smart cookie and knew a nonce when she met one.
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As you can tell, I was always on the trail of Take That.

 

[hogwartsgraduate]

So far this is justifying my license fee I must say!

 

[Bagpuss20]

this is very beautifully written and so sad. the if we’re ever in the same room together just ignore me, it’s for the best, gosh robbie is incredibly self-aware isn’t he? i don’t know a huge amount about him personally but he seems to have a very deep understanding of how his mind/emotions work (gonna guess he’s been in therapy for quite some time based on how he speaks about himself).

the 16 when he joined the band and 21 when he left part got me. they seemed so grown up to me as a tween fan but they were just so young. it’s so much, too much, to put on a kid. living your formative years in a completely unreal world.

I'm not a huge Robbie fan but that really got me. You can tell that he has done a lot of work on himself to get to a place where he cam write something like that with such self awareness.
I was an early teen as Take That emerged- I remember the day they split and the phoneline being set up.
Look at 1D. Why all these years later is it still seen acceptable to pluck young lads from obscurity, intensively work them, uproot them to a life theyve never known before and ecpect them to just cope and manage when it all ends?
Its as if nothing is learnt from the bands that have gone before but the amount of people making money off them remains

 

[UnresolvedYin]

LADS, emergency

There's a brand new 5ive Instagram page! And Ritchie's cleared his profile in preparation for an announcement at the end of the month. Could they have persuaded J and Abs to return so we have a full reunion? Did Boybands Forever act as a healing experience and they're ready to relive the good times and pay the bills? I'm hoping so! Take my money, kings! (P.S. Abs I still love your solo album x).

Edit: yes it's all five of them! They registered a company just a couple of days before my birthday, what a gift I'm perched.