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“Literary Hub » Are Boy Bands the Cure for the Male Loneliness Epidemic?”
“Boy bands are derided for being too accessible, as if something that’s palatable and fun necessarily lacks substance.”
“A musical companion piece to the themes in a literary work intrigued me.”
“Writing the book also led me to recognize that the loneliness epidemic has some primal roots.”
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“Books and boy bands are a bard’s best balm.”
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“Assembling a boy band is a way of splitting the egg myself, and repairing an injury meted out by wrathful gods in one fell swoop.”
“As I completed early drafts of 99 Problems Finding the 1, I recalled that literary writers often prepare playlists to accompany their books.”
“Hanging and collaborating with them protects and reinforces these qualities in myself.”
“The Backstreet Boys are in many ways a squeaky clean offshoot of New Edition, for instance, but the former is generally seen as a boy band while the latter is branded as a male R&B group—something sexier, less innocent.”
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“Becoming more loving and lovable is easy when you cultivate your softer side by singing it loud.”
“One of my main findings is that like politics, social behavior has an Overton window—a range of ideas that are seen as acceptable and normal.”
“Each member of their band had a section of the “thank yous” listed in the back of the CD booklet.”
“I wanted my push back to go beyond the page, so I took Sartre’s warning that “literature is a bourgeois substitute for real commitment in the world” as a point of departure and a personal challenge.”
“Of course this egg’s split had been a winning lotto ticket from Benji’s perspective: he won a live-in songwriting partner, a genetically engineered vocal complement, and a co-conspirator in the lunatic dream of becoming a global alternative music icon.”