A recent article in Rolling Stone describes a recent wave of boy band signings at record labels, referring to groups like V Factory, Varsity Fanclub, and NLT. Said New Kid Joey McIntyre, “Obviously times are tough in the record business. They’re just thinkin’, ‘We gotta get right to the heart of it–and that’s young girls and cute boys and fun songs.’” And with Lou Pearlman in jail, who am I to disagree? NLT has been discussed on Idolator before, but who are V Factory are Varsity Fanclub? Wouldn’t you like to know.
Varsity Fanclub are David Lei Brandt (”Don’t give me a floor and mirrors; you won’t see me for a while”), Bobby Edner (”I danced in Alien Ant Farm’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ video”), Jayk Purdy (”obsessed with Sevens and Skull&Crossbones”), Drew Ryan Scott (”my ideal date is at a theme park. Just the whole magical experience of that”) and Thomas Fiss (”Something Corporate is my favorite band…but it all gives me insperation [sic]“). They have a song named “Future Love” and claim to be sexually interested in women.
V Factory are Asher Book (”got his big break at an open casting call for the theatrical production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast”), Wesley Quinn (”was bitten with the performing bug at age 6 after attending his younger sister’s dance recital”), Nick Teti (”got his start doing musical theater in high school then taught himself to dance while in college”), Nathaniel Flatt (”landed a major campaign with Target, as well as numerous print ads, music videos, and commercials for Sony, Heinz, and The Disney Channel”), and Jared Murillo (”You may know Jared from his appearances as a featured dancer in HSM”). They have a song named “Round And Round” and claim to be sexually interested in women.
Which one’s your favorite? As much as I like the name “V Factory,” I have to go with Varsity Fanclub, because Drew and Jayk aren’t fooling anybody.
Varsity Fanclub
“Zero” [Rehearsal] [YouTube]
Varsity Fanclub- Future Love (Request it) [YouTube]
V Factory - Sizzle Reel (OFFICIAL)
In Dark Times, Labels Look To Boy Bands [Rolling Stone]
Wouldn’t you like to know.
Uh, no thank you. How about a post to discuss Weezer’s new album. Its been like a week since a Weezer post and none since the album came out yesterday.
@How do I say this … THROWDINI!: Two days, actually:
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I will take thousands of posts about neo-boy bands over anything to do with Weezer.
Here’s your Weezer post: Not as shitty as Make Believe, much much worse than Pinkerton. Rivers Cuomo, still writing too much overly emotional crap. Done and done. I don’t think we need to spend any more time on it than that.
Now, how long until we get a boy band whose members are all named Ace or Gary?
v factory are cuter.
@bcapirigi: Have to agree. But I hate this sort of thing. I dabbled in Boyzone in college, it was enough for forever.
VFactory opened for AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys at his solo shows in California a few months ago. And I maybe have some friends who went to said shows and said that VFactory sucks and lipsyncs (badly), which does not go down well with former Nsync/BSB fans.
Also, one of them is dating Ashley Tisdale.
@SomeSound-MostlyFury: How you’ve managed to precisely sum up that entire record with such clarity and brevity should not go uncongratulated…Well said, soldier
And for the record, can we just point out that a return to new boy bands (see above post), old boy bands (NKOTB), or hopelessly wishing for a decent Weezer album just speaks such volumes about how much further down the proverbial toilet the music industry has been flushed…
why do you have to say “claim to be sexually interested in women.”
are you saying theyre gay? and so what if they were to be? is that a problem??
thanks for posting the video i made for Varsity Fanclub :D
and V-Factory are amazing they were really good at Aj McLeans first solo show at which they opened.
Varsity Fanclub is AMAZING they ACTUALLY WRITE THEIR SONGS!!
I am only interested if they kiss each other. It’s time for modern boybands to go yaoi.
A note on the fashion - I remember posters of Girls Aloud going up around Shoreditch in 02/03 and all the twats felt robbed because GA had been styled electroclash. These boys are styled New Rave, with emo hair. The mimesis is terrifying - if they look hip, what do the hip kids wear? Of course it all comes down to the subtleties - and the sorry truth that in today’s youth culture, no one has their cool cornered…but I always get a kick out of the NKOTB video for The Right Stuff in which Jordan sports… a Bauhaus t-shirt!
@jetblackturd: These boys are styled New Rave, with emo hair
Remo?