That Teenage Boy Band Phase

Every girl goes through this phase at least once in a lifetime. The names of boy bands you like tell a lot about the generation you come from.

Someday, future generations of girls will grow up with a new generation of boy bands, not knowing about the bands from your good old days. All these become part of your memory and will become something to laugh about in old age.

Here is the time for the ladies from my generation to remember the band that:

• started the trend of having alphabets and numbers in band names (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPKvxYrgBV4) and had a music video filmed in Singapore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCRSVT0UDI) 
• was undoubtedly the most popular and longest-lasting boy band of our time, with songs that were a guilty pleasure even for some parents. Some songs were even "larger than life" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qm5wDS2daQ) 
• shot its lead singer to a solo career fame, who, on hindsight, looked like he could have been the founder of Facebook. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnkwrq39HXw) 
• actually became more popular than BSB, with songs that contained more meaningful lyrics than most boy bands combined. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOb9gIGGd0) 
• the one-hit wonder with an unoriginal name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFGPSx6cPN0) 
• and many other unknown bands...