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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
The difference is everything, IMO. Boy bands feel impersonal to people on the outside. Non-fans tend to see them as products or not at all. The public doesn't know or remember or care about the names or personalities of One Direction or Backstreet Boys members.
In contrast, virtually everyone had some strong emotion to share about Britney's, or Miley's, or Bieber's public scandals. The difference is being an identifiable and substantial public personality. It's a much greater position of power.
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Yeah. Also when you're a solo artist it's easier for the public to see you as an individual instead of a brand (as opposed to when you're a group), which makes reinvention easier and also allows you to have a personal narrative that facilitates the reinvention (i.e. Britney getting over her issues, Bieber changing his bad boy ways, Beyonce becoming a mother, etc). If you're a group then you're a symbol in a way because you represent the collective identities of all the members instead of being one person, it's much easier for you to be forever associated with a particular sound or time and it's less likely that you will move past that.
