21 sats \ 4 replies \ @justanumber 28 Mar \ parent \ on: Music Territorys - Throwback Thursday! Music
oh I remember that! They got such a lot of flack for being a "boy band" but I think they're very good
Totally unjustified wasn't it, pretty much all of them were great artists in their own rights. The whole "boy band only" stuff they got was such a lazy narrative.
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I remember reading about that when I was learning about them. If I remember right, they wrote at least some their own songs whereas most of the boy bands don't.
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Correct, Gary wrote pretty much all of the Take That music from the very beginning, he's very talented as well as being able to play the piano. The band was built around him. Unlike other manufactured boy bands who were put together and had less creative control, although to be fair to One Direction and Boyzone they did have input in to their songs, but nowhere near the level of Gary.
You often find that once the band is up and running and they become bigger then you start to see in later albums they assert more control of the songwriting, as that's where the mega bucks are.
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I can't remember if I've had this conversation somewhere else but allegedly Simon cowell didn't want to sign them and said "lose the fat one and you've got a chance" you mean the guy who was by a country mile the most talented in the whole band🤣 great job Simon. Won't live that one down.
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