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style ballads as major singles alongside the dance-pop stuff. Neither NKOTB nor New Edition were really known for that type of ballad. Boyz II Men were.
2. The boy band "explosion" occurred almost immediately after Boyz II Men had those two back to back #1 singles in 1995.
The rest is highly subjective nonsense of the type only feasible on this website (example: yes, the third album under performed, but I clearly remember - and stil own a copy of - "4 Seasons of Loneliness", and "A Song for Mama" was EVERYwhere on black radio, black movie theaters, and in some black churches when it was out), where people hate any type of sung music that isn't boho'd out, nihilistic, dark, minor key, undersung and/or deliberately inpenetrable.
Maybe I grew up in a parallel world (or maybe we were all just the right age to still be innocent enough to like B2M), but I remember Boyz II Men being pretty well liked by my peers - and certainly my parents - as a kid. So, this whole shit is a culture-shock for me. I don't recall their songs "blending into a much of pap" or whatever the hell you said - but then, on the other hand, I was raised in a small town by God-fearing parents and made no attempts/had no desire to buck the system at the time. At the time when they were out, I was barely aware of who Jodeci even were, and my favorite Jodeci-related song is still "All My Life".
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