Like just how.

I mean... They're a band, they're all boys... Why isn't Beastie Boys a "boy band?" 🤔
- So are Metallica, AC/DC and Van Halen.
  
  "Metallica are a boy band." was not a take I expected to find today, but I think I know exactly the right people to annoy with this.
  
  Red Hot Chili Peppers is my favorite boy band.
  
  yea but they dont have "boy" in the name!
- They're a beast band.

MCA died 13 years ago next month-- not too surprising kids born around 2000 or 2010 wouldn't have heard much of them.
- Tripped acid and went to see them in Central Park just a few years back. In, uh, 1992.
  
  Acid finally wore off in 2022, saw COVID, took more acid.
  
  Series acid and went for a walk in 99, took my camcorder. Last thing I remember is recording a plastic bag being buffeted by the wind and suddenly I'm here staring at a little glass box in my hand.
- I mean it really depends on what music their parents listen to about 90% of the time
  
  I didn't realize until adulthood that some households don't really prioritize music. My parents were always playing and telling me about the music they grew up with (classic rock, because I'm old and they're older)
  Every once in a while I'll meet a peer who's like "oh yeah we didn't have a lot of records" and I'm like oh that checks out with you not knowing the velvet underground
  But I try not to be a jerk about people not knowing stuff, because no one needs that.
  
  Yup. I was really quiet old before I heard much Elvis or Michael Jackson. My parents just never had it on in the house. My best friends dad had a tattoo of Elvis, but still.

If you end it there it's a tragedy. But if you use the "1 in 10,000" approach and introduce them to both their music and how it changed music, then you might win another fan. You might even get a "oh, yeah, I've heard that riff".
- I mean theyre pretty tame by modern standards.
  Here's WKUK doing a take on Intergalactic
  
  I'm a Beastie Boys fan, but I don't think most of their stuff stands the test of time. Other than Paul's Boutique and Sabotage, they weren't really groundbreaking most of the time. They were fun, and had some good tunes, but I wouldn't list them as one of the groundbreaking acts that changed music.

Sorry, I'm not keen on classical music

Technically correct
- The best kind of correct. Same goes for N.W.A and Black Sabbath.

That kid probably woke up late for school and didn't want to go.

Beast Street Boyz

Are you saying you “CAN’T STAND IT?”
- No, I mean "I KNOW YOU PLANNED IT"
  
  "I'MA SET IT STRAIGHT THIS WATERGATEGATE"

You gotta fight, for your right, to parrrrrrrttyyyyyyy
- You gotta fight for your right to want it thaaaat way!
- I love the backstreet bros!!

Looks like we lost the fight for our right to party.

A girl called me a sexy beastie boy on the bus freshman yr college. Went to HS with one of their brothers, where their original drummer went. Used to bump check your head on the boo box. Youth are intolerable
- I understand what some of this means I think
  
  It was the 90s. You wouldn't understand Mom! /s
  Prob not worth your brain energy tbh

Reading through the comments, it turns out I've heard quite a few of their songs, and enjoyed none of them. I don't get how they were so popular.
- Because they were a perfect mix of Punk and Hip Hop. It just fit right into the late 80s and 90s.
- They have a historical importance in the hip-hop realm notably when it comes to sampling. See the album Paul's Boutique.
  
  Ah, I see. So they're kinda like the Beatles, historically significant, but not actually that good.
- Try listening to Check Your Head all the way through. If you don't get it after that, you never will.

My daughter got really into Brooklyn 99 with me when she was like 11 and from then on became a big Beastie Boys fan

Saw a guy at work in a BB shirt on Friday.

I like the beats and the shouting!

I've not heard of them either...

Heard of them, but couldn't name a single song or pinpoint their genre.
Checked out a song on YT to get an idea and it was literally just a generic boy band. I mean... I guess their songs rhyme? But then, so do nursery rhymes, and they haven't been my thing for quite a while now.
To each their own.
- Amazing. Every word you just said was wrong.
- Now this is how you troll. Well done.
- "Generic Boy Band" hahahahah
  I'm not a fan of them, but they are anything but a "boy band". They aren't GQ/looks driven, their success origin was spoofing rap music, they're incredibly talented/skilled musicians who have been compared to the likes of Medeski, Martin and Wood.
- It's so weird how people on the Internet will see a group talking about how they all like or at least appreciate something, and the one person has to make sure everyone knows just how dumb and ridiculous they think that thing is.
  I'm curious what kind of objectively better music an enlightened soul like yourself considers good.
  
  The Teletubbies theme song was pretty cool.
  
  Pretty much anything from a major band in the same genre is better, in my view.
  Their music is kinda awful.
- literally just a generic boy band
  They're not generally what people refer to with the term "boy band".
  A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform love songs marketed towards girls and young women. Many boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_band
  
  Um, they're a band, and their name clearly states that they're "boys". Ergo, a boy band. QED.