Season One, Episode Three

“Who’s your Bias?”

Welcome back to BFFs and Boybands, where we talk about “Friendship, Fandom, and the Boybands we love”! Carrie loves One Direction and Muse loves BTS and we talk about the things our fandoms share, how they’re different, and why we’re so invested.

On this episode: We talk about our “bias” – our favourite group members. Where does the term ‘bias’ even come from? And what makes your bias, YOUR Bias? Boys of the week: we cover our biases, of course! Louis Tomlinson and Min Yoongi

00:08 We start laughing because Carrie flubbed the intro the first time

00:34 There’s a crazy amount of news in our fandoms! Let’s review!

02:24 Turning to the topic of biases... Let’s talk about Carrie’s bias Louis (and Harry?)

03:40 Backing up a bit... What’s a bias? And where does that term come from?

05:20 So what’s a “Bias Wrecker”?

05:51 Kinship between people who share a bias... do we get along?

07:43 What makes you relate to a member as a “bias”? How do we relate to our biases?

09:45 We talk about honesty in lyrics and music

10:47 Solo and Group albums and how they’re different

13:04 Can you have more than one bias? (Yes)

15:47 Muse talks about “Bias Lines” 

17:10 Our first Boy of the Week! Carrie’s bias: Louis Tomlinson

26:27 Our second Boy of the Week! Muse’s bias: Min Yoongi

38:12 We conclude they’re good Boys and have a little cry Closing notes, next show and contact info

38:19 Thank yous and show closing notes

Additional notes, memes and music:

Watch Yoongi’s interview show “Suchwita” with the boys from Tomorrow X Together here:

https://youtu.be/FuF6gBiAJkE?si=NO7PO59dI3u1oPh5

Watch the video for Amygdala here:

https://youtu.be/IX1dkYoLHVs?si=sawNdHPnaJnD8fkn

And read Muse’s esssay on the symbolism in the video, and Yoongi’s tour here:

https://medium.com/@btswithsincerity/min-yoongis-white-door-of-the-self-symbolism-in-the-suga-agust-d-tour-d-day-finale-concert-935843ff1e5c

Special thanks to the folks at the BTS with Sincerity blog for having me on as a guest blogger.

Songs we mention:

“Lemonade” by Louis Tomlinson

...on Youtube Music here: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9WhMVmTww0BsmXJAZH0FSuXYaeTR1_O9&si=FqHJfIjK4g1tFH2Y

...on Tidal here: https://tidal.com/playlist/bb1a4982-6b7c-48ca-bec0-a09f41851765

...on Apple Music here: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/bffs-and-boybands-season-1/pl.u-PDb44KBTkP6LoK

Our Contact Information:

E-mail: [email protected]

Bluesky: @bffsandboybands.bsky.social

Show Credits

BFFs and Boybands is brought to you by your hosts: Carrie and Muse

BFFs and Boybands Logo and branding is by Megan Berry and Jeff Leblanc

Our Theme song is “Light Summer Pop” by SingleFX via Audio Jungle

https://audiojungle.net/item/light-summer-pop/57537454 

The “Boy of the Week” logo chime is from Universfield, via Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=125764

Special thanks to every single one of you who has listened, offered feedback and support, and generally been kind and generous with your time and your love.

And very special thanks to BTS and One Direction for making our lives better by sharing themselves and their music.