The band apparently told reporters: "For people to call us a boy band is offensive. It's degrading. Anyone that calls us a boy band obviously doesn't know much about music... If anyone was a fly on the wall in the process of making a Busted album they'd see it's not done the way a boy band does it. Boy bands just have to go in and sing the songs and the album is made very quickly. For us there's a certain amount of time to allow because we have to write it, find the producers, go in and record it. It's a completely different process."
So, now you know; Busted are not a boy band. So what are they then? Can they really be considered as much a 'proper' band as, say, Coldplay or Travis? What about Good Charlotte or Blink 182? Go on, DiScuss...
* When I say DiS loves Busted, I am, of course, only referring to that one with the big eyebrows. The other two are talentless mingers, obviously.