This episode is a love letter to the communities that make up fandoms and to the group chats that become about support and found family as well as fandom.

Finding Our Community | BFFs and Boybands Season One, Episode Four “Finding Our Community” 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 a...

We're back with Episode 4: Finding Our Community!

We talk about our favourite part of the fandom: each other! Making connections, making friends, is what this is all about.

Boy of the Week: Kim Seokjin of BTS

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#BTS #OneDirection #ARMY

A timely episode since Louis is touring again and grainy livestreams are back in my life 🤩
That tank top in Oslo though, amirite?! 👀

Who's Your Bias? | BFFs and Boybands 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 cour...

We're back with Episode 3 : Who's your bias?

We talk about our faves! What does it mean to have a bias? Can you have more than one? What does your bias say about you?

Boys of the week? Our biases! Louis Tomlinson and Min Yoongi.

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Yay! It's out! It's out! My guest essay on @btswithsincerity.bsky.social for Yoongi's birthday. Please give it a read!

Thanks so much to @musingsbangtan.bsky.social and @seeuinttukseom.bsky.social for taking on the essay and being excellent guides and editors 💜 I'm so excited to share this.

The rap line is always a good time!

Dang, another great pick! Shout out to Louis’ facial expressions too!

Sometimes I temporarily forget this exists and then I have to watch it all over again and be amazed.

One direction - No control (Music video) YouTube video by OneDirectionZic

And while Carrie wants you to listen to the entire "Four" album, she's fond of "No Control" in particular (for now!)

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BTS Performs Mikrokosmos live at The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon YouTube video by lewixx

For Muse, it'd be this one: Mikrokosmos by BTS

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Question from this month's show: If you could recommend ONE song to try to get someone into BTS or One Direction, which would it be, and why?

Let us know!

The Boys | BFFs and Boybands This episode -- we talk about the boys themselves and why we love them. Who are they, exactly? We talk about how the groups were formed, why we think they caught on, breaking up and staying together. ...

We're back with Episode 2: the boys! We talk about how the groups were formed, why we think they caught on, breaking up and staying together. How do we feel about them, and can we really call this love?

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A guide to the BTS Members and all their names. RM: Kim Namjoon Namjoon, Joon, Joonie, Namu, Rap Monster, Rapmon Jin: Kim Seokjin Jin, Jinnie, Worldwide Handsome, WWH, Car Door Guy, Jinseok SUGA/Agust D: Min Yoongi, Yoongi, Yoongs, Yoongles, Lil' Meowmeow, Precious Meowmeow, Our Cat j-hope: Jung Hoseok Hobi, Hoba, Hope, Huimang, Our Hope, Jay Jimin: Park Jimin Jimin, Jiminie, Jimin-ssi, Mini, Mimi, Jimim, Manggaetteok, Baby Mochi V.: Kim Taehyung, Taehyung, Tae, Taetae, Vante, Winter Bear Jung Kook: Jeon Jeongguk Jungkook, JK, Jaykay, Koo, Kookie, Googie, Golden Maknae

Special for this episode - a handy guide to all of the names Muse calls the BTS guys (why are there so many...?) Thanks to the amazing @dailybts.bsky.social for the help in clearing it all up for us!

The Boys | BFFs and Boybands This episode -- we talk about the boys themselves and why we love them. Who are they, exactly? We talk about how the groups were formed, why we think they caught on, breaking up and staying together. ...

We're back with Episode 2: the boys! We talk about how the groups were formed, why we think they caught on, breaking up and staying together. How do we feel about them, and can we really call this love?

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Thanks to everyone who's listened to the podcast so far!

Our first episode is now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and is slowly filtering through to other apps, so if you don't see us yet, keep checking!

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BFFs and Boybands Welcome 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...

And we’ve begun! Join us on BFFs and Boybands, where we talk about BTS, One Direction, and the joy that our fandoms have brought us.

Why do we love these guys so much? Do you love them too? Join us as we try to figure it out!

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