OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast with BoyThrob!

 It’s the Sunday Roast, and today it’s four times throbbier than normal!

Not that we’re ever normal around these parts. These parts right here…

Where was I? Oh, right! Throbbing.

In the 60’s you had The Monkees (who were musically under-rated IMHO). In the 80’s you had Milli Vanilli, who were at least stunning to look at. And in 2026, we have BoyThrob, which may actually be nothing more than a four-headed practical joke. Yes, in These Trying Times™ even manufactured bands have evolved. Morphed. Mutated. 

These pleasant-looking lads come to you from the hellmouth known as TikTok, where they have gone viral, more for their backstory than for their music (which is pleasant enough, I guess).

For four part harmony you need, yes, four people. And BoyThrob IS four people, but there’s a problem. Three of them are American: Anthony Key, Evan Papier, and Zachary Sobania. One of them, Darshan Magdum, is Indian. And trying to bring him to the US to perform with his bandmates has been challenging, to say the least.

The US government’s position has been that they’re not a real band, just a joke on TikTok. To prove they’re really real, they booked a show at a retirement home, but sadly it failed to convince. Is that ageism? 

They turned to the internet, as one does these days, and the internet came through for them, leading to an actual tour and collab with Ke$ha, as well as positive mainstream press attention. Sort of a reverse Justin Timberlake.

It worked. Darshan, who is by far the most legitimate musician in the bunch, got his visa and will join his bandmates for the next tour.

They’re even doing good deeds, working with a charity to raise money for safe drinking water.

Can’t get more legitimate than that. 

Photo Credit: Getty Images, BT/Teen Vogue