Pro tip: if you're ever cold, just tell a straight guy "The Beatles were a boy band" and warm yourself on his anger

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) March 13, 2021

I think I don’t understand? Or perhaps I know too much history to understand?

The Beatles were the prototypical boy band, the precursor and archetype for all the boy bands to follow. This fact has nothing to do with their music either way, IMO.

Judging people by capitalistically-delineated consumer standards I will never understand, however. Mostly these days I judge someone on how kind they are, and if they are systems thinkers or not. The rest is nearly irrelevant.