https://www.instagram.com/p/BSQqR48jemw/
This is Acrush, the hottest new boy band in China — and they’re already making the ladies pine and swoon.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSUknoSDPPr/?taken-by=ffc_acrush
But they have one not particularly well-kept secret: They’re not actually boys at all.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BSUksdRD0PC/?taken-by=ffc_acrush
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As Quartz reports, the band consists of five twenty-something women who dress as your standard teen heartthrobs: floppy flannels, bulky leather coats, skinny ties.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSS5Uk0D2qS/?taken-by=ffc_acrush
Though they haven’t even debuted their first video yet — that happens at the end of April — Acrush has already seduced 900,000 followers on their Weibo page. (Weibo is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSUkfyUDlc7/?taken-by=ffc_acrush
Zhou Xiaobai, the band’s press agent, describes Acrush as “a group advocating freedom, not bounded by frames.”
Female fans are already calling band members “husbands,” a term usually reserved for male celebs like Justin Beiber.
You can learn more about Acrush by reading the in-depth article on Quartz.
Eldred
Yeah, I did not see that coming. Really interesting.
natekerchel
People really thought they were boys? One look and I knew they were not. Are people really that blind?
CaliKyle
People aren’t as blind as you are full of it. They look like young, pretty twink Asian boys.
Xzamilloh
Honestly, it really was easy to clock if you looked at the pictures hard enough. Because even though the these J-Pop and K-Poppers and China boy groups look pretty androgynous, the male features are still pretty prominent. The two one the left and the one in the middle could easily fool me, but the two on the right were obvious.
Eldred
Oh, you must have “special” eyes. Well, look… look with your special eyes.
No, in all seriousness I really did think they were guys. After reading, I went back and looked and saw that ‘Ok, I can see they are female now’.
You must have super powers.
natekerchel
Calikyle – Why do you have to be abusive just because someone saw something you did not? I would not presume to tell you what you can or cant see. There is no need to be rude to people. If you thought they were boys then it is not me who is ‘full of it’.
Jack Meoff
Given the headline and at first glance of the pic there was one that I picked as being a girl but didn’t expect all of them to be.
trusgold
a band of bottoms
Armiya
This kind of (visually) is like the marketing they did of t.A.T.u. in like ’02. Faux/appropriation gimmick? Lesbians? Trans? Kind of fun to see coming out of that neck of the world.
am_psi
You could see they were girls in the thumbnail. Not a well kept secret indeed.
missuniverse
Most Chinese and other Asian guys mostly look feminine, so it is an easy mistake for the Chinese girls to mistake them for boys.
JodyBoy
Me likey.
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ErikO
It’s obvious they are girls and they look extremely young.
Jack Meoff
Where’s Crowebobby on this thread he likes them young.