Boyzvoice
Boyzvoice is the name of a fictional Norwegian boy-band consisting of three band members: brothers M*Pete (Espen Eckbo), Hot Tub (Øyvind Thoen), and Roar Lund-Bergseter (Kaare Daniel Steen). Boyzvoice were formed to poke fun of boybands in the commercial music industry. They are best known for the 2000 movie "Get Ready To Be Boyzvoiced" which was a mockumentary about their lives.
One of Boyzvoice's most successful songs was the bubblegum dance song "We Are The Playmomen." Probably intended as a parody of bubblegum dance music (which were in their peak of production at the time of it's release), the music video for "We Are The Playmomen" features the band members dressed as toy soldiers (pictured top right) singing lyrics that are very double entendre with sexual innuendo (much like Aqua/project/">Aqua's "Barbie Girl.")
Biography
Boyzvoice was originally formed by Norwegian comedians/actors Espen Eckbo and Henrik Elvestad with the purpose to make fun of boy bands and the commercial music industry. Boyzvoice first appeared on a late-night Norwegian talk-show in 1999 and the same year they climbed the charts in Norway with their Christmas single Let Me Be Your Father X-mas.
In Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced, a mockumentary about their lives, first released in 2000, they have to overcome a scandal involving lip-synching over recordings made by session musicians, which results in their being dropped by their record company — reminiscent of the real-life incident involving Milli Vanilli. The scandal is further fed by their manager Timothy Dahle (Henrik Elvestad) physically assaulting two elderly members of the Salvation Army at a charity concert, and the discovery that lead-singer M*Pete's 16-year-old girlfriend (Ida Thorkildsen Valvik) lied about her age and is in fact only 12.
