Boys will be girls

We love the backstreet boys! Some of my crazy students with their #1 favorite American music. Not sure why, but it seems like the most popular imported male music artists (amongst my junior high kids) tend to be pretty effeminate. For example, the Backstreet Boys...Michael Jackson...British and American boy bands. But a lot of the popular female artists tend to be more boyish or tough, like Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Tina Turner. Not sure why. I think it sums up a lot of the gender differences over here a little bit...Japanese men overall tend to have a more feminine side to them (just look at some of their Tina Turner haircuts, watch them on TV) and while the girls tend to be cute and dainty on the outside, they usually are more assertive and adopt some masculine traits as well that underlie their girliness. Ne?