No one survived the 2008 sequence of X Issue with out forming a crush on both Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, JB Gill or Oritsé Williams.
The crooning quartet shaped JLS, a band that made it to the finals of The X Issue’s fifth season, finally shedding out to Alexandra Burke
You doubtless nonetheless bear in mind hits like All people In Love, Beat Once more and One Shot, and you may as well presently watch JB on this 12 months’s sequence of Strictly Come Dancing.
However I for one had no concept what their band title stood for ― or that it was fully completely different.
What does ‘JLS’ stand for?
Earlier than they entered X Issue, the band glided by Distinctive Well-known Outrageous (UFO), their Apple Music web page reads, however modified it earlier than making it onto the present.
They had been fairly keen on an acronym, so it is sensible “JLS” isn’t only a random assortment of initials both.
The three letters we now recognise the band as stand for “Jack the Lad Swing,” which is how they noticed their music fashion (I had zero clue!!!).
I additionally had no concept UFO launched two songs previous to the competitors through Epic Information.
Their early work included a medley of Ben E. King’s Stand By Me and Sean Kingston’s Lovely Ladies, whose sound holds up lots higher than its very of-its-time visuals.
Are JLS nonetheless collectively?
The band broke up in 2013 to work on particular person tasks.
“We are going to all the time stay brothers and buddies and we’ll all the time be your boys… We wish to have a look at this closing 12 months as a celebration of all that we’ve achieved collectively. We hope you’ll be able to look again and bear in mind all the good moments that you’ve got been chargeable for,” they wrote on the time.
However that they had deliberate a comeback tour in 2020 which wasn’t capable of go forward due to the pandemic, though the group did finally storm the stage collectively in each 2021 and 2023.
Strictly Come Dancing followers have JB’s Couple’s Selection routine to stay up for this week.
Sadly, his skilled associate Amy Dowden is having per week off resulting from sickness, so he’ll be dancing with Lauren Oakley as an alternative.
Right here’s hoping one thing’s within the works for JLS in 2025. With out them, each minute lasts an hour, each hour lasts a day, day by day lasts without end…
