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'World's Youngest Boy Band' Takes on the Streets and Parks of Manhattan

February 1, 2016 5:29pm | Updated February 1, 2016 5:29pm
Baby Boiz are Jake Fertig, Max Knoblauch, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Caleb Thompson, Julian O'Neill and Gavin Stager.
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Don't say we didn't warn you: you may never look at the Union Square playground the same way again after watching this music video. 

Released Monday, it stars a five-member group purporting to be the "World's Youngest Boy Band."

With their auto-tuned, pre-pubescent Justin Bieber voices, "Baby Boiz" sing about girls who are "so on fleek" and whose "swag is lit" in their single "Tonight's Tonight." (We know the youths are all keyed into the latest slang, but no four year old, like the band's youngest member Ravi, could explain what "basic" means.)

Behind the attempt to parody musical acts like One Direction is the band's oldest member, Jake Fertig, a 23-year-old filmmaker, comedian and singer-songwriter who is twice as tall and more than twice as old as the other four boys. 

In another video posted on Mashable's YouTube page, Fertig says he created "Baby Boiz" to set a Guinness World Record. Judges won't consider them eligible until "they achieve something specific and significant," one representative explains.

She concedes that if "Tonight's Tonight" hits No. 1 on the billboard charts, it could qualify "Baby Boiz" for eternal fame.

Watch some cute kids mug, belt and break-dance for the camera below (and pray for their lost innocence):

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