Despite the pretty-boy looks, the uninspired love songs and the ability to fill a hotel lobby with screaming teenage girls, Bed and Breakfast insist that they are not a boy band.
But they are not going to come out and say that.
'We always say that the best hint for being a boy group is to say, 'We're not a boy group'. That's why we never say we're not a boy group,' said band member David Jost on a recent trip to Hong Kong to receive a Golden Heart award from FM Select.
There may seem to be plenty of evidence to the contrary, but the German pop trio have been together for three-and-a-half years, which is almost a decade in boy-band time. And they are friends; they weren't put together as a pop package by a record company. They also write and produce their own music, as well as the occasional track for other German artists. One of the members, 24-year-old Kofi Ansuhenne, even has his own studio.
'We have control over our sound. It's not a typical boy group thing which the media says it is,' insisted 25-year-old Jost.
But they are treated as a boy band, particularly by their teenage female fan base. Since the sudden success of their debut single, You Made Me Believe In Magic, which stayed on the German charts for more than 10 weeks, they have drawn screaming fans throughout Germany and Southeast Asia. 'It went really, really fast. We were introduced to a record company [which] signed us straight away. We didn't have any time to think about what was going on,' said 23-year-old Florian Walberg.