The fictional boy band in Turning Red is 4*Town.
4*Town is the wildly popular group idolized by 13-year-old Mei Lee and her friends in Pixar’s 2022 coming-of-age film. The story is set in Toronto in 2002, when the group’s North American concert becomes the girls’ most important shared goal.
The name is deliberately stylized as 4*Town, and it creates a joke in the film because the band has five members: Robaire, Jesse, Tae Young, Aaron Z., and Aaron T. The group’s exaggerated popularity and choreography are affectionate references to late-1990s and early-2000s boy-band culture.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell wrote three original songs for the film: “Nobody Like U,” “1 True Love,” and “U Know What’s Up.” Finneas also voices Jesse, while the other English-language performers include Jordan Fisher, Josh Levi, Grayson Villanueva, and Topher Ngo. 4*Town is not a real group such as *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, or One Direction; those acts helped inspire its sound and image.