As a public service announcement to the parents of the Puget Sound area’s preteen girls, I’d like to warn you about your daughters’ next major obsession. You know, so you can save up for all those CDs, posters and concert tickets she’ll want soon; but most importantly so you’ll be prepared with earplugs when she lets loose one of those abrasively shrill screams that only 12-year-old girls are physically capable of emitting.

In the next few months, your daughters will turn into a complete lunatics for – drum roll please – Varsity Fanclub.

Never heard of ’em? How can I make such a bold prediction, you ask?

Well, the evidence is mounting, if not overwhelming. For starters, the Los Angeles-based boy band tops the bill of a ’tweener-oriented concert tonight at the Puyallup Fair. And the fair has a pretty good track record for trotting out pop sensations early.

Just think back to the ’80s when the fair had New Kids on the Block, before they’d topped the charts, switched to the corny acronym (NKOTB in the house, y’all) and helped launch the career of at least one corny rapper turned better actor.

And I barely knew Jonas Brothers from Mario Brothers when they played the fair last year. Then a few months later – BAM! – they were massive.

The company that Varsity Fanclub keeps is a pretty good barometer for where they’re going, too.

“They just did a story on us on E! television because Miley Cyrus came to our rehearsal,” VFC band member Jayk Purdy said when I got him on the phone last week, recalling a recent a video shoot for his band’s single “Future Love.” “Her best friend, Mandy – the girl she does all the YouTube videos with – she’s my girl in the video.”

See? They’re kickin’ it with Miley Cyrus. They’re gonna be huge. Huuuuge, I say.

But one thing that gives me pause as I predict Varsity Fanclub’s imminent world domination is the whole boy band thing. You know, catchy bubble-gum pop. Synchronized dance moves. Predictible archetypes. (I think Purdy is the edgy, AJ McLean/Donnie Wahlberg type, since he’s got a cocked trucker hat and skull and crossbones medallion in his promo shot. Needs some tats to sell it, though.)

True, boy bands are making a bit of a comeback this year, with the Backstreet Men and New Middle-Aged Guys on the Block hitting the road. But the boy-band backlash of a few years back still lingers, and Purdy seems to understand that.

“We’re five kids just making music, and if the public likes us, and we get a fan base then that’s great,” he said. “But we’re just trying to get out there and show people what we’ve got. I mean, automatically when people see five kids dancing and singing, there’s a stigma attached to that, and they call us a boy band. Whatever, we’re just kids making music.”

Varsity Fanclub – also Thomas Fiss, Drew Ryan Scott, Bobby Edner and David Lei – got a little help from One Republic singer Ryan Tedder, who produced tracks for the band’s debut album, which is out on Oct. 28.

“Working with him was amazing,” Purdy said of Tedder. “And luckily we got to him just in time before he blew up.”

Hear more of the interview with Purdy on Bring the Noise (blogs.thenewstribune.com/ej).

Ernest A. Jasmin: 253-274-7389