Whoa-oh, oh oh oh, Whoa-oh, oh-oh, Whoa-oh, oh oh oh, yet another reunion

My wife when I sent her this: "We are SO going to this this summer!"

Me: "No, you and your best friend are SO going to this this summer!"

Then she called her best friend and they squealed for like 15 minutes.

Yeah, NKOTB were a complete studio fabrication, and hating them in 1990-91 was incredibly easy and fun. (Anyone remember the "rumor" they were drafted to fight in Iraq?) But there was something natural and authentic about their surge to superstardom. They had one non-descript album and the second album didn't take until "I'll Be Loving You Forever" hit no. 1. Then they overtook Tiffany to headline their tour and kaboom, they were the biggest act on the planet.

Sure, they sucked all sorts of shit, but there was an air of spontaneity (sp) to their emergence that is nowhere to be found these days. Along those lines, I'll take them over any of the boy bands carefully and cynically constructed and foisted upon the American public since 1998.

 

Mine squealed as well. She wants to take the kid with her ...

 

Joey, Donnie or Jonathan?

 

Yet another reason to love the Crue.

 

I guess Maurice Starr needed some cash and decided to shake it out of NKOTB's pockets.

I don't know if I'd exactly call this a reunion in the standard sense ... they were playing together in the late '90s, and I don't think they ever formally broke up.

 

They did break up in 1994.

Don't ask me why I know this. Just...don't.

 

Fine, I won't ask you about how your being whipped.

My point remains: They've been "around." They did a number of club shows in the late '90s. Not like they went away, a la the Beatles.

 

no you dickhead that was MY point. They broke up in '94 and haven't played since.

Indeed, you could say it was New Edition that never went away. Sure, they went years between records, but every guy that ever farted on a New Edition record cashed in on the New Jack Swing boom. So the band was always in the public eye.

 

No, Donnie has become a pretty good actor. Hey, I know my New Kids damnit. Couldn't get them off the radio of or MTV back in the day. You were probably still in diapers.

 

High school, actually. :

 

Update: NKOTB is on tomorrow's Today Show. One of the dangers of being awake this early is happening across that information in a promo.

Another danger: Seeing people my age ALREADY IN LINE at Rockefeller Center to see New Kids.

 

Those poor people can't help it. They were put in a trace by their funky songs.