It's cool, you young Mommies will have this moment someday too. All of a sudden, you'll wake up and be like, "WHAT?? One Direction is in a reunion tour with Justin Bieber and Flo Rida?" - and then there always seems to be one performer in there where you're like, "Oooh AWESOME...wait, what? I want to see one of those, and now i have to pay to see all of them?! This is annoying." There will be something that you did at 14-15 that your 12yr old daughter is doing and you get an eye twitch and feel faint. Because THAT WAS JUST YOU.
Anyway, I guess if you're in your *maybe?* early 30's up to (i guess?) early 40's, you're all up-ons this reunion concert about to drop. NKOTB, 98 Degrees, and Boyz II Men. And yes, i just had to check how to spell Boyz II Men properly. Aww, i'm old. Haha. I have a bunch of friends going. Church people, not Church people, all coming together for this one concert. Who may cry, scream, and hopefully *fingers crossed* not flash anyone in the excitement of the moment.
Anyway, i've been asked if i wanna go. Well, actually, i have a wedding that day, so it's off the table. But i have to be honest and say i don't think i could anyway! It's like...i was in my prime when i liked them. I didn't have enough stomach skin to make a tent for my family. But i wasn't allowed to go to a concert (actually, i never even had the nerve to ask, because i'm from a family of 6 and i knew the money wasn't there for things like that!) and now that i'm allowed, well...i don't want to. Me and Jordan aren't ever going to be 2gether+4ever = 6sess. I'd rather keep them in posters in my mind than go see them old. Because then that makes me old by default.
But i cannot-CANNOT wait to see pictures from my friends.
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| I was probably praying to Jesus for Jordan to show up. True story. |
Well Sue, I see your poster-covered walls and I raise you a NKOTB sheet set! Ahh, yes. That was me. It wasn't bad enough that their faces peered down at me from every flat surface, they also peered up at me from under my tush. (that sounds creepy.) I was like, so totally obsessed with those wicked awesome guys, and I think it was the highlight of my young life when Donnie's little bro, Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch, opened a concert for them. Like, Oh my gosh, it was so rad!
ReplyDeleteYES! SLEEPOVER!!! I love this comment soooo much :D
DeleteI'm really confused about 98 Degrees being on that bill. Weren't they like, 15 years after NKOTB and Boyz II Men?
ReplyDeleteI'd rather see Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD- the East Coast Family.
Right? That's what i'm saying - it's always like, "ooh, yeah i want to see them" THEN you see the other bands and you're confused.
DeleteYes, Jenn. They were after NKOTB but at the tail end of Boyz to Men. They were around for Jordan Knight's solo album which had one quazi hit. Why am I a plethora of useless washed up rock star information? I worked in radio in a smaller market and had all three of them in different concert events! BTW - Jordan Knight is a DOUCHE. Also, embarrassing fact - my first concert was Bobby Brown. Yeah buddy.
ReplyDeleteNick Lachey is either the smartest guy out there for agreeing to tour with NKOTB and Boyz II Men or the dumbest and has given into the fact that he is a 'has been'. Do they still say that?! I am leaning toward smartest. I see a Nick Lachey comeback in the near future :)
DeleteTracy - I mean, who WASN'T a ginormous tool though? :D I remember seeing him on that show where kinda loser celebrities move in together for a while and he was being sooo gross with the one girl who was on American Idol and eew. Haha. But i loved them as a young girl:)
DeleteS.I. - At the very least, a comeback in our hearts. *sigh*
You know what, I just figured out how 98 Degrees got on that tour. Nick Lachey hosted The Sing-Off, and Shawn something from B2M was a judge.
DeleteWas Jordan the one with the pointy face? He look like a douche.
Aaaah yes! It all makes sense now- you're brilliant. Also, my husband knew Shawn/Sean(?) Stockman as a teen!
DeleteI AM SO WITH YOU in your room! P.S. Do my bangs look too high? Good! That's just the way I like 'em! Sadly, Jordan the DOUCHE was also my fave at the time. Fun fact: My first concert was in 9th grade...Boyz to Men, Tevin Campbell, and Babyface. It rocked my slouchy socks right off my tight-rolled ankles :)
ReplyDeleteHIGH BANGS FOREVER! I tried last year to make my hair huge for a party, and was amazed that i ever could. It was a lot of work! Crazy. AND OH MY WORD TEVIN CAMPBELL!!! haha:)
DeleteI had the comforter, blanket, sheets as well. NKOTB rocked. Then when they did that special concert on TV with Tiffany, I was silently shooting daggers at her for getting to close to Joey and Jordan. Boyz II Men rocked as well! 98 degrees were just ho-hum to me. Now throw in some MC Hammer and I would totally go!
ReplyDeleteHilarious!!! i am loving this comment Amy! It's so funny to think about how serious we were over that stuff!!
DeleteOh my word! I was SO in LOVE with NKOTB! I was going to marry Joey and have several of his babies. They were going to come out of my womb singing "You've got the right stuff". That's not creepy at all. I had posters, shoelaces, soap (wow, I had NKOTB soap), pillowcases, etc.
ReplyDeleteSOAP! You were serious. I love it! I had a bunch of those pins with them on it - and dolls.
DeleteOMG that picture! That hair! Been there, friend...
ReplyDeleteBTW, I did not make the cut for the NKOTB hysteria.
I was working fulltime in the childrens department at Kohl's as a 19 year old when that phenomenon hit....I remember bc I had to sort out a gazillion NKOTB belts, tee shirts, underwear (really? REALLY??) and the like.
I did however get into the Boyz II Men phase.
Sweet baby ruth did I have lots of sex to their music.
Boyz II Men were amazing. Just amazing. I am a little weirded out that they now tour with Justin Bieber.
DeleteI'm so old!!! NKOTB was after my love of Duran Duran.
ReplyDeleteDURAN DURAN rocked. So hard. I had crushes too - honestly, any man in makeup had my heart for a long time. I don't know how to explain it. Maybe it's better left that way :D
DeleteI had the NKOTB nightgown so I was sleeping with all of them practically every night (wait, that sounds really bad; my daddy might want me to rephrase that! and he actually did ask me to stop singing I'll make love to you when that song was popular, but who can resist) I would love to go to that concert and would probably bust out the jeans jacket and big hair for the occasion! :)
ReplyDeleteYeah girl! get it! And big hair/jean jacket are a must. It should be on the ticket that you HAVE to.
DeleteBeing in my 20's, although I KNOW who they are, I wasn't "fans" of them. BUUUUT, I had to comment and say that I'm totally loving your picture! That hair is just awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteWhen i think of the amount of hairspray...it's just amazing. I remember going through a big can every other week!
DeleteI am seriously considering making the drive to LA to see this sweet ass show on July 4th! Anybody wanna join me? xoxo
ReplyDeleteYou need to get a bus together. There have to be enough people! DO IT DO IT DO IT!
DeleteAll of my friends had NKOTB sheets growing up. I remember them as being soooooo pretty. Then a while ago I saw one of then (Jordan, maybe?) on some VH1 'Let's Put D-Celebrities in a terrible situation' show and he was just a *mess*. It was like someone had killed a puppy. So now I'm vaguely afraid of reunion tours because I don't want any more memories sullied.:(
ReplyDeleteTOTALLY agree. I don't want to see ugly, old, fat, bald or mean NKOTB :D
DeleteI went to see NKOTB when I was traveling in Florida with my mom and aunt. I was 10 or 11 and completely mortified by the fact that they stood and cheered the whole time. Looking back, I can see that it probably had something to do with all of the wine they had before we got there. I can only hope to start embarrassing my kids soon, too.
ReplyDeleteThat is soo soooo funny! Ohmyword. I have secret fears that if i ever took my girls to a 1D concert that would end up being me. It scares my heart. Hilarious! Thank you for sharing that!
DeleteI was in *love* with Jordan! I used to write "I Love Jordan" all over my notebooks in school- all day long. They were my first concert ever. Ah, those were the days! I loved the part about having enough stomach skin to make a tent for your family- HA!
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious! Yup, me too. Written one everything. And i am totally jealous you got to go!
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