On my way to watch The Office I stopped by my Hulu queue to see who was on Conan and Jimmy last night. To my complete bewilderment I saw that Backstreet Boys were the musical guest last night on Conan. I about died. I have heard about them getting back together and "creating the music they love to do" again, but I just had to see this.
I was a strict NSYNC fan when I was in Elementary School and would not let myself be torn between the two, but that didn't stop myself from listening and knowing the lyrics by heart. I was and still am a hypocrite. I still enjoy listening to their love ballads on a summer afternoon in the car and shunning them for copying NSYNC, whether they did or not. Like most of us who had the unfortunate lives of growing up in the nineties to boy bands blowing up the music scene, I had to check up on what had happened to them. I should have looked away.
I was trying to control my gawking at the computer screen when I saw that curtain pull away and all four of them were kneeling down. It was then I remembered that these guys are not the Jonas Brothers. These guys don't have instruments to make them look cool or keep them from doing ridiculous choreography. Then it hit me again. What are they going to do? They then started breaking out in their disgustingly choreographed moves. I honestly couldn't control my laughter. I could barely watch it. I did manage to make it out of the room to show my roommate what was happening on my computer screen though. She didn't even know who they were at first (obviously she wasn't hardcore for boy bands like I was back then) and then she died when I told her it was the Backstreet Boys attempting their comeback.
It hurts to think about them, being as old as they are, and still doing a boy band type of thing. I totally respect them for doing what they love though, especially after it's not cool anymore, serious props to them, but I wish they wouldn't have done this. I wonder who they think their audience is now. Is it girls like me? Girls that grew up on them and are now in their late teens/early twenties, or girls that were my age when they were big? We're all about ten years older now! I think we should just leave this all behind us and remember what it was like and not be able to witness it again. We don't need the Backstreet Boys to come back and make us ask ourselves, "What the hell were we thinking? Gosh, tween girls really will listen to anything..." We want to remember it with good thoughts and not being completely ashamed of our love for nineties boy bands.
So thats what I think. It was a weird thing seeing them back. I wish them the best of luck at whatever their doing, but I will not be following it.
Have a lovely day. xx
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