NKOTB 4EVA!

In the late 1980s I was completely obsessed with the New Kids on the Block. My entire room was plastered, wall-to-wall, with NKOTB posters. I had a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the group in the middle of my room, as well as a room divider covered with pictures and articles cut out of teeny bopper magazines. I even had posters on my ceiling so that the last thing I saw before I went to sleep was John, Jordan, Donnie, Danny, and Joey looking down on me. I finally removed all the New Kids paraphernalia in 1990 when my friend Erin and I were having two cute boys over to study for Geometry. Soon there after, the New Kids faded away into pop culture history.

So imagine my surprise when I hear that the New Kids might be reuniting. I guess with the recent "success" of the Spice Girls' tour, the fab five are thinking about jumping on the reunion bandwagon. While my musical taste have certainly progressed way beyond late 80s bubble-gum pop (even in 1989, I bought R.E.M.'s Green and The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me along side the New Kids), I would be tempted to go see them again. Would it make me completely lame to go see the same show I was screaming and crying at 20 years ago?

Oh, and in case you're wondering, I was a Donnie fan. He was the "bad boy" of the group.