NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!!

Ahhh… 1989.

I’d gone to spend the weekend with a friend of the family and when i came home my dad was talking about his being at work and these 7 people came in… Randy Travis, Tiffany and these five boys from some band about a block… “New Kids on the Block?” I asked. “Yeah, that’s them.” I stood, dumbfounded… Ran to my bedroom and tore their poster off the wall and ran back downstairs and held it up. “THESE GUYS!?”

“Yup.”

Holy FUCK! I knew that they were playing at the Ionia Free Fair, but omg. My dad MET THEM! I’d wanted to go to that concert and i heard over and over “we can’t afford it.” So I didn’t go. But then my dad met them. It was August 1989. I was 11 years old.

I’d spent the next 3 years all about NKOTB. I had all the magazines, posters, folders, bedsheets, backpack, pins, oversized pins, shirts, pens, pencils… you name it. I remember the door posters i’d get.. Pretend they were actually IN my room. I loved them.

Fast Forward to May 16, 2008. I’m up and in front of my tv ready to watch the first NKOTB performance in 15 years. I’m 30 years old, giddy and giggling. Sitting on the edge of the couch and yes, making sure my DVR is recording so i can rewatch this concert later. I’d just sent my 3rd and youngest child (almost 9 years old) off to school. I’m freaking out over a boy band that I loved so long ago and I was thrilled that there they all were. I smiled the rest of the day.

I went onto ebay and looked up, bid on and won tickets to their concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills on October 25. My parents wouldn’t let me go when i was 11 and now i’ve got 2 kids older than I was then,  and I am still thrilled to see them. The girl that’s going with me is 20 years old. she was born the same year NKOTB’s second album was released.  Mind you, this is much to the dismay of my 12 year old daughter who was born the year after they disbanded. Gabi wants to go too!

Last week their new CD released. I LOVE IT! Yes, i bought it. And I’ve been listening to it for a week. Blasting it in my livingroom all day while the kids are at school. Its like being a kid again. I fucking love it.

 

Oh yeah.. Rosie was NOT right. Britney Spears won 3 Video Music Awards last night on MTV after having turned her life around and crawled her way out of the pit of dispair she had fallen into and hit bottom at LAST years VMA’s. Congrats Brit.  You look great too. (Much better than Christina Aguilera – she needs a personal trainer)