January 1, 2011
Well I had planned to take the day off, but did you see this last night?
90’s pop jokes New Kids on the Block teamed up with another washed up has-been group, The Backstreet Boys, to form the alphabet-insulting “super group” NKONTBSB.
It was sad. Some of those “kids” and “boys” are over 40, and it shows. Watch the video below and marvel at how laughable some of the “dance moves” are. Obviously, a couple of those children are not as mobile as they used to be. I am sure at one point they were doing the same shuffling moves Popeye used to do in the old Kings Features Syndicate cartoons. Plenty of downtime was built into the routine too. While one group was performing, the other simply stood in the back, resting. After all, they have to be careful- a couple of those guys are in danger of breaking a hip.
Despite the crowd going nuts (and if you had been standing in Times Square for ten hours you’d be going nuts too) they really embarrassed themselves. The songs have not held up. Disposable teen pop is, by definition, disposable. Although any attempt to recycle it rides a very small wave of nostalgia, watching it performed by mature older men dressed in conservative suits was too much. It was all very sad.
They came across as their own tribute band in a 90’s revue.
Nine old men shuffling around the stage trying to recapture the glory of their youth. Sure, they are around 40, not 80, but if you can’t stand Justin Beiber now just wait and see how you feel when he makes a comeback after his hair thins and he does a prostate PSA.
Here it is, watch and see for yourself.
But not me. Seeing it once was enough.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
That Bieber-fever might be a chronic infection, they should get that looked at.
The first person to refer to any of these idiots as “The Elder Statesmen of Boy Bands”, or anything similar, gets a pummeling.
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I may steal that, but only to use in a ironic way, so please don’t hurt mr.
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That is the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen since the Hoff sang on American Idol.
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I’m glad the Crowd and Viewers were able to ‘Hang Tough’ Through that!!! BWAHAHA~…What too obvious?!..haha
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Ouch.
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Srry…
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Don’t be. Without bad jokes there’d be no blog.
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