Boy band mania

Now, as I mentioned in my post about Bruno Mars, I mentioned that I love a great pop tune.  In fact, I was being WAAY modest. I LUUUV a great pop tune.  Let me share with you my history with the BOY BAND!

We had cable growing up and I really loved to watch The New Mickey Mouse Club.  Not the Annette Funicello one, I'm talking JC Chasez (prounced SHA-ZAY, NOT CHAY-SEZ), Tony Lucca, Keri Russell era Mickey Mouse Club.  I adored the band they created for the show, The Party.  I wanted to be Tiffini Hale. I wanted the hat  and boots she wore in the music video to "I Found Love".  I wanted to kiss Damon Pampolina.  Don't ask me why I did not want to be Deedee Magno, the Asian one.  It was a time when Asian was not cool. Kids made fun of you on the playground.  I digress.....

So I LUUUVed The Party and that started my obsession with all things pop.  Minus the NKOTB.  GASP!  How rude!  Those are things you might be thinking in that pretty little head of yours.  I just did not get it, although I will admit that Jordan Knight is F-I-N-E and still is to this day but NKOTB ain't doin' it for this girl.

Moving forward to January 20, 1998.  I'm a junior in HS and at home watching MTV, like any normal teen my age was doing.  *Note: This was when MTV really played music videos all day and when they did have a TV show, it was dedicated to music and music videos.  I miss you TRL!!!!*  I see this video come on. What is this *NSync and this bad b-movie looking thing they are trying to pass off as a music video?!?  Man, is my mind quickly changed and it's tearin up my heart with its beats and smooth dance moves.  Do I recognize someone?  Well I'll be damned!!  It's F-ING JC Chasez from the New MMC!  I DIE right there on the couch.  I'm sucked in and *NSync (Justin, Chris, Joey, Lansten, and JC) become literally my music obsession for the next several years.  I can't believe I am admitting to all this but here goes: I know several of the dances moves to a few of their hits.  Mostly the dance portions performed during the chorus.  I had at college, a boy, who was just as obsessed with *NSync as I was and he and he roomies would learn the dances and perform them at ward dances.  It was amazing.  Those were some great times. I also swore up and down that I would meet, marry and bear children with JC Chasez.  He is still, without a doubt one of my top celebrity crushes.  He's still got one up on Bryan Greenberg and Chris Lowell, aka Piz.   Sadly, *Nsync went on hiatus in 2002 and eventually let to a retirement so that Timberlake, cry me a rive dude, could focus like Mr. Miyagi on his solo career.  This was slightly fortunate because that was the year I got married and I had to put boy bands behind me.Right?!  I did leave out a few "boy bands" that were in existence during my *NSync phase: FIVE - a British band that was made up of 5 members, hence the name Five.; Soul Decision  - a lesser known Canadian band that had the honor of having hottie pitottie, Ryan Gosling singing back ground vocals to a few songs on their album, "No One Does it Better".  Frankly, no one did.  There are few others, like the BSB but I was not as committed to them as I was to the 3 previously mentioned groups.

This brings us to sometimes last week, February 2012.  I was watching a daytime rerun of one of my favorite E! talk shows, Chelsea Lately.  Now I am not a fan of all of Ms. Handler's comedy (I had to stop listening to her audiobook, "Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me" but I was tired of everyone, albeit jokingly, say that her tits were huge.  I get it.  Plus all the crazy sh*t she puts people through, I could not listen anymore.  My "respect" for her was going down the crapper.  So, back to my watching reruns on tv with my 2.5 year old (I don't advocate CH as a role model for my daughter but sometimes a momma's gotta do what she needs.  Besides, stuff is bleeped out) one morning and Chelsea announces the guest as The Wanted.  WHO?!? I thought to myself but I thought I would stay tuned, mostly because there was nothing on Bravo worth watching at that time. Her intro of this mystery called The Wanted had me hooked: a music video (why yes, I am of the MTV generation.  The MTV era that actually showed music videos.).  The beat got me hooked.  Did I mention I'm a sucker for a great musical hook? Ok, so the thought of me liking their music and even thinking one of them cute, is bordering on child molester. Granted he's 20-ish but it was the same weird moment when I was watching Zac Efron dancing on the end credits of "New Year's Eve".  Guilt, shame but hot and bothered.  I've embeded the video onto this very blog for your eyes and ears to have a nice afternoon treat.  You'll be glad you watched.