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You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me / Seth Freilich

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nkotb.jpgWow. Just wow.

If you haven’t heard, for some inexplicable reason, New Kids on the Block have reunited. There’s a new album (I heard small clips from a few songs the other day on the radio and my ears ran off to Mexico as a result). There’s a tour. And on September 28, there’s going to be “New Kids on the Block: A Behind the Music Special Event,” a full 90-minute retrospective which will include a live cut-in featuring the band performing three songs from a concert in Boston.

As the press release explains:

“New Kids on the Block: A Behind The Music Special Event” … will celebrate the history of the pop phenomenon while also documenting their inspired 2008 reunion in their own words through new interviews with the band, rare archival images and modern day verite footage shot by the band members themselves. Featured throughout the 90-minute special will be live reports from Boston, as NBC and Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos counts down to the live broadcast of the first three songs from NKOTB’s sold out concert … in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea, and how much will it cost to have them rubbed out? Because, first of all, we just don’t need this. At all. Not even a little bit. And second of all, Donnie Wahlberg managed to shed his boyband past and put together a respectable acting resume (while Marky Mark may be more popular, thanks to his non-receded hairline, Donnie is definitely the more talented actor). And it was all for naught, as he’s now just going to be known as the bald new kid. Great, just fucking great.


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Comments

A friend of mine purchased tickets for our entire group of friends to go. And she made puffy paint T-shirts with NKOTB names on it.

I will be in hell. Maybe I should fake a stroke or something...

Is 28 too young for a stroke?

Posted by: Trouble at September 10, 2008 8:24 AM

Why even bother writing this?

Posted by: Cindy at September 10, 2008 8:27 AM

I'm confused... didn't they already have a reunion? Was that the Backstreet Boys? I'm getting my boy bands all muddled up.

Puffy paint t-shirts, Trouble? No need for a stroke. I'm pretty sure that much awesomeness can't exist at once in the universe and you'll end up vanishing in a puff of smoke.

Posted by: Pea at September 10, 2008 8:36 AM

It's even worse than that, Freilich. I saw a clip of them on The Soup doing "dance moves" on some daytime stupor-inducer talk show and promptly began bleeding from my eye sockets.

Then, my teenage daughter finishes me off by declaring that "you [dad] can dance better than that" -- this from the same person who will goad me onto the dance floor every chance she gets so she and her mom can laugh their asses off at the old white guy having a public seizure...

Posted by: Che Grovera at September 10, 2008 8:38 AM

That NKOTB photo makes The Jonas Brothers look like members of the Hell's Angels.

Posted by: DGM at September 10, 2008 8:40 AM

Why not? The masses are brain dead. McCain is soaring in the polls and despite the fact that Palin is clearly filthy nothing sticks to her because she's a "hockey mom". The kids of the idiot women who vote for her will love NOTKB. Their management company will make a fortune.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 10, 2008 8:49 AM

Honestly, this reunion crap has got to stop!

On the plus side there's a bunch of English comedians who have done a series of spoof videos of a boy band reunion...
http://www.toyboize.com/

Posted by: missh at September 10, 2008 8:49 AM

Paddy, don't freak out about the polls quite yet. I feel certain that McCain will have his ass on full display at the debates. I have to believe that intelligence will finally prevail.

Posted by: Cindy at September 10, 2008 8:54 AM

Hey Paddy! Remember the time that Al Gore kicked George Bush's ass in the debates? OhyeahOhyeah. Remember the time that John Kerry kicked George Bush's ass in the debates? It was awesome.

I'm just glad the country listened and voted appropriately.

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at September 10, 2008 9:01 AM

Che is a dude?!! Oh, *ahem* well disregard any photos you may receive. I wouldn't know anything about them. I'll see you all later, I have a shrine to disassemble. Don't worry about it, it's no one you know.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 9:05 AM

I love the New Kids. And Obama. Go figure.

Posted by: Kolby at September 10, 2008 9:16 AM

Is 28 too young for a stroke?

No, actually, I knew a girl who had a stroke in 6th grade (and if you're gonna, then do it young when you can heal a lot faster!). However, it does seem young to have cared about the Kids. I guess their appeal was wider than I thought back then.

Posted by: Jay at September 10, 2008 9:27 AM

Cindy: You are clearly the youngest Pajiban in history. Too young (as Dustin points out) to remember 2004 when intelligence did not prevail. Thank you for trying to boost my spirits but this morning I am in deep despair. I was actually hoping the Hadron Collider would end the world this morning so that the nightmare I feel we are about to witness would never happen.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 10, 2008 9:41 AM

Well, if nothing else, in the Electable Personality game, Obama's definitely got Kerry beat. Gore and Kerry were, academically, infinitely superior to their opponent. But they weren't the buddies that many people saw in George.

I think Obama's personality can carry the smarts a little further.

The press is getting increasingly pissed and dogged, but the effect of that remains to be seen.

Posted by: Jay at September 10, 2008 10:02 AM

Pssh. I will NOT be watching this embarrassment.


Besides, I saw them in concert in 1989, when they were still fresh. I caught Donny's sweat towel. I was SOOOO pissed when my mom washed it. This is not a joke.

Posted by: Mella at September 10, 2008 10:03 AM

Why is everyone going on about the Hadron Collider induced end to the world TODAY? Wikipedia said this is just the test run, the actual collisions/end of the world, won't be till October. That's quite reassuring because I now have a bit longer than 24 hours to go through my 'things to do before I'm dead' list. Like maybe make the list.

Posted by: ChrisD at September 10, 2008 10:12 AM

PaddyDog, Dustin,

I have a copy of the UK 'Daily Mirror' front page from 11/4/04, laminated and hanging by my desk since it was first printed, w/ a pic of Bush just above the headline:

"How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?"

Above Bush's head is the line: "DOH! 4 MORE YEARS OF DUBYA"

I officially began my descent into madness that day.

I'm letting go and letting Maryscott O'Connor absorb all the rage I can no longer live with.

Cheer up, Paddy- the world could still end before the next election.

Posted by: TMax at September 10, 2008 10:22 AM

ChrisD:

Two things:

1) There was quite a bit of concern that the test run would be too powerful and unexpectedly end the world today. Thankfully I only hedged my bets. I didn't give all of my belongings to a monastery in advance, but I did tell my brother he could have my special edition pink vinyl Elvis Greatest Hits LP. Now I have to fight to get it back.

2) As a person who teaches part-time, please listen to me and do not depend on Wikipedia as your sole source of information. ALWAYS look for supporting information.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 10, 2008 10:22 AM

i pitty the japanese who will witness the whole world being swallowed, screaming and thrashing they will fear for their lives and still have no hope before being sucked into cern
while i will just be gone without even noticing what just happenend
living in switzerland does have its perks, apart from being able to ski to work

Posted by: maureen Tuckers Drumstick at September 10, 2008 10:43 AM

Thanks for the plug, Paddy.

Posted by: Jay at September 10, 2008 10:47 AM

i pitty the japanese who will witness the whole world being swallowed, screaming and thrashing they will fear for their lives and still have no hope before being sucked into cern
while i will just be gone without even noticing what just happenend
living in switzerland does have its perks, apart from being able to ski to work

Posted by: maureen Tuckers Drumstick at September 10, 2008 10:54 AM

NKOTB: I did not realize, until I saw the above photo, that the youngest one is apparently Elizabeth Hurley's special-needs little sister.

Election 08: About six months ago, I cautiously allowed my optimism to stir from it's 8-year coma -- then watched helplessly last week as that po-faced cunk Sarah Palin smothered it with a pillow made of Jeebus and lies.

Posted by: firedmyass at September 10, 2008 10:54 AM

As someone who was a die-hard New Kids fan in 5th grade, this is depressing. I was excited when I first heard about the reunion, but then actually saw one of thier new music videos (yes, they unfortunately exist) and realized how sad this is. They've just...they have not aged well. Looking back, the New Kids were probably doomed once Joey McIntyre hit puberty.

On another NKOTB note, why was Danny ever invited to join the group? None of them were that talented, including him...couldn't they have found an attractive bass? I never understood this.

Posted by: tt_marie at September 10, 2008 11:06 AM

Oh Trouble, I shit you not, my roommate has about 10 people going, sisters and friends, and they have all made sweatpants with NKOTB airbrushed on the ass. It's fucking ridiculous. I promise they're going to take pictures of this shit and post them in her room and I may never go in there again.

Posted by: jamiepants at September 10, 2008 11:06 AM

Che is a dude?!! Oh, *ahem* well disregard any photos you may receive. I wouldn't know anything about them. I'll see you all later, I have a shrine to disassemble. Don't worry about it, it's no one you know.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 9:05 AM

A shrine? With artifacts? And offerings? I love offerings! Maybe even offerings intended for She Grovera...on second thought, just send the valuables and dismantle the rest.

Posted by: Che Grovera at September 10, 2008 11:40 AM

Is it just me, or is the U.S. turning into the big dumb kid who gets kicked around on the playground? The music, the politics...sigh...

I despair. And since I can't drink with the rest of you lushes, don't bogart that joint, dudes.

Posted by: angelbabe at September 10, 2008 11:48 AM

What am I supposed to do with this First-Born Child, Che? Raise it as my own? It's never going to fit down the garbage disposal. And what about these amalgams of Muppets and Communist propaganda? Kermit the Bourgeois Frog took me hours to cobble together from felt, ping pong balls and Communist doctrine. And don't get me started on Elmao Zedong.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 12:41 PM

Re: The Large Hadron Collider - a German chemist, whose name temporarily escapes me (it's Otto something, I'm sure - unless that's borderline xenophobia speaking. What the hell, I'm British, it's our job to goad the Bratwurst-munching Bosch. And the French), believes that we won't see the world-ending effects of the Hadron Collider's inauguration for around four years - at which point, a ray of light will apparently burst forth from the Indian Ocean, followed by catastrophic climatic changes, ending in 'a Biblical Armageddon'.

So, the problem I see is this: what if Obama does get elected, and does turn out to be the rainbow-shitting, change-enacting paragon of hope and virtue we all sincerely hope him to be - and yet has his utopian administration cut short by the end of the motherfucking world?

Bush will be laughing his nutsack off as birds fall flaming from the sky and we are all sucked shrieking into the void, I guarantee you that.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at September 10, 2008 12:47 PM

Dill the Devil:

Bush and co won't be around for the biblical Argmageddon. They believe they'll be absorbed by The Rapture leaving the rest of us behind. I'll take my chances. And four years of Obama even if he disappoints on many fronts would be better than four years under the idiots. Sigh. All my teenage years were spent under the shadow of Thatcher and now that the acne is gone, I'm facing endless Bush/McCain. It may well be a mercy when the end comes.

Posted by: PaddyDog at September 10, 2008 1:49 PM

What am I supposed to do with this First-Born Child, Che? Raise it as my own? It's never going to fit down the garbage disposal. And what about these amalgams of Muppets and Communist propaganda? Kermit the Bourgeois Frog took me hours to cobble together from felt, ping pong balls and Communist doctrine. And don't get me started on Elmao Zedong.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 12:41 PM

Why the garbage disposal? Is your woodchipper on the fritz? If storage isn't an issue, christen it "Palin" and use it as a political prop. If that doesn't work, ship it to Iowa -- I'm sure there's a slaughterhouse in need of labor. Don't you read the news?

And face it, you can never be rid of Communist puppets. Elmao Zedong will be a perfect companion for Mr. Stalinupagus; frankly, he's been driving me crazy lately. This will be a Great Leap Forward, indeed!

Posted by: Che Grovera at September 10, 2008 2:08 PM

Kermit the Bourgeois Frog took me hours to cobble together from felt, ping pong balls and Communist doctrine. And don't get me started on Elmao Zedong.

Marry me, Optimus.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2008 2:28 PM

See, I live in the dorms so it's hard enough to hide all the incense and bacchalanian orgies held in your name. And while your Palin idea is enticing, I think I have enough puppets getting on my nerves. *In the Background* "Elmao says that Elmao has seen the tremendous power of the masses!"
Dammit! I have had enough of this dogma! It's all going in the dumpster. Now I need a ride to Meijer's to pick up the cocoa butter I'll need for my bust of BarbadoSlim.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 2:36 PM

Paddy: Would that it were true! (me being the youngest).
I'm kinda glad we didn't all get blown to hell. I'm still enjoying certain things - like devising genital cleaning devices.

Posted by: Cindy at September 10, 2008 4:17 PM

This thread is so full of win, I don't even know. That's how full of win it is. It is beyond by ability to know. And I have a really high IQ. I understand many things.

Posted by: Kate the Great at September 10, 2008 11:09 PM

I'm confused (again). Kerry, Gore and Dubyah were in a boy band, wearing puffy painted shirts?

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at September 11, 2008 4:26 AM