<![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i> - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i> - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> BTW, Jezebel - I think this totes calls for a photo send-in!! I would love to see everyone at the pubescent (or pre-such) fanaticism finest!

I could show you some crazy pumpkins I carved and cakes I baked...except I don't have the photos. But I'd love to see everyone else's!!

ObtuseIntolerant

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Um....soooo is it weird that as an 11 year old I HATED these guys (in favor of Guns'n'Roses, natch - and I am talking ceremonial-sacrifice-of-BOP-magazines-with-my-best-friend level hatred), but now that I am pushing 30 I am about to go to my 3rd and 4th Jonas Brothers concerts...at least once sans children?

ObtuseIntolerant

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The coolest thing my mom and I ever did during my teen years was to sleep out front of the Standard Drug Store to be the first in line to get tickets. It was a November night in Virginia but I got eleventh row on the floor center stage. I can't believe I still remember that. "The nerd is strong within this one"

kshaggy

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> That was kind of weird of Natalie to say to Donnie "You're pursuing an acting career." He IS an actor. He first got respect from The Sixth Sense, and that was nearly ten years ago.

beatrice3000

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I still bust out "The Right Stuff" double-leg swing step (don't front like you don't know) when I get inspired/drunk enough to do some old school moves. Oh, and the MC Hammer side-step. Kiddies may throw side-eye but come on, Soldier Boy? Every generations got their dumb dance.

Dagnabbit.

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @mllej: Their rider would include crack for Bobby. Mountains of it.

scarletvirtue - plays well with scissors

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> when's the New Edition reunion? Now you know that will be a hot mess!

mllej if you're nasty

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @stacyinbean: Me too!!! I so wanted to cut that bitch Tiffany when they were an item.

ValerieM

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> joooey

steeny

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Donnie was my fave - he was the bad boy.

pizza

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @bostontonian: That is the equivalent of a Penthouse forum letter in my world. I am so jealous now.

gigisinatra

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> In high school, a bunch of kids went on an underage drinking trip to Canada. I of course was not allowed to leave the country unchaperoned. They encountered a sort of washed up and the time Joey Mac, and one of the girls ended up having a drunken make out at their hotel bar. I was so jealous.

bostontonian

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Jon was always my favorite.

I went to a New Kids concert when I was in high school. I always liked them more than I admitted. ; ) I still have the program from that concert somewhere.

I'm way too excited about this and I hope they come to Chicago!

SisterHavana

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Lady Skittlehattington: I remember that - especially the line, "Purina cat chow - chow chow chow!"

@victorinemeurent: I'd heard years ago that Jon was gay - which I thought was kind of funny, since Jordan totally set off my gaydar!
Also, an article in this week's People magazine says that Jon is "single" - so maybe they are hiding his sexuality, because G*d forbid, anyone find out that he's something besides 100% straight. {Which kills me, because there's probably a few hundred (or thousand) NKOTB fans that ended up being queer, too!}

@gigisinatra: I'd hate to think of how much Xanax he'll be burning through on that tour!

I had a lot of the NKOTB tchotckes - but, what majority of teenaged girls didn't? My favorite thing from that era was the Lynn Goldsmith coffeetable book - the photos were amazing, and now, I kind of wish that I still had that book.


scarletvirtue - plays well with scissors

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Donnie needs to stop taking hair advice from Tyra. He seriously needs to go have a chat with Bret Michaels.

Whitney's Black Best Friend

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> my friend and i used to watch a vhs tape of all theirs videos in college and laugh until we cried. it was only a few yrs ago. joe and jonathan still swoonable.

sadly think i will definitely go to their show if they swing through LA

canhazhipster

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I was a huge, huge fan. I grew up on the South Shore and my mom would take us to their houses. No lie, there would be at least a hundred kids hanging outside the Walhbergs house in Braintree. They actually let us in the backyard to watch Marky Mark play basketball and hang with Donnie D. This was just around the time the Funky Bunch formed. The town had to enact some kind of sidewalk ordinance where we had to stand across the street. Oh to be 12 and have no life.

I met Jon and Danny is Danny's driveway and Jordan at his and Jon's house.

Sadly, Joey was my favorite and I never met him. One JP stalking session proved to be futile.

The Boston shows will sell out.

flozell78

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @rantmagazine:boo hoo: "Step 3: It's just you and me! Step 4: I can give you more..."

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> When my sister was 8 and I was 6 we entered a contest through Pepsi for free tickets to go see New Kids. Believe it or not, we won 3 front row tickets. My mom would not let us go because it was a school night and she called our pediatrician and he said it could damage our eardrums. Even at 23, seeing these boys brings back that soul crushing feeling, knowing I wasn't going to see them get on the floor and do the New Kids dance. My sister and I still give my mom shit about that.

elle84

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @gigisinatra: thanks for the specific song titles.....back to Youtube I go! :)

willywop

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Ahhhh seriously the best thing ever!

KrissyLikeWoah

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @willywop: Did you not watch the awesomeness that was "Cover Girl" (Donnie)or "Please Don't Go Girl" (Joey)? Jordan was all over the place, but those 2 did their fare share as well. Danny and Jonathan (who I met bitches! I was 13 and it was the best day ever ever as far as I was concerned), eh, not so much. The only Jon song I remember is "Happy Birthday."

Lord. This is why I can't speak French. So much valuable space eaten up by NKOTB.

gigisinatra

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> the other 4 were just "video hos!"

willywop

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i just watched a bunch of their videos on Youtube and it looks like Jordan was the only one who ever really sang! why did I never notice that when I was 9?

willywop

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> This was in the book of Revelations as one of the signs of the apocalypse, right?

Sasquatch

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I heart New Kids still. "baby don't go" says it all.

SpicyTamale πβɸ

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @layladylan:
Nooooo! I just saw this and now I have 'step by step' in my head! 'step one: we can have lots of fun, step two: there's ooo much we can doo, step 3:'

Ha,ha!

I didn't realize John was so popular-did he know??? lol!

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @AllanaSmithee: "Popsicle" was my favorite song! "You're my pop-si-cle, from the very first time I met you girl, you cap-tured me!"

I had the T-shirts, the posters, the lunch box, all the tapes up through "Step-by-Step." I'm not too embarrassed about it though, since I was in second grade. Jon was my favorite.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i have every intention of watching them live.

wring

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I completely wore out the live backstage video for the Hangin' Tough tour. And now I will have "Please don't go girl" in my head for the rest of the day. awesome.

eldebarge

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Oh, I see they've embarked on the all-too-common Tuition Tour (Reunion Edition).

Moral of this cautionary tale: kids can drain the coffers of any rock star. I'm looking at you, Police.

misapostrophe

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I still wear my NKOTB t-shirt (at home of course, rarely in public). I had the Jordan doll, complete with rat tail, when I was little. I still remember when my older sister skipped high school one day to go wait in the lobby of their hotel when they came to town. I thought she was the absolute coolest for pulling that. Alas, I never went to an actual NKOTB concert, BUT my first concert was Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, so, close.

atalanta

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @rednrowdy: ha! i was just thinking, "whatever. it's not like when duran duran reunited."

silkyjumbo

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @kidderkat: Awesome! You must find that pic and post it.

I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Danny isn't as horsey looking as he was back in the day. But yeah, the 10 year old in me still wants to be Mrs. Joseph Mulrey McIntyre :)

PetiteGal

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Donnie was robbed when Boomtown was cancelled. That was a good show. If NBC had stuck by it, maybe their network wouldn't be in the crapper right now. And in all of its sexist glory, Entourage is kinda entertaining.

I wasn't a NKOTB fan when they were really big, but in college when I realized that I could rock out with my cock out to any cheezy 80/90s music under the guise of "irony" I listened to them and you know what, those pop songs are really catchy. I do have a girlfriend who was all about them back in the day-I hope she is one of the screaming thirtysomethings in the crowd when they perform.

foodandshoes

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @AthertonMerriweather: me too! he was always my favorite. the quiet, intellectual older brother!

jennyjen

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> A picture of 15 year old me (thinking I'm all that in a baby doll dress and lace biker shorts) with Maurice Starr was actually used as b-roll in the NKOTB: True Hollywood Story. They used ithe picture in the promos, so I was on tv a lot when it came out. Mortifying.

kidderkat

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I am much tooo old to care about these guys...thanks for making me feel ANCIENT....

angryblackgurl

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> If I ever get married I want "Popsicle" played at my wedding. If the marriage happens to be to Joey Joe, so much the better. I have never been more serious about anything in my life.

AllanaSmithee

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> My 10-year-old self learned that it was a cool to be a hater during my anti-NKOTB phase. You had to rebel by blowing your ears with Faith No More, Metallica, Public Enemy and 2 Live Crew.

Here is the late, great comic Bill Hicks on the New Kids and why they were evil:


+ Watch video



Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Lady Skittlehattington: Oh my god. "Whenever I put on my own shirt I THINK OF YOU, GIRL!"

StormyMes

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I always thought these guys were crap. I'm the daughter of an acoustic guitar-playing, song-writing hippie lead singer in a folk-rock band, and I just could not find a single redeeming quality in a group where no one actually knew how to play instruments. People hated me for it, I got teased relentlessly, so finally when the "which one is your favorite?" questions got too annoying, I just started responding "Jordan" so they'd leave me the hell alone. Two years later when the New Kids stopped being cool and everyone hated them, no one believed me when I said I always had. *sigh* You just can't win. But good on them for the comeback - I almost respect them more now, just for the chutzpah.

clynn

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> TWO concerts, ladies. Two. At the Omni in Atlanta. And I do believe I was old enough to know better. I think I was actually 12 or so by the second concert.

I think they were much sexier by the time Step By Step rolled around. I lusted after Jon, then Jordan while my sister pined for Joey. But I don't think her dedication was as intense as mine was.

I say they forgo the tour and do some gigantic show at Madison Square Garden and sell it on pay-per-view. I'd totally pay for it.

bluebirdred

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I managed to avoid them, even thinking their music sucked but by best friend had the concert video. The pre-adolesent hormone surge was no match for rational thinking.

nasturtium

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @aprilsimnel: John Taylor was (and still is, might, I add) dreamy.

victorinemeurent

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @LadyNo: Oh no. I'm dating a Toby currently. I wonder if it was him. How many Toby's can there be in the world?!

kellybean

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @sarabadara: That was exactly what I thought too! I can't think of any other reason he would do it. Boyfriend is pushing 40 and was on Oprah a couple of years back talking about the severe anxiety attacks he had when NKOTB were huge.

gigisinatra

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @gintwin: Don't be ashamed, it's been running through my head, too. That was some funny shit. I miss SNL in my younger days...

sarabadara

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Lady Skittlehattington: Ooh ooh! Me! I remember! Adam Sandler was Donnie, and he did a 'rap' in the middle of the song.

"My name is Donnie, and I'm here to say
They call me Donnie 'cause that's my name!
Bananas are good in every way
An apple a day keeps the doctor away!"

Words cannot express the mixture of pride and shame I feel for remembering that.

Gin Twin

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> why aren't we having a jezebel photo spread of our NKOTB wear?

TakeBackWhatYouSaidAboutThor

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> As a kid their names sounded too alike for me to know who was who.

I was too young to get into NKOTB, and when NSYNC and BSB came along I was a teen but not interested in boy bands. So I may have liked some songs, but never was a fanatic about anybody (except when I crushed on Jonathan Taylor Thomas when I was 11).

@victorinemeurent: On the E! THS on the group, Joey said he was the youngest and not from Dorchester, so he often got picked on by the others.

I can just imagine the recording of "I'll Be Loving You Forever," when Jordan does that insane high note at the end, and the Dorchester boys calling him a "wicked fag" or something.

beatrice3000

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Jonathan went on to become a real estate developer. I can't help but wonder if the housing crisis has influenced the reuinion in some way, on his part anyway.

sarabadara

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @treecut: i can one up you. we also owned the "funky, funky, christmas" cassette, and my sister and i did a dance and acted out one of the songs. mind you were like like 8 and 10 but still... embarassing.

thecameralovesyou

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @mercymercyme: Nominee for quote of the day...I would so do that right now if I was wasted.

Lynnard

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I had it bad for the kids, briefly in elementary school. I was kinda excited about the reunion, but my heart will always belong to Eddie.

sarabadara

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @washionfore: Boozing, brawling, lameness; sad, but understandable. Stealing? Boo! Hiss!

But I can't fault Joey's musical taste. Doves are awesome.

aprilsimnel

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @washionfore: Sorry about the typos, grammatical and spelling errors. I got excited.

washionfore

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: Crap, Jon was the only one I liked.

I will also admit that I have a New Kids "Funky, Funky Christmas" cassette lying around my apartment somewhere.

treecut...will cut a beech

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> So I was one of the New Kids haters, in 6th grade I was too busy listening to old hippie rock with my parents and ended up being he total loser because I didn't know anything about them.

However, the universe works in funny ways and a few years ago my hubs was on a flight to LA and sat next to Joey Mac the whole way ... from this we gained some interesting info/ stories:

1) Joey Mac has a REALLY weird facial tick. A strong sort of squinty tourettes of the face. He works very hard to control it on TV.
2) He stole my husbands Doves "Last Broadcast" CD.
3) Joey took him to some lame LA party, Marky Mark shows up - they have beef and proceeds to fisticuffs on the street outside. Mark Hits Joey, bodyguards break it up and Joey and my hubs go out drinking.
4) He proceeded to call my hubs a few times a month trying to be bros, we're anti-social; despite my desire to meet up , it never happened.

All of this somehow made me feel better about being made fun of for not liking new kids as a kid.




washionfore

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @LadyNo: YES! The "reunion" was announced in the Boston Globe April 1, and I was all - HAHA, april fools! But the today show appearance is pretty convincing.

lippybug

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I had such a brief love affair with the New Kids. I'm sorry, I refuse to call them NKOTB. They were over by then. When Right Stuff came out in 6th grade, I totally thought they were hot shit. Then I went to their concert in 7th grade with my friend, and I was totally embarrassed because there were all these 8 yr. olds screaming "Joey, I love you!" Yeah, you know who you are.

treecut...will cut a beech

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @aprilsimnel: i do! *fellow duranie* and yeah, they all look good.

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> AAAAHHH!! Holy shit this just made me so f-ing excited. I mean, everybody knew about the reunion and I thought it was alright when I heard about it... but oh man... watching this just turned me into a squealing teenybopper all over again. I heart Donny 4 Life!

OhhYeah

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @linkura: They don't look washed up because backstage, instead of boozing and snorting coke, they were playing pinball and eating doritos. And you best believe they're coming to Boston, and I'll fight someone for tickets.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The only way I could possibly be more excited about this is if they tour with Tiffany again. Do it, Kids! She has a new CD too!

Sassette

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> How is it that they all look great and not washed-up at ALL? I WILL be seeing them in concert if they come anywhere near me. I could not give two shits about their new material unless it is in the same spirit as their old stuff (BSB's new material isn't, and it sucks), so I hope they sing their old stuff a lot too. They DAMN WELL better come to Boston, it's their home!

linkura

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: Of course I would like the gay one. Sigh.

I am not ashamed I loved NKOTB or that my dad paid lots of money to ensure my sister and I had second row seats to their concert.

I would pay to see them again, if tickets were cheap. At the same time, I feel Donnie is so above this now. It sorta makes me sad to see him back with the rest of the group.

lewbers

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: Oh, I think you are absolutely right about sham relationships. For some reason, the fact that Jonathan proposed to her is the first thing that pops into my head whenever Tiffany shows up in the news.
Good for him for being true to himself!

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I blame NKOTB for creating the division between myself and EVERY OTHER GIRL in my Jr. High. The fact that I was totally turned off by them forced me into six years of Siouxsie Soux eyeliner and KMS hairspray just so that I could make it abundantly clear that I wanted nothing to do with any of that.

Which was fine,I guess, because I ended up hanging with the weirdos and the gays, which in retrospect was a much better way to spend my formative years, though I do remember people ripping down my locker posters of the Cure and telling me I should shape up and listen to normal music, like New Kids on the Block. Fuckwads are all run-down from having six kids and working at Walmart, while I'm still pretty and live in a swanky pad in a fashionable city. So there.

It was weird when grunge swooped in and cleared away all of that late 80's early 90's nonsense, and suddenly the weirdos had to share their underground stuff, but I was all for it. All the boy bands started getting big again in the late '90's I thought it was a horrible joke.

Miss. Money-Sterling

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I Still have a cassette tape of my nine-year old friends and myself singing over "Right Stuff" - we were pretty hot.

PrettyBitch

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I was already in college when NKOTB were popular, but I'd hear "The Right Stuff" wafting from sorority houses all along Langdon Street. That bunch looks to be my around my age. I thought they were younger for some reason.

My rock star crush was on John Taylor, who's still gorgeous.

Yeah, I know, you kids don't know who he is. It's OK.

aprilsimnel

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Sadly, even as a 26 year old, I am super psyced for this. Joey is still so dreamy.

AndThenTheresMaude

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @blackbirdfly: He sure thinks so ; )

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i'm glad that my pick for cutest (joey, obvs) ended up being the hottest as a grownup. it makes up for the fact that my fav from nsync turned out to be teh gay.

ps - is anyone else freaked out by donnie's john travolta hair?

wordinedgewise

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @annab: I am not ashamed that I have two of their greatest hits *cough* cds. My husband threatens to jump from the car if I try to play them while he's riding shotgun though. Le sigh.

DoNotStalk

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @BeAgrestic: I heard that too, but wouldn't that make sense if the record companies were trying to "cover it up"? Don't get me wrong, I loved NKOTB as much as the next junior high school girl in 1988, but I don't doubt that any inkling back then that Jon wasn't the perfect heartthrob, and the PR machines would be cranking. Think of all those covers of Teen Beat featuring Chad Allen and Neil Patrick Harris? Weren't tehy always dating people like Soleil Moon Frye, too?

victorinemeurent

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @LadyNo: Frightening, but true...I was Joey Mac for Halloween on year. I believe I was 11 or 12. I wore my fave NKOTB t-shirt, a hat with the top cut out (and my curls piled and pinned inside), jeans, and the same adidas that Joey used to always wear. Pictures still exist.

GirlLegal29

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Winkeleh: I can actually remember at my first NKOTB concert at Giants Stadium thinking that Joey and I were destined to be married.

On another note, I made the mistake of going to see Jordan Knight as a goof at a mall appearance like 8 years ago and there were 30 year old woman yelling at 10 year old girls because they couldn't meet with him cause they took up their spots. Somehow these losers still have an effect on women.

ArtfulSlinger

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @hatepaperdoll: Your brother is awesome.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: OMG, I just found Red Sox panties to purchase.

They will drive my Yankee-lovin' husband apeshit.

NewsBunny

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> My brother nailed my NKOTB tape to some plywood in our basement, and then he and his friends threw darts at it : (

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: didn't he also propose to Tiffany back in the day?

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I just realized that May 16 is in my downtime between the end of exams and "3L Week." I am going to NY, and I am dragging the fiancee so we have an excuse to go see Danny (and the rest of them) afterwards. That would 100% be the greatest day of my life. Jeze-meetup?

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Thank you Jezebel for the video. I forgot to record it this morning and I wanted to see the annoucement.

The hell? Umm it's because Boybands die out during that period, that's why they "disappeared". Bitch!

DeafChick

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @NewsBunny: No...this is fabulous, although I would be all too tempted to correct it, as I'm sure I could find some fault with it, just like I detest all hollywood attempts at the Boston accent.

victorinemeurent

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Meg: I had those Guess Jeans too! I was obsessed with anything that would allow me to have that super cool upside down triangle on my butt!

And damn, the Z-Cavaricci's were such a mistake I'm all of 5'2" so super baggy black pants do me NO favors! I had to beg for them for months! I love that my mom actually kept them so we could laugh at them even now!

marin79

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @hortense: Well, I'm going to fix their little red wagon. I've still GOT mine!

DoNotStalk

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: I alway thought Jordan was gay!

I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> not a fan, but i think donnie wahlberg is a good actor.

*is a duranie*

rednrowdy

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I went to an NKOTB concert and made a sign that said I *heart* you Joey in GLOW IN THE DARK puffy paint. My 10 year old self thought they he would actually see it and be my boyfriend. *Sigh* he is still cute.

jennilyn

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The first kiss was a sweet kiss. The second kiss had a twist. The third and your fourth kiss I don't wanna miss!

moonagirl

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: WHAT? My world has been rocked.
Go him though.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> This is great. My sister and I were texting back and forth during this appearance as we both loved them back in the day. Danny was never our favorite but he looks much better now. Jonathon was my fave....my heart jumped a bit when they first walked out.
Jordan kind of came off as a jerkass though.


TriedandTrue

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Did anyone else have the cloth doll with actual hair? I always used to give the Jonathan doll haircuts.
My dog recently unearthed the doll from a closet and chewed his little cloth ears off. I'm a little sad.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Lady Skittlehattington: Yeah, no kidding. I'm pretty sure Donnie DOES NOT WANT to do the NKOTB thing anymore.

He was so good in Boomtown. That whole show was good. I miss it.

PrairieGirl

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: Have you ever seen this?

[www.boston-online.com]

NewsBunny

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @victorinemeurent: omg, that totally explains why he would be my fave.

foree k.

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> *JOEY, that is.

CandiedViolet

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @NewsBunny: And J. Geils Band! And Boston! (RIP, Brad)

NewsBunny

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @shananigans: Actually, all of them but Joey are from Dorchester, which is quite proudly not Southie. They'd be wicked pissed if they heard you saying that, although the sentiment remains the same. Joey is from JP. How ridiculously lame is it that I know that (aside from the fact that I grew up on the South Shore, so I have some plausible defense...)?

victorinemeurent

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I've been waiting YEARS to ebay my Jeey McIntyre doll, new in box. Windfall!

CandiedViolet

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> When I was 5, I had a Joey Ken Doll that I would walk around with in my underwear. Don't tell anyone.

piank

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @marin79: I wasn't cool enough for Z-Cavaricci's so I had to survive with just my white, button fly Guess jeans.

Meg

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Also, I probably should have been the target demographic for this, but I was too busy listening to weird space music on NPR. My mom was really into this weird swirling electronica when I was a tween. I still love weird swirling electronica.

tscheese

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The saddest day of my life was when I was 10 walking down the street from a friend's house when I dropped my NKOTB concert video and it fell into the sewer. It still hurts! I think I might be late to work on May 16.

TipsyRussell

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> When I saw this I told my fiance "Wow, they got old." (In a totally un-snarky way) then he looked at me and said "SammyKitty, *You* got old too." Totally wrecked my day.

SammyKitty

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I had giant life sized posters of the boys on all of my walls. It was really creepy at night when I was going to sleep. I use to dream they jumped off the walls and performed in my bedroom while I slept.

Also, they put on one amazing concert.

NapalmKitty

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Now I have "Baby you knowwww that I'll give it to yoooooou" in my head. Jordan Knight FTW!

mercymercyme

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> As a Boston native, these brats embarrass me.

Rock on, AEROSMITH!

NewsBunny

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I LOVED New Kids on the Block. I had ... wait for it ... the cassette tape, watched the cartoon. I think I stopped at sheets and curtains. This makes me happy. I can't help it.

But rude. Who says, "You were successful then you disappeared. Where did you go?" Yo, NKOTB is from Southie. She's lucky she didn't get slapped.

shananigans

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I heard, from someone who works at his dentist, that Jon is openly gay with a long-term partner, quite possibly husband, now. I can't imagine they would hype that for this reunion tour, but I would also be sad if he felt he had to keep it hidden.

victorinemeurent

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Does anyone remember the Jason Priestly SNL where they made fun of the New Kids? And they sang the song, "Girl, You're So Wicked Awesome"?

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> my hometown boys... reuniting just in time before donnie's hair melts off and jon could run away.
and really, 20 years means groupies justifying going to the tour by bringing their daughters. sweet!

pastrychick

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Step five...don't you know that the time has arrived!!!!!!!!!

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: Barf! I'm not even kidding when I say that shit makes me mad. I was in junior high when this "band" (right) came out and all my friends went nuts. I was teased relentlessly for listening to The Beatles all the time. It made no sense. I know it's ridiculous, but music is fucking serious shit for me.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i was never into any of this stuff as a child. i'm kind if glad, actually. \

Jezebabe

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I had the Joey McIntyre poster because I didn't want my friends to think I was lame for just listening to old records all the time.

My records: still awesome.
NKOTB: not so much.

Donnie, for the love of god, RUN! Go play an alcoholic cop or something.

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: OMG I forgot all about that song until my boyfriend (as a joke--to him, not me) got me their greatest hits CD for Christmas last year. It's awesomely horrible.

annab

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> NKOTB was my first record album that I had ever bought...I was five and thought I was sooooo cool. These days, its hidden in my old toy box at home so my brother won't find it and tease me about it. Then again, his favorite movie is "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" so I suppose he and I have some good ammo against each other.

But still, about NKOTB: YYYAAAAAYYYYY!!!

KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> My sister & I both had NKOTB sleeping bags! My mom kept them & lately she's started quilting and pulling out all the old clothes she kept from us… like my… ummm… Z- Cavaricci's… well, needless to say, in this trip down embarrassing childhood fashion quilt, the NKOTB sleeping bag will be included! SO humiliating! (albeit hilarious!)

marin79

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @blackbirdfly: Have you never listened to NKOTB's "Tonight"? Jordan used to say it was "Beatle-esque". Lulz.

I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> mmm i saw joey in an off-broadway musical a couple of years ago ("tick tick boom," written by the late jonathan larson... better known for "RENT")-- and he was impressively and extremely great in it-- totally rekindled my crush

anniehall

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @AthertonMerriweather:
God-I wrote NKOTB on ALL my clothes!! I was sooo dorky! I really fancied Danny-but what are they doing??

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @LaComtesse: I know, right? I'm totally emailing this to my friend RIGHT NOW. We are so going.

nolongerinacubiclestillawhore

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: I totally had a friend who claimed that Danny was her favorite. She had the big button and the posters, the whole deal.

Years later, she admitted that Joey was her true heart's desire, she just felt bad for Danny because noone liked him.

LoveNoelG

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I never liked NKOTB, but Joey is still cute.

Meg

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> My sister was into Joey, but I preferred Jordan. In hindsight, her tastes were far superior to mine. He is cute!

She even had a Joey T-shirt with a giant photo of his face on it. Once, she spilled ketchup on it, and my dad accused Joey of having a giant zit. Oh, the tears that followed!

Miss Pelled

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @katastic: Toby in 5th grade jumped on my bright orange NKOTB lunch box and broke it. When I tattled, the teacher just rolled his eyes. I think he had the right idea.

LadyNo Fondles Sweaters

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> You know Joey Joe's ready!

BeSarcastic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @rantmagazine:boo hoo: I'm old.

My parents wouldn't let me listen to NKOTB because they thought they sucked so I had to go over my friends house's to hear their tapes and watch their concert videos. Now I have my own place and can blast NKOTB whenever I want. At least one of my childhood dreams came true...

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @stacyinbean: Sometimes, I pretended to like Danny, but I just felt sorry for him for being so ugly. Looking back now, I realize they were all pretty tore up.

However -- if Donnie proposed marriage to me today, I would accept. Lace front and all!

I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @ForeverBlueGirl: I accidentally stole a pack of NKOTB trading cards from Toys R Us. I had then in my hand and forgot about them when I walked back out into the mall. I was horrified and snuck back in to pay for them.

LadyNo Fondles Sweaters

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @PinkSoxHat: You seriously are an inspiration.

gigisinatra

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Always being the shortest in my class, I loved little Joey McIntyre the best. I also hate to admit that on pointless, bongwater days in college, sometimes we'd drive by his house.

mercymercyme

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The Today Show crowd was surprisingly tame. I walked right past it this morning as folks were yelling and going "WOOOO". I didn't even get like shoved off the sidewalk or blindsided by fans or anything. I feel famous because that's my Dean and Deluca, right there.

Shitty out there in NYC today, though. Cold and there's a weird, fine particulate drizzle going on.

tscheese

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> The only thing I got from that clip was a craving for a Dean & Deluca salad.

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> woahhhh danny scares me. remember that special where they went to disney land (world?) and all "lived out their wildest dreams". danny was a meat head on a beach where he battled it out gay-musical-style with another big meathead.

i always fast forwarded through his part.

thecameralovesyou

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i never thought they were cute.... now i do.

iheartkitties

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> NKOTB lunchbox here. Awwww yeah.

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I didn't really like them way back when, but for some reason, I would totally go to a concert now. Providing I didn't have to spend more than 30 bucks.

wankster

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Does anybody else get the feeling that the whole thing is a prolonged April Fool's joke? It just seems weird.

I had the Jonathan doll, even though Joey was my favorite. I loved his curly hair poking out of his cutoff hat.

LadyNo Fondles Sweaters

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> So, do we get to have a Jezebel meetup at the Today Show on May 16?

gigisinatra

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @AthertonMerriweather:
What?? He was your fave? He looks soo old...

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @stacyinbean: Me TOO. I loved Jon. I even had the giant button w/his face on it.

saralegal21

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I couldn't believe Donnie was the skinny, tormented ghost-attracter who shoots Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense.

BeSarcastic

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @Winkeleh: Jealous!

My parents wouldn't let me go to the concert. They bought me NKOTB curtains instead. Seriously. Curtains with their pictures all over it.

LoveNoelG

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> NKOTB painter's hat with hair tucked in. Giant hoop earrings. My Jesus Camp uniform: let me show u it.

AllThatYaz

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I was embarrassed watching all those women in their mid-20s, my age, going nuts screaming until I realized that will TOTALLY be me when their tour comes around.

annab

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @ForeverBlueGirl: I had it all. It was my big obsession of childhood. The posters, the puzzles, the dolls, the sweatshirts, the sheets! I love them so much I even collected a New Kid cousin to marry.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I LOVE JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! This is so massively exciting words cannot express the extent of my joy. I pray to god my friends will be into going to this concert!

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Whatever. They're no Take That. Now there was a reunion tour worth waiting a decade for!

rah29

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> I was sure that I was going to marry Joey when I was like eight. I'm fairly certain he was my first masturbation material. And I had the Jonathan doll that always dated my barbies and gave them head, I was a slut even back then.

Jenloveshercurves

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> she had to look at her paper for their names? I'm embaressed to say i would not. i could also probably say their birthday and their likes and what the look for in a girl.

sigh.

thecameralovesyou

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @marimari: Oh come on! He still looks the same.

When I was a kid I would put up the pictures of Danny on the inside of my closet because he wasn't cute enough for the walls but I didn't want to completely single him out. This was also my first concert, I think I was 8 or 9, I thought my dad was the most amazing person on the planet for taking me.

stacyinbean

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Ahhhh! My neighbors used to have NKOTB trading cards! I wasn't cool enough to purchase such things.

ForeverBlueGirl

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh"



CreoleSugar

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Also, please no comparisons of any New Kid to any Beatle. Even Ringo.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> @stacyinbean: totally. and he dated tiffany!

foree k.

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> i'm too old to be nostalgic about them...

dcdulce

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Yes times 15! CAN NOT WAIT.

PinkSoxHat

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> did they replace Danny with someone that looks nothing like him?

marimari

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Holy frick. Between this and Agyness Deyn's outfit: my pre-adolescence, u can haz it.

tallyhoe

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> $10 says Urban Outfitters starts selling those big-ass NKOTB buttons for 20 bucks a pop.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Hey, Joey McIntyre is still cute. Well, good on him.

janna

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> NKOTB was the first concert I ever went to ... I was 6 and convinced that Joey and I were going to get married. Unfortunately for me, most other girls aged 6-12 thought this as well.

Winkeleh

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Words cannot express the extent of my loathing for the NKOTB.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Why is it that 15 years later they still make my 9 year old heart swoon?! I always loved Jonathan, he was the klassiest one.

stacyinbean

]]> <![CDATA[New Kids On The Block Reunite On <i>Today</i>]]> Oh, come on!

kitschenette

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