During the misspent days of my young childhood in the ’90s, I was unhealthily obsessed with the boy band New Kids on the Block. I thought I had successfully shoved them out of my memory banks, but today I saw them on some entertainment talk show that was discussing their current tour. I was surprised that there was still a market for that (millennials and their goddamn nostalgia! They’ll get you every time!), but I was more surprised that I saw Donnie Wahlberg and thought, ‘Ooh!’
When I was a child, I was all about Joey McEntire, the itty bitty one who hadn’t even hit puberty when NKOtB’s first cassette dropped.
But Donnie. Donnie. We’ve both done a lot of growing up. I became a rabid horror fan, and he became a cult icon for his work in the genre. Damn, he’s a good actor. He’s way too talented to be boppin around singing about girls and feelings toward said girls.
Remember these?
The Saw series
Dead Silence
And who could forget his wrenching performance in The Sixth Sense?
Let’s not, however, revisit a certain Stephen King adaptation from 2003. The less said about that the better. Look, a distraction!
GhoulieJoe 
NKOTB wasn’t really my type of music 😞 I’m trying to think of the early 90s. I was probably still moping around to old 80s Alan Parsons Project tapes and working as a fry cook in this restaurant.
Nostalgia!
Oh and Bob Seger! Oh and I went to Texas and met a girl I really liked in a town called Borger. For real. Memories!
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It would probably be creepy if you had been into them lol. Yay Bob Seger! BAM nostalgia!
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Here I was just minding my own business and BAM Bob Seger! Footy how!
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That Bob Seger will get you every time!
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Blame it on the Moon. And your touch is that of a ghoul!
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Pierre, watch j’doodle!
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Hahahahaha!!
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I was too young to care about New Kids. Of course, I didn’t really care that much about the other popular ones from that decade like Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, either. Couple nice bops, but certainly nothing to sigh whistfully or screech over. So imagine my surprise when I was flipping through radio stations and realized that the BS Boys were not only back on tour, but that they also had some new crossover hits on country stations. Wild times, man.
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I honestly don’t know what the appeal was lol. Ha thankfully I was over boy bands when Backstreet Boys, etc. came into dominance. Good for them that they’re still working! I blame the millennials.
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