Okay, I’m not a spring chicken (I’m 41), but is anyone creeped out by the New Kids on the Block Video? (Video link.)
For some reason, they look old, and I don’t mean in a well-aged good way either. And the girls in the video? They seem rather young to be all into the guys.
I got the Hallgirls opinions (age 22 and 24) and they both said, “Yeah, it’s a creepy video.”
I don’t think they look that old. In fact when I saw the photo they released with their reunion annoucement, I was amazed at how good they all look after almost 20 years.
Having said that, do I think they’re too old to be resurrecting their boy band days? Hell yes. At least they’re not doing the New Kids dance in that video.
Poor Joey…he’s going to get carded until his hair turns gray…
I have to admit, they don’t look half bad in that particular photo. The video, however, gets much closer. I guess my conflict comes with them perfoming under the title New Kids on the Block.
Jordan Knight was My Very First Crush.
Excuse me while I buy myself a granny shawl and a rocking chair …
That, plus this sorta teenage sexualisation associated with boy bands (undershirt in the rain, towel around bared upper body, that sort of thing), made it creepy to me, too.
Maybe they should change their name to “Old Men On The Porch”
They don’t look old, exactly. They just don’t look to be in the age range you’d expect that sort of video from. Boy bands aren’t generally associated with somebody dad aged, and that’s what they look like. Attractive men at just the right age to have young teenage daughters of their own.
Which makes me throw up a little in my mouth, considering the target audience for boy bands.
I don’t find it creepy so much as age inappropriate (like they say on “What Not To Wear” - “No miniskirts over 35!”). Dudes, you’re not 18 any longer; why are you making the same song with the same video as you did 20 years ago? I have no problem with the boys making a comeback, but show a little maturity. You’re not fooling anyone. For a better look at how to make a comeback from being a hot young boy band, see Duran Duran’s “Come Undone”. The boys look their age, but they look good, and not like they’re trying to date their daughters’ friends.
Heh - I was typing my comment about their daughters’ friends at the same time you were posting, Caerie. Great minds and all that.
Joey was mine… care to share that rocking chair?
I admit that I kinda liked that video. The main thing I didn’t like about it is that the guys are practically making out with the girls, but the guys (a couple of them, anyway) are married (um, and I’m pretty sure their wives weren’t in the video). I don’t know why that bugs me in this case, but it does. Sort of a, “Hey, don’t be making those eyes at her! You got a wife at home!” thing.
The manager of the NKOTB was just ordered to pay his investors 4300 million 9seems he defrauded a lot of folks). :smack:
Is not just creepy old you.
Unfortunately, once you’re too old to be a boy band…you’re just a band. So they kinda have to ride the wave as long as they can.
Well, they could be an Old Boy band, but they’d probably have to learn Korean.
It was “Old Men on the Curb”! Get your 80s boy band parody names right! 
And get off my lawn!
“This video is not available in [my] country.” Damn.
That was weird. It was a boy band song, a boy band video…featuring men who are 40+. O_o Yeah, creepy.
Yeah just a little creepy.
Though a couple of them look like the kind of guys I go for, then again I’m in my mid-twenties…
I remember that they broke up when I was 11… I don’t know why I remember that, I was only marginally into them (I was a much bigger BSB fan when I was into boy bands…)
They’re actually not as old as they appear, apparently. Joey is 35 and the rest are either 38 or 39. Looking up pictures from when they first came out, they were babies.
I was never a New Kids fan, but be that as it may…
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed if Donnie Wahlberg is involved in the reunion, because he’d worked so hard and so successfully to make a new career for himself as a legitimate actor.
Look, if he was offered an obscene amount of money, I can’t blame him for taking it. But whereas other guys in the group have probably been hoping for this moment for years, I thought Donnie had pretty much put it behind him.
