Rochelle News–NKOTB reunion (yahoo) and my opinion.

New Kids on the Block to Reunite

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They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes 20 years after the release of the group’s multi-platinum album, “Hanging Tough.”

The group released a new photo Wednesday and reportedly will appear on the Today show Friday morning — the same time an unmarked countdown clock on http://www.nkotb.com ends.

“The fan response to this has been incredible,” band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald.

Wahlberg said he was convinced to get back together with his former bandmates — Joey McIntyre, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood — when they decided to record new music. Wahlberg said he wrote 80 percent of the new material with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.

“I had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material,” said Wahlberg, 38.

But he added, “We absolutely will do the old songs for sure.”

Producer Maurice Starr formed the group in Boston in the 1980s, hoping to recreate the success he had with another teen group from the city, New Edition.

At the height of their popularity, New Kids sold out world tours, marketed millions of dollars in merchandise and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon.

The group disbanded in 1994. Wahlberg has acted on television and in movies, while Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood released solo albums. Jonathan Knight became a real estate developer.

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MY LAME ASS OPINION….

Unlike with the spice girls, I was never a NKOTB fan, I was too young and didn’t have anyone make me listen to their stuff. While i was a begrudgingly neutral fan of the spice girls (I was in their target demographic and if I said I thought they were slutty I wan’t going to have friends for too long), I didn’t give a f**k about them joining together, so this late 80s -early 90’s boyband?pop act/etc. doesn’t affect me in any way, aside from a possible gig i could be a roadie for if they have a show in the Twin Cities.

It does interest me in a morbid way, not to see what these guys look like now, but I was/am a nsync fan back in the day and I dunno if I want them to come back 15 years later.

I’ve meet Chris Kirkpatrick (oldest member of *nsync/badass) and hes a nice dude, who was amused that I told him to fuck off when he gave me shit about accents (me and swearing are a natural mix) when I hung with him after he performed a show with his rock/pop/alt. band called Nigels 11 in orlando. Aside from solo careers, working in the studio, someone coming out of the closet and being on TV shows, I think all the guys are busy doing shit they like. I don’t think they could go back to that right now and be into it.

(proof hes a badass dude)

 

I just wonder what really brought this older group to get together now. Most have settled down and are in a calm place in life, but I dunno these do that I know most musicians/pop artists/ etc.

~ by iprcast on April 3, 2008.