It's just a matter of time

[cleolinda]

Oh my God, you guys. I can't stop listening to "Step by Step." I thought NKOTB was stupid when I was eleven, and now I'm twenty-nine and I've gotten myself sucked into this shit? This is so wrong.

I will say, though, I think the reason I get sucked into this kind of thing is that I am addicted to things that make me laugh (uh... intentionally or not), and only more so when I'm stressed out (LIKE RIGHT NOW) or depressed. It's like this lifeline you cling to, or even just something to break up the tension--all I know is, nothing helps me perk up and settle down to work better like a good giggle over a cheesy pop song or a discussion of werecollies or the latest exploits of The Hair.

Speaking of which, after yesterday's post, I think it's time to bring you THE GREATEST BOY BAND VIDEO EVER (That Did Involve Monsters). Which they wouldn't let me embed. Ah, well: c'est la vie. Also, we established in yesterday's comments that The Jekyll/Hyde Guy in the Glasses Whose Hotness Deserves Way Better Than This is Kevin. Kevin Whoever, I don't know. My sister's favorite was A.J. (she named Bad Cat after him). Also, on the subject of my sister, she did the entire group dance from this video for me yesterday. Apparently she used to sneak into my room while I was away at college (because my VCR had the really good slo-mo/backtrack function) and practice. Also, she was still able to do the entire dance from--was it N'Sync's "Bye Bye Bye"? They all blur together for me--perfectly.

And on that subject, let me ask: what THE HELL is this? You know how people say they were "rolling on the floor laughing"? Sister Girl had the chair at my desk and I was leaning over her shoulder watching this, and I actually ended up on my knees with my head in the laundry basket (oh, hey, I wondered where that sock went), I was laughing so hard.

Comments

[door.livejournal.com]

Jem is truly outrageous! Trulytrulytruly outrageous!

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

AND THAAAAT MAAAKES YOU LARRRRGERRRRR
THAAAAT MAAAAKES YOU LARRRRRRGERRRRRR
THAAAAT MAAAAKES YOU LARRRRRRGERRRRRR
THAN LIFE
*sexy sorrowful sexy wailing*

I totally have this song in my playlist and loudly sing along every time it comes up. IT IS AN AWESOME SONG AND IF YOU DON'T BOUNCE TO IT YOU ARE NOT-BOUNCING WITH HITLER. t(-_-t)

[tiffanynichelle.livejournal.com]

Kevin Richardson was always my favorite BSBer. I used to love that video.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

Except I never stopped loving that video, you traitor. :D

[cashewdani.livejournal.com]

The joy I have for your Jem icon cannot be measured.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! Take anything you want, if you see something you like.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v36/cleolinda/jem7/
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v36/cleolinda/jem7/holograms/
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v36/cleolinda/jem7/misfits/

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the "Everybody" video could get any better/cheesier/all-around-awesomer. But dubbing it in Spanish? Frakking brilliant.

Speaking of The Hair, I just saw this: http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/10/robert-pattinso.html

The comments are fantastic.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I saw that this morning! And now that EW's on the bandwagon, I'm scared it'll actually happen. Scared mostly because SNL kind of sucks right now. I mean, again.

[thenotoriousso4.livejournal.com]

When I was a teenie-bopper I used to think that Kevin was the scariest of the backstreet boys. I was a Howie and Nick fan personally, but I went back and watched that video after you linked it yesterday, and I did have to admit that Kevin was actually pretty hot. I dunno what I was thinking when I was eleven.

I'm also sad to admit that my favorite NSYNC member was Lance *shakes head*.

[so-typically-me.livejournal.com]

ugh mine too (on the Lance part) - i just liked how he sang the low parts for some reason

[so-typically-me.livejournal.com]

omg lmfao at the second video...wtf

[dives.livejournal.com]

Oh man, my roommate and I totally bonded over the video for "Backstreet's Back" freshman year. GOOD times.

[berseker.livejournal.com]

Kevin Richardson. I remember because I was going to marry him when I was fifteen.

[unicornluvr.livejournal.com]

I am going as Jem for Halloween (I almost said Christmas. . .that would definitely make the holidays more interesting, and possibly terrifying for small children who did not live through the 80s) and your icon just got me all excited again.

Now I just need to figure out how to tease up the damn pink wig I bought. Priorities!

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Hairspray (I prefer Got2Be Glued) a fine-toothed comb, and a hairdryer on the lowest heat setting. If your fiber's too thin you can sew some fiberfill stuffing painted to match the wig to the wefts (make sure you don't tighten the wig with your stitches), which will help disguise the bare patches near the wig cap.

I, uh, do this a lot.

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJRNyPK-lc&feature=related)? Any time the subject of pop songs with horror-influenced videos comes up, that's what comes to mind.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

I didn't even need to click on the link to know what that was going to be.

GIRLY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Here's a video with an embed link for "Everybody" (I posted it last month on my lj after my magical experience seeing The Boys in concert). It doesn't have the extended beginning and ending though, but it does have Nick and the Floppy Hair of Extreme Sexiness (early 2000's only, not to be sexy after 2003), and that's all that matters, really.

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

Noooooo! Can't. Resist. Clicking! Gah! I finally stopped watching the video yesterday--only after shutting off my computer. But then the song wouldn't leave my head! Not until I went to sleep, and now it's back and I can't make it stop! I need an intervention.

And was I ever relieved to find out that the Jekyll/Hyde dude was born in '71. I was starting to feel cougar-ish for a bit there.

And now I'm scared to click on the what THE HELL is this? link.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

He's older than me? Wow, I feel so much better now.

Oh, and the other link is just the same video... just dubbed into... some other language. I don't even know. Like a Spanish dialect of Klingon or something.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

Whoops. At first I thought the funny about the BSB video was the video itself. Hee. Then I ended up watching the vampire going, "GOD JUST BITE HER ALREADY AND STOP MUGGING AT THE CAMERA." Also, is it me or does the werewolf look like Seth Green? Or am I flashing back to Oz?

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

Pahh, you make me want to put on my 90's music mix CD's. (It's three CD's full of 'N Sync, BsB, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, 3LW, and a little Jason Mraz. Great music for long drives, let me tell ya.)

Honestly, though, I love watching these for all the lame dance moves they pulled. Such as in "Incomplete", when Nick does this chicken-head-bob dance move that... well... I was rolling on the floor I was laughing so hard. It didn't help that my roommate kept going back and playing that part again and again. Hilarious. Even if they're music won't last through the ages, the joy and laughter they unintentionallycaused will...

[morganwolf.livejournal.com]

3LW Y'ALL! "No More" wasn't released until 2000, though. That was the anthem of my freshman year of college, but it was 702's "Where My Girls At" that got us through the last year of high school.

[teirkin.livejournal.com]

Kevin Whoever was my first true love.

[amaelamin.livejournal.com]

I also never really got into boybands back in the 90s (though like everyone else alive at the time, I know more of the lyrics to more Backstreet Boys songs than I would like to admit,) but I totally hear you on the tension-breaking factor. I suspect this is a large part of why I'm so susceptible to cheesy dance-pop these days--and also, Japan does boybands (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6YgKdwUrU) like no other. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=akMR7erPCtU)

This icon is getting a lot of use today.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

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[rerenana.livejournal.com]

The second video is Chiquito de la Calzada, a spanish humorist, he kind of talks like that all the time.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, he's trying to sound like that. I was really afraid there for a moment.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

You know how people say they were "rolling on the floor laughing"? Sister Girl had the chair at my desk and I was leaning over her shoulder watching this, and I actually ended up on my knees with my head in the laundry basket (oh, hey, I wondered where that sock went), I was laughing so hard.

If I'd had my camera, I would have videotaped everyone's reactions to seeing Good Vibrations for the first time. Mike fell over.

My cousin used to know the dance to Bye Bye Bye! I think I need to bring her over here and have her demonstrate her past knowledge. We were total NSYNC girls.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, I remember when the video was originally on MTV, so the element of surprise wasn't there for me. Now, "Step by Step," which I somehow missed as a kid? Omg.

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

THE GREATEST BOY BAND VIDEO EVER (That Did Involve Monsters)

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I think you may be right.

[i-will.livejournal.com]

good lord i don't have the sound on (at work) but just THINKING of that song in spanish has. slain me.

[blondychik1.livejournal.com]

Can the next one be 'The Greatest Boy Band Video Ever (that included THE HAIR)"? You already mentioned it, but I think we may have finally discovered where RPattz learned it from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoJqID-wJY

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

I bet The Hair's response to that video was, "Pshaw, AMATEURS!"

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

Kevin is, in fact, Kevin Richardson. Unfortunately, he's the one member that left BSB, and now we are without the hotness. Of course, he left to be more family-oriented, which gets him even more awesome points.

I can't stop listening to "Step by Step" either. I can't stop. I love the dancing. I love Jordan and his overalls. Love love love.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

STEP BY STEP, OOH BABY, GONNA GET TO YOU GIR-RRRRL.

"Hanging' Tough" was the first album I ever bought with my own money. My jacket clanged when I went to school because I had so many of those oversize buttons pinned to it.

[madelrocio7.livejournal.com]

OMG, Cleo. You just sent me back to junior high; I'm having flashbacks of the time when my best friend everyone was obsessed with Nick Carter. UGH. I never got it.