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Star-seekers needn't have worried, however. Boston is still the home of the New Kids on the Block, two of whom have made praiseworthy efforts at pulling mildly successful independent careers from the wreckage that was NKOTB. Although the boys are teen idols no more (they are both in their late 20s), fans in the under-13 age bracket continue to adore Jordan Knight (winner of Single of the Year for "Give It to You") and Joey McIntyre (winner of Outstanding Video for "I Love You Came Too Late"). I was entirely flabbergasted to see both of them called...
...think, that most Backstreet Boys fans hide N'Sync albums in their closet and vice versa) drives an artist --or at least makes him or her try--to be innovative. The public seems to be figuring this out too. It was virtually against the law for boys to buy NKOTB albums. But word on the street is that the continuing sales of the bubblegum pop albums are being driven by teenage boys.... Now that, Alanis, is ironic...
...Before the new hit, were people still recognizing you on the street from NKOTB, or are those days long gone...
...Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while and all of a sudden, with the sweatshirt it was like 'Oh no, I can't wear...
...case, true fanatics don't let their ardor flag, regardless of the flack. Tara N. Lasovage '99 explains, "I loved [NKOTB] all the way through high school." Lasovage still has NKOTB posters in her bedroom and-says Jon(ny) Whalberg was definitely her favorite "kid." But she also loves Hanson, despite all their bad press and girly looks. "I'm on the field hockey team," she says. "I wanted to put 'MMM-Bop' on our psyche-up tape, but that didn't go over too well...