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nicksgal:
"Band of Brothers/Family of Choice/True Companions" is my life's weakness. It's all their faults for sure. I'm team boy bands forever, but I feel like none of the others really had that dynamic and that's why the Boys are the best.
I think I've said it before, 22 is hard for everyone for that reason and I think overall he might have been more okay without that break... And then Kevin leaving a few years later, poor guy. Do I Have To Cry For You and Help Me are two of my absolutely favorite songs. I Just Wanna Take You Home is a bop, but definitely cringey... Miss America I've enjoyed less as the years go on... Those ones stick out. I think overall I've enjoyed it more than his other albums though.
RokofAges75:
I do think that's the main reason BSB have stayed together all these years. They genuinely love each other. So many of the other manufactured boybands didn't have that same kind of bond. Another reason is that BSB have figured out the right balance between being a group and allowing each member to shine individually. They didn't let Nick wanting to make a solo album break up the group the way NSYNC did when Justin went solo, and they're not five wannabe solo artists like One Direction was. I think they've realized they're at their best when they're singing together, so they're content to keep doing that.
Yeah, I think Nick was a little lost without the other guys during the hiatus between B&B and NG. He surrounded himself with toxic friends and girlfriends and made some bad choices. But sometimes you have to learn things the hard way. I'm proud of the person he's become.
DIHTCFY is such a great ballad. My favorites from NG will always be I Got You, Blow Your Mind, and Who Needs the World. I've enjoyed all his solo projects, but my favorite is All American. It's such a fun album.
nicksgal:
I feel like the genuine love really permeates all their things. Though I feel like they had some odd management issues when NON was released... Didn't Nick stay with their management while they were trying to fire them? I think it's a tough balance to figure out, especially if you got put together by someone else. I feel like part of their saving grace was managing to throw off Lou as soon as they did. Then they really had a chance to sit down and be like, yo This Is Us (pun absolutely intended) and figure it out. As much as I hated it at the time, I think Kevin leaving was honestly the perspective they all needed. Like "Oh, we can be *this* together," (gestures roundly), "but I can also be *this* on my own." (gestures up and down), "And *all this* will be there in the meantime." (gestures AIHTGly) I'm just glad they made good on their promise, 90's teeny me wished so hard "Please be around forever" and it worked, haha. They definitely bring out the best in each other on and off the stage, so whatever makes them happy.
Same, proud of our boy! Maybe he's even better for it having learned the hard way.
I love all those ones too. Heart Without A Home was also up there in my Wednesday driving rituals. Girls in the USA was one I used to love that I like now, but not love ("omg, he mentioned Colorado specifically, that's me obviously!" It was not me...) I've enjoyed that they're all different and experiment in different ways with his sound and the times. If 80's Movie is any defining indication for the next one, I'm stoked as hell.
Also, I'm happy to see you wrote in acronyms. I forgot that was a thing until I was saying something recently about a poster I used to have in my room when I found some old pictures (we were talking about whose childhood bedrooms were frozen in time and whose weren't) and my friends were like, "The hell is SMTMOBL?" And I was like, oh no... we don't do that? Alright, let me type out a lot of words...
RokofAges75:
LOL It's the Boys' fault for having such long song titles! But you're right; I only write in acronyms when discussing BSB with fellow fans online. No one in my real life would have a clue what any of those meant either. It's kinda like a secret code! LOL
--- Quote from: nicksgal on January 01, 2021, 12:55:57 PM ---I'm just glad they made good on their promise, 90's teeny me wished so hard "Please be around forever" and it worked, haha.
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We are seriously so blessed to still have them around! When I look at other boybands and their fans, I realize just how rare it is to have a group like this last as long as BSB has without breaking up or taking a super long hiatus. This proof that we picked the right boyband back in the BSB vs. NSYNC days. Suck it, NSYNC! LOL
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 03, 2021, 12:53:22 PM ---LOL It's the Boys' fault for having such long song titles! But you're right; I only write in acronyms when discussing BSB with fellow fans online. No one in my real life would have a clue what any of those meant either. It's kinda like a secret code! LOL
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OMG, right! So many very long ones. Although, I feel like in recent years, they've gone the other way and named so many of their songs with one word titles. And then you'd have the opposite level of confusion. Like we couldn't say. "I really like I, it's one of my favorite songs they did." Because which one is that? I think I did it on accident with non-BSB friends because a week or so before, we were talking about singing to ourselves in our bedrooms as children (something that had to do with Masked Singer in some way, don't remember) and I said, "My poor mother probably wanted to tear her hair out every time I sang IYWITBGGGYABB as a pre-teen, because I sounded terrible. Also the thick 'intercourse with you' implications of the song." But I typed it out and was like, can I acronym the next time one of these comes up? I think I'm going to acronym. That was a lot.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 03, 2021, 12:53:22 PM ---We are seriously so blessed to still have them around! When I look at other boybands and their fans, I realize just how rare it is to have a group like this last as long as BSB has without breaking up or taking a super long hiatus. This proof that we picked the right boyband back in the BSB vs. NSYNC days. Suck it, NSYNC! LOL
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As long as there'll be music. A bold, but true statement. And I always like how there like, "People forget how young we were when we started, so we still dance and everything." Any time I watch that NKOTBSB concert from the O2, I'm always like, did NKOTB ever dance? It seems like they didn't dance. Other than the "oh oh oh oh" ball change. The Boys were always all around better than NSYNC (not biased). Like I have plenty of friends who were like, "I was hardcore team NSYNC, but I definitely skipped half the songs on the albums." And I was like, same for NSYNC. Not the Boys. There's definitely songs I like better than the others, but I've never skipped a song no matter how many times I've listened to the albums. Though "shuffle all" makes it more fun.
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