90’s Pop Band Re-Appears! Stock Market Crashes! Moon Implodes! Cities Fall! Hope Survives!
Well, at least one thing out of the signs of Apocalyptic Doom™ mentioned above has come true.
On the Boston Globe’s Boston.com portal, there is a charming little piece featuring a certain boy band which crawled out of the primordial ooze of Boston Harbour to establish itself as the cultural ancestor to a long line of terrible and generally talentless boy band acts that plagues most of the 1990’s and early 2000’s.
Members of the group “New Kids on the Block”, now in their late 30s and early 40s rang out the trading day at the New York Stock Exchange on May 15th. Making a showing in the more somber if not duller garb of businessmen, they seem quite a bit removed from their glory days of hair-spray enameled hair and dangerously mismatched ensembles, and the lyrics designed to “swoon the hearts” of pre-teen and early teen girls.
Ah, Father Time… a cruel master he is indeed.
