Summertime
I just heard “Summertime” – the single to relaunch New Kids on the Block. Is it wrong I really like it? I know it is really cheesy especially since we are all full-blown adults now, but as I listened I couldn’t help but get transported back to 1988. I remember getting my parents to take me to the Phar-mor (a drug store), buying the Hangin’ Tough cassette and putting it in my Walkman immediately. Yes folks – no iTunes, iPod, not even a cd … good old fashioned tape with an A & B side that needed to be rewound or fast forwarded to get to the track you wanted. I played it so loud my mom was sure it was going to blow my eardrums out. Hey – I was a 13 year old girl! “Cover Girl” – “The Right Stuff” – “Hangin’ Tough” – “Please Don’t Go Girl” (Man – Joey could hit a high note!) I also flashed back to their TV appearances – the place to catch teen acts was You Can’t Do That on Television on Nickelodeon … in case you did not know, the originator of the green slime. For any How I Met Your Mother fans, Robin Sparkles would have gone on that show to promote “Let’s Go to the Mall.” And the videos … “The Right Stuff” was my favorite – it was black and white – i would watch the video and do that dance … i just watched it again after all these years thanks to YouTube. See back then you actually watched music videos all day on MTV. Don’t get me wrong I love The Real World, but MTV was really all about the music in the late 80′s. Back then you recorded the showings that were on when you were in school on VHS, also tape that needed to be rewound or fast forwarded to get to the show you wanted. Yep, boys and girls, no Tivo back then either. I guess this stuff is what they call “old school.” Wow – that was an exhausting, but fun trip down memory lane. I still HEART you Jordan and I may check you out when you guys come to NY in September. (May 16 is their debut on The Today Show on NBC – setting my Tivo to stun!)
