Music

True Life: I still have this

In keeping with our 90′s throwback day, I thought I’d share a pretty impressive discovery I made today. So, we were all about as obsessed with the Backstreet Boys as we are about Edward Cullen, right? Of course. I do believe I was around 11 years old when the BSB came on the scene and I was smitten right from the beginning. I, too, was in love with Brian Litrell but was fearful in admitting to it since my older, and much cooler sister had already called dibs on him. Grr. So I settled to publicly crush on Nick Carter, (hey, he’s much better than the 2 train wrecks that were Chris and Howie, ick), while still secretly declaring my love for Brian.

Has he even hit puberty at this point?

Anywho, while I was deep cleaning my apartment today, I found myself humming a little tune that just happened to pop into my head after reading my sister’s post about sexy boy bands. I then realized that I was dancing around the apartment using my broom as a microphone and that’s when I figured out what song I was humming, “I Want it That Way” by the BSB. Wow. I hadn’t thought of or heard this song in ages and all of a sudden it’s pulled up from the depths of my memories. What scared me even more…..I remembered all of the words. Every single word, and that includes all of the sweet melodious riffs sung by AJ, the beautiful choruses sung by my beloved Brian, and all of the “Oooooh, girls” added in by the no-talent Howie. This was amazing!

So I decided to google all of the albums ever released by the BSB, just to see how many of their songs I could actually remember the words to. Well, 2 hours and one extremely clean apartment later, I had swept, dusted and vacuumed my way through 3 whole BSB albums, singing and remembering every song. That’s sick. But so fun!

True story: My hubby went to a BSB concert when he was 11 and hated every minute of it, haha. But the funny thing is, I was at that same BSB concert too! We could have met at a BSB concert. But we didn’t.

True story again: I was sitting in class during my senior year and my professor decided to try an experiment. He asked one of the girls in class to use her desk as a drum and tap out the beat to a song and then asked us if we knew what song she was tapping. After she got through the chorus, my hand immediately shot in the air, “That’s a Backstreet Boys song!” Luckily, I was right and the girl also shouted back, “Yes!” The professor wanted to prove a point about how certain songs stick with us. Boy was he right.