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- Welcome Home Danny
- Badu’s Sloppy Attempt at an Album
- Fading into Popularity
- Drugged Expectations
- A Trip Down Memory Lane with Jordan Knight
- Same Joey Mac
- When Bad Albums Happen To Half-Decent Talent
- It’s Good to Be Troubled
- I Now Understand the Underwhelming Feeling for Keri Hilson
- A Chronicles Legend
- Building New Kids Legend
- A New Kids Xmas
- Realizing A Phenomenon
- Will You Be Under Lyrical Mind Control?
- Rock Out with Fefe
- To Believe or Not to Believe…
- Guns ‘N Roses: When They Rocked
- Monáe and Her Out of This World Debut
- Have to be in the mood for XTC
- It Has All Gone Right
- BEP: When There Were Three
- The Foolishness of Monkey Business
- Long Live The Dutches of Crap!
- The Retardation of BEP
- If Only It Truly Was the End
- No Real Shock, Still Searching for Value
- Is There Still Room for Musiq
- A Shockless Attempt At Creating Value
- Not So Lifted
- Erykah’s Underground World
- Failed Renegotiations
- Reliving the Magic That Is the Commadores
- Arguing With A Tree Is Fun
- Monáe’s Audition is “Cute”
- In the Heights Soundtrack
- Has Shakira Been Downgraded to be the New Beyonce?
- Is It His World, Or Is He A Squirrel Trying To Get A nut In Ours?
- ATBAN Klan Dismissed
- It’s Official: I’m As Bored As He Sounds
- Does Richie Still Have What It Takes?
- Falling In Love with Boyz II Men All Over Again
- I’m Sold On Blue October’s History
- What Is The Answer?
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- Swiss Beats Creates Hyped Mediocracy
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- A Soulful Life
- The Amazement of Nina Simone
- Buble: The Crooner of Remakes
- Sweet Music Created Out Of Bitterness
- Hamilton’s Made His Point
- End of an Empire
- Breaking Through The Madness
- No Go For Coco
- Are Boyz II Men The Remedy?
- Schooling Listeners but Not Preachy
- Keeping My Hands All Over Maroon 5
- Joy or Misery?
- The Id of Gray
Album: New Kids on the Block
Artist(s): NKOTB (New Kids on the Block/The Block)
Original Drop Date: April 1, 1986
Blades: 8
Review: Waaaaaaaaay back when the Black girls had New Edition and the Spanish girls had the Menudos; the drug of choice in a boy band, for White girls, rested with New Kids On The Block. Right after Maurice Starr lost his grip on New Edition he decided that he could make more money with a clean-cut, obedient and hungry group of White boys from around the way. A call went out and the fellas came to answer. (Before there was Joey, there was Mark. He didn’t stick around but soon was able to spread his wings in another group called Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.)
In this debut album, these fresh faces wanted to blow the mind of the industry and they did not miss their goal. With the knowledge that Blacks would spend the dough on artists that they liked and be a good building block, Starr marketed his young group to the Motown charts and even sent them to the Apollo where they received a standing ovation.
They had about two or three rap songs, some pop and a few ballads. This seemed like a receipt for disaster but they did not lose supporters. Didn’t gain much, but did not become driftwood. “Stop It Girl” was pure bubble gum and I never liked chewing gum let alone listening to it. There also included a cover song from the Black Legacy group The Delfonics, “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind).” The group did not ruin the song and from present day, that’s the least one could ask for. They introduced me to the Delfonics, and that’s a good thing.
The falsetto voice of Jordan Knight is an amazing one to listen to, and Joe McIntyre’s young voice helped to add the “sweet/innocent” sound to the group. Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood both bring the rap element and Jonathan Knight seems to tie it all together. Jordan and Joe have obviously been thrown to the forefront as co-captains of this team; but hearing from the others every now and then may add purpose to them than simply back-ups.
All in all this seemed decent for a pop group in the 90′s. The early Bubble Gum Age brought us many boy bands fashioned after the Osmond’s and the Jackson 5. These groups have changed since then but the main difference is the peddling of more flesh and less music. The magnitude of their success cannot be denied as they charted a completely new era of marketing. From the typical posters and pillow cases to the untypical curtains and telephone hotlines. Fans could get wake-up calls or Christmas messages from their fav New Kid. The phenomenon was one never seen before and yet to be matched.
8 blades for the age that it represented.
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