Throwback

I was running some errands today during my lunch break, and I was taken on a stroll down memory lane. That journey also made me stop and think, "wow, this is horrible."

Pretty much all the radio stations I have programmed into my car have the '80s/'90s flashback songs around the noon hour. So I'm listening and driving along, and the song "Gone" by NSYNC came on by request... yes, request. Now when I was a little teeny bopper, I will admit I was an NSYNC/Backstreet Boys fan. Their popularity probably started when I was around 10 and I fell right into the hype along with the other millions of girls around the world. I saw both in concert, had the CD's, I wasn't a big poster person, but I had some smaller pics... you know, etc. etc. And you can't deny they weren't huge! Their album "No Strings Attached" sold 9.9 million copies in 2000 and in 2009, it was named the best selling album of the decade, selling a little over 11 million. You can make fun of them and not like them, but they were stinkin' popular!

I haven't heard any of their songs in years probably. So this was interesting, hearing it on the radio.

"Gone" needs to go and not be played on the air waves ever. It was bad. Justin sounded way prepubescent and frankly, annoying. I feel obliged to find some of their other songs and listen and determine if they all sounded that bad. But the melody and lyrics and such annoyed me to begin with, so the vocals along with it didn't really have a chance.

I mean, I LOVED these guys when I was little. One of my cousins picked on me relentlessly because of my taste in music, and now I'm wondering if he was on to something and not just being mean. It just kind of made me sit back and go, "whoa!"

I'm sure some of you are like, "well DUH!! NSYNC sucks, always has!" but I dunno...

Funny thing is though, I like Justin's music and his voice ok now and it doesn't annoy me as it did in "Gone"... maybe he just finally became a man and such. I refuse to believe that songs like "Bye Bye Bye" and "Pop" were really as bad as "Gone". Guess I'll have to investigate... and maybe it was just my poor, young, little girl ears that didn't know all that much better.