Some guy posted on the MTV page that "We don't need 1,000,000 songs about love when our world is filled with hate." Now, if this person was standing in front of me right now, I would be very, very tempted to break the Surpreme Codes of Male Conduct and kick him in his shriveled balls as hard as I can.
When I was just going through the very awkward first stages of my teenage life, I wanted very much to be like everyone else and listen to cool music. I went out and tried to get into "da scene." What welcomed me was a horde of people who booze, get high, screw, scream their drug-filled @$$es off, whine and screech about their miserable existence, and act as crude as possible, what we today consider "real musicians." You know what I'm talking about...for years they flooded MTV airwaves. So, impressionalbe young man that I was, I started associating anything "cool" with people like this. And thus I was virtually turned off by anything "cool" and became somewhat alienated, somewhat Goth. It wasn't that I wanted to alienate everything, it was just that I couldn't bring myself to accept a world that praised and revered these druggies and binge-drinkers.
Well, long story short, I joined chorus, began to sing a little for myself, and found that not everything in this world is full of crap. There was still real, beautiful music, however rare it is in this world, and people who believed in that beauty. I started to think a little more positively about the world we lived in and my own place in it.
But I still held a healthy disrespect for those cool musicians who just represented everything I didn't want to believe in. Then, guess who stepped into the scene? The Backstreet Boys! LMAO. Well, kinda; they did help a lot, but then again, so did watching the Free Willy trilogy more than twenty times, so that's pretty much void. Still, they were a large step up from the badmouthin' druggies. I mean, guys singing actual songs? Five part harmony? What was that? But you know, I can never really get into a group that prances around rubbing their nipples. So while I listened to and liked their songs, it wasn't such an instantaneous big thing. Then guess who came in next? The Hansons! Yay! Go them! LMAO once again. They're so dang wholesome, but I guess it was the wrong type of music for me, I don't know.
Okay okay seriously now. The first time I saw "Tearin' Up My Heart" was on TRL, I believe. Well, once I got over the fact that they were actually dancing and singing at the same time(The last time I saw dancing and singing at the same time was on "Kids Inc." or "Roundhouse." Great shows. Cancelled like MMC...), I noticed that the beat, the tunes...this, this was cool. I can actually get in to this, what I would later refer to as "techno-pop." But you know, it also wasn't a big thing at first. Yes, unfortunately, I made that fatal mistake of constantly comparing them to the Backstreet Boys. Hey, don't blame me, blame Justin and his wifebeater:).
But after a while, "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time You" came out. And I was so beyond amazed, impressed, whatever. I mean, a positive song!? An emotional, deep music video that actually tells a simple story!? How long has it been since we last saw something like this!? Followed closely by the very entertaining "I Drive Myself Crazy(Thinking of You)," I actually began to see the guys of..."*NSYNC?"...as real guys. Not some weird musician who habituated another plane of existence. They were guys who wanted to sing, to express, to have fun. Whoa, what a concept. You can guess what went on from here.
So, to answer the question "Why I am a guy and still listen to *NSYNC," I would tell you these things...
1) Consider the alternatives.
2) Then consider this.
Thank you.
Go on to part two: "Why other guys don't listen to *NSYNC"
"That...that was so touching! Now take my *** back to *NSYNC, da***t!"
