...to drag my Backstreet Boys skeleton out of the closet.

[someonestolemynick]

I stumbled upon a BsB mix on YouTube and have been listening to it for the last few hours. No kids yet, dp is working late so there are no witnesses.

The year is 1998, I'm 10 years old and my heart belongs to Nick Carter.

Nick Carter the girlfriend beater? That Nick Carter?

Sorry to drop a downer OP. I love BB, I really do, but he makes my skin crawl.

Besides which, Kevin is the looker...

Do it - I was swimming earlier with a (waterproof) mp3 player and happily swam and up and down to some BSB tracks. I liked Brian, Kevin and Howie - nearly all of them basically!

YABU for only being age 10 in 98!

[hmmm] I'll just go back in time, to tell my 10-year-old selfI'm fancying the wrong Backstreet Boy.

Btw nowadays Kevin would be more my type, but Nick is still hot (I've stopped about obsessing about NC's life, so that's the first I've heard of him being a girlfriend beater)

You lost me at you're 10 years old in 1998. That warrants a slap in itself for making me feel old, lol.
What other cheese you got? I love a bit of cheese.

Sorry, OP. I didn't want to bring your otherwise fantastic thread down.

Funnily enough, I was watching a thing on The Vault last night about the biggest boybands ever and BB won! They showed 'I Want It That Way' and I squealed. DD (who is 12) raised an eyebrow and said 'why do you always behave like this when you see them?'.

Like she understands, with her bloody 1Direction!

My heart belongs firmly to McFly though (McBusted can sod right off - I refuse to accept them!).

Whisk I've just never heard it (stopped stalking them a while back )

This is the first time in years, I've actively listened to some of their stuff caught between rocking out whilst sorting the recycling and tears.

My cats seem to be with your DD though ... I've decided it's just too intellectual for them.

I want a waterproof MP3 player now.

I hope you enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

I still know all the words to their songs!

I was always partial to bit of NSync tok

Nick Carter's a girlfriend beater?! Well I never knew that. Good job I wasn't a Nick fan, I loved AJ and Brian.

I regularly listen to BSB, N Sync and Five and occasionally even Aqua. I tell myself it's childhood nostalgia, which it partly is, but I actually just like their music .

I didn't know that about Nick Carter either.

Is anyone on spotify? I think the entire BSB catalogue is on there .

WhiskWarrior I remember reading about that in a Guardian article
www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/04/backstreet-boys-we-created-memories

They are still the best selling boy band, way bigger than 1D ever is. It's hard to compare directory ofc, given there are more teens around now (so a potentially bigger market), but there'll be a smaller percentage of them buying.

My favourite old bit of cheese on my iPod is the 5 megamix, and I still know all the words

Love a bit of Backstreet Boys too!

I am considerably older than the OP and I'm very partial to a little BSBs...

Another bsb lover over here. Especially Nick Carter :)

YANBU Kevin Richardson! Loved him, even through his dodgy hairdo days!

I went to see BSB in 1998. I still have the photos somewhere. Me and my friend made a huge banner, stuck on the poles of broken spades that took us HOURS and as we got to Wembley, the security guards told us (quite rightly) that we couldn't have "weapons" inside. We were heartbroken.

I was a massive Nick Carter fan. Absolutely batshit for him. There was very little space on my walls that wasn't covered by BSB/NC posters. When we went to the concert, I cried for days afterwards because I HAD BREATHED THE SAME impulse drenched, hormonal female AIR.

I still like them now and will always have them on my iPod. I prefer NSYNC (traitor) now, but my heart always lies with the boys.

This was a particularly modest representation of my room, circa 1997/8.

No one in my house then or now understands just how amazing they are/were. I even knew the words to one of the songs in Spanish as it was a B-side on a CD single I had!

I had their MTV takeover day on VHS that I recorded off the TV too...

My room was also totally covered in BSB posters and collages cut from magazines!

1Direction....pish-posh! (hoik & cats bum combo)

I was 8 in 1998 YABU though as A1 was the band for me and Ben Adams was mine all mine!

Another fan here, I was very annoyed that nobody wanted to go to their recent tour with me :-(

I used to always fancy Kevin but recently he has gone a bit thin for my tastes and my affection has switched to Nick who I always used to hate.

Its a bit weird really, I used to think Nicks voice was quite nasally until about 3-4 years ago when suddenly I thought he sounded amazing and I developed a real crush on him haha

and I was 20 in 1998 haha

My heart belongs firmly to McFly though (McBusted can sod right off - I refuse to accept them!).

I agree... Wrong on so many levels!!!

Haha, I love bsb! I was 9 in 1998. My DP is named Nick Carter, his ringtone on my phone is usually bsb related, much to his disgust!

and I was 20 in 1998 haha

I was much older than that in 1998...

Kevin is rather yummy now. I was in Morrisons yesterday and 'I Want it That Way' started playing - I regressed to my 10 year old self and even though I'd finished my shop, I stayed in there until the song finished.

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