"blablabla Boyz II Men bla."
"Oh, NKOTB were the bomb I heard they're on the cruise ship tour circuit now (or maybe that was the Backstreet Boys)."
"OH boybands... I really loved those BSB fellas..."
"Mmm, JC Chasez."
In the evening, I had to wait in the car for a bit while Enfant Terrible got ready for dinner. The new Justine Bieber song (Boyfriend*) was playing.
It was redolent of, dare I type it, sexy feel. My external auditory meatus was swamped by the sexy feel. I was simultaneously intrigued and creeped out. Intrigued because here was Canada's #1 one-man boyband sounding sexy, creeped out because he is (only) 18 years old.
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| This young man is confusingly pretty. Image from The Justin Bieber Shrine |
Things have not changed at all. Young, good-looking men are still making sexy faces and sounds that throw old(er) girls like me for a loop and think they're way too young to be behaving like that (though they're clearly not).
Suddenly, I have a rudimentary understanding of the desire to be forever young. The candy-colored everything, the predilection for impossibly tiny and delicate delicacies like rainbow-hued macarons, the entire concept of precious behavior. All aim at preserving the feeling of youthfulness.
I might be being melodramatic, but think about it: those who really go for that stuff, i.e., if they're all "OMGWTFBBQ<3<3<3" in real life, they might tell you they're 28 years old 5 years in a row.
* Entirely different and infinitely better than the one by Big Time Rush**
** Don't know what else they've done, but I had a hell of a difficult time looking them up.
2 comments:
Thanks to this post, I discovered that when you type boyf into google, the first thing that hits up is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GuqB1BQVr4
Even as a teen, I was a music hipster that I never fancied any of the boybands, hahahaha.
Unless you consider Queen, Depeche Mode, Babylon Zoo or Blur as boybands.
Such is the power of the Beliebers (?). I like boybands, they're easy on the eye. However, I draw the line at the Boyfriend video: I didn't even make it past the first 10 seconds cos I still think of him as a child (though I read somewhere that the age of consent in Canada is 16 years...) D:
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