Way back in January we brought you the news that the New Kids On The Block were planning to reunite (New Kids On The Block To Stage Comeback). Everyone thought it was a silly joke at the time, but today we get confirmation that the New Kids are getting back together with plans to release a new album and go on tour.
The group released a new photo Wednesday and reportedly will appear on the Today show Friday morning � the same time an unmarked countdown clock on http://www.nkotb.com ends.
The New Kids might not be kids anymore since they’re mostly pushing 40, but the guys who sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s think they still have something to offer.
“The fan response to this has been incredible,” band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald. Wahlberg, once the most famous of the Wahlberg brothers, said that the other four members of NKOTB (Joey McIntyre, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood) convinced him to get the group back together after they decided to record some new music. Wahlberg said he wrote 80 percent of the new material with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.
At the height of their popularity, New Kids sold out world tours, marketed millions of dollars in merchandise and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon.
The group disbanded in 1994. Wahlberg has acted on television and in movies as has McIntyre, while Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood released solo albums. Jonathan Knight became a real estate developer.
Isn’t this know in the bible as Armageddon?
Unnecessary…
And yes Cap’n – this is the beginning of the end of humanity as we know it.
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Is it too early to start using my NKOTB lunch box again?
Oh -that’s all sorts of wrong. It’s too early, too late, it’s just plain too…
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What’s next a Milli Vanilli reunion? Oh wait, I think one of them is dead. Thank God for small blessings.
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hey now! as a girl who had a huge nkotb obsession, i am on cloud nine! i puffy heart joey and i am so going to this concert!
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I will say this for the record, I would rather endure a NKOTB comeback and all that comes with it over anything REM any day.
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oh and adrian actually went to a new kids concert back in the day. you should bug him about it!
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I heard Color Me Badd is going on a reunion tour themselves, which is awesome!
(okay, kidding, but that ALSO would have made a great April Fool’s joke)
I just threw up in my mouth after reading this post.
I’m surprised they left that dude on the right’s mug shot in like that. Didn’t they look at the picture before releasing it?
@Mike – Don’t toy with my emotions like that. We don’t talk about Color Me Badd getting back together unless it’s true.
@Robert – That’s just how he looks…
yeah, danny’s always been the fugly one. poor danny.
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@ Kory LOLOL
… also I think when Jason first told us about this, he also mentioned they they should change their name since they arent kids anymore. How baout they be forced to change their name to “middle aged dudes desparate for a buck on the block”… it’s catchy, right?
MADDFABOTB – I like it Cap’n!
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The Old Guys Who Get Frisked By Police For Singing and Talking to the Little Kids On The Block. OGWGFBPFSTLKOTB
It’s a little hard to say…but it looks great on caps.
For the record, I went to the concert with this music group I was in. I was forced to go…
@ Adrian: You know you liked it.
Some people just can’t admit that the New Kids had “The Right Stuff…”