Allow me to share some pretty irrelevant thoughts I've been harboring for some time now.
I love pop music. The more bubble-gummy and ear bleedingly cheezy, the more I love. And yeah, I bought Bop and Tiger beat on a weekly basis back in the day so I could cut out the posters/wallet-size pictures of *Nsync, etc. for a scrapbook. (Yeah, I was one of those!) Take *Nsync for example. They were my el ultimo obsession after Pokemon and Star Wars. From the five marionettes that still are displayed publicly in my room down to the necklace pre-i'm gay Lance Bass wore in most of their promotional pictures, I looked OR asked my mom to look for. So the coolest thing about them was that they sound good live. Considering that in their Madison Square Garden concert they were either jumping, tumbling or were suspended in the air 99% of the show, they still sounded great! Out of all their contemporaries at that time, Christina, 98 Degrees, Britney (actually Britney's vocals actually benefit from her pulsating dance moves, doncha think?), they actually sound the most credible, I think? Even my brother (Jazz fusion disciple that he is), my go-to guy for a music elitist's opinion, thought they were pretty decent.
Enter the Jonas Brothers. The reason why they, along with Miley Cyrus, don't irritate me as much (or at all!) as they do most of the people in my age bracket and above is because I love that they're bringing back the happy happy joy joy bubblegum music of yore, the most uncomplicated and painless songs that were so hip pre-2003. Hell yeah, I actually spent $0.99++ to get a few songs by the JoBros on iTunes. So imagine my disappointment when I caught their first appearance on Ellen. They were as carefully calculated and charming (with promises of virginity and all) as boybands of before...with a MUCH better fashion sense.
Watch me get excited to hear them sing live for the first time. They were gonna sing "When You Look Me In The Eyes". Staple ballad required in all pop albums. Simple, catchy and it got the girls screaming. No dancing required, only them and their instruments. As soon as singer Jonas opened his mouth to sing the first few lines, my jaw dropped. IT WAS NASTY. Like when you're walking in the street and smell dog shit, cat shit and rat pee at the same time. They honestly sounded like they got kicked in the nuts after getting kicked in the nuts. As soon as the other JoBro opened his mouth to sing with the lead JoBro to produce "harmony" it was anything but. So I thought it might've been a bad day for the JoBros but I caught a couple more performances on other shows a few weeks and they still sounded terrible. After that I Youtubed a few more performances and it didn't get better. SIGH. So there, that's my irrelevant bad thought: The Jonas Brothers not only can't sing live, they sound like crap in shiny suits. How disappointing.
They really seemed like they were gonna be the heir apparent to the boyband throne (in my heart at least). That era will never come back in atleast fifteen more years when Justin Timberlake realizes he needs money and agrees to an *Nsync Reunion Tour which will be even MORE depressing since by that time Chris Kirkpatrick will just have celebrated his 51st birthday. OHWELL.
Current Mood: 
disappointed