When I was a teenager, New Kids on the Block made me want to study English, and magazines such as New Kids Monthly or Smash Hits gave me some good and frequent literal practice. In those good old days of 1990's you couldn't follow your idols on the Internet; oh, fandom was so different back then, you actually had to wait to get some news if they reached you at all...
Teenagers didn't just fly overseas to concerts. NKOTB only visited Finland two or three times, I think, and I only got to one concert. We were not a rich family, and my mother was anyway too scared to let me go after seeing how fanatic I got after that one concert. :)
As I'm all grown up now, if not even old, I am certainly less fanatic, but surprisingly enough, still very much loving, and eager. And of course with so many more possibilities to follow the celebrities I want to. I have once followed NKOTB to London, where I got to see two amazing concerts. They are not boys anymore, but have matured beautifully, and are fine men like I always thought they would be. Many of them I can follow on Twitter, and it somehow brings them closer. No waiting for the news anymore! Yet there seems to be no chance for me to see them in a concert in my country, so they make me travel again. This June I shall see them in Glasgow, Scotland, and I can honestly say that is the furthest I have ever travelled for any man! But for NKOTB, who made me study my English, gave me many many good friends, made my life bearable at the hardest times and still give a fabulous party every time they are at stage - I'll do it so gladly.
Plus, there's always a cance to see a man or two in a kilt. Yummy!
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