Rate Your Music score: 3.29 out of 5!
This blog has praised Scandal and the Cars, but not every lost hit is worthy of such adulation. Any time our museum of lost hits profiles anything connected with New Kids On The Block, it's sure to be among the most idiotic exhibits ever.
The real surprise here is that this lost hit by this New Kids vocalist has such a high Rate Your Music score. How did it get a better score than the Dave Matthews Band or ELO?
Some radio stations that ostensibly have a format of current pop might have actually begun playing this record again, thanks to the "throwbacks" kick, but I'm not sure. Judging by these stations' poor ratings lately, I'm not sure anyone would notice if they do. So this tune still qualifies to be ridiculed on this blog.
By 1999, the New Kids seemed to be no longer a hazard to the radio listening public. Lots of things were wrong back then: the new economy recession, soaring crime, the rubber-stamping of the CBS/Viacom merger. Yet the New Kids were considered a loathsome remnant of the past.
But one day, we decided to drive to southwestern Indiana. We had the car radio on, and a DJ cheerfully introduced this brand new record from Jordan Knight. I couldn't contain my laughter at the song. It seemed to have no discernible form that music usually has. It sounded like just some instruments and vocals thrown together. I can't even figure out what time signature it was.
It appears that some folks who were fairly respected and well-known in the music biz worked on this record. I guess nobody in the music world can be perfect. Even Bob Dylan once got bad reviews because he made an album that included several tracks where it sounded like he was about to sneeze, so even the greats have their bad days.
Evidently, the New Kids got back together after Jordan's solo misadventure and somehow had a song that scraped into the top 40 in 2008. At least these guys from Massachusetts did less damage to their state than Charlie Baker did.
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