Rate Your Music score: 2.71 out of 5!
Time for what may well be the most uproariously stupid line ever to appear in a hit song.
Ready for it? Here it is...
"We met a lot of people and girls..."
That ranks up there with the chart-topper "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor, which included the line, "You ought to be on TV or Soul Train."
And man, did this New Kids song annoy the living hell out of everyone! I'm embarrassed to even include the video above.
One of the categories that Rate Your Music lists this single under is "baroque pop", but I really wasn't even sure what that meant. Wikipedia says "In My Life" by the Beatles inspired that entire genre, but "Tonight" doesn't sound anything like that track. "Tonight" sounds more like a poor imitation of "What A Night" by City Boy, with a few of those weird, screaming strums from "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace. There's a few wisps of "I'll Play For You" by Seals & Crofts mixed in there as well.
In other words, "Tonight" just sounds cobbled together from other songs. That was my impression even when I first heard this song - which wasn't under the best of circumstances, incidentally.
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