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Top Three Lists on the Backstreet Boys

This post is specially for anjali*. (Simon couldn’t care less for talentless, posey boy bands…)

Top 3 Rejected Songs for the Backstreet Boys’ New Album:

  • I’m Not A Boy, Not Yet A Man
  • No, We’re Not Lip-Synching
  • “(After the Castration, I’m Now) Incomplete

Top 3 Rejected band names before they chose ‘Backstreet Boys’:

  • PetalingStreet Boys
  • back* street* boys*
  • Queer Eye for the Singing Guys

Top 3 Rejected Cover Versions for the Backstreet Boys’ New Album:

  • Hazy Shade of KL” (Originally by Simon & Garfunkel)
  • Hanging Tough” (Originally by New Kids On The Blog Block)
  • Y.M.C.A.” (Originally by The Village People)

Top 3 Hobbies of the Backstreet Boys When They Are Not Singing:

  • Spamming Boyzone’s official website.
  • Liposuction, chest hair waxing, and posing practice
  • Answering hate-mail from Metallica fans (like Simon)

Top 3 Rejected Candidates for the 6th Member of Backstreet Boys:

  • Michael ‘I Love Boys’ Jackson
  • Mawi ‘Aku Pun Reti Nyanyi’ AF3
  • Bo Bice (“He just wasn’t good-looking enough…”)


Top 3 Backstreet Boys’ Pet Peeves:

  • When people assume that emoting in music videos is SO easy.
  • Split ends.
  • When people mistake them for the Paper Dolls.

Happy now, anjali*? Or do you want another on New Kids On the Bollocks? 🙂

9 Comments

  • anjali*

    Oooooo…am so honored, dear Simon.

    eh. Correction – Bo Bice is too good to be in any band. If need be, it will be called AnjBice. Heh.

    New Kids on the Bollocks? Hmmm…not interested. But don’t mind on Durian Durian and Bo Bice. Or I’ll challenge you to write on My Purple Highness. 😉

  • simon

    anjali – prince, eh? let me see…

    mengz & yuin – now they should be called backstreet men, right?

    lilian – ask all the giggly girls from your blog to come flame me la! there got a few la…

    twinsmom – Bollocks sound more, er, respectful…

    8555 – really? your master looks like a fan of those bands… 🙂

  • Sashi

    Now you’ve got me going all nostalgic for NKOTB classics…
    “Tonight, tonight,
    LA LA LA LA LA LA tonight!”

    Remember when they were the “official boyband” for TV3? Back in the days of the TV3 magazine called TeleSkop and..

    sheesh.. i need to stop growing older..

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