My age + my gender = New Kids on the Block, Alpine Valley, 1992. I can't help it. I was 12 (13?) and completely repulsed by all of the girls around me screaming.
The only redeeming thing about this experience is that, recently, I found out that Diablo Cody was at the same concert. Still not cool, but cooler, by association. She described it well in EW -
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| My very first concert was the New Kids at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis. It was a three-hour Coke-sponsored extravaganza that featured, among other treats, Donnie Wahlberg ''singing'' reggae while swinging from an aerial harness. My mother still describes that concert as if recalling a stint in a POW camp: ''It was so loud. It was horrible. So much screaming.'' |
A year later, I saw The Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms, and Cracker. Well, I saw Gin Blossoms and Cracker; I suffered through The Spin Doctors.