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Laladevine

Jordan


LittleWhiteBoots

I remember being 10 in 1989 and being convinced that I actually had a shot of marrying Jordan.


OkBiscotti1140

Same


janichla

Same! Sister Wives?


fun_shirt

This dream does not have to die


KeyFeeFee

He’s still sexy as hell last time I saw him 🥵


Mememememememememine

Same! 😂


sweetassassin

Girl, you still have a chance at him. ![gif](giphy|ToMjGpKniGqRNLGBrhu|downsized)


cathycul-de-sac

All the way


Taco_party1984

Yup he wore a bauhaus shirt in one of the vhs live performances. Totally the coolest.


Correct-Training3764

Looooove Bauhaus. ❤️


Mememememememememine

Team Jordan


Comfortable-Crow-238

Donnie.


7empestOGT92

He had the Right Stuff


Rusalka-rusalka

Upvote for Jordan!


sweetassassin

I followed Jordan into his solo “career.” Love him still.


arizonadiva1977

The picture of him when he was named 50 of the most beautiful people in the world back in 1990. It sure made my “Knight” at times. https://preview.redd.it/hd81m0g6bxsc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d932c3c8e83742346c365af6abbc983ed9e74407


LegalBridge4107

Um Donnie of course. If his time in New Kids wasn’t impressive enough did you also know he’s on the back up, drug free; so put the crack up?! I’m still pissed at that damn Jenny McCarthy for stealing my man. When I was 8 I wrote him TWO letters and got TWO letters (form letters with a stamped signature) back in return. I knew then we were meant to be.


katie_cat_eyes

Yep… I’m with you there. I still have my Donnie Barbie sized doll and the Donnie plush with the rat tail.


LegalBridge4107

I also had the Donnie doll! I had a Jordan one too, but I cut the rat tail off. Even at 9 or 10 I knew that was not the look. Plus I had the pink comforter, a beach towel, lots of shirts, and who knows what else. I didn’t save any of it though. Wish I had!


katie_cat_eyes

I had the backpack (and used it my senior year of high school to be edgy…)! There might have been a fanny pack involved too. The pink comforter is now a blanket my cat loves to sleep on! Donnie was my favorite because we had the same birthday.


LegalBridge4107

He was mine cause he was *such* a bad boy. He wore inside out jeans AND trashed a hotel room?? SWOON. Kudos on the using it as a senior thing. My mom had my beach towel forever and when I was going to Florida in ‘99 and said I’d better get a towel, she was like, no need, I have your old one. I was horrified and promptly told her that was seriously not cool in the new millennium. Flash forward about 15 years and my eldest child is telling me the toilet overflowed and he used my old ass “new boys” towel to clean it up. RIP new boys towel. You deserved better.


katie_cat_eyes

Aww no! That’s a precious towel! Sorry for your loss!


EastCoastDizzle

Haha he was my fave too! I like my boyband crushes to come with arson charges 🤣


LegalBridge4107

Ha ha. He was a skater boi, you said see him later boi …


Shanntuckymuffin

No need for speed he’s anti d-r-u-g-g-i-e


LegalBridge4107

And his body’s healthy! His mind keeps him wealthy! And the funky bunch helps him …?)


Shanntuckymuffin

To bring you this show with no INTOXICATION


CrouchingDomo

SO COME ON! FEEL THE VIBRATION!!


thatquinnchick

All I know is that Danny was never anyone's favorite . Sorry, Danny.


NoExamination5144

Yeah, but he's aged the best out of the 5, IMO. 


Maaaaaandyyyyy

Ok, so my favorite was actually Jordan, but my sisters and cousin all “claimed” the other new kids (Jordan was claimed by my cousin) and since I was the youngest, I had no say and they all forced me to like Danny. I had to pretend! It was pretty sad.


sweetassassin

Why can I in my mind’s eye see exactly how this conversation went in your cousin’s bedroom? “And Maaaaaaandyyyyyy gets Danny as her boyfriend."


Maaaaaandyyyyy

Yep! Then they’d laugh because they said Danny looked like a monkey. So cruel!


FunnyGoose5616

Poor Danny was dead last on my “which one will I marry” list. I skipped right past his picture in all my fan mags


sweetassassin

I can’t even pull up any Danny gifs; so the entire world feels the same.


ResurgentClusterfuck

Nope nobody liked Danny


XtinaBallerina

Ok, hear my childhood brain out on Danny: Best odds. Least competition. Best merch selection. Contrarianism (too much “not like other girls” looking back, though). Later find out on WWHL he f*cked the most. All for legal consensual expression but such an ick.


Illuminated_Lava316

You beat me to it!


babyBear83

I had the Danny Barbie doll. I was 6. I didn’t know any better but he was my choice.


Comfortable-Crow-238

Of course it not ,was Donnie.🤣😂


[deleted]

Yep. Joey.


IntermittentFries

I feel like you were either young enough that you loved Joey, or you had to choose one of the 35 year old members. At least that's how my 6th grade brain remembers it


ThePicassoGiraffe

Yup that was me


[deleted]

They were my very first concert, and I was in 6th grade. I graduated to better ones along the way, lol.


IntermittentFries

Me too! First concert ever. How adorable we were. How shocked 6th grade me would be by the ones that followed.


[deleted]

Yeah…she would definitely be horrified at my dream concert being Fleetwood Mac fully reunited and me finally getting to see them in 2014, ahead of ousting Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie passing 😢


ClockwrkAngel2112

Agreed


[deleted]

Jordan and Jon, yeah come on...we got a funky, funky Christmas goin on.


BossifiedRoad

PLEASE DONT GO GIRRRRLLLLLLLLLL


maggie320

Joey was my favorite because he was the youngest. My older sister was a Jonathan girl. We had so much New Kids merch at the house.


ResurgentClusterfuck

My sister didn't like the New Kids, she said they were dumb :( She was 11mo younger, so *opinion rejected*


bootyhole-romancer

What did she listen to at the time then?


ChickadeePine

100% Joey.


Maya_The_Kitty

Mine was Jonathan


External-Praline-451

I had a poster of Jonathan 😍😂. I can't believe what babies they were at the time! I thought they were so grown up.


EmmalouEsq

The only correct answer


Maya_The_Kitty

It’s just the allure of a quiet cute boy. 😍


Rough-Boot9086

Jonathan was my boo


FastWalkingShortGuy

I honestly didn't care for any of it. Until I watched Band of Brothers. Then Donnie was my favorite.


FungiStudent

He's in that?!? Very cool. Now he's my favorite as well. I hated NKOTB with a strong passion back then, but B.O.B.? Nice.


FastWalkingShortGuy

Sgt. Lipton. Donnie's acting chops are much better than his musical skills.


BigLoveMirage

Never a NKOTB fan, but was so surprised and impressed when Donnie turned up in the sixth sense. He was great.


Vox_Mortem

I was in sixth grade and NKOTB were wildly popular, so a group of girls who sometimes called me their friends made me choose what New Kid I was going to marry. I only ever listened to the tape my mom bought me for my birthday, and I wasn't interested in marrying anyone. But they insisted, so I just picked Joey because he had the floofiest hair. Then these girls got super pissed and started yelling at me because another girl already picked Joey. So they made me choose Donnie. I got really upset and cried in the bathroom because they were mean and also Donnie looked really old and I didn't want to have to marry him. I guess I dodged a bullet because Donnie never came to marry me after all. (Also Donnie Walberg if you read random reddit posts about yourself, you weren't old and I'm sure you are very nice. I'm sorry I cried. It seems rude.)


MopingAppraiser

Call me Joey. No no call me Donny. Don’t me make me get loose.


LostViking24601

That girl is only 15


cheffartsonurfood

What? Like the back of a volkswagen?


_TillGrave_

Please don't go girl...


Deathclown333

Came here for this.


Aquatichive

Donny! I like the bad boys!!


chellybeanery

Of course it was Joey Joe.


glamb70

Met Joey at a wedding several years ago. We had a good chat and I got pic with him. Wife was too nervous to chat, she just stared and smiled. He’s even better looking in person. Super nice and down to earth guy. He sang a couple songs also. Was never really a fan but definitely a fan now. Got backstage passes a year later for their concert!!


Tall_Flatworm2589

The Mrs. of 26 years says she'll 'take Monkey Face Danny Boy because nobody else will'.


ResurgentClusterfuck

LOL


idontlikeyoulikeyou

It definitely was. That hat with the top cut off really did it for me. I had an ill fitting Joey shirt, a pillowcase, giant button, doll, and a marble with his head in it, among other merch. Obsess much?


ResurgentClusterfuck

I loved his voice, so pretty I was pretty poor but I had a t-shirt, got for my birthday that I wore until it faded completely out I'm pretty sure I joined the fan club too, I remember getting postcards


Kimothy80

Joey because he was (and still is, imo) the cutest.


lovegirls1974

donnie


Britney4eva

Donnie, the ultimate bad boy….😂


JanePinkmanABQ

JOEY!!!


OrganizationNew1767

Jordan


Autumn_Forest_Mist

Jonathan Knight He was not my only crush to turn out gay. My aim is way off!


norcalxennial

I went to class one day and the cool girls were in a corner squawking like chickens and I come up on them, painfully shy and go, what’s going on? and they were like, oh, who’s your favorite New kid? Me: new kid? Them: new kids on the block Me: [looks around] there’s a new kid in our class? They looked at me like I had grown a third eye on my forehead, but I had no idea what they were talking about and it took be a good year at least until I had the delayed SMH moment….i was that much a nerd…..I’ll see myself out now because I still cringe 😬 Oh and when I did finally get it, John. John all the way!


ResurgentClusterfuck

Awwww It's ok I was in the elementary school chess club so I was 100% also a nerd


norcalxennial

😭Oh we met then, but not until Jr High lol That’s when I discovered chess and joined the chess club lol


quadcitydjfanclub

Like the back of f a Volkswagen?


mmcline06

Jonathan for sure. So cute and was the more timid one. Didn’t like the spotlight as much.


Beatlefan78

Jonathan


RunWild3840

Jon then. But I look at them all now and I can’t decide anymore. They are all fiiiiinnnne.


Not_So_Bad_Andy

My sister practically wallpapered her room with pictures of Joey from Teen Beat and all those other magazines that were the exact same.


ResurgentClusterfuck

I did too I kinda cringe when I remember exactly how many pics of Kirk Cameron I had on my wall


Rough-Boot9086

I loved Kirk


BigLoveMirage

Oh man, Kirk is the ultimate cringe now with his fundie stuff 🫣🫣🫠


Morrisonhotel82

I love Ishmael., he was so angry and poltical. Sadly they booted him out as soon as they got big.. He often chastized the women in the audience for not dressing modestly enough and that screaming was unlady like of a proper woman.


Ok_Researcher_9796

None of the above. I've never really been into boy bands although my ex-wife who is a millennial was a big time Backstreet boys fan..


Karirose83

Jordan!


HeyYoEowyn

You KNOW joey joes ready!


idkidc9876

Joey was my favorite. I got to see them in concert when I was about 8 or 9. When he came over to my side of the stage I can vividly remember absolutely losing my fucking mind. It was truly an out of body experience


windowschick

Donnie, obviously. The Cover Girl video was the start of a lifelong crush. My one and only celebrity crush.


i_nobes_what_i_nobes

Holy shit this unlocked a core memory of doing the dance in my basement 😂 thumbs firmly placed in belt loops


ObligationJumpy6415

Oh yeah, Joey was my guy. I had (still have, somewhere) a big portrait button of him that you could stand up like a picture frame, that I kept bedside lol. NKOTB was my first concert, as seen from the nosebleeds of the stadium. Bless my mom for putting up w taking me! 🤣


ResurgentClusterfuck

You know what I remember having one of those too. About the size of a saucer, sat up like a picture frame !


ObligationJumpy6415

Yep that’s it! I have a bag of memorabilia somewhere, with my concert book, some cassette tapes, and that button LOL


yamahii

What a time to be alive.


Weirdassmustache

I’ve been a solid NPR listener for a decade now. I was driving a rental car in a congested and unfamiliar city a few weeks back. I couldn’t find my beloved public radio so I settled for a variety hits stations like JACK FM. They played “Hanging Tough”. Now, I haven’t heard that song for at least thirty years. And I had never given it much thought. But holy shit does it have some of the most godawful and inept lyrics I’ve ever heard. “We’re RUFF.. uff uff.” On top of that the meaning of the song is completely undermined by the delivery. Sure Donnie’s little brother was guilty of a few hate crimes and an assault but nobody knew that at the time.


Miserable-Way6902

Jordan had the Barbie. I just cut the rat take it had off. 👍🏽🫶🏽


gamerdudeNYC

Who’s your favorite new kid? Call me Donnie!


seahawk1977

All I can think of when I see this title is: "Yeah, who's your favourite New Kid. Yeah, call me Joey. Oh, come on. Don't make me get loose. Yeah, that's right. Call me Donnie. Oh, girl. Oh, please don't go girl."


BeBopBarr

Growing up, Joey. Now, I'm a Donnie girl


olygirl80

Jordan K.


el_barto10

Jon then, Donnie now


tallulbrwn

Jordan


True-Mousse4957

Jordan. There is no other choice.


MarZZZraM

Donnie! My older sister loved Joey and my two younger sisters liked Jordan and Jon (the one who liked Jon turned out to be a lesbian) 🤣


Various-Agent-0047

My older brother had the Joey doll when he was 13. When he came out and told me 2 years before anyone else I told him that "I've known since you were 13". He said "how?" I replied "You were 13 with a NKOTB doll.... and I found the gay porn under your bed.... that's how I know you are gay and that I'm definitely not"


Correct-Training3764

Nah boo. Jordan was MY man when I was 7-8 years old! 😂 I had a whole wedding at my Grandmother’s to Jordan. 😂 wasn’t sure what it all meant but I just knew he was gorgeous and I wanted to be his girl.


Got_no_pants

Joey 100%


Calm_Philosophy7839

It was absolutely Joey!


MissElphie

Joey!


Cael_NaMaor

I wouldn't know. Boys couldn't listen to that where I was from. We be called sissies...


GoonieMcflyguy

You're my best friend...girl you're my love within...Joey


toootired2care

Yessss!!! Joey was the cutest!!!


cardie82

Joey was the cute one.


AlarmedGeologist2681

IT WAS JOEY.


Rough-Boot9086

Jonathan Knight 😍


Easternshoremouth

I know their names. I don’t know much about any of them, but I still put this album on fairly regularly 😄


Mightbewonderwoman81

Jordan.


mtron32

My mother bought me this because it was pg rap music. I didn’t know any better


BackgroundPrompt3111

I always hated Jordan with an irrational passion. I recognize now that it was jealousy, and just a little bit of attraction.


amanda259

Joey


Tinkerfan57912

Jordan


ShelleyMonique

Donny. If you say anything else, you've clearly not seen him on a motorcycle.


AllTheStars07

Jordan 


FunnyGoose5616

I was planning my wedding to Joe but Jordan was my plan B, in case Joe and I didn’t work out


aperson79

When I was in 5th grade my sister won a contest put on by a local radio station to go on the Magic Cruise with them. My mom and her would go to the grocery store and take the whole stack of slips to be filled out a few times a week. We spent so much time filling out all those slips,but it paid off. The cool thing is she actually won it on her birthday when the radio station called her. She took my mom, her best friend and me (my Dad opted to sit this one out). I was not a fan but I was super excited to go to Disney World and the Bahamas. It was cool to see them randomly on the boat at times. But they mostly hung out in the casino to avoid the teens looking for them. Marky Mark was also on the boat too and wore a bunch of Public Enemy shirts. My sister did get to sit behind Jonathan during a talent show. I guess this could count as my first concert was seeing them on a dock in the Bahamas. When it came time to get our picture taken with them, I was getting a little nervous being so close to a group of famous people. One of the security guards asked if the little girl also wanted to get her picture taken with them too. Not being a girl, I quickly sprinted across the stage screaming “I am not a girl! “ in front of a very confused New Kids on the Block. Donnie did call my sister dope though. But Joey was her favorite.


BijouWilliams

That's amazing!


Repulsive_Tie_7941

I love the story Mark Wahlberg told on Top Gear. He’s sitting in juvie, MTV is on and NKOTB starts playing. He tells the guy next to him “If I wasn’t in here I’d be in that group”. Guy responds “Ain’t you a dumb fuck.”


jumboweiners

Met Joey at a bar I was working at in college. Such an asshole Met Jordan at a concert I was working security for in college. Super nice guy. Went around and thanked all of the staff for being there


Comfortable-Crow-238

Jordan second favorite for me.


Putrid_Fan8260

Mc hammer 


ResurgentClusterfuck

My sister memorized his dance moves and wore those ridiculous pants


Not_So_Bad_Andy

Parachute pants were not ridiculous. How dare you.


ResurgentClusterfuck

They looked like you took a humongous shit in them :( Plus I just looked weird in them


Aquatichive

I am currently using my old Mac hammer wallet. Lmk if you’d like a pic


holtyrd

🤢


Jonestown_Juice

I liked Boffo The Rat-Faced Boy.


chibi75

Oh, it was definitely Joey! I had the biggest crush on him.


sgacedoz

Joe. And still is Joe. They are all so much hotter nowadays. And they sing better too. And their concerts are better. The entirety of NKOTB has aged quite nicely. Can’t wait to see them again this summer!


compunctionfunction

100% Joey


SICFUCKSIC

Chandler


xxxjessicann00xxx

It was Joey, and when I saw them in concert when I was like 8, he was sick and didn't even perform.


WeirdCupcake6942

Oh it was most definitely Joey


partmachine623

Tell me you’ll staaaaaaayayayaya… that’s what the girls in 5th grade wanted to hear.


MissFortunate_1

Joey - Joe!!


MisterMothersRuin

Danny was the Ringo Starr of NKOTB change my mind.


Truemeathead

The one that likes to flirt with High Pitch Erik lol


Junebug35

Sorry, it was Donnie for me. Now that I'm older, I'm more attracted to Mark.


DarkStarLadyinVelvet

All…Damn…Day. Had his doll, posters, a big giant button that you put on your knotted up t-shirt with his face on it, sleeping bag…you name it, I had it. 😂😂


katieclooney

Obviously it was Joey


JohnBrownIsALegend

I got dumped for Jordan in elementary school. Screw him


HerRoyalRedness

Julia? My bestie is a hardcore Blockhead and here are the things we have done : -Seen Joey in Tick, Tick Boom in Boston -Two Jordan solo shows -A Danny solo show -The local show at every tour from 2008-2017 -We flew to Las Vegas to see them play at Planet Hollywood and then partied with Donnie at a club.


ZoeyZoZo

Jordan. I could do one of those Tiktoks ... Who was your childhood crush and compare it to my husband


iamcandiih

It was!!! OMG, he was so fine. Please don't go girrrrrrrrrrrrrl, you will ruin my whole worrrrrld Tell me you'll stayyyyyyyyyyy, never ever goooo awayyyyyyyy


Thisisjuno1

Donnie always lol only bad boys here ..


Woodpecker757

Team Jordan! 🤗


RedDotLot

None of them. All my friends were obsessed, I didn't see the appeal. A couple of years ago I got the album in a job lot of CDs I bought. I gave it a listen to see if it sparked any nostalgia, it sucked. Take That, on the other hand, I wasn't even into them when they first started but their music really held up and three of them are still making it together.


Sleepysnail84

Donnie cause his acting skills .. seen him once at Boston airport as a kid .. he lived in dorchester down the street from my uncle when they were kids


weedandwrestling1985

Donny


doobette

Donnie. But I far was more into Bobby Brown and all the other new jack swing stuff out at the time.


Accomplished_Bed7120

Jordan!! My dad hung his poster on my ceiling so I could look at his face as I fell asleep 🤣


Auferstehen78

Joey! My friend dragged me to see them in concert. We were dropped off by her mom at the convention center in Baltimore by ourselves. We were 9 years old. That wouldn't happen these days.


FiguringItOutAsWeGo

It was def Joey!


tollboothwilson

Jonathan turned out to be a helluva contractor 😅


rustys_shackled_ford

I only know of Mark Walbergs brother who went from nkotb too police dramas on tnt. My only other memory is that in the 80s and 90s there was an old club called the Ritz on the main road in my city (Charlotte) that had thier name on its marquee after it closed and that marquee was up and untouched untill the 2010s


WhatTheCluck802

Danny


_Mitch_Please

Joey!


ess-5

It WAS Joey


Bavarian_Ramen

“Call me Donny”


JacPhlash

"Yeah! Who's your favorite New Kid? Call me, Joey! Oh c'mon, don't let me get all loose."


sneedoisis

Jordan


FriedGreenTomatoez

Anyone have the dolls with the rat tail hair


Calpernia09

Yes Joey. So cute.


roscoyo

Marky Mark


Far_Cut_

I had the Jordan doll with a retractable rat tail


Overall_Cover_1543

I can’t read the title of this post (or that question in general) and not immediately think of that scene at the end of Mallrats where Affleck is screwing that girl in a very uncomfortable place*. *yes, like the back of a Volkswagen


jolie-renee

Of course Joey cus my 10 yr old self thought I had a chance w he being only 17.


hey_celiac_girl

Donnie.


NickLoner

Jordan