Chris (again, someday I'll stop boggling about this); BSB concert

[erilyn]

yay, downloading Heroes already! Fandom rocks :)

Well, I certainly picked a good day not to go to work (I wanted to get over this cold, since being well for classes and exams is more important to me right now than work). It ended up meaning I could spend a couple of hours chatting (and talking) to some of my favourite people about Chris and other random things :) But now I'm sad cause the scenarios we were tossing around will never come to be (and would be far superior to reality) - especially Chris and Kevin deciding to form a pop supergroup and they do it as Rockstar: Popstar or something, where they would totally proceed to make out even more than Tommy Lee and Dave Navarro did.

Actually, if someone wants to write an AU story around that premise, with the various pop boys and girls as contestants, I'm not too proud to grovel.

I did also like my idea that the fifth member of the Manband would actually be one of the original-later-dumped Backstreet Boys (Charles or the other one) or Jason-the-original-other-n-in-Nysnc. Who would of course quit or be dumped right towards the end of the show and replaced with Kevin or Lance, and then never referred to again.

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> Backstreet Boys: Black and Blue tour - Live in Rio - 3rd May 2001

Link to the directory. 24 files, 840 meg. By request for turloughishere.
The complete show. Professionally filmed, but the sound and picture quality isn't the greatest.

Comments

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Seriously, AJ writhing around the stage in leather, performing in the Rockstar competition, is gonna stick in my head for a while. Mmmmm.

I'm not AIM a huge amount of the time, but it'd be great to chat! :)

[plastiqueallure.livejournal.com]

AJ writhing around the stage in leather, performing in the Rockstar competition

*swallows tongue*

Right when I'm in the middle of an AJ phase. *whimpers* I SO didn't need to have that image in my head when I still have a class to get through.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

AJ writhing around the stage in leather

I've completely missed that. Um. Guh! Was that in the last series of Rockstar? or the INXS one?

I've resisted AIM for years. But I think fandom may drag me there (story of my life!!!!!).

And I appear to have completely chilled about Manband - though I still shudder before giggling at the title.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Just a particularly vivid image that is haunting me, sadly not based on anything specifically ;)

I'm kind of over it now, though at times when I see mention of it, I still don't feel great about it.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

I think most of my negative reaction came from an extreme distrust and hatred of reality television. I don't want to get emotionally invested in that kind of thing. And I so so will in Manband.

But I am going to follow the blind trust in Chris that other fans are expressing and hope for the best. And hopefully try and gain some perspective so if it's a trainwreck crossed with roadkill I will at least be able to laugh.

Is your negative reaction exacerbated by House of Crack?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, House of Carters is both better and worse than I expected, though I didn't have definite expectations, just amorphous dread. Its certainly more boring at times than I expected.

I think my dread about this is just my perception that shows like this are marketed as being about desperate has-beens, which is a label I don't want for any of the guys.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Yeah... has-been is a terrible epithet, and working in media I get concerned that no matter the material its the spin the marketing execs put on it that makes.

Mind you, at least one member of a successful boyband usually gets a career out of it... maybe Chris will get to be that this time through.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

That should say "the spin the marketing execs put on it is what sells and what is remembered."

doh!