Description
Wouldn’t it have been great to be a fly on the wall at those first tentative reunion meetings among the former New Kids on the Block? “So, uh, you guys done anything meaningful with your lives since we were together?… Yeah, me neither.” There is a new NKOTB album, creatively titled The Block, but you know the fans are here for “Step by Step,” “The Right Stuff” and all the other bubblegum anthems that paved the way for the Backstreet Boys and their ilk. Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten shows her as the U.K.’s answer to Nelly Furtado—a big-voiced pop singer dressed in slicked-up, fake-urban edge.