Nick Carter's engaged! The youngest member of the Backstreet Boys proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lauren Kitt on the 20th of February 2013 according to Wikipedia. I always thought I was going to be his bride. This is a story of how I became a Backstreet Boys fan or Backstreet girl; what do the fans call themselves!?
It was June of the year 2011. I was looking up Backstreet Boys on YouTube because I was going through this phase where I wanted to relive my childhood. The Backstreet Boys were a minor part of my childhood actually. I knew who they were but I kind of didn't remember what they looked like. I'm sorry, but the Spice Girls and Britney Spears basically took over my life when I was 3 years old. So the first video I clicked on was Everybody (Backstreet's Back) because this one time, in my old school, when I was 10 or 11, it was Art class and the teacher would usually switch on the radio and this song came on. So, when it got to that verse where they sang "Am I sexual?", everyone in class started giggling like it was the funniest thing ever. I admit, I laughed as well. The word sexual being said really got to us kids back then. Watching the video that day, I felt like I've watched it before. Nostalgia overload. I thought Howie D was beautiful in the video. He looked almost like Willy Wonka with the hat and the stick. But when it got to the part where Nick Carter sang "So everybody, everywhere. Don't be afraid, don't have no fear." I instantly fell in love with Nick. I mean actually FALL. His blonde middle parting hair (curtain hair) falling just above his blue eyes, made my knobby knees weak. So that's basically how I fell head over heels for Nick Carter.
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