About Us	Search	Advertising

	Brought to you by:

Not sure if you've heard the news yet, but in case you haven't, I thought I better warn you.

I quote: "They may be pushing 40, but the boy band New Kids on the Block has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour." ? News24

Is it just me or does there seem to be a terrible return to things that should probably be left in the past?

First the Spice Girls decide that they are tired of living off the royalties of their lollipop hits of the past (or their famous football husband's fortune as the case may be) and announce a comeback.

Now the Kids who weren't all that cool the first time around are threatening the same thing.

Pushing forty? What are they going to call themselves? The Artists-Formerly-Known-as New? The Artists-Formerly-Known-as Kids? How about The Old Nearly-Middle-Aged One-Hit-Wonders on the Block?

I wonder: is this a sign of things to come?

Perhaps a new trend of bad fashion and bubble-gum rap and pop from the past?

Is Vanilla Ice waiting around the corner somewhere just dying for the right moment to jump out and freak us all out? "Will it ever stop? Yo, I dunno! ICE, ICE BABY!"

Is MC Hammer planning to stage a comeback by opening a new line of balloon pants for the modern man? Can you just picture all the models sliding left and right across the runway singing - "Can't touch this, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah - Can't touch this!"

Perhaps Jenny from the block - aka Jennifer Lopez, aka JLo, aka Mrs Marc Anthony - will swap her new found fashion sense for a pair of those hot-pants, a frizzy hair-do and some Doc-Martans to revive the "I was a backup dancer on In Living Colour" look!

The trends of the eighties and early nineties have certainly already made a comeback in many other places. Many wardrobes, yes even mine, have found little traces of eighties fashion creeping in.

Footless tights, bright - almost lumo - colours, puffy skirts, and yes even shoulder pads are being worn by some of today's fashion conscious.

And Hollywood, perhaps in the wake of the on-going writers' strikes, have certainly found a way to make money out of spin-off shows and movie revivals.

Sylvester Stallone put away his walker, grabbed the botox and decided it was time to play Rocky for the... um... how many have there been?

All I can remember is "Yo Adrian!"

Now I believe there is even talk of him reprising his role as Rambo.

For all those little boys out there who wished they had a car like Kit, Knightrider is about to be revived - whether it will be with or without everyone's favourite Hoff in the lead role is as yet uncertain.

And if you, like me, loved watching BA and the boys in the show that almost always ended with the line, "I love it when another plan comes together" - then you will be pleased to know that the A-Team are reuniting!

If this all seems like to much for you to handle, there is a big plus-side for those of us who were around when all these shows and songs were first aired.

At least if the eighties makes a comeback we won't have to feel ancient any more when a teenager or child asks us a question like, "What's a Macgyver?"

	Back to top
©