Jeremy Jordan

Okay, I have a confession.  I forgot my camera at home so I can't write about how I finished my sewing room (I hope y'all like it!) and how I have a bone to pick with those that spoke up about my curtains.  Why, you might ask?  Because, like a junkie, all weekend I kept looking and looking at my curtains and finally I gave in, like a junkie, and took some of your advice to make the curtains not droop.  Much, MUCH cursing ensued.  I'm so serious, y'all are lucky I don't have your home phone numbers - I was using quite colorful language because apparently the cornice is made of CONCRETE or something on the left side.  But I'll tell you more about that later.


So I was cleaning out my trunk just after I got my big-girl car and I found a box with random stuff in it.  Sifting through it I found a cassette tape insert of Jeremy Jordan.  I'm already starting to sweat with embarrassment but we're all friends here right?  Anyway, I used to have his tape and with that, I have confirmed that I am indeed 100% middle-aged.  I had the biggest crush on Jeremy Jordan and knew all the words to his songs so I went looking on YouTube and look what I found!   

And yes, I just watched that and sang all the words by heart.  Y'all remember that phase?  That white-boy-as-soul-singer phase?  Who else did that?  I'm drawing a blank right now.


I think Jeremy Jordan is my most embarrassing musical crush although I am a child of the 80s.  Can you believe that at one point I was into hair bands?  I had a poster of Def Leppard above my bed (it went nicely with my Cabbage Patch Kids curtains and bedspread) and I knew all the words to "Pour Some Sugar on Me."  Guns n Roses "November Rain" was my song and I totally had a top hat like Slash and I would brush my hair out to look like his.  And you simply have to include Poison's "Every Rose has its Thorn."  I think I actually cried to that song once.


Once I grew out of that phase I discovered hip-hop and I that's when I found Salt-n-Pepa and the giant gold door-knocker earrings.  I was so mad at mom for not letting me cut my hair short and dye it blonde and shave one side.  

Incidentally, she had to shave her head because of a bad relaxer.

And I totally had that outfit.

Then came all the crushes on Bell Biv Devoe, or BBD to their true fans, Boyz II Men and Shai, OMG SHAI!!

Was it a rule that that all singing must be shirtless?
And yes, I just sang all the words.

I'm so old I can't remember if I had a tape or a CD of Shai - remember for a time they would put out both in case you weren't as technologically advanced?  Or the boomboxes that had both a CD and a tape player?  I had one of those in my bedroom too.

NKTOB?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Don't lie!!

I knew that dance too - I did it all the time but you had to be careful swinging your legs like that on the living room carpet because if you get too enthusiastic you could slip and fall in front your friends.  Not that I know anything about that.  


All right, I refuse to stand alone in this!  So spill - who is your most embarrassing musical crush? What songs do you still know by heart?  Don't leave me hanging y'all!