'When I look back now, a grown woman of 32 — Kevin is so much hotter than the other Backstreet Boys that it’s actually a little embarrassing.' KTHeaney writes
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Historically, I was only a Backstreet Boys fan in the sense that I was a teenage girl in the ’90s, and the allure of boy-band sexuality hung in my middle school’s hallways like B.O. I had the requisite, personality-defining crushes but neither attended concerts nor cut their pictures from magazines. At the time, I was primarily into Shakira.
It’s so obvious if you look at even one picture of them from back then, but let me explain the hotness hurdles Kevin Richardson faced even as an objectively handsome young man. In 1996, when the Backstreet Boys were just beginning to take off in the United States, Kevin Richardson was 25 years old. Nick Carter was 16. I don’t know what it was like where you grew up — and no judgment, I guess — but at my school, liking Kevin best was simply not an option.
This speaks to Backstreet Boys as a whole, and not just Kevin, but another thing the 2015 documentary did was to effectively make One Direction look like a bunch of amateurs in comparison. And I say that as someone who loved One Direction very much, and who will hold a candle for Harry Styles till the day I die. But man, those kids had it easy.
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