BRIDGET'S GUIDE TO BOY BANDS

As previously mentioned, Bridget Wilder: Live Free, Spy Hard is about an unscrupulous presidential candidate out to steal the election through devious means. But that's not all it's about. BW:LFSH is also about Bridget and the sitting President's daughter bonding over their shared love for the Scottish boyband, Live 4eva.

At the current time of writing, that band does not officially exist. But other boy bands do, many, many of them. Some amazing, some embarrassing, lots of them both.

Let's pay tribute to some of the greatest and most shameful names in the genre and what better way to kick off than with the best boy band record ever made. (Until Live 4eva make one...)

The Backstreet Boys toughed it out in the trenches, relocating from their Florida homes to Europe in search of audiences who accepted them, their harmonies and high-intensity dance moves. After receiving a curt nod of approval from German audiences, the BSB returned home in semi- triumph. They spent months playing high schools, malls, rest stops and parking garages to anyone who would listen until they grew a passionate following of their own. A bunch of Swedish-produced-and written hits followed.  But, as contagious as Backstreet's Back and Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely were, they reached a never-to-be-equalled career peak with I Want It That Way. Hundreds of years have elapsed since this song's intial release and it's opening moments still cause time to stand still. I Want It That Way  has no dancing, no goofy rap breakdown, no extravagant promises of eternal devotion, but in it's moodiness and melancholy, it achieves peak boy bandness!