Alright I just can't resist anymore; gentlemen, I present a topical pun that ruined so many grade school dances for me (because I refused to drink the "yeah, they're so good" cool aid).
Basically I had nothing good to say about any of Maurice Starr's boy bands and it didn't help my already nonexistant popularity with the young ladies. ... I think one girl actually got her older boyfriend to threaten me with violence because I dissed NKOTB.
To be fair, at the time I was heavily into Roxette (then again, considering what the rest of the class was into, I wasn't doing too badly). Further hurting my coolness; they just weren't half as big over here as in Euroland, but at least I got a few awkward slowdances out of it.