Which is a little crazy, being as it's a boy band, and let's face it, boy bands have never been able to live up to my New Kids on the Block expectations.
Air fist, I know you moms out there hear me.
The Circus made it through Justin Bieber with a small scratch. I think Casidee liked him for about a month; long enough for me to make a cake with his face (and hair) in fondant. The highlight of my caking, to be sure (here).
And One Direction has settled into the bedrooms of my girls for the last few months, thumping out a rhythm into the walls, their faces even covering the walls of, again, Casidee, whom I think is just in love with the idea of being a fan girl in general. But she takes it hard core and if she's going to fan girl on something then she is in it heart and soul (and bedroom walls).
But me?
Not so much.
I mean, One Direction is okay and I don't turn the radio station when their songs come on, like I do for Bruno Mars, and I even sing along, but they're not on my iPod or anything.
I just haven't found a boy band that does it for me since NKOTB.
But then I was introduced to Beyond 5 and I found myself with a free cd in hand and some concert tickets to give away to a Logan concert back in December (here). So I took a few of the girls and we drove for two hours to see a band we'd never heard of before (here).
The rest is history, as they say.
I find that I'm following their social media (links below).
And I have their entire cd on my iPod (check them out on itunes here).
I can sing every word with The Circus when we break out into impromptu singing in the kitchen, because the songs are constantly running through our heads.
I'm not going to claim to be a fan girl because I can't tell you their birthdays, or favorite colors, or even their exact ages, and I certainly don't have their faces plastered to my bedroom wall (do you think The Man would go for that? Yeah, I didn't think so either...) but what I've realized is...
I've become a groupie.
With my daughters.
Am I too old for this?
Maybe.
Perhaps it's because we've had the fortune of rubbing elbows with them a little bit so they're real to me. I've talked with them personally and know how down-to-earth, polite, respectful, and witty they are as individuals. Maybe it's because I know what it is to chase a dream and see them as they're working so hard at theirs.
And it's good.
I tell you, this music, their harmony, is good.
We got tickets (for Casidee's birthday) to a special VIP event with Beyond 5 on Friday night.
It wasn't assigned seating so as soon as the girls were all out of school we grabbed a $5 pizza to go,
and some McD's pies
because Friday was pi day, yo, so we had to have our pizza pie and our apple pie, and we ate it while sitting on the sidewalk, playing Fluxx, and waiting for the doors to open.
The doors opened, we found seats third row, though honestly, with only 250 seats in the place, there wasn't going to be a bad spot, and waited just a little bit more.
Cali didn't attend the concert back in December and she'd been hearing all about Beyond 5 ever since then. She tends to fan girl about as hard core as Casidee does, and often takes her sister's lead when it comes to music so she had 3 solid months to fall absolutely in love with Beyond 5.
When the guys finally showed up on stage, Cali's happiness and excitement in that moment proved to be too much for her to bear and she pretty much bawled through the entire first song.
This VIP event was cool.
The guys talked and told stories, showed behind the scenes videos and joked with each other a lot.
They sang new songs that we hadn't heard them do before.
(a better video of their Unconditionally here. Go listen. So worth it).
And they did a Q&A session and sang their songs that we all knew well.
And they sang to their moms which was super cute.
We were given swag bags at this VIP event which was full of pictures and Casidee's One Direction wall has now become a full bedroom of Beyond 5.
I support this.
I probably feed it.
After the show we got to meet the guys and get autographs.
And just for the record, I totally got grounded for the quality of this picture:
Mom fail.
And somehow they had time for this old groupie mom too.
Double chins and all.
They even let us have our own little moment with them, when all was said and done, and tables were cleared out and people were gone.
Beyond 5 and The Circus.
A special thank you to the band's dads who helped us with the picture.
And an extra special thank you to Zac's dad, Corey for helping Cali with her lost, autographed poster. Cali had set it down, in true Cali fashion, and when she went to get it, it was gone. Corey grabbed a new poster, ran out to the the bus where the guys were already settling in after the antics of the night, and had them sign it again.
Cali got a special "I love you" message from Ammon on it.
These guys are good people. They're surrounded by good people.
And they have good music so go follow them.
Youtube HERE
Instagram HERE
Facebook HERE
Official website HERE
They'll be back in Utah this summer.
You should catch a show.
The Circus will probably be there too.
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