Saturday Night: NKOTB at Tacoma Dome!

We arrived at 5 p.m. and got a sweet FREE parking spot a block away from the Tacoma Dome. I can't believe people actually shell out $25 to park across the street from the venue. Are you fucking kidding me?!?

Anyway, we still had three hours to kill so we headed to Alfred's Café to get our booze on. The place was already packed with NKOTB fans when we arrived. Hardcore fans who had on their old school NKOTB jackets and t-shirts from when they were 10-years-old. Of course, any NKOTB fan is a friend of mine. And that sentiment seemed to be mutual between all women that night.

Whenever a girl wearing NKOTB apparel walked in, Alfred's erupted into cheers. We all smiled and waved at each other. By the time 7:30 p.m. rolled around, we'd all exchanged life stories with enough women to start a close-knit sorority. (We met several fans who'd driven down from Portland because the Oregon show had been canceled.)

NKOTB has BSB and N'Sync beat when it comes to fans. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY WOMEN IN MY LIFE AS THE NIGHT OF THE NKOTB CONCERT. I was afraid my birth control was going to stop working because of all the estrogen around me.

The night's show began at 8 p.m. sharp with opening act Lady GaGa. (Did anybody see her perform at the Last Supper Club later that night?) I've seen her three times in the last four months and she just blows me away. Following Gaga was Natasha Bedingfield. I used that time to buy booze, which should give you an idea of how captivating a performer she is.

Then, the BIG MOMENT arrived. Actually, that's not true. It took a long ass time to arrive. The Tacoma Dome put up some giant screens and invited fans to text in messages to NKOTB that they then posted. I really hope it was free, because I sent messages like "Joey marry me," "Joey get naked" and "Joey u got the right stuff!" wayyy more times than necessary. My favorite--which I'm disappointed I didn't think of--was a text somebody sent that read "Joey the test came back--it's yours." What woman doesn't love Joey McIntyre?  Talk about dreamy... sigh... For him I'd toss the birth control.

My dream boy and his posse took the stage at around 9:30 p.m. at which time we were all foaming at the mouth in anticipation "THEY'RE BACK" read a huge teleprompter on stage. I screamed. 12,000 other women screamed.  I went deaf. Everybody began jumping up and down in their stiletto heels and the entire fucking arena started shaking. I thought the Dome was going to collapse. And I didn't care if it did. If I was gonna die, so be it. At least I'd go out in bliss.  

NKOTB opened with "Single" the hit off their new album The Block. Then quickly launched into hits like "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind), "My Favorite Girl" and of course, "You've Got It (The Right Stuff.)" They later took to the center of the arena to perform some more new tracks, including "2 in the Morning" and my current favorite "Dirty Dancing."