BACKSTREET BOYS ISN'T JUST A BAND. IT'S A LIFESTYLE.
Last weekend I started an Etsy shop - Just A Fangirl, Inc. - after buying a Cricut cutting tool the weekend before. I had been looking at Cricuts since the lockdown happened last year. But I kept putting it off because I knew if I started going back to the office to...
I was born in 1998. “Backstreet’s Back” wasn’t even one-year-old yet and “Millennium” would come out exactly one year later.
Yep, it's time for another edition of The Fangirl Diaries! This time I tackle "The Masked Singer" for the last time,...
Signing up for a social media account is easy. In fact, it’s probably the easiest thing about running a social media account, especially if you’re running it from a “fandom” point-of-view.
When I first signed up for Twitter, I never once thought that I would be using it for the greater fangirl good. In fact, right when Twitter first came out, I was taking an independent study class my senior year of college where I wrote a new age internet guide for college newspapers.
The other day I was discussing with friends the promotional soda cans that had the Backstreet Boys faces on them and how...
A lot of people don’t think about what kind of fangirl they are – they just are one.
A fangirl can be your typical teenager who buys teenybopper magazines for posters of BTS. A fangirl can be your college student who still loves that band that won her heart when she was a little girl. A fangirl can be an adult with a job and life who loves an artist, movie franchise, group, or sports star with all of her heart.
Fangirl: To behave in an obsessive or overexcited way.
Guilty. As. Charged.
“I wish I was as dedicated and loyal to ANYTHING in my life as you are to the Backstreet Boys.” – Former Co-Worker
Whether she meant it as a compliment or not, my former co-worker expressed a sentiment shared by many colleagues and friends in my life. And, as with most foreign concepts, there is a lot of curiosity around what it means to be a Backstreet Boys “fangirl.” Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions from people outside the fandom and my best responses (feel free to adapt and recycle where appropriate!).
Everything has to be perfect. Right? That's what I always think, but does it ever turn out the way I want it? Yeah, not...
As I sit in the Intensive Care Unit while my mother is laying, unconscious (but sedated) and on a ventilator, I'm reading...
A week or so ago I stumbled across a link to the Kickstarter page for a documentary called "I Used To Be Normal - A Boy...
If you hadn't heard, two Australia women are making the story of my life (no pun intended) and yours too - the fangirl...
I have been going to concerts since I was in fourth grade and I saw New Kids on the Block for the first time. My mother,...