Thursday, June 29, 2006

Menudo

Menudo remains the template for all past, present and future "boy bands." They patented the synchronized fancy-dancing interspersed with angelic jailbait harmonies. Plucked from obscurity in Puerto Rico, the members of Menudo took the world -- especially junior high schools -- by storm in the 80s. The rule was that when your voice descended into manly you were kicked out of the band. Michael Jackson, reportedly, took photographs of the band at the height of their fame *The Corsair shudders*. Then there were the pedophilia rumors that were never substantiated.

Pederasty notwithstanding, it was all good.

When Ricky Stratton tried to impress "Consuela" -- Averted Gaze -- on that significant 80s artifact Silver Spoons, his toy baron father colonized the band Menudo for his own private birthday party. (Exaggerated cough suggesting feigned detachment)"See Consuelo," intones Schroeder with all the sangfroid of British East India frontier constabulary in a Joseph Conrad novel, "I told you they'd show up." :



On the far left, grinding like a little monkey, we cannot fail to note, is a prepubescent Ricky Martin.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, riding boots over skinny jeans..I never realized Menudo was so ahead of its time. Where would Sienna be without them?

Anonymous said...

Ricky Martin is not in that clip. He wasn't in the group at that time. The kid you think is him is actually a different kid all together.

The Corsair said...

My bad. Thanks for the correction.