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Call it the Boy-Band Hall of Fame Reunion Tour: New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys will be hitting the road together next summer.

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All nine band members will get together this Monday for an interview with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, who made the announcement about the tour on his KIIS-FM radio show and Facebook page Wednesday. The first opportunity to see the bands performing together will be later this month at the American Music Awards, airing on ABC November 21.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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