It's guilty pleasures week and there's an American Idol cast-off and a boy super-band in the house. Sounds about right! Come, let's see if anyone's still holding onto their dignity by the time this hour's up...

Tom Bergeron proclaims this a "jam-packed night" and then immediately makes good on his word by throwing to a performance from the nostalgia-fueled supergroup New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys. There are about 5,000 people onstage. OK, nine, but this conglomerate is looking more like a K-Pop legion and less like a boy band. This kind of epic, unlikely match-up probably has the same effect on a segment of the population's blood pressure as a Justice League/X-Men union would have on that of the bad guys: pulses quicken and adrenalin throbs in their wake. NKOTBSB (or the Panty Droppers, for short) perform their single "Don't Turn Out the Lights." Oh, don't worry boys, we won't: more than half the fun of this is just looking at you. Always was. Most of the members get a brief couplet of the song. It's like "We Are the World" but with slightly less hubris. Shaky voices abound. Always did. Nick Carter sounds best.

Do we blame masochism or simple desperation on the fact that this group is performing during guilty pleasures week? I hope none of them feel guilty about being regarded as guilty pleasures. I worry about the self-images of stars who are past their prime ... and then I think about how big a killing these guys are making in ticket sales and then I don't feel so bad.

Там все в восторге полном, а я еще нашла что ниписал Дрю Лаше из 98 degrees .Говорит, что вчерашнее выступление подтолкнуло его к возвращению в музыку и что за ними будущее