this used to be the poster in my bedroom

Among the things that Princetonians will get their panties in a bunch about are gender-neutral housing, misprints of our selectivity rate, and firearms for public safety. It seems that the comments section of the Daily Princetonian, however, is no longer a space set aside for Princeton students to espouse these residual precept thoughts. The comments section is being infiltrated by the most dangerous species of our population: the boy-band-loving teenybopper.

Kiran Gollakota’s scathing review of the Backstreet Boys’ new album has created quite an uproar — it’s one of the most highly-commented stories of the week. With over 83 posts to date, the comments section is riddled with rebuttals such as this:

“you´re crazy…I´m 15, my friends and I listened to the BSB, we know tehm 1 year ago, if you want the opinion of someone who listens to music of today I can tell you is the best CD of the BSB and all my friends my same age think the same, that you’re an old man who likes old music and old-fashioned, of course these millennium is a perfect CD for you, but if you want to hear something modern, listen THIS IS US, and one person tells you that listening music XXI century.”

This just in: Princeton is an old-fashioned world filled with old men in tweed jackets listening to their old music. Leave it to the BSB fans to remind us.