My Love for Hanson

I totally understand why female adolescents nowadays are losing their minds over Justin Beiber. Not because I am a fan of Beiber myself but because I’ve been there before – and I have had my share of lunacy and crazy antics too.

It started when I first saw them on TV one hot summer day of the summer of 2006. I was folding my clothes and the TV was on to bypass the monotony that goes along with the mundane activity I was presently engage in. Like a blasting meteor of some sort, these guys hit me, hard, on the head! They were very talented guys and very good looking. I was mesmerized. I can barely explain the feeling but it was as if energy shifted into me. Like some illness, it completely overtook me and I was never the same since then.

Hanson totally ‘rocked my world’.

Then days later, I found myself completely nuts about them. I coudn't pass a normal day without them in my mind. I could barely do things because I was constantly occupied with the thought of them. The four walls my room, were covered with Hanson posters, and I scribbled HANSON in big bold letters on my window. I kept a portfolio of them complete with pictures, trivia, song lyrics, etc. I placed stickers of them in all of my belongings. I faint whenever I heared Hanson music. Since it was only through Ebay that I can buy their latest albums, I skipped eating to save some money for it. Talk about obsessed.

My ID was k8fanson in all portals including non-Hanson sites. I know all their birthdays and names and their girlfriends’ names and now, their children’s. I was constantly wishing to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma just to see them in person. I spent hundreds of pesos surfing about them on the internet and downloading their songs. I know all their web sites, including fan sites by heart…and soul. I memorize all their songs and watched all of their videos in YouTube. I basically knew the spelling of ’weird’ because of their song of the same title. Due to the amount of time I've been spending alone listening to them, I could have been dead for a week, and nobody would notice.

I hated Moffats because they’re rivals. And till now I still do. I dislike Jonas Brothers for some unexplainable reasons. Maybe because they are known for the same concept.

And that went on for about two years.

Now that I’m mature and my hormones have ebbed, I can say that it was all part of who I am now.

I’m still a big fan of Hanson. Still, they have captivated me just like before with every album. Unceasingly do they prove that they are not just the ‘three brothers that sang mmmbop’ or the ‘singers that looked like girls.’ They still have their own folder on my Mp3 and their portfolio is still in my shelf of memories. I still have their CDs and protect them with all my facilities. I still love Hanson and they’ll always be part of me.

I am glad I’ve been there, that I’ve been obsessed in one point of my adolescence. And I’m glad that they are the object of that fixation.  It was one of the most exciting phases of my teenage life. Even though I could never go back to those times, I can recover the feeling of those happy times through this band, through their songs, these incredibly talented and strangely attractive guys whom I once wished to embrace and hold and love.

Hanson Fan Forever. Amen.