Fresh from turning himself in for hundred-year-old traffic trouble, Bobby Brown’s decided he needs a change. That change, so we’re told, involves the rest of New Edition forgiving him of his many trespasses.
That’s right, New Edition and Bobby Brown are getting back together – for one show only. And then reportedly again in 2008 for an album and lots of shows. Also they were just together in 2005 at a BET function. And even though they essentially broke up in 1989 their mighty roar still echoes through the empty vastness of space and time.
So they haven’t really been gone long enough to create any sort of bubble-gum vacuum, but just the same – land alive! New Edition is getting back together!
New Edition (CDs) is getting back together to play a gig in Houston. That’s Houston the city in Texas – not a gigantic effigy of Bobby Brown’s
poop-clogged wife with a hollowed out backside just big enough for six
grown men to sing in, dance in, and repeatedly swab skanks in the
greenroom. The New Edition gig is for the Essence Music Festival which will be held July 1-3.
Since 1995, the Essence Music Festival has traditionally been
held in New Orleans’ Superdome, but due to Hurricane Katrina it’s been
temporarily relocated. Other performers will include LL Cool J, Earth Wind & Fire, Diddy, and White Lion. White Lion will actually not be playing this festival in any capacity.
Bobby Brown was voted out of New Edition around 1986 for his questionable
onstage antics. He went on to have a temporarily successful solo
career. In 2005, Brown was the star of his own reality show entitled Being Bobby Brown,
in which there was talk of Brown handpicking stink pellets from his
wife’s straining poop chute. Did we mention that Bobby Brown did this by hand – bare
hand?
We’d have used a stick and a glove.
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Bobby Brown, New Edition to reunite – MSNBC
[story by Shawn Lindseth]