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"Even though exhibits A, B, and C let me know that singer John Mayer and common sense must be mortal enemies like hot chicken grease and exposed skin, I still have this reaction when he speaks: But because my boobs are small, placing his head against them is less like resting on a cushion-y memory foam pillow and more like pressing your face against your bedroom brick wall as you&amp;#x27;re trying to hear your neighbors&amp;#x27; argument. Anyway, the point is that Mayer is kind of a jerk, but he has a cute face and he wrote that song &amp;quot;Daughters,&amp;quot; which is basically a Hallmark card for the ears. Despite his persona, there&amp;#x27;s no denying that he&amp;#x27;s a good singer-songwriter and an even more gifted guitarist, which is why I&amp;#x27;m even slightly excited about the fact that after a nearly three-year hiatus due to a potentially career-ending throat condition, he&amp;#x27;s going back on tour. So while I&amp;#x27;m still deciding if I&amp;#x27;m going plop down some cashola for a John Mayer concert, there are other artists/bands that, without hesitation, I would definitely pay to see if they announced they were going back on the road. Without further ado, here are the seven groups that I wish would do a tour: Outkast #RealTalk, whenever I hear that Big Boi and Andre 3000 are releasing music as solo acts and not as Outkast, I react the same way as a dude, who is sick of having to travel an hour just to get from his apartment to his girlfriend&amp;#x27;s place, has decided that&amp;#x27;s he&amp;#x27;s only coming over based on her answer to the following question: And if she responds with, &amp;quot;No, I&amp;#x27;m not in the mood tonight,&amp;quot; then he&amp;#x27;s going to take off his good undies, throw on a pair of food-stained pajama pants, and try to wrap up the phone call like he&amp;#x27;s speaking to a telemarketer: &amp;quot;Uh huh,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s fascinating,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, now is not a good time,&amp;quot; and then hang up. What I&amp;#x27;m getting at is that I&amp;#x27;m not purchasing any more of Big Boi and Andre 3000&amp;#x27;s music if they&amp;#x27;re aren&amp;#x27;t going to perform together as a group. It&amp;#x27;s not that their solo projects are bad&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;#x27;re actually good&amp;amp;#8212;but it&amp;#x27;s obvious that their songs only reach their creative peak when Big Boi and Andre are a duo. While my dream of them reuniting and putting out a new album may very well just be that, a dream, that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that they can&amp;#x27;t go back on tour. Yes, I know they&amp;#x27;re busy acting, doing commercials for Gillette razors, and guest verses on other artists&amp;#x27; tracks, but their fans&amp;amp;#8212;many of whom are like me and haven&amp;#x27;t seen them in concert yet&amp;amp;#8212;would pack out every show. The White Stripes Every time I see Jack White performing solo on TV, I spend 50 percent of my time checking my cupboard and making sure I&amp;#x27;m not running low on unbleached white floor, while the other 50 percent is spent missing his partner-in-crime Meg White. As the White Stripes, their combination of blues, punk rock, and garage rock made them one of the more unique and talented groups of the 2000s. Heck, their music is so good that when new singer Joss Stone covered Fell in Love With a Girl, she practically became a star overnight, which is impressive because generally speaking, when someone covers a song, they&amp;#x27;re met with the same reaction that I get when I say that I&amp;#x27;m lowering my carbon footprint by biking to work: But Joss Stone aside, we all know that the White Stripes wouldn&amp;#x27;t be as highly regarded as they are if they didn&amp;#x27;t put on incredible live shows. Their refusal to use autotune and to experiment with other sounds made their concerts unpredictable, which, unfortunately, is what many live acts are lacking. For those reasons alone, they should go back on tour. Here&amp;#x27;s hoping that despite their 2011 breakup announcement, they might consider doing a reunion tour to remind the world again what was so special about them in the first place. *NSync I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late &amp;#x27;90s and the early Aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals. While all my classmates screamed over Nick Lachey, Nick Carter, etc., I was busy dreaming about writing a letter to Oprah about how amazing I thought Ricky was in the hopes of her surprising me by sending him to perform for me in front of the entire school. Yes, I know. I was very lame.com back in the day. Anyway, despite my love for Ricky, there was a boy band that piqued my interest, and I would occasionally cheat on Mr. &amp;quot;Livin&amp;#x27; La Vida Loca&amp;quot; with them: *NSync. Sorry, Ricky, but sometimes a girl needs to ogle over a dude whose hair looks like uncooked ramen noodles (I&amp;#x27;m talking about you, Justin). Good looks aside, *NSync had some catchy songs, solid dance moves in their videos, and all my friends raved about how great they were live. But because I was never honest with myself about liking the group, I never went to their concerts. So I want them to reunite and go on tour. That way, I can make up for not seeing them when I was younger. JT, if you&amp;#x27;re reading this, I know your solo music career is taking off again, but I hope that maybe you&amp;#x27;ll consider bringing the boys back together because it would be pretty cool to see Chris Kirkpatrick and his ridiculous braids shooting up on onto the stage the way that Kelly Rowland did at this year&amp;#x27;s Super Bowl halftime show. DJ Jazzy Jeff &amp;amp; the Fresh Prince Y&amp;#x27;all, I know that even suggesting this reunion is probably making most of you question my hip-hop cred, but hear me out! Most of today&amp;#x27;s rap music is awesome, but listening to Kanye West brag about his extravagant life as I look at emails from Chase bank notifying me that I have five dollars in my checking account makes me feel crappy like when I buy food off Seamless, but I&amp;#x27;m 20 cents below the delivery minimum, so I&amp;#x27;m forced to add a stale-ass raisin bran muffin to my order just so I can get my lunch: The point is that I don&amp;#x27;t want to be bummed out by rap music that reminds me that I&amp;#x27;m living from paycheck to paycheck. That&amp;#x27;s where DJ Jazzy Jeff &amp;amp; the Fresh Prince come in. They rhymed about parents not understanding, barbecues, and house parties, a.k.a. #MiddleClassPeopleProblems. That&amp;#x27;s what I relate to. Kanye talking about driving his &amp;quot;other other Benz?&amp;quot; Not so much. So come on, Will Smith, call up DJ Jazzy Jeff (let&amp;#x27;s be honest, he&amp;#x27;s not doing anything anyway), go back on the road, and &amp;quot;make me feel goooooood&amp;quot; Halle Berry in Monster&amp;#x27;s Ball-style about wearing jorts in the summertime. New Edition So, this is the group that introduced Bobby Brown to the world. Thanks, I guess? Maybe the band&amp;#x27;s manager could&amp;#x27;ve introduced him to a pair of roller skates so that way he wouldn&amp;#x27;t have time to say, &amp;quot;What up, gurl,&amp;quot; to drugs because, as you can see below, it&amp;#x27;s probably be kind of tough to smoke crack rocks when you&amp;#x27;re busy doing the &amp;quot;My parents are doing the one-two step because Earth, Wind, &amp;amp; Fire is playing at this bar mitzvah&amp;quot; on pair of roller skates: All kidding aside, ever since I saw New Edition&amp;#x27;s Behind the Music, I have become obsessed with their catchy music and a little bummed that I was barely alive when they were at the height of their popularity. I missed all of their jheri curl amazingness, so I want a do-over and watch them in their soft belly dad-ness. Sure, New Edish won&amp;#x27;t be nearly as good performers as they were when they were teens, but I don&amp;#x27;t care. The heart wants what it wants. Get back together, guys! Spice Girls When the Spice Girls performed at the 2012 London Olympics, I reacted the way I do when someone I just met actually spells my name right instead of incorrectly (&amp;quot;Fibi&amp;quot; is usually the number one way people attempt to spell my name): Yes, I was over the top, but the Spice Girls were hands down my favorite girl group when I was a teenager, and I wanted to get my zig-a-zig-ah on and see them when they performed in Cleveland during their tour. My mom said, &amp;quot;Hell to the no,&amp;quot; because she couldn&amp;#x27;t stand their music. So as a compromise, she agreed to go see their one-and-only movie, Spice World, which let&amp;#x27;s be honest, my mom got screwed because I think we can all agree that we would much rather hear them sing than watch them act. Anyway, my mom totally CB&amp;#x27;d me (concert blocked, duh!) and I never saw them. It&amp;#x27;s time this wrong gets righted. Kids Incorporated Is there anything more to say than this?: Well, if you insist, I will. It&amp;#x27;s clear that what the world is missing right now is a bunch of children dressing either like members of a rebel break-dancing team or like Jane Fonda circa her workout videos of the &amp;#x27;80s. So it&amp;#x27;s time to bring back Kids Inc. with a whole crop of new folks. I would pay good money to see Honey Boo Boo do a little shoulder shimmy while saying, &amp;quot;It takes a dollar to make me holler.&amp;quot; Or to watch Suri Cruise get her &amp;amp;#8220;may me ma mo moo&amp;quot; on before singing about wearing Pamper pullups a couple years ago. Do you agree with my choices? What bands/solo acts do you wish would perform live again?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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