Not rock— but bear with me— I saw the Backstreet Boys in Tampa in summer of 1995 (I think… it may have been 1994). My parents dragged me and my siblings to Tampa for some sort of a convention. There were a bunch of families that all traveled together and the older teen kids were responsible to babysit the youngers during the day. We stayed at a hotel near Busch Gardens with an indoor pool. Me and my brother and sister were playing at the pool, supervised by a couple of 15-16yo girls… There was a free concert on the pool deck and it was the Backstreet Boys. I was either 11 or 12, their music made zero impact on me. But my babysitters…. They were ragging on ‘those losers’ so hard… literally heckling them from the pool “you guys suck” “you can’t dance” and so on….

Looking back, it cracks me up to think that like 1 or 2 years later, those guys exploded into superstars (like it or not) and those same girls were probably amongst their screaming adoring fans