And the Winner Is...

Of course it caught my eye when one of Yahoo!'s top stories today was the Top 25 Teen Idols. I've built my life around them. From the Monkees to the New Kids to Take That to NSYNC, I've loved them all. (I even flirted with Menudo a bit, but the language barrier was too much.) I have to admit that even I was a bit surprised with the #1 teen idol...very happily surprised, but surprised nonetheless. Was it Spears? No. The Tumberfoot? He wishes! Tanya Tucker??? Wait...how did she even get on that list!?! (Um, it wasn't her either.)

His work often goes unrecognized. (He's often overshadowed by David Cassidy, who followed in his gooey, heartbeatey footsteps in the 1970's.) When I first saw him, at the ripe ole age of 8, I was instantly in love: his accent was to die for, his back-and-forth dance movements divine (and oh so easy for an awkward, uncoordinated 8 year old to mimic), he was so cute and little (just a bit taller than me!) and his puppy dog eyes! Ah! I was in love!!! I was convinced I would marry him...even when my dad broke the news to me that his show was simply in re-runs, and he was in his late forties. I was unperturbed. I didn't care. I would find that little jockey wannabe from Manchester, bring him to Champaign, and convince him that we were meant to be.

It's the one...

The only...

DAVY JONES!!!

To see the rest of the list*, click HERE. (I cannot express enough how glad I was that it wasn't Miley Cyrus. However, the fact that she's in the Top 3 is disappointing.)

*I did have a lot of problems with the list, but I thought I'd revel in Davy's glory rather than pick it apart and try to figure out why BSB is higher than NSYNC, and the Beatles are completely absent...but maybe I'll save that for another day.