Thats me. I was 12. Adored Zac and thought he was the one hahaha. I saw them on TV on an ABC special and loved them ever since. I was a few months late I know that but not too much. You have to know that this is the first real band I ever listened to and we did not have cable and I didnt even have a radio or cassette player of my own. So if it wasnt for Hanson, I dont know when I would have gotten into music. They pretty much opened that door for me and I dearly thank them for it. We didnt have a lot of money but my dad did buy me their music and a player and it was all i needed. Until he also spoiled me more with magazines and shirts, everything Hanson. He put out a small fortune for my teeny bopper Hanson obsession. Now I put out a small fortune for them still to this day.

-mel

I became a fan in sept. 2007 so it was The Walk Album and I was 17

I was on youtube and i saw their video on the side(don't remember if it was mmmbop or weird) so i clicked it

When i watched Weird I remembered hearing it a looong time ago and i really remembered seeing the video(my favorite song) I first saw it back in 97 and i did think they were girls not gonna lie

BUt for some reason i just really remembered the video and the song i had forgot about. However, i instantly LOVED the music!!

soooo i watched ALL of the videos and saw that they released a new album and I listened to Go and i loved that too

Then i went out and bought THe Walk and i found out that they would be in my hometown in tow weeks (didn't make it to the concert though)

and then i bought as many of their albums that i could find lol. And i luckily bought some used cd's that were in perfect condition (except middle of nowhere which skips:( ) and only about $4, well for TTA and underneath.

So i basically spent the first couple of months of my senior year watching videos on Hanson youtube to catch up on EVERYTHING that i had missed 

It was bittersweet b/c i was soo happy of have found them but at the same time upset that i missed out on all these years...

THANK YOU YOUTUBE lol!

im so happy that i watched the video:) 

oh and im proud to say that i  DID NOT judge them on mmmbop...i actually like that song but never paid attention to it 11yrs ago b/c i would just hear it around but never actually listened, all i knew was the main part mmmbop haha 

Its sad that most people just judge them on that song

my manager told me that i liked a song(mmmbop) that didn't even have words. I was just like really? b/c im pretty sure its my senior quote (the first verse) 

I was 22 when Mmmbop hit the airways, and I was more into classic rock and grunge at that time...Honestly, I didn't hate the song, but I would switch radio stations whenever it came on, which was so damn often, lol.

I didn't get into them until 2000.  I saw them on MuchMusic here in Toronto doing an interview, then they sang a couple of the TTA songs acoustically and I thought they were amazingly talented for their ages.  I went out and bought TTA and that was the only thing I listened to for like a year straight.  I couldn't believe that I never got sick of it, so I went out and bought everything else that they released before TTA at a used CD place (including Snowed In!) and honestly, I've never looked back.

I can really relate to your story...I fell in love with Hanson all in one night...after the first video, I spent the next eight hours on the internet inhaling everything I could find and bought two albums.  I had only vaguely remembered hearing MMMBop on the radio years before (never been much of a radio person).

Me too...so happy I watched that video on muchmoremusic (Canada).  My life would be so different, and less somehow, had I not. 

I know, it really is :).

And rlharris, I never judged MMMBop either...I thought it was cute and very clever for their ages...but i was into grunge and alternative rock back then, so it just wasn't gonna be an album to buy.  Even after becoming a fan in 2006, it took me a year or even two to really like listening to the "little boy voices" on the old songs.  These days, anything they do, new or old is shuffled on my MP3 player incessantly. 

I must have been 12 or so (im a month younger than zac) i was sittin on the deck area out front of my classroom at school with a bunch of my friends and they were all listening to a cd on our classroom cd player (it was MON i later found out) From there i got hooked, got MON myself, and ive never really looked back......10 or so years later and im STILL HERE, Their music has become a part of my daily life i dont know what i'd do without it now if i had to go without.

I thought this post was asking who became fans later on so I hadn't read it till now. But it looks like many are writing about becoming fans in the early years as well as later on so I guess I can add my comments. I'll try not to write so much.

In April/May of 97 when MMMbop was first  released I was sitting eating supper with my family and I saw the video for the first time on MTV. My 14 year old daughter was watching with me.

I was intrigued by these three young boys that seemed to be playing their own music and singing this catchy song that would later be permenantly imbedded in my head. My first thought was are they for real or just another created teenbopper band. And within a short period of time I found my answer.

Like many at the time there was a very brief moment I wondered if one of them might be a girl but quickly released that they were all boys. Since my daughter was around their age she was interested in them like all the young teen girls at that time. I was 39 at the time and it was kind of cool that me and my daughter began to have this common interest in Hanson. I became addicted to MMMbop, with grudge being so popular during that time this song was something refreashing and upbeat to listen too. A real feel good song that I think people needed at the time.

When Hanson was on a MTV special Scrapbook years ago they sang on the stage of the Sydney opera house. Not only were their harmonies amazing but Taylors vocals just blew me away. It never mattered that their voices were still high back then because I knew they all had real vocal talent.

Of course I bought MON shortly after it came out and for awhile my daughter and I tried to share it. But we both wanted to listen to it at the same time so I had to buy another one.  I think I listened to MON for three years straight while buying also buying all the other music that they put out.

I don't know how or why a person feels a connection to something but this is what happened to me with Hanson. I could go on and on about this but the rest is history. I've been an addicted fan from way back then and will always be.

i thought this was a post about fans that started liking hanson AFTER MON...and people r posting about MON...im confused...lmao