BEEFCAKE:

  • Road to Albertane: Isaac appears briefly (pun intended) in a garment known as a wifebeater. We all swoon and sigh and wonder when Isaac got that hot. Skin Visibility Quotient: 6
  • Live at the 10 Spot: Tay removes the red shirt to reveal, um, a small thin garment that hugs rather closely to his body. It's also white. We enjoyed this very first moment of Hanson nakedness. It left a lot to the imagination, true, but our imaginations are pretty vivid and filthy, so that was fine by us. Skin Visibility Quotient: 5
  • Road to Albertane: The Water Park. Oh wow. It didn't last long, that's for sure, but this was a Hanson nakie moment for the ages. This section of the video should have come with a disclaimer of sorts, some kind of warning telling you that this may be hazardous to the "rewind" and "pause" buttons on your VCR. We even got some Zac nakedness in this one, which is good. I'm all for equal opportunity nudity. Skin Visibility Quotient: 9
  • Tay in the studio: Um. Oh Dear. A little warm in the studio I see? Apparently Taylor decided that less was more on this particular day. I really don't understand the purpose to this nakedness. Ike is fully clothed. Buttoned up. Covered. Long sleeves even. But Tay. I truly have no idea what Tay was thinking. I know what I was thinking… 'My, he's very pale.' Skin Visibility Quotient: 7
  • The Albertane Tour: Ike and Tay alternately got naked at various times during the tour. At Live at the 10 Spot, it was Tay. At Great Woods, it was Tay again. At Hartford, it was Ike and Tay. Apparently, it gets rather warm on that stage. I don't care why. All I know is that it made me happy. Very happy. Fall off my chair happy. Skin Visibility Quotient: 4
  • MOE #6: When Scott Moffatt poses shirtless on a bed for Tiger Beat Magazine, it's ludicrous. When Taylor takes his shirt off for MOE, it's art. Seriously kids. That is quite possibly, the most beautiful picture of Taylor I've ever seen. Skin Visibility Quotient: 10
  • Rolling Stone's version of In the Studio : Woah! Taylor in another wifebeater, but oh my, what a difference from last time. Last time, there was a genuine amount of debate regarding whether we wanted to see that or not. This time? Well, the verdict was pretty unanimous. Taylor is stunning. Covered or not. So yeah, we all experienced a collective rise in body temperature when we saw this picture. It's just gloriously innocent and gloriously sexy at the same time. Oh my. I can't even believe I just said that. I should probably delete it. Nah. What the heck. Skin Visibility Quotient : 8.3
More Words on the MOE 6 Nakedness

Analysis:
There are two different kinds of nudity in the media: The lewd and the stylish. (Ok, maybe there's a third kind, the illegal, but that's not what we're talking about here.) The MOE surfer pictures? I like them. A lot. They're pretty darn daring for Hanson. So maybe all of the rumors are true. Maybe the boys are indeed ::sigh:: growing up. It's a good thing to see. We're comfortable with us. You should be too. That sort of thing.

Concerns:

Why? Did they take a look at all of those heinous shirtless shots of the Moffatts in the teenie mags and think, "Wow. We need to up the standards of this half-naked pop star thing." I'm telling you, thanks to these photos, the Hanson camp is one up on the Moffatts in the semi-nude beauty category.

The Injustice Continues:
Lots of bare Zac skin. Lots and lots of bare Tay skin. Why do you give us hardly any Isaac skin?! Why? That's so unfair! I'm not going to be your friend anymore.

An Observation:

Man, they are turning into such California surfer boys. Did you all see the picture of them with their Thanksgiving turkey tans? Not that there's anything wrong with that at all. It's just so… West Coast.

03.15.00
Beaters beaters and more beaters:
We understand that Underwear as Clothing was popular a couple of seasons ago, but goodness boys. Did Diana go out and buy the "colored multi-pack" at Wal-mart, or do you just enjoy the freedom and aesthetic beauty the garment provides? We do. Oh yes, we certainly do. Between the in-studio shots, Making the Video and the promo pictures, we've witnessed enough forearms, bicepts and creamy shoulders to stock the Smile File for a decade or so.

Taylor the Supermodel:

Notice the trend in the photos included in the "promo" set for the webpage contest? Shot one. Taylor's shirt on. Shot 2. Taylor's shirt unbuttoned. Shot 3. Taylor's shirt in a crumpled heap on the ground. Hanson may not understand the depth of their beauty, but hooray for the clued-in photograpers who know that nude is the way to go in matters such as these.

Bottom Line
Bring on the nakedness.