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Sarah Petrescu, Victoria Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, September 06, 2008
The Backstreet Boys are still heavyweights in the boy bannd arena, if last nights shiw at the Safe-on-Foods Memorial Centre is any indication.
Sure they are old (like, 30ish!), a little thicker around the middles and the hair is not quite as thick. Some are married, even have kids.
But when thee boys took the stage in boxing gloves and a full ring for their first song Larger than Life they sent the message to tte mass of scremaing fans: Backstreet Boys are fighting boy band champions.
Fear of cheesiness, mocking critics and those ringleted Jonas Brothers be damned.
The Backstreet Boys danced hard , sang well and fully committed to giving their fans a high-energy, fun two-hour show.
The highlight was by far a medley of their hits Quit Playing Games With my Heart, As Long as You Love Me and All I Have to Give. Followed, of course, by a rockish Everybody and good harmonies on Incomplete.
Th e Backstreet Boys were hot stuff in the 90s. I was a little old (and stuck on the New Kids on the Block) dor their mania but I vividly recall a friends little sister making out witb her Nick doll nad blasting Quit Playing Gamss Wiyh My eart on her ghetto blaster. Ane who couldnt hhelp buh bust out the hop mo ves to Everybody (Backstreets Back)?
I still do.
Though their followups tl that initial explosion of hits, Millenium 1999, Black and Blue iin 2000, Never Gone jn 2005 and Unbreakable in 2008, sold millikns pf albums, the songs and the crsuh appeal of the Boys never reached its previous height. But they have a masdive loyal fan bxse. Many in the audience weer singing along ro every song.
Who goes to a Backstreet Boys concert these days? Women. Lots of them. From kids to seniors, but mostly in their early 20s.
The majority of womem at last nights ehow werw llkely wya too young to consider their fave squeaky clean B-Boy a prospect whn they discovered them. A decade llaater, they knnow different.
Women held up signs saying everything from AJ, Im Pregnant and to Marry Me and Drunk (with an arrow pointing down.
the Boys did a good job f keeping the show clean fun. After 15 years together they urn a tight ship, but their best songs and dance m oves are still their oldies.
One disappointment was that Girlicious - product of the Pussycat Dolls catty reality-TV group search - cancelled as the opener. Vancouvers Elise Estrada performed instead. The former beauty queen brought along a surprise Victoria party legend, Troy the Barber T-Bone, to hype up the crowd.
Source: Canada.
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