{"id":592,"date":"2010-07-30T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/backstreet-boys-to-deliver-a-show-in-the-fullest-form\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:10:37","slug":"backstreet-boys-to-deliver-a-show-in-the-fullest-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/backstreet-boys-to-deliver-a-show-in-the-fullest-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstreet Boys to deliver a ‘show in the fullest form’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nick Carter has noticed a few similarities as well as changes in the crowd during his current Backstreet Boys tour compared to when the group first toured in the 1990s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crowds are just as hyped,\u201d Carter said during a July 22 phone interview from Los Angeles, where the group had just performed a taping for the George Lopez show. \u201cSome (fans) are a little older, but they\u2019re bringing younger ones. There is fresh blood for the Backstreet Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
The popular boy band of the 1990s performs at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n
Band members certainly are a little older. Carter, 30, is the youngest. Howie Dorough is 36, Brian Littrell 35 and AJ McLean 32.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe years are adding up, but it doesn\u2019t feel like it,\u201d Carter said. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking to the future and not living in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans, however, can expect to hear many of the hit songs from the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people come to hear the old songs,\u201d Carter said. \u201cWe give them all of the top hits. They will hear \u2018I Want It That Way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans can also expect to hear \u201cQuit Playing Games (with My Heart),\u201d \u201cEverybody (Backstreet\u2019s Back),\u201d \u201cAll I Have To Give\u201d and many others from the past 17 years.<\/p>\n
Carter understands the crowd wants to hear the hits.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you go to a Prince concert you want to hear \u20181999\u2019 and \u2018Raspberry Beret,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Thousands of women and girls are expected to check out the Backstreet Boys at the ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n
The Backstreet Boys attracted mainly female audiences with their tours in the 1990s and continue to draw similar crowds since opening their current tour last fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hearing from other buildings that it\u2019s a wide range of ages from junior high to high school to 40-plus ladies and it will be predominately female,\u201d said Beth Sylves, ShoWare Center marketing director. \u201cThere are a lot of girls night out activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Girls just want to have fun at a Backstreet Boys concert.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s female, probably 75 percent,\u201d Carter said. \u201cYou trickle in grandmothers and newborns and you\u2019ve got a Backstreet Boys show. And there are some guys there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s uncertain how many of today\u2019s fans came to concerts when the boys were teens.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably see some of the same people, but it\u2019s hard to tell when you\u2019re up there on stage,\u201d he said. \u201cThey look a little older, maybe closer to your own age.\u201d<\/p>\n
Personal lives have changed over the years for the Backstreet Boys. Littrell and Dorough are married, Carter and McLean remain single.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a girlfriend,\u201d Carter said. \u201cAnd AJ has a girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter hopes that doesn\u2019t keep any women away from the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because someone is dating someone they should not stop listening to the music,\u201d Carter said. \u201cThat would really suck. And you can fantasize.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group released their \u201cThis Is Us\u201d album last year. After performing adult contemporary songs for a few years, the boys returned to their roots with an album full of their dance-pop sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the rebirth of a whole new era to this group,\u201d Carter said. \u201cIt\u2019s the stake in the ground, the flag on the moon. It\u2019s the start of what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
As far as the concert, the four singers are joined by a disc jockey as well as four dancers. Fans also will see video vignettes about each band member and plenty of costume changes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a show in the fullest form,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles resident looks forward to visiting Kent. The group played July 24 in Boise and plays Aug. 4 in Wenatchee before heading off to a nine-tour stop in Canada after the ShoWare concert.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful up there and it has the freshest air you can breath in the country,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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