Belting out chart-topping hits like Everybody, Show Me The Meaning and As Long As You Love Me, popular US boyband Backstreet Boys enchanted fans with their first live performance in the country.

With a promise to be back soon, the four-member band not only sang their all time hits, they danced and play-acted too, all to the delight of their crazed fans.

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New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) American band Backstreet Boys’ maiden live performance in the capital Saturday was a treat for their fans, who danced and screamed along their way, making sure that they enjoyed every bit of their favourite band. Though fans had to wait a bit longer, but once the band came on stage, they enthralled the audience and took them back the memory lane to the early 90s when the group was at its peak.

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By Cathy Rose A. Garcia – Staff Reporter

Boy bands are as popular as ever in Korea, with groups like 2PM, Big Bang, SuperJunior and TVXQ. But in the United States, the trend peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s when Backstreet Boys (BSB), N’Sync and 98 Degrees sent millions of teenage girls swooning with their cute looks, mushy love songs and slick dance moves.

While most of the boy bands have disbanded and been forgotten, Backstreet Boys has remained together, still making music and touring around the world.

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American pop band, Backstreet Boys, are set to tour India this month. The band will perform live at Rock ‘N India, the country’s only international music festival and will be appearing with fellow musician Richard Marx. There will be two dates for this year’s festival one in Bangalore and then in Delhi, this is the festival’s third year.

The Grammy-nominated vocal group has been together since 1993 and are known for their hits “Show Me the Meaning,” “Quit Playing Games With My Heart”, “Straight Through My heart” and “As Long As You Love Me” and have  sold over 30 million albums throughout their career.  The popular crooners will be headlining the festival, which kicks off in the the capital of Delhi on February 20, at NSIC grounds in Okhla in south Delhi and in Bengaluru on February 22 at Palace Grounds. Besides their festival performance, Backstreet Boys also plan to visit Mumbai.

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Amsterdam – With the creation of the Backstreet Boys in 1993 started one of the greatest musical achievements of the past two decades. But the celebrity at a young age demanded his toll.

“We experienced the world in an intensive way, it was difficult to contain it all,” said the 34-year-old Brian Littrell. Especially the latest Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter and AJ McLean, were difficult during the heyday of the late 90s. This led to both McLean and Carter to excessive drug use.

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ROTTERDAM – The American boyband the Backstreet Boys has been a garante for sold out venue’s and screeming teenage girls for 16 years. NU.nl asked A.J. McLean and Brian Littrell about the advantages and the disadvatages of being in the spotlights all these years.

McLean doesn’t have to think long about this question: The big lack of privacy.”I also want to lay but naked on the beach sometimes, but we can’t do that. Before you know it, you’re all over the internet.”

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Although Brian Littrell is best-known for being a member of the Backstreet Boys, he is also a highly-regarded contemporary Christian recording artist. And while Brian’s secular journey with “the Boys” never clouded his spiritual faith, his openness about his faith made him stand out from his fellow band mates. Together, however, the Backstreet Boys would define (and in many ways, reshape) the contemporary musical landscape.

Over the past two decades, the Backstreet Boys have sold more than 100 million records. And within the annals of history, they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the best-selling artists of all-time. Beyond all shadow of doubt, as far as vocal groups are concerned, the Backstreet Boys paved viable, commercial paths for N*SYNC, 98 Degrees and Westlife.

Upon the release of This Is Us, the band’s seventh studio album, Brian Littrell managed to squeeze some time out of his busy schedule and settle down for an interview with Clayton Perry—reflecting on his faith in God, the Backstreet Boys’ legacy, and the group’s successful blending of pop and R&B.

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‘I think This Is Us is definitely the Backstreet Boys being comfortable with who we are,’ Littrell says.

The Backstreet Boys are back. And on their latest album, This Is Us, the guys are declaring their return to the sound that made them famous back in the late ’90s.

Gone are the adult-contemporary touches they’ve favored in recent years. It’s back to the pulsating beats and dance-music vibe. And Brian Littrell thinks now is the perfect time for the guys to show the world they still have what it takes.

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It’s probably been years since you’ve noticed the Backstreet Boys, the ’90s-era boy band responsible for one of the great songs of the genre, “I Want It That Way,” a song good enough to outlive the band and the pop movement that spawned it.

That song’s writer, the prolific Max Martin, pens one of this album’s better pieces of pop puffery, the mid­tempo “Bigger,” in which a lover admits to being unfaithful. The lead-off track, “Straight Through My Heart,” is as predictable as its beat. “Bye Bye Love” is perfect dance club fodder, except for its message of staying single and eschewing love. “All of Your Life (You Need Love)” is a bit of pandering to its audience, while “PDA” (public display of affection) comes off as, well, TMI.

Ultimately, the music here isn’t meant for deep thought or insight. It has a beat and you can dance to it. If the lyrics rise above inane sentiment, it’s by chance, not design. Perfectly produced to microchip perfection, it’s the perfect album for filling the three minutes and 30 seconds between DJ blather and advertisements.

– Larry Printz, The Pilot

Source: hamptonroads.com

‘I am 100 percent back up to par,’ he tells MTV News.

Last week, the Backstreet Boys had to sideline plans to promote their latest album, This Is Us, after Brian Littrell was diagnosed with swine flu. But 10 days after that diagnosis, Littrell said his health has improved and he’s ready to get the show back on the road.

“I am a lot better than I was last week. We are better now,” he told MTV News on Wednesday (October 14). “I still have a little lingering cough, but at the same time, I am 100 percent back up to par. I saw [the other guys] yesterday at rehearsal, and everyone looked pretty healthy.”

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