Friday, September 5, 2008

Backstreet's Back!!! ALRIGHT!

On Tuesday night I fulfilled a childhood dream. A friend and I did everything possible to make the experience as great as it could be and we succeeded. We reached ("touch the sweat! Reach farther! You want to feel the essence!"), we screamed (oh boy did we scream! "Omg!! AHHHH, I love you nick carter, marry me!!"), and we sang every word of every song as loud as possible. We weren't alone in this fanatisism. 8000 other girls filled the saddledome screaming and crying for the backstreet boys. They first arrived on the music radar when I was in grade 2. In grade the upper grades of elementary school they busted out their two most popular albums Backstreet's Back and Millenium, both which I proudly own and have carried them over into the new age of ipodness. In Junior High Black & Blue came out and more recently in 2007 (i think), Unbreakable came out. As far as I'm concerned the backstreet boys are legends of my generation and tuesday was a night of celebrating good times and good memories of the 90s. I remember my mom and I singing You Are My Fire on our way to a soccer game. And one summer I listened to the Millenium CD over and over on our vacation to the Okanagan. To see them in concert was AMAZING to say the least. They were excellent performers, and despite that most of the group is married and in their thirties, they still managed to bring their boyish charm to the table and cause thousands of girls to scream and reach for them (even those of us on the 2nd level! lol). One thing I will note is that Nick Carter is smoking hot in real life. He was never my favourite backstreet boy by Tuesday may have converted me to a NIck Carter lover - good times, good times.