Backstreet Boys Are Really About Assimilation

Adrian Mack of straight.com reviewed the Backstreet Boys concert at GM Place in Vancouver, BC on September 3rd. “In all other ways, the Boys seem to play down their personalities,” Mack writes. “If it isn’t obvious from the depressingly pristine harmonies, the Backstreet Boys are really about assimilation. Brian Littrell is permitted a very small amount of character as the de facto leader, but Christ knows what Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson do—aside from looking kind of like Jerry Seinfeld and Kevin Pollack. The Nuremberg-like emergence of the group as it descends an illuminated staircase is plenty impressive, but it renders the actual performance a little anticlimactic.” Read more.