![]() ![]() ![]() The oldest Boy, Kevin Richardson, took a six-year break between 20, during which time they released two relatively unmemorable records as a four-piece and accepted their inevitable destiny of doing the “NKOTBSB” Tour with co-headliners New Kids on the Block. ![]() But even throughout the subsequent post-peak rough patches, the group never actually broke up. Teen idols burn notoriously fast and bright, and the film figures the Boys’ glory days as the fleeting window between 1999 (when their blockbuster album Millennium was released) and 2002 (right before McLean’s rehab stint and Carter’s lackluster solo attempt). The Backstreet Boys have been together for 22 years, which is basically five centuries in boy-band time. But nothing is quite as jarring as the moment the Boys visit Nick Carter’s old dance studio and ask a class of teenage girls if any of them know the “Backstreet’s Back” dance - a question that, 15 years ago, was a tried-and-true entrance exam for middle-school popularity. Well, we follow four of them, at least: “It’s gonna take me a minute,” sighs AJ McLean, having fallen behind the pack, “This is really shitty for my knees.” We get a similar glimpse of Brian Littrell’s mortality a few scenes later, when we see him working with a therapist who’s trying to help him overcome vocal tension dysphonia in hopes that he’ll be able to hit those high notes on the Boys’ 20th-anniversary tour. It looms large in the first scene of Backstreet Boys: Show ’Em What You’re Made Of, when we follow the five former teen heartthrobs on a chilly autumn hike. As it is in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, the main character (or perhaps villain) in the new documentary about the Backstreet Boys is time. ![]()
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