I always remembered the soft drink Mello Yello from when I was a kid, it was like delicious sweet nectar on my young tongue. A couple of years back they brought it back and boom! - childhood ruined. (It was actually sickly sweet and a bit like Unleaded 91.)
The Backstreet Boys gig will be the musical equivalent of Mello Yello. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Mel Homer says:
For the purposes of research, I just watched the 1'51" trailer for the new doco movie, Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of, and I'm here to tell you "The Boys" (that's how their management refer to them, don't blame that one on me) don't look half bad.
They're in their 30s and 40s now and I bet their knees give them gyp on a 2km jog around the suburbs too, but they can still spin around in time - so that counts for something, right?
I wasn't a fan back in the 90s, in fact I frequently muddled my boy bands - wait, what? Wasn't that Backstreet Boy with the dark hair Ciaran on Coro St? But the Backstreet Boys were still the background music to some pretty heady 90s days for me. They were all over radio and MTV, they were everywhere.
If you were there when Thingee's eye fell out, then the Backstreet Boys are going to be relevant to you too.
Remember that time before you had kids and you pashed that guy, the one who'd used half a bottle of CK One and he smelt so amazing? I guarantee The Backstreet Boys were on the radio in the background, promising to Never Break Your Heart.
Hell, if dungarees can make a successful comeback from the 90s, (most unflattering yet comfortable fashion ever) then there is no reason why the Backstreet Boys can't as well.
And let's not forget they'll be appearing at Vector Arena two days after that boy band from the 80s ... Spandau Ballet.
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