So Shoot Me

I can't help being a Backstret Boys fan.

If there were any dogs in the auditorium, their dead by now. No, we're not talking about one of those fabled Ozzy Osbourne destroy-these-puppies-or-I-won't-play edict. This canine killeris the five alarm shrieking in Seattle's Key Arena as the Backstreet Boys close a live show with their top five bump and grinder, "Everybody Backstreet's Back".When Nick Carter- the youngest, blondest, most yelp including Boy- blurt out the ludicrous line, "Am I sexual?"hordes of 8-15 year old girls clutch their throwaways cameras and scream their braces off. Another night another 10,000 sexual awakening. To be a 12 year old female Backstreet Boy fan is to say it loud and proud with BSB signs, pinups, and silk screened pillowcases of your favorite backstreet crush-Carter-18;AJ McLean 20'Brian Littrell 23;Howie Dorough 25 and Kevin Ricardson 26. The rest of us, however must lead more clandestine existences. "Oh, that's the one who looks like Marky Mark,"we shrug when Brian appears, even though we know that he is called B-Rok is what you call a basketball and B-Rok really really loves to play bball. And we never admit that we've watched theri 78 minutes behind the scenes backstreet Boys All Access Video twice!

Grante, it's reasonable to blush. After all, the Boys, who formed in 1993 in Orlando Florida, didn't write any songs or play instruments on backstreet Boys, their American debut, their manager is the same guy who put New Kids On The Block in tennage bedrooms(an on critics worst list) worldwide; and from the looks on their videos, they've never met a full-body shave they didn't like. In other words you won't be partying to Backstreet Boys music unless you're at Chuck E. Cheese.

Yet for a group easily dismissed as a flash in the pan teen act, the backstreet Boys have managered some impressive feats; 22 million records sold worldwide and 4.4 million in domestic sales make backstreet Boys 1998's third best selling albums so far, behind the Titanic soundtrack and the unofficial Titanic soundtrack, Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love. Their N.A. tour grossed over 10 million dollars.

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