This year’s Rolling Loud festival was quite eventful.
03.07.2022 - 21:31 / variety.com
Thania Garcia The Backstreet Boys welcomed Drake as their honorary sixth member during the band’s concert stop at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto Saturday evening.Just as the boy band was closing their set, the quintet introduced Drake as the crowd launched into rapturous applause. Before the band jumped into its 1999 hit “I Want It That Way,” Drake went to explain what the song meant to him as a 13-year-old kid.“At my bar mitzvah, for the first time in my life, this girl I was in love with came up to me while one of the greatest songs in the world was playing, and she asked me if I would dance with her,” the rapper told the sea of Toronto fans.
“It was the first time I ever felt acknowledged and it was the first time I ever felt like I had a shot at being cool.” What’s better than I Want It That Way?I Want It That Way…. f/ @Drake #BSBTO #DNAWORLDTOUR pic.twitter.com/pKVQK2XtDN— Backstreet Boys (@backstreetboys) July 3, 2022“And by the way, if she could see me now!” he shouted, going on to say the song was “one of the greatest songs in music history,” as the beginning notes of the track started up.
With his eyes closed, Drake joyfully bopped along to the classic tune before joining the band for the rendition. Members of the boy band also honored Drake by adding parts of “Hold On, We’re Going Home” to their performance.The rapper posted a snippet of him singing the final lines of “I Want It That Way” on his Instagram with the caption “When she says she’s over men in this generation and asks why I live alone…”A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi)
.This year’s Rolling Loud festival was quite eventful.
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Leena Tailor It’s been an action-packed few weeks for the Backstreet Boys — from the group’s DNA World Tour relaunch, which included a special engagement in Las Vegas and a duet with Drake on “I Want It That Way” in Toronto, to their Hollywood Bowl bow, where the five guys — Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, AJ McLean and Kevin Richardson — were joined by their kids onstage, to officially announcing BSB’s first Christmas album.Always one to turn it up, McLean is adding to the slate a new solo song, “Smoke,” coupled with a provocative video, premiering below. (Note: may not be suitable for work.) The funky track is the lead single from McLean’s first solo album in 12 years, “Sex and Bodies,” due out in late October. “I was doing the country thing and it was fun, but COVID hit, I had time to self-reflect and I don’t want to try and be something I’m not,” McLean tells Variety.
Travis Barker is on the mend. The 46-year-old musician gave a surprise performance at pal Machine Gun Kelly's «Mainstream Sellout» show at The Forum in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, marking his first on-stage appearance since being hospitalized for pancreatitis last month. «There's a person I grew up idolizing that I became friends with and he believed in me,» MGK told the crowd. «And never more have I wanted to jam to a song that he and I created.
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