Orlando Sentinel Review: 12/01/99 Orlando, FL

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Dec 02, 2099 Source: The Orlando Sentinel Submitted By: Y Fans squeal only between songs Parry Gettelman Sentinel Popular Music Critic Published in The Orlando Sentinel on December 2, 1999. Sears is the big sponsor for the Backstreet Boys' sold-out tour behind the multi-platinum blockbuster Millennium. The Boys even appeared in a video-cum-commercial for the store before they took the stage at the Orlando Arena Wednesday night. Wholesome, massively popular BSB is no doubt just what Sears wanted. However, if BSB wanted to get some real marketing synergy going, it would strike up a sponsorship deal with Hearos. Hearos being a manufacturer of earplugs, an essential accessory at the Orena Wednesday. Not that the Backstreet Boys' music was so loud, although the mix might have been less muddy at a somewhat lower volume. But delicate eardrums definitely needed some kind of protection from the piercing screams of teenage fans. At regular intervals, Backstreet Boys Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson entreated the hometown crowd to scream. Such exhortations weren't strictly necessary. Some fans had already begun screaming outside the venue, emitting random sounds of ear-splitting shrillness while walking from the parking lot or standing in line at the will-call windows. Parents winced as the screams set off a chain reaction. Inside, even before the house lights came down for the Backstreet Boys, teenage girls screamed at the slightest provocation: when a member of opening act EYC removed his shirt, when a friend spoke the name of a Backstreet Boy, or just for practice in the ladies' room. Fortunately for the Boys, fans have grown slightly more sophisticated since the days when they drowned out the poor Beatles with their shrieks. Or perhaps the BSB fans were simply starting to get a little hoarse by the time the group emerged, "flying" through the air on magical boogie boards, suspended by an elaborate system of harnesses. The fans generally used screams as punctuation, so that everyone could enjoy the quintet's trademark harmonies and emotive vocals on a stream of hits. The set list included "Quit Playing Games with My Heart," "Don't Want You Back," "All I Have to Give," "I'll Never Break Your Heart," "As Long As You Love Me," "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and, of course, the massive "I Want It That Way." This show was much better paced than the New Year's Eve extravaganza BSB put on at the Orena last year. Production values were even more improved. The fancy staging included in-the-round -- well, actually around a pentagon-shaped stage -- seating, a multi-purpose platform that went up and down and revolved, snazzy fireworks and a system of wires that allowed the band members to swing way out over the tiered seating at the sides of the arena. Richardson's graceful acrobatics showed he may have a future as a trapeze artist if record sales ever slow down. He made the most of his ladder in another routine, doing upside down gymnastic feats that required Olympian abdominals while bandmate Carter on a ladder nearby was content to stand and gaze soulfully into the video camera -- not that that didn't elicit a few screams, too. There was also a snazzy team of 10 dancers, and the choreography was lively, although it's time to lose the folding chairs from that one number. BSB could still stand to learn a few things from rival group 'N Sync, whose Orena show moved more briskly and had more of a sense of fun. BSB's breaks for costume changes sometimes took too long -- did Carter really need a new hairstyle for each outfit? -- and it could have performed three numbers in the time it took for the tedious introduce-the-band-and-dancers segment. I was one of the many who missed Orlando's own Mandy Moore, and most of EYC, because of a tie-up at Will Call. [Posted 12/02/1999 0:37 AM EST] Comment on this item. 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