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Backstreet Boys caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens & Tetris Kelly at the ACM Awards 2025.

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00:00Hanging out with the Backstreet Boys at the ACM Awards, man.

00:04How's it feeling, Phyllis?

00:05Feeling good.

00:06It's awesome.

00:06We are honored to be here.

00:08And we cannot wait to get on stage tonight and bring down the house with our boys, Rascal

00:12Flats.

00:13And I mean, you guys have been performing at a lot of country events, like stagecoach,

00:17being here.

00:18Like, what's the country vibe for Backstreet Boys right now?

00:19Why is this working?

00:21It's all love, great music, you know, great people.

00:25It just feels like home.

00:27It does.

00:27Yeah, just good, strong songs.

00:29It's just great, strong songs, great music.

00:31I mean, I think there's always a little bit like, okay, are we going to be accepted every

00:34time we go in?

00:35But it seems like every time we perform, whether it's been stagecoach or the ACMs, you know,

00:38we did this, what, back in 2017, CMTs.

00:42It's just so much love.

00:43And I can think of it as just like a lot of these fans were probably, you know, younger

00:47years were our fans, and they've just grown.

00:49And now the country's like the direction they're going, but they're still embracing the memories

00:53of the Backstreet Boys.

00:54We've got a couple number ones in the country music, so that ain't bad.

00:57That ain't bad at all.

00:58Not a bad thing at all.

00:59And I got to tell a story.

01:00I've told this story so many times.

01:02Like he said, getting let in.

01:04We were at stagecoach, and the hottest show was Paris Hilton, and none of us could get

01:10in Paris Hilton.

01:10All three of us were standing there like, what is going on?

01:13The main thing was, you said, yo, if they can't get in, I'm definitely not getting in.

01:17I'm just like, okay, well, I'm going to go back to my hotel.

01:19I'll see you guys later.

01:21The Backstreet Boys getting into Paris Hilton.

01:23We got, like, I love that, man.

01:24So, but to come in these spaces and always be welcomed must feel great.

01:27Yeah, I mean, I think the barriers or the walls that the industry puts around artists is not

01:35what the artists, all of us, think of.

01:37We, I don't know anybody that just likes one kind of music.

01:40We all love all different kinds of music, and it's about great songs, great melodies,

01:44and singing from the heart and connecting with people.

01:47Totally.

01:47We're all from the South anyway, so it's like, we just belong.

01:50There you go.

01:51We grew up listening to everything, and I think a lot of people out there listen to everything.

01:55Okay, well, I need to ask that you have, you know, been involved in country music a lot

01:59lately.

01:59You talked about great songwriting.

02:01Is it inspiring you all to make some great songs?

02:04It's interesting.

02:05I was telling the guys, the last two number ones we've had are in country.

02:09The first one was Florida Georgia Line around 2017, and now this one with Rascal Flatts

02:14hurts the most, a collab.

02:15Listen, I don't know, like, we have done some country songs in the past.

02:20Drowning, which was one of our hits in the past, kind of has a little bit of a country

02:23thing.

02:24Our Never Gone album, you know, we had some country-influenced songs.

02:27The last album, we had about a couple that were influenced.

02:31I don't know.

02:31I mean, we just love music, and we don't have any boundaries when it comes to music.

02:36We like to sing harmonies, and a lot of great written songs happen to be from the country

02:42world.

02:42So if that kind of leads us in that direction, you know, you never know.

02:46We're always inspired.

02:46We're always inspired for something new.

02:48How lucky are we?

02:49And of course, I've got to ask you before you get out of here, tease something about

02:52The Sphere.

02:53We're so excited for this show, and I know you're trying to keep it under wraps, but

02:56let's feel bored.

02:57You want to give us something.

02:58You're going to see.

02:59Yes, you did.

02:59We just added three more shows, and you're going to see something you've never seen in

03:04The Sphere.

03:05We're the very first pop-back to be in The Sphere.

03:08Yes.

03:08And we're telling everybody to wear white.

03:11Oh, my wife is pressed.

03:12We're going to take you back to the Millennium.

03:14He's ready.

03:14Millennium 2.0.

03:16White, baby blue, but yeah.

03:18Millennium blue.

03:18Millennium white.

03:19The last thing is that I heard Millennium 2.0 in July.

03:22We have something happening there.

03:24Yes.

03:24So, we are doing The Sphere.

03:27It coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Millennium album.

03:31I can't believe it's been 25 years.

03:34And so, we are releasing that.

03:37It's remastered.

03:38We have demos on that album that nobody's ever heard when we were all of our demos.

03:41Oh, that's awesome.

03:42And then we've got some tracks, some B-sides that people in the U.S. haven't heard, and

03:46then we have one original song called Hey.

03:49Oh, wow.

03:50Hey.

03:51And it comes out July 11th.

03:54July 11th.

03:54We have our first show in The Sphere.

03:56Yep.

03:56I appreciate it.

03:57I can't wait, guys.

03:57We'll be there.

03:58I promise you.

03:59Yeah.

03:59All right.

04:00That will be my first Sphere experience.

04:02I can't wait.

04:03I'll see you guys.

04:03I can't wait.

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