Backstreet Boys DNA World Tour India: Five sufficient for 50 – Moviesapple

Do you recognize this song?" Kevin Richardson asks at one point during the concert. It is an appropriate question, for, inevitably, different pockets of the 12,000-member audience

that they`re performing before have grown up consuming different works of the Backstreet Boys, Thirty years since they were first christened a band, the band of five (then four,

and then five again), have left three generations of music aficionados captivated with their music. The lasting impression that their legacy has left is seamlessly discernible at

this concert, where 40-something parents with their 10-year old children, or 20-something kids, with their 50-year old parents have gathered to celebrate a band familiar to each of

them. Moments after millennials matched the band, word-for-word, as they rendered As long as you love me (1997), Gen-Z grooved to The way it was (2019), and millennials took over

again with Shape of my heart ( 2000). If teens celebrated the future of music, 90s kids were given a peek into their past -- a memory of who they once were. Pic credits - RVR16 Of

course, Shape of my heart, the track that Richardson is referring to, is one that everyone would know. Or at least, I do hope (Gen-Z, I`m looking at you.) It`s one of the band`s

many classics that they intersperse their two-hour set with, peppering the rest of it with music from their latest album, DNA, with which they head on this tour. If you haven`t

already, DNA is in every way worth listening to. Its passionate renditions are testimony of not only the quintet`s growth as artistes, but also their grasp over an art they`ve

spent their lives practicing. There`s a different joy in consuming art that comes from a place of experience, as is evident during this act at Mumbai`s Jio Garden. There's an

enviable command with which Nick Carter and Brian Littrell flirt with music, putting their powerful vocals on display to present decades-old numbers with a hint of novelty. Showing

absolute disregard for the notion that live choreography needs to be, well, larger than life, the five equate 50 on stage with synchronicity that could put background dancers to

shame. Of course, the boys -- spanning 43 to 52 years of age -- have contagious moves, but it is in the mere flicks of their mics, the tilt of their shoulders, and the snaps of

their fingers that they make the power of small. movements, pronounced. Pic credits - RVR16 It has always been this ability -- to sing every single song, live, and compliment it

with attractive choreography -- that they say has distinguished them from the newer boy-bands that are "vocal based". Success often paves the way for complacency, as music