The Backstreet Boys are Back to just being Boys

Backstreet was back Saturday night at the Minnesota State Fair, and, what do you know, they were all right.

It’s getting close to a decade since the aging teen-pop act still known as the Backstreet Boys hit the peak of their fame, but they’ve somehow figured out how to keep a spark of the old days going, even though these Boys are mostly in their 30s these days.

It probably helps matters that they’re now down one Boy — Kevin Richardson left the group in 2006 — because Saturday’s show felt leaner, looser and much more fun than the last time the Twin Cities saw them, at the Target Center in summer 2005. Back then, the Backstreet Boys were in the midst of a mostly unsuccessful campaign to act all grown-up and transition into the light-rock radio realm.

Thanks: littrellfans