they may not be Johann Sebastian Bach
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psocopteraBut they've still got the right stuff, baby.
Concert was *awesome*. Screaming may not have been *quite* as loud as for Justin Timberlake, but I was glad for my earplugs (although they were clearly much more effective at some frequencies than others, leading the world right afterwards to sound sort of like an old record). I was fortuitously sitting on an aisle right behind A Guy, who did not feel compelled to stand up and dance, so I was able to stay comfortably seated and "dance" via arm-waving.
Genderwise, the concert was notably observably even more heavily female than the Timberlake concert, which was maybe... 90-95% female? Hard to recall now exactly, but tonight's guy ratio was something more like one in fifty. And almost all of them were obviously there with a woman (sometimes walking two paces behind holding both drinks...). I literally saw *one* unaccompanied man and was almost expecting some sort of announcement - "Ladies, we have an unattended man in section seventeen, did someone lose their fellow?". At the very end on the way down the stairs I saw two older guys who were there together sans women. I have never been in that large a crowd that was so extremely dominated by one gender... I think it would have been kind of scary if the crowd had been that heavily male, to be so obviously one of these things that was not like the other ones.
Music-wise, they sang everything one might have hoped for - Right Stuff very early on, which was surprising but made for nice high energy in the first half, and Step by Step and Hanging Tough as the encores in that order, and, you know, anything else you've ever heard of, Cover Girl and My Favorite Girl and Valentine Girl and I'll Be Loving You Forever Girl and Didn't I Blow Your Mind Girl and Girl I'm Singing To A Girl In Case That Wasn't Clear Girl. New stuff - um, they closed with Click Click Click and then Summertime, they did Single and Grown Man earlier on, and I think Twisted and Dirty Dancing somewhere in there? (For the one of you who may have bought this album.)
Structurally, it was hilarious, because they would come out, sing about two songs, and then vanish backstage again to be massaged or re-stitched or cortisone-injected or hung upside down or gargled with honey-lemon tea or whatever sort of maintenance they were obviously requiring at regular intervals. One of them did some breakdancing and then was quickly hustled offstage to be iced down or whatever. There was a whole long middle-end section where they traded off one at a time to do solos on various of the older tracks (where "they" is, uh, Jordan and Joey mostly - I have a terrible time remembering who's who, and I couldn't tell them apart much anyways unless the camera zoomed in on someone's face on the big screens, which half the time were just showing miscellaneous arty visuals) and various other segments where somebody (Donnie? the other one?) would come out to say "Boston" a lot and get the crowd to yell or dance for awhile. We did not get very much Jonathan at all - I always thought he was the cutest (what is it with me and the gay one? Jonathan, Lance... maybe I should pick a favorite Backstreet Boy so that one of *them* can come out (okay, I think Jonathan might not be like cover-of-People out, but I'm pretty sure he was dating-boys out a couple of years ago?)). Jordan, however, who used to be kind of funny-looking, was really quite attractive, and rather extraordinarly hot in that whole bare-chested billowing-white-shirt bit. It might not be just your daughter on their bus. (The crowd, btw, was awesome. Lots and lots of 80s clothes and bangs and giant earrings - also original merchandise. Thirty year old women in twenty year old shirts, mmm.)
Concert was *awesome*. Screaming may not have been *quite* as loud as for Justin Timberlake, but I was glad for my earplugs (although they were clearly much more effective at some frequencies than others, leading the world right afterwards to sound sort of like an old record). I was fortuitously sitting on an aisle right behind A Guy, who did not feel compelled to stand up and dance, so I was able to stay comfortably seated and "dance" via arm-waving.
Genderwise, the concert was notably observably even more heavily female than the Timberlake concert, which was maybe... 90-95% female? Hard to recall now exactly, but tonight's guy ratio was something more like one in fifty. And almost all of them were obviously there with a woman (sometimes walking two paces behind holding both drinks...). I literally saw *one* unaccompanied man and was almost expecting some sort of announcement - "Ladies, we have an unattended man in section seventeen, did someone lose their fellow?". At the very end on the way down the stairs I saw two older guys who were there together sans women. I have never been in that large a crowd that was so extremely dominated by one gender... I think it would have been kind of scary if the crowd had been that heavily male, to be so obviously one of these things that was not like the other ones.
Music-wise, they sang everything one might have hoped for - Right Stuff very early on, which was surprising but made for nice high energy in the first half, and Step by Step and Hanging Tough as the encores in that order, and, you know, anything else you've ever heard of, Cover Girl and My Favorite Girl and Valentine Girl and I'll Be Loving You Forever Girl and Didn't I Blow Your Mind Girl and Girl I'm Singing To A Girl In Case That Wasn't Clear Girl. New stuff - um, they closed with Click Click Click and then Summertime, they did Single and Grown Man earlier on, and I think Twisted and Dirty Dancing somewhere in there? (For the one of you who may have bought this album.)
Structurally, it was hilarious, because they would come out, sing about two songs, and then vanish backstage again to be massaged or re-stitched or cortisone-injected or hung upside down or gargled with honey-lemon tea or whatever sort of maintenance they were obviously requiring at regular intervals. One of them did some breakdancing and then was quickly hustled offstage to be iced down or whatever. There was a whole long middle-end section where they traded off one at a time to do solos on various of the older tracks (where "they" is, uh, Jordan and Joey mostly - I have a terrible time remembering who's who, and I couldn't tell them apart much anyways unless the camera zoomed in on someone's face on the big screens, which half the time were just showing miscellaneous arty visuals) and various other segments where somebody (Donnie? the other one?) would come out to say "Boston" a lot and get the crowd to yell or dance for awhile. We did not get very much Jonathan at all - I always thought he was the cutest (what is it with me and the gay one? Jonathan, Lance... maybe I should pick a favorite Backstreet Boy so that one of *them* can come out (okay, I think Jonathan might not be like cover-of-People out, but I'm pretty sure he was dating-boys out a couple of years ago?)). Jordan, however, who used to be kind of funny-looking, was really quite attractive, and rather extraordinarly hot in that whole bare-chested billowing-white-shirt bit. It might not be just your daughter on their bus. (The crowd, btw, was awesome. Lots and lots of 80s clothes and bangs and giant earrings - also original merchandise. Thirty year old women in twenty year old shirts, mmm.)
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Date: 2008-10-01 12:39 pm (UTC):) Fair enough.