Updated On: 05 May, 2023 05:46 PM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
In Mumbai as part of their DNA world tour, the Backstreet Boys didn’t require any assistance from supporting artistes to bring Bandra to a standstill as they put up one of the finest performances the city has ever seen

Backstreet Boys performing in Mumbai for their DNA World Tour. Pic courtesy/ RVR16
Do you recognise 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.
