Word: backstreeters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Corin Tucker, singer and guitarist for the great punk trio Sleater-Kinney, was talking about the night she crossed paths with the Backstreet Boys. "They were recording in the same studio. It was"--in a perfect mall-rat accent--"we're definitely meeting them. For sure. We met the one, I think his name is Kevin." She was asked whether the pop star treated her as if she were a besotted fan or another musician. "Well!" Tucker said. "Total besotted fan. He didn't see me as a musician at all. He doesn't know...
However brief the visit, the spending orgies are legendary. In Seoul, backstreet stores in Itaewon sell fake designer clothes and accessories exclusively to Japanese groups, often from back rooms hidden behind sliding screens and false walls. "Japanese are big customers," says one shop manager. "They buy a lot." A tour guide waiting outside another clandestine store is candid about his Japanese clients: "There's not much to see in Korea. They're here for the shopping...
...ambience there. Yorn, backed by three other musicians, was soundwise one of the best bands I’ve seen at the Paradise. You could hear all the different lines from each instrument clearly without distortion or overmodulation. Yorn himself, unknown to the crowd who were waiting for the Backstreet Boys of rock, Semisonic, rocked the stage with a short set highlighted by an alternative rendition of Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” He also played a few cuts from the new album and promised to be back in Boston soon...
...Christopher L. Pierce ’01. Girls love Chris Pierce. Boys love Chris Pierce. Everrybooodddyy loves Chris Pierce. And why not? He looks like the sixth Backstreet Boy, concentrates in bio-chem but knows how to throw a damn good party, and is an all around fun-loving...
...even watch the Geena Davis show. But some things are too scary to even channel-flip through. Consider this headline regarding the next edition of VH1’s “Divas Live”: “Kid Rock, Backstreet Boys To Join In Salute To Aretha Franklin...