I'm a fan (and you should be too) because...

Well that sentence doesn't entirely go with the first chapter in my story.
I started like the Backstreet Boys when I was in Grade 4.. sooo 10 years ago.
My friend Natasha introduced me to their song, "Everybody" from the Backstreet's Back album because we were going to dress up like the boys and sing it in the school airband competition. I had to study the words of that song for one month straight so it looked like I knew the song off-by-heart.
My friend let me borrow her CD for the training and I started listening to the other songs on the disc as well. When I went to her house after school we would listen to the first album, self-titled "Backstreet Boys". I remember we would have dance-off's to "Get Down" and "We've Got it Goin' On" in her front foyer. It was unreal.
I never purchased their CDs myself until my birthday in May I do believe.
Man was that an exciting time. Then the collecting began.
When I wouldn't have enough money saved up to get their latest merchandise or newest CD my brother would save up and buy me "the latest" for my birthday or christmas.. whichever came first. He didn't like the band but he knew how much I loved them so he insisted on buying me everything I'd need for them. My grandparents would even wrap my christmas presents in Backstreet Boy wrapping paper or put them in Backstreet Boy giftbags just to make me like their presents more.
In Summer 2005 I was working at a local restaurant in Revelstoke, BC and my cousin called me and told me that she had bought tickets to a certain concert in September but would not tell me which concert. Later that evening she phoned me back with riveting excitement about how she had bought us tickets to the Backstreet Boys' concert in Kelowna for Sept. 5. I almost died right then and there! This was my dream!! The only problem was I worked the morning of the concert and wouldn't get out of work until about 430.. I still had to drive home, shower, change, get all my gear together and be in Kelowna (2.5 hrs away) by 7. Man.. this was going to be hard... But with a little law breaking and a lot of skipping on work duties we made it just in time! We were able to listen to every single Backstreet Boy song in the car on the way to the concert just to revitalize our memory of each song.
Came time for the concert ---> we remembered every single word. It was unbelievable!
Although our seats were the far back of the floor .. it was still the most amazing concert I have ever been to -- even to this day!
With the joking on stage and including the crowd in the conversations.. The warming feeling you'd expect from the boys. It was just... unbelievable! I don't think there's another word for it. With the pyro-technics (spelling?) even! Amazing!
I never knew how amazing someone could be in concert until I saw the boys in concert. They hit every note perfectly and were absolutely amazing.
If I ever EVER meet them one day I swear I would prefer to meet them in a completely normal setting and just sit around and chat with them or even go play some ball. Go watch a football game or something. They are so real and so family oriented it drives me crazy. There isn't about them that isn't good. Through all their trials and tribulations and hurt and expansions through music and life these boys are every bit as amazing as you'd ever expect them to be. I just wish every saw it. Their music lifts my spirits when I'm having an off-day.. Their music gets me riled up for a night on the town. Their music keeps me going on a long drive. It's upbeat and mellow. From their high notes to their low notes these boys really know their music! <-- Kind of obvious when my Nana loves them and says, "These boys are the only ones who sing real music. These boys can frickin' sing!"

Seriously... What's not to love about this band? They're the one and only. xoxo