Concert reviews

I drove a little over 300 miles arriving the day before the concert so we'd be there to welcome the BSB when they arrived. The BSB had been sounding like they were down in the mouth lately about cd sales and everyone knows they are just not in the number one spot anymore and we all know they must be feeling bad about it so we just decided to be there to show them how much we loved them and they were still number one with us. A lot of other fans had also arrived early as they had the same feelings we did. The early morning of the concert the buses and trucks were already there at the Gaylord Entertainment center's parking lot and the trucks were emptying their contents into the center. There was a lot of fans near the buses all hoping that they would at least get a wave from one or more of the boys. The fans stayed there for hours, by the way our room was over looking the center and we could see the buses from there so we pretty much knew when the buses arrived and just how long the fans stayed. And they stayed all morning but finally gave up and left to walk around town hoping to run into the boys in places like the Hard Rock Cafe (which is a great place and if you ever go ask to be seated at Lisa's table) or Planet Hollywood. This is what we did. We walked around just knowing the BSB (who did not have another performance for a couple of days after the Nashville one) would maybe be wanting to get around Nashville (which is a very interesting and friendly place) and maybe see their fans that they always say they love so much. All of us fans(of all ages) talked and made plans to find them and it was really fun. But we never found them. We gave up and most went back to their hotels to get ready for the concert, but we walked by the buses first and here came 3 other buses, now we got to thinking that all the time we were looking they weren't even here, it kind of got us a little disgusted that we were such fools. But we never saw anyone get off the buses so we went back to our rooms and watched. There was a small crowd of fans in front of the center with all their signs trying to win a contest for best poster and to try to win a chance to go back and meet the boys, now here is my first question, "Why should you have to enter a contest to get to go back and meet the boys?" Why do only a select few get the honors? What about the rest of us? They used to let people know when they were arriving and sign or at least wave to their fans that had arrived early to show their love and support. But then that was as the boys themselves say "Back in the day!" Well we watched the events going on from my window. And I won't even go into what happened about that. The people outside there know. But anyways about 5 or 5:30 a black bus drove past the unknowing crowd. I knew it was them. I had forgot about the black bus, somone had told me they usually arrived on, hey I am getting senile I guess, but anyways there it was. I guess they were curious as to how many people were there. It was not a big crowd by far, not what they used to draw. Not what they draw overseas when the arrive in buses with actual windows you can see them in and they actually wave and blow kisses and show the fans they love them and appreciate them. But then overseas they let the fans know when they are coming, and they don't hide from them, they don't sneak in and out of town like they are afraid we are actually going to see them and then they will what? Have to take time out of their busy schedule to stop and sign autographs? I know they don't have time for this but hey that is what being famous is,isn't it? If they are so pushed for time that they can't spend some of it with their fans, the fans that have put them where they are now, put them in their nice big houses, in their nice fancy cars, need I go on? Anyways if they are so pushed for time then I suggest the next time to either not do so many concerts so close together. Instead of trying to break some kind of money making record or do a world tour in record time, just spread them out. Give us , the fans what we want, to see the BSB and not just up on a stage for an hour and a half. And to give themselves a break from all the rushing around, slow down boys we will wait for you to get to our town if we know you are going to give us a little more time than a few hours. The boys used to be like this,'Back in the day'. But now , well lets get into the concert. The concert basically was good, I will not say it was great because like I said before , there was something missing. I don't know what all the other concerts have been like, but I have heard some comments from others that have told of things they saw, things that I saw and others I talked to afterwards saw at this concert, and still that something missing. But lets just tell about the concert first. The BSB sang and danced great as usual, they are gifted there is no denying that. It is what you are supposed to be going to a concert for anyways, the music, right, but hey don't tell a BSB fan this, they want more, but then aren't they owed it, look at the BSB and what they have due to our loyalty. They are not just stars they are superstars, they were number one for how long, number one until recently and then what happened, we just get back to the question about what the hell is missing? Well let me just go on with my views, like I was saying the boys were great, the band was great and the dancers were great. But the band was a little to loud , some songs you could hear them and not the singing BSB so it was kind of like, "Hey guys sing a little louder, OK" And well the dancers were great, but if you ask any BSB fan if they even watched the dancers for more than a minute the answer will be no.And anyways we don't go to see the dancers, we go to see the boys. And it seems when the dancers are on stage the boys pay more attention to fooling with them than the audience. Well not Brian caz Leighanne and a lot of his family was there sitting just to my left, so he pretty much behaved throughout the concert. He was his usual funny self, which everyone loved but he really needs a lesson in what is funny and what is cruel to a BSB fan for example:during one song they tore one of their sleeves off and threw them out into the audience and Brian was making like he was going to throw his to one girl who was excitedly screaming her fool head off and trying to grab fot it but at the last minute he threw it to the side to someone else and made a face like, ha ha you thought I was gonna throw it at you,at the poor girl who thought she was going to get it. I wonder if he knew how bad he hurt this young girl, I know he probably thought he was being funny and cute, but he really wasn't, I am sure this girl is still heartbroken. And a lot of the concert he spent over in front of his family, hey it was great for us because thats where we were, but I had to think what about the rest of the crowd? He did go back and forth and do his little waves at little children (mostly) One thing I didn't see him do I heard he had been doing at most the concerts she is at is sing to her most of the concert, he did sing to her a little but not a lot and I mean hey its his wife right. But one thing that did disturb me about her, and I don't mean to critisize her(but remember I am a mother) and she is supposed to be such a christian, I mean doesn't Brian brag all the time how they read Bible verses to each other all the time and are just so religious, and how he tells he likes women dressing so they don't show off to much of themselves and leave something to the imagination, well people, I hate to tell you but she just don't dress like any southern Baptist young lady I ever saw, I am sure she is a nice person, and I really have no right to critisize her except that I like I just stated am a mother of a very impressionable teenager in a time where it seems to be telling everyone its ok to go around dressed like some street hooker and then people wonder why so many young people are getting in trouble , but now thats off the subject, but anyways she has got to realize she is a role model and she has young girls wanting to be like her and their parents in the audience were looking at her in shock at what she was wearing, it was a pink dress that was like 2 sizes to small and just about covered her torso, but hey all the dads in the audience near us couldn't take their eyes off her. But I guess thats her business, and I don't let my daughter dress like that anyways. I heard a lot of the people around me saying to their kids OMG that is Brians wife? I told some of them she was an actress and I guess they just dressed like that and they just gave me a funny look and I realized how stupid an answer it was I gave, but well enough of that I know she has the right to dress the way she wants (but hey if you don't want to be critisized by others don't say one thing and do another and get out of the business) Oh and I have to say one more thing I have heard her saying(other famous people have said it too but this is not about them) anyways about their privacy that she says people are always barging in on, like when her and Brian are trying to eat out or enjoy going out or something and a fan comes up to them and wants an autograph or a picture and they get mad,but hey, I wish the next time a fan bothers them eating or something they need to stop and think of the nice house they are in ,and the nice car they drive, and the nice life they live, if they don't want the fans bothering her, then they need to get out of the business they are in as this is just a part of it, just like any other job it has its quirks so I guess us bothersome fans are the quirks of being famous. Anyways Brians mom was sitting there a few rows in front of Leighanne and well I guess I am being to oldfashioned. Lets move on to the others, well lets take Kevin,well he got a Kentucky hat given to him and he put it on and then apologized and took it off out of respect fot Tennssee he said. Hey Kev, we aren't like that! A Tennessee fan gave it to him so why would we do that if we thought it would insult us if he wore it? But then he went on to say that there was a lot of his family and friends in the audience and he wanted to give a big hello to them, once again I am left with , what about us, the regular fans? Otherwise Kevin is great and I have to say something about his voice and I have heard him in person as I went to the Millenium concert also, but (and I am sure everyone knows this) Kevin has a great voice and I think he needs to sing lead more or something I love all their voices but him and Howie need more time. Now let me get on to AJ and Howie, they were the only ones to raise their arms and swing them back and forth to try to get the audience going but that was just for one song, and didn't last , and AJ did his "Oh what a buch of lovely ladies in the audience tonight" , for a few minutes getting the crowd a little excited and thinking they were going to start to make us dance and jump up and down and scream, but it never happened. And I knew Howie was a good dancer but he shook his well you know a few times and got the crowd a little interested but then it stopped. And after a skit on them being old(that was pretaped and really quite funny and the audience loved it) well they appeared on the small stage that was in the center of the floor and sang "How Did I Fall in Love With You" which is my favorite, and they sang it so beautifully and actually did a little waving into the crowd here. The they sang "Time" and walked over the catwalk which was so high up, back to the main stage , I thought the cat walk was so they could get close to their fans, I thought they would reach down and touch hands here and get our little gifts and whatever, but the catwalk was so high that one girl threw a toy basketball another fan had to toss it to Brian. Well we had some rather large fans sitting between us and the catwalk so we never made it near there. My daughter had bought some little stuffed animals when we first got the tickets(months ago) just so she could throw them to the boys , two of the things were blue UK stuffed widcats , and ahe just knew Brian and Kevin would love them. I told her to wait til the boys got near us, as they were looking to each side just about everywhere, I told her when they looked at us to hold them up and maybe someone would give the toys to them. So she waited, and nothing,they looked everywhere but to where we were sitting, I swear they did, they walked to each side and waved to a few and then went on and just kind of walked past us, maybe if she had been a little kid or a girl wearing next to nothing like the girls that were standing on the first level just to the left of us and right in front of the Littrell family which is where Nick spent most of his night. OH yes lets get on to Nick, he used to be my daughters favorite, and also the favorite of the teens I talked to after the concert that had also witnessed what I am about to tell, and I have heard a lot of rumors from others about this happening and I know he is a young man but he has got to realize he is in the public eye and if he wants to remain in a number one postion he needs to learn what the term being discrete is. And he was far from disrete this night. And I mean the BSB are wanting to know what they are doing wrong, well like it or not this is just another of the problems, and like I said before I have heard a lot of stories about Nick and one girl we were with this night told of what she saw after the Atlanta concert she had just seen and had run into Nick in an elevator of the hotel she was staying at, well he knows what he was doing so I won't go into that but he needs to learn that disrete thing. But anyways this is what happened at the Nashville concert that I saw with my own eyes and was sitting very close to the girls. These girls all young (about 16-17) blonde, cute, and very tan, especially the one he' picked' out for whatever, well he was spending a lot of time dancing in front of them and doing his thing and I could see Brian's mom's face not looking to happy about it(Oh a lot of Brian's younger cousins were with her) and I am just guessing at the reason but it was so obvious at what was happening and I am guessing she was as disgusted at Nick as evryone else that could see what was going on, but anyways a security guard came to the girl and asked her to follow him down to the floor and she talked with him and he wrote something down(name, phone number , what I really don't know but I did have a friend sitting right in back of the girls and she said when she came back to her friends she was telling them something about Nick so you put it all together and what do you think it was about. And once again I know he deserves his privacy but when he is in the middle of a concert the last thing a Nick lover wants to see is him flirting openly with a teenager that is wearing very little clothing. But anyways Nick paid most of his attention to either performing in front of her or dancing with the BSB dancers or with the band. I mean they all did their usual routine dances and singing to the audience, and like I said they mainly waved cute little hello's to little kids, and girls wearing next to nothing, but what about the regular fans? And back to there was still something missing. The same something that is missing from the B&B cd, and I love the cd but then I am an older fan and love the ballards but I also love the what I call make me wanna party songs. And this is what is missing. I think the BSB need to watch Shaggy , I mean he interacted WITH the crowd EVERY song! He had us singing and dancing and swaying our arms and jumping up and down, he had us wore out by the time the BSB were coming out and we thought we would get the same from them, but it never came. And it was a big let down. Like I said the concert, as far as the singing and the visual effects in the backgroiund, which I have firgot to mention were great and the beginning was powerful! But they never really got the audience going like they used to. Like in the video I just got through watching where I have found what was missing. They need to go back and look at how they were 'back in the day' when they would jump up and down and scream for us to swing our arms or jump up and down, scream or sing or whatever just so we would feel the energy of the music, feel the energy of the BSB. The day whwen there was no dancers to draw their attentioin away from the audience which is the reason they are doing the concerts anyways, right? I wish they'd watch The Homecoming video, especially the song "Get Down , and We've Got It Going On" and of course, Backstreet's Back, Those are party songs that you can feel the energy of the song and of the BSB, and that is how the BSB used to get us going, that is... 'back in the day.'. But now for the ending of the concert well it ended with them acting like"The Call" was the last song and a lot of people started to leave but then they came back for" Shape of my heart", afterwards we went to outside to the back of the center where we knew they would be coming out of an under ground tunnel the black bus had gone into. (remember I could see a lot from my hotel room) They had spent a little time with a handicapped fan(which is nice) But once again , what about us? The regular fans? Anyways we just knew they were going to come out and maybe spend some time hanging around Nashville and maybe we'd get an autograph and I would get a chance to get an autograph on the Jive Jacket of Brian's I had bought at an auction for his Healthy Heart for Kids charity a few months ago that was not autographed (which I was kind of disappointed about as I thoought they signed everyting they auctioned off but then hey maybe that was back in the day too.Anyways we all thought that this was when the BSB would make a little time for us, the regular fans, but once again we were wrong. We stood there and watched as the bus pulled out of the tunnell and all traffic was stopped and it drove past us in such a hurry that it was like they didn't want us to even be there! They just wanted to get away from us. It left us all feeling like hey , What are we? Is this how they show their love for us , their regular fans, by sneaking in and out of town so fast. They are not like this over seas and here they have their meets and greets with those lucky few that win contest or are handicaped, but what about us regular fans? The ones that have put them in their fancy houses and cars and clothes! What about us? Now like I said before this is just my opinion I got from my own feelings and from the conversations I had with other fans after the BSB concert. And don't email me and say oh they have their right to their privacy or oh they are tired or whatever trying to make excuses for them, that is for people that lead a normail life and have a normal job and like I said before they do not have a normal job and the lives they lead are what they have chosen knowing full well what it would be like to be a superstar, but then we pay them very well. look at what they live in and what they drive and wear. Didn't the fans pay for that so please don't tellme about them deserving privacy(I know they deserve it but hey that is one of the things you lose when you want to be rich and famous and if you don't like it then do what other people do when they don't like their job, find another one, forget who it was that put you in the nice seat your in ) The fans spend a lot of money and time on them to show we love them, and isn't this what they want?and aren't they wanting to know what is missing and why are they losing so many fans, well this is just my views on what is missing and what is wrong, and maybe I am wrong , maybe they don't want the love and attention anymore maybe they just want to be regular singers and not super stars anymore well if thats the case then I guess I need to just shut up and I will , so byz. ps my daughter and I are still BSB fans, but disappointed ones. And we are going to the St Louis concert and I hope it is better than this one. I hope they find what is missing and fix it.