Thanx to backstreetmillennium-and shashina
Philips Arena Atlanta,Georgia November 24th 1999
By Shahina
OMG Backstreet Boys Rock! Ok there concert is the BEST show that I have EVER seen..no joke! Ok here's my summary:
Well it all started yesterday November 24th, 1999. My dad came home around 3pm and me and my sister Shabana were ready and waiting to get down to Philips Arena. So we left the house around 3:30pm, with everything in our hands. I had plenty of film, a tape recorder, mini tapes, binoculars, money, and the tickets. So it took about 20-25 mins to get down to the Arena..for some reason even the inside roads had traffic. Ok my parents dropped us off at the doors around 3:55pm. And since it was me and my sister's first time downtown by ourselves we were kinda lost. Anyways we started to see other fans circling about and they all had these awesome BSB sling over platic bags...and of course I wanted one too. So a lil while later I ran into one of my friends from my college. (Hey Rupal!!) She was with her sister, and her friend. So the five of us just kinda walked around figuring out what to do. Then Rupal's sister asked this girl with a BSB bag where she got it from and the girl told us they were selling BSB merchandise on the other side of the building..so of course we went.
We cut through the food court in the CNN center and made our way down to the BSB tables. They were selling some awesome t-shirts($30), photos($5), laminents ($20), buttons ($10), tattoos ($5), programs($20), hats ($30), posters ($10), necklace ($10), one BSB button ($5). I think that was all. So me and my sister made our way to the front of the table to see what we wanted to buy. So I bought 2 t-shirts (a white one and a black one), a program, a photo, buttons(pack of 5), and that it was for me. My sister bought a photo, a t-shirt, and a program. Ok so after that we got some of the cute sling over bags and made our way back to the food court.
I had McDonald's. I wasn't really hungry b/c I was too excited to eat but ot was only like 4:15pm and the show started at 7:30pm so i figured I better eat something..so I won't faint when I see Nick *lol*. Ok so then we wondered around then I saw these girls with a picture of Nick it was an 8 x 10 and the photo that I had bought was of all th guys. So I was like OMG where did they get that picture from. So me and my sister went on a search..we had no luck so we went back to the table with my friends and that's when I saw my friend Teriya. She is the one who bought me my 2 BSB tickets (THANK YOU AGAIN!!!). Anyways the 3 of us were sitting together at the show. Ok let me tell you what she was wearing. She had a bright pink wig with AJ spray painted in blue on the back, and she was dressed all in pink. Her outfit rocked! Ok so then the 3 of us went on our way to search for that Nick pic again *lol* and we ended up outside..where they're were tons and tons of fans lined up waiting to get inside the arena. Then my friend just stops in hte middle of the floor and starts screaming "Tell Me whyyy"...and everyone is starring right now..I mean she is all in pink. So then everyone starts clapping and it was just one of those moments. BSB has the best fans.
So then we went back indside to wait at the door that our seats were at. And the line was pretty short on that side. Ok then out of the blue these 2 guys come up with these bags and they set all there stuff down and started setting up there display.....guess what!!They had my Nick pic!!Woohoooo!! So I bought that and they were also selling BSB stickers!Way cool!They were nice stickers too!!So I bought that as well and went back and stood in line.
Finally they opened the door at like 6:30pm and everyone rushed in..actually they were "suppose" to check out bags to make sure we didn't have cameras...but they didn't..oh well...the first thing I did when I got in was run to the restroom..b/c I had drank a whole thingy of coke. After that we scrambled around the arena to see if we could rip any BSB posters..we had no luck..then we spotted some BSB banners so we went up the stairs and when we got to the banner it had been tightly secured to the railing..dang it. So then we went back down and found our seats.
Ok so we're entering the arena and it had been my first time inside...and we were in shock..we were like OMG our seats are that close!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Ok so after that we sat down and my friend Teriya started talking to the security lady in charge of our section and she was cool..so she let us take pics. Ok so then around 7:30pm EYC comes out and they do there thing..I just wasn't feeling them ya know? I dunno why. So we sat through EYC and then like around 8:35pm we see smoke coming out of this huge black box and everyone starts screaming at the top of there lungs!It's the BACKSTREET BOYS!!
Ahh OMG there like dressed in those cute blue and black outfits and they come flying in. Nick is first!!Yeahhh!! And the other 4 are right behind him and they slowly fly down to the stage. The Star Wars music is playing and it was soooo awesome how they set it all up!AHh! Ok so they land onstage greeted by there dancers (there were 10 of them) and then they start playing "Larger than life" and man oh man everyone is screaming!Me included..I screamed my lungs out for Nick!! Damn he looked FINE!!! AHHHH!
Ok now I have the concert tape recorded in my mini tape recorder so I know in what order the songs went. After "LTL" the Boys sang "Get Down" and the 'I'll Be the One". Of course me, my sister and my friend are screaming still. Ok then they start to indroduce themselves. Nick goes first and gets the arena in an uproar. Ok then it's Brian, then AJ, then Howie and last but not least Kevin. Then they start to sing "ALAYLM" which gets everyone up and dancing followed by "Don't Wanna Loose You Now". Next is "QPG" this was another crowd fav. This is also when they flew out over the crowd. Kevin flew out over us and he looked HOTT!!Then they sang" Don't Want You back" and man oh man when Nick climbed up on that lil latter thingy OMG the fineness! He was on our side and I just screamed and screamed During "Perfect Fan" they brought up 5 moms and there daughters. It was very cute. And then Kevin had the spotlight on him and he played the piano. Crowd goes crazy of course. Then the Boys sang "Back to your heart". Then thye do the whole storm skit and out they come and do "Everybody" which is one of my favs! After that they go into "We've Got it Goin On" and after that "That's the way I like it." (They also sang "INBYH,Show Me the Meaning and Spanish Eyes but for some reason those 3 songs didn't tape so I'm not sure exactly what part they sang those three in, but everything else is in order).
Anyways ok so they like sing all there songs and they say "Thanks Atlanta" and leave..and I'm like hold up they haven't sang "IWITW" and then they come back out for an encore and sing a few more songs, introduce there band and there dancers and bow and confetti flys out and they leave...and I'm like no no no they haven't sang "IWITW" and then after a few minutes you hear "Ba-baay it's the way you make meee" and there back out and they sang "It's gotta be you and IWITW". So then they thank all the fans and Atlanta and they blow kisses and way and leave. While AJ is saying "goodbye" to everyoen Nick's taping him on the shoulder so Aj turns around and is like "what Nick?" and Nick goes, "Tell them to have a Happy Thanksgiving." And Aj's like Oh yeah and they all scream "HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!" Way way Cool!!
Man on man that concert was the bomb!AHHH! I mean I'm still feeling the aftermath..not being able to hear clearly and I have a scracthly throat but it rocked! I'd do it all over again in a heart beat! Man this is definately the tour of the Millennium.
Well that's how my day went. Let me know what you thought. I got my pics back and they came out pretty good. Let me know what you guys think ok? I'll be putting some up on my website after my finals. http://www.gurlpages.com/music/crazy4chaos/index.html KTBSPA!
Love Ya Guys,
Shahina
