Today marks it exactly twenty years since Backstreet boys came to the scene.
In the summer of 1997, the five "boys," Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, Brian Littrell , Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson, shot to superstardom seemingly overnight, when in actuality the crew of cuties had formed in 1993 and had been touring up a storm in Europe and blowing up the charts across the pond for the past couple of years.
With their love of oversized t-shirts, primary colors, too-cool Kangol hats and baggy overalls, did the '90s make the Backstreet Boys or did the Backstreet Boys make the '90s? We'll never know.
It wasn't until '97, when teens in the U.S. heard the BSB's sounds and the gang of young hitmakers took over airwaves in the States with their faux bad-boy, bubblegum pop tunes.