Well, it’s been another tough week in the fandom. I’m getting tired of writing these posts, but once again, I’m reminded of how strong the BSB Army and the Backstreet Boys themselves are. Rose wrote a great post about this on her site The Dark Side yesterday that reminded me of one of my all-time favorite BSB lyrics: “We’ve been through days of thunder. Some people say we don’t belong. They try to pull us under, but here we stand together, and we’re millions strong.” The media can try to cancel them based on an opportunistic and completely unsubstantiated claim by one person who’s been manipulated by another, but the Boys will keep going, and we the fans will continue to band together to support them. As far as Nick goes, I don’t have time to write all that I want to say right now, but if you’ve read my stories and my recent tweets, you already know how I feel about him and this situation. The short version is: I support Nick and don’t believe he or the group deserve to be “cancelled” over an alleged incident that may or may not have happened over twenty years ago when there is absolutely no proof or evidence that he did what he’s been accused of.
Nick has a small part in Chapter 10 of The World Will Be Waiting, which is now online. You know things are bad when one of my chapters is happier and more light-hearted than reality, LOL. While my stories are fictional, I try to infuse them with as much reality as I can, and I genuinely believe that Nick has a good heart, would do anything for his brothers, and would never take advantage or abuse someone with disabilities. I sincerely hope that the companies who were so quick to cancel him without digging deeper into this claim will do some investigating and reconsider their decisions, but even if they don’t and we’re left disappointed by the lack of appearances we’ve been looking forward to, we – and the group – will survive. This, too, shall pass, and we’ll all be even stronger at the end of it. Sending lots of love to Nick, Kevin, Brian, Howie, AJ, and all my friends in the fandom. Hang in there, BSB fam. 🖤💙
Wait, what happened? I’ll have to read your latest chapter of TWWBW to see if there are any true facts you have put in there.
And, if you ever want to talk more about Nick and say what you really want to say, you can always talk to me.
I don’t want to draw attention by linking directly to an article about it, but if you google Nick Carter and look at the news section, you’ll find the information.
There’s nothing in TWWBW about this, since it takes place ten years ago, but I do incorporate true facts into the fiction of my storylines when I can.
Thanks! I really just didn’t have a lot of time to write this post before I had to go get ready for an event, but between this post and the tweets I wrote last night, I’ve said my piece for now.