There’s a lot to celebrate this April 20th. Happy Easter to Christians! Happy 420 to cannabis users! And, of course, happy 32nd anniversary to the Backstreet Boys! How blessed are we to be fans of a band that’s still going strong after more than three decades in the music business? As a fandom, we may complain about a lot of things – the price of concert tickets and meet-and-greets, the places that get left out of tours, and the time it takes the Boys to put out a new album, just to name a few – but every anniversary serves as a reminder of how grateful we should be to have these things to complain about. Remember, it could always be worse, as *NSYNC fans know. At least our group is still together, still making music, and still performing live shows. Let’s enjoy it while it lasts!
My readers have one more reason to celebrate today: Chapter 70 of The World Will Be Waiting is FINALLY up! I’m sorry it took me so long. This chapter centers around the In a World Like This album photo shoot, which is well-documented on YouTube.
This “behind the scenes” video the Boys posted was both a blessing and a curse to me. It was a blessing because it gave me so much material to work with when writing this part of the story. I did a lot of research about the shooting location, which led me down quite the rabbit hole, let me tell you! It was also a curse because it inspired me to include way too much detail. Believe it or not, I started this chapter on January first and, despite adding to it every day, only finished it a few weeks ago. It was originally like 16,000 words long (which is the length of about four average-sized chapters), but I ended up splitting it into two chapters, which means Chapter 71 is also done and will be posted later this month. I’m glad to be done with these chapters, but since they do feature all five guys, I figured today would be a good day to post the first part. I will probably post the second part either this weekend or next Tuesday, which is my site’s anniversary! Thanks for your patience, as always. I appreciate you!