Backstreet Boys Want To Headline Super Bowl 2027 Halftime Show

The Backstreet Boys, comprised of AJ McLean, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Litrell, are campaigning to headline the 2027 Tremendous Bowl halftime present.

The bid comes greater than 20 years after the boy band declined the chance. With renewed enthusiasm and a robust fan base, the group seems prepared to assert considered one of music’s greatest levels.

The Backstreet Boys are in the midst of their “Into the Millennium” residency on the Sphere in Las Vegas, and in one of many exhibits, McLean proposed an thought to the viewers.

“What do you guys assume? Backstreet Boys. 2027. Tremendous Bowl halftime. Let’s make it occur,” he instructed the viewers.

The concept was met with loud cheers from the viewers, who responded enthusiastically to the prospect of the enduring ’90s boy band performing their greatest hits on the Tremendous Bowl stage.

A Change.org petition has already been arrange by a person named Regina Brodley, and as of writing, it has greater than 4,500 signatures.

On February 13, the Backstreet Boys spoke with People and expressed curiosity in performing the halftime present subsequent 12 months, sharing their imaginative and prescient of what it will appear like if given the possibility.

“You higher vote sure for us to do halftime, particularly as a result of it is gonna be in Los Angeles at SoFi subsequent 12 months. That is dwelling for me and Kevin so that might be fairly superior,” McLean mentioned.

Carter added his take, saying that they might deliver a “pop explosion,” hoping to deliver again their friends, *NSYNC and Britney Spears, to which McLean mentioned that each have already carried out within the Tremendous Bowl.

“We’re bringing again 98 Levels, I do not care. We’re headlining. We’re bringing all of our pop mates again,” Carter insisted.

As Carter defined, the music from the ’90s and 2000s is “among the most nostalgic for folks,” which is why they need make this efficiency occur.

Greater than 20 years in the past, the Backstreet Boys had been provided the possibility to carry out on the 2001  Tremendous Bowl stage, however they declined.

That 12 months, the Super Bowl was held in Tampa, Florida, and *NSYNC and Aerosmith headlined the halftime present. The 2 teams took the stage alternately singing their greatest hits, and within the finale quantity, they got here collectively and introduced particular visitors, together with Britney Spears, Nelly, and Mary J. Blige.

Regardless of declining to affix the halftime present, the Backstreet Boys agreed to sing the nationwide anthem. “On the time we got here from the period of, we liked the Whitney Houston rendition of the nationwide anthem. And for us, we acquired the selection and we handed on the halftime,” Carter defined.

Cell telecommunications firm, T-Cell, got here again to the 2026 Tremendous Bowl, marking its thirteenth consecutive 12 months airing a industrial in the course of the occasion. This time, they introduced within the Backstreet Boys.

The boy band, decked in pink and white clothes, sang a rendition of their 1999 hit tune “I Need It That Approach,” altering the lyrics for the commercial. Rapper and singer MGK additionally made a particular look on the finish of the industrial.

Andrew Panay, the founder and producer of Panay Movies and the mastermind behind the idea, mentioned he was inspired after seeing the Backstreet Boys carry out reside. “It was extraordinary to look at the vitality, I used to be having a religious expertise – it was out-of-control wonderful,” he gushed. “I knew at that time that that is what we may perhaps do for the Tremendous Bowl,” he added.