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Brown Andersonn and HENHENRYRY GOL GOLDBLATTDBL Mandy Moore 6 EW.COM MAY 25, 2018 © © © WE’RE MAKING CARAMEL FUN ®/™ trademarks © Mars, Incorporated 2018 THE TOP 10 THINGS WE LOVE THIS WEEK Edited By | MARC SNETIKER @MARCSNETIKER ALL THE WAYS BACKSTREET’S BACK BRIAN LITTRELL & AJ MCLEAN The two singers tell EW's Samantha Highfill how the larger- than-life band plans to celebrate 25 years of making music and playing games BACKSTREET BOYS: KEITH GRINER/GETTY KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC LITTRELL: JEFF KEITH (2); IMAGES BOYS: BACKSTREET (with our hearts) THE NEW SINGLE “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” dropped May 17. BRIAN LITTRELL We’ve recorded maybe 12 songs, and this one just hit. It screams Backstreet Boys. AJ MCLEAN To me, it sounds like if you were to mash up the Weeknd with the Bee Gees. It’s reminis- cent of old-school Backstreet Boys, like Millennium days, with a more modern twist. ; MCLEAN: MINDY SMALL/FILMMAGIC MCLEAN: MINDY ; “DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART” BY BACKSTREET BOYS No, you’re not dreaming—the ’90s band proves its musical mettle in 2018 with this catchy single (no relation to Elton John) that announces, triumphantly, that Backstreet’s returned. All right? ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN RITTER CONTINUED THE NEW ALBUM BSB’s 10th studio album drops this fall. THE MIDDLE MCLEAN The album is slowly starting to take shape. There’ve After nine seasons of hilarious pratfalls and been songs that are awkward family moments, The Middle comes pop-country, songs that are straight to an end on ABC on May 22. We’ll sure as hell urban R&B, songs miss the Heck family, but there’s no better way that are borderline to honor this endearingly average clan than to EDM. We’re fans of start all over again and begin rewatching one all walks of music. LITTRELL That was of the purest TV underdogs of the decade. a great answer, AJ. I’m not even going to attempt that one. THE VEGAS RESIDENCY The Boys return to Sin City in July. It’s so inssane to MCLEAN Nine shows think theeshow was the original deal, would haaveale gg- then we added nine acy, that I could be more, and nine more, part of something and then an addi- that people will tional 52. It’s become think about beyond a second home. this moment. If you LITTRELL [Vegas is] think of your favor- a perfect fit for ite finale and the us. I hope we keep feeling it evoked, going, because it’s I think [our finale] a cool thing to be so captured that. We close to fans, doing had a party, then three shows a week. I went to the ward- THE TOUR robe station to take the Sue rejects. I spent hours going In March 2019, they through all the hit the road. clothes, and I took MCLEAN This tour will quite a bit. I didn’t commemorate 25 feel bad, because it years together. Obvi- wasn’t special to ously we’re going to anyone but me. It do the hits and then felt good.” some stuf from our —EDEN SHER, new album. We’re ON SAYING GOODBYE going to try to knock TO SUE HECK it out of the park. THE OTHER ALBUM? Something special is planned for late 2018. LITTRELL The fans might get two albums this year. PRETEND I’M DEAD You’re going to get by Jen Beagin a 10th album with all-new material, and The author won a prestigious Whiting Award for maybe a few sur- her spiky first novel, a portrait of a young : MICHAEL ANSELL/ABC; SHER: MICHAEL TULLBERG/GETTY IMAGES prises on another cleaning woman whose romance with a junkie— album—who knows? referred to, exclusively, as Mr. Disgusting—ends Never count the in tragedy. It’s dark stuf, to be sure, but Beagin’s THE MIDDLE THE Backstreet Boys out.