Backstreet Boys shared how “very indebted” they’re to Max Martin as the person behind their music attended their Las Vegas residency on Saturday (16.08.25).
Backstreet Boys owe an incredible deal to Max Martin
The legendary Swedish songwriter and producer – whose songwriting credit embody Britney Spears’s …Child One Extra Time, Backstreet Boys’ I Need It That Means, and NSYNC’s It is Gonna Be Me – was amongst these in attendance on the US boy band’s Into The Millennium present at The Sphere.
Earlier than performing the Max Martin-penned Do not Need You Again, Howie Dorough mentioned: “He helped us create our legacy and the soundtrack to our lives.
“He wrote all these hit songs that we get an opportunity to sing for you guys. We’re very indebted to Mr. Max Martin.”
Kevin Richardson then invited followers to face on their toes in his honour.
He mentioned: “Let him really feel the love y’all. Let him really feel the love.”
Martin labored with the band from their first single, 1995’s We’ve Received It Going On, via to their big hits I Need It That Means, Form of My Coronary heart and All people (Backstreet’s Again).
In the meantime, it was simply confirmed that Martin reunited with Taylor Swift on her upcoming album The Lifetime of a Showgirl.
He and Shellback have labored on tracks for the follow-up to 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division.
Taylor beforehand teamed up with the pair on her albums Pink, 1989, and Fame.
She mentioned on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast: “One of many issues about this file is, like, it is a file I made with my mentor Max Martin and Shellback. The three of us have made a few of my favorite songs that I’ve ever accomplished earlier than.
“They have been my important collaborators on my Pink album. We did We Are By no means Getting Again Collectively, I Knew You Have been Bother, 22, Shake It Off, Clean Area, Type, Wildest Desires, Prepared for It, Delicate.”
She gushed: “They’re simply geniuses.”