Drake Crashes Backstreet Boys’ Toronto Gig To Perform ‘I Want It That Way’ & Share How The Hit Helped Him Impress A Girl & Feel ‘Cool’ For First Time
etcanada.comHe’s one of the most idolized musicians in showbiz, but on Saturday night, Drake turned up to the Backstreet Boys’ Toronto, Ontario, concert and revealed that it was the boy band’s 1999 smash, “I Want It That Way” that helped him feel “cool” and “acknowledged” for the first time.
The boy band were performing the second of two shows at the Budweiser Stage when the 35-year Toronto native hit the stage. READ MORE: Backstreet Boys’ Cute Kids Steal The Show During Hollywood Bowl Gig Featuring ‘Larger Than Life’ Fireworks Display – Watch As the crowd roared with applause, the “Hotline Bling” singer explained how he had run into band member Kevin Richardson prior to the DNA World Tour show and told him the story of how the quintet impacted him during his youth. “I really wanted to come out here tonight,” he told the audience in a video posted on social media by band member Howie Dorough’s wife Leigh. “I saw my brother at a restaurant the other night and I was telling him that when I was in high school … actually I wasn’t in high school, I was in junior high.
I was 13-years-old and I was an awkward kid and I was in love with this girl at the time.” The singer then shared that while his crush didn’t appear interested, everything changed thanks to “I Want It That Way.” “At 13-years-old, I had a thing called a bar mitzvah and at my bar mitzvah, for the first time in my life, this girl who I was in love with came up to me while one of the greatest songs in the world was playing,” he said. “She asked me if I would dance with her and it was the first time I ever felt acknowledged.” “It was the first time I ever felt like I had a shot at being cool,” Drake continued. “And the song she wanted to dance with me to was one of the
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