Check on your friends who are Backstreet Boys fans, they might be unwell.
The group kicked off their โInto The Millennium HOMECOMING: Live in Germanyโ shows on Friday, Sept. 25 and made an unforgettable entrance that is making fans nostalgic.
In video shared on their Instagram, dramatic music plays as the five singers โ Kevin Richardson, AJ McLean, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell โ are dressed in black-and-blue ensembles and ascending from the sky on surfboards.
โโฆbut were you ready??โ they captioned the video.
After seeing the video of their surfboard entrances fans freaked out online.
โLOSING MY FREAKING MIND I CANNOT HANDLE THIS GET ME TO GERMANY NOOOOOOW!!!!! I am shaking typing this!!!!!!THE SURFBOARDS!!!!! Iโm NAUSEOUS!!!! OMGGGG,โ one person wrote.
โOh d—, are you serious? ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ No, I wasnโt prepared for this. Thatโs so awesomeโyou guys are just amazing,โ another added.
โOmg I would have DIED,โ โScreaming crying throwing up!โ and โI. CANT. BREATHEโ are among other strong reactions from fans.
Longtime BSB fans recall this epic entrance from their 1999 โInto the Millennium Tour.โ Back then, they flew in on futuristic surfboards also while wearing coordinated looks that consisted of royal blue strapped vests, checkered long sleeves and navy pants.
As they made their way to the stage, they opened with โLarger Than Life.โ
โThere was a couple of flubs that happened on the โMillenniumโ tour when we used to fly up to the crowd. Kevin got stuck up there one night,โ McLean told TODAY.com in 2025 when first announcing their Sphere residency shows in Las Vegas.
Richardson added that he โgot stuck up there for, like, three songs.โ
This time around, all appeared to go well during the 2026 rendition of the memorable opening.
The Backstreet Boys are performing a number of shows during their first German residency at Merkur Spiel-Arena Dรผsseldorf.
They previously shared that the location is special as itโs the first country โthat ever embraced the Backstreet Boys.โ
โYou saw who we were before the rest of the world even knew we existed. For this, we are forever grateful, and after 30 years, we are finally coming home,โ they wrote on social media.
These concerts come after their highly successful โInto the Millenniumโ Sphere residency in Las Vegas that was announced on TODAY in February of 2025.
The show is a nod to their 1999 third studio album, โMillennium,โ that includes hits โI Want It That Way,โ โLarger Than Lifeโ and โShow Me the Meaning of Being Lonely.โ
What was meant to be a series of summer shows in 2025 has since continued, with more Sphere shows expected at the end of this year.
