On July 2, during their tour stop in Toronto, Backstreet Boys invited a very special guest up on stage to join them in a rendition of “I Want It That Way,” per Rolling Stone, and it was none other than Toronto’s very own, Drake. Drake is used to getting fans talking, but how did this epic collab come to be? AJ McLean told Variety that the last-minute addition was pure luck, as Drake spotted them out to dinner in Toronto at his favorite Italian joint, approached his table, and they started exchanging ideas. “[He] asked if he could perform with us,” McLean told the outlet. “Then that turned into him just announcing the song, but we told him to stay on stage.”
In the video of the performance, we see Drake sing along to all the major verses and chorus of the song, and at one point, boy bander Howie Dorough sang a few verses of Drake’s 2013 hit “Hold On We’re Going Home.” The Toronto crowd went bonkers over Drake’s appearance, and screamed as he nailed the final line of the song with passion. All six on stage then threw their arms around each other for a group hug. Later, the “God’s Plan” rapper posted a pic of himself with the boyband in his IG Stories, captioning it, “I really made it,” per the Los Angeles Times. As a great band once sang, how this “love’s affecting our reality!”
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