The fellows will take over Sin Metropolis like by no means earlier than when their present opens up July 11, with McLean calling it a “humdinger” of a manufacturing. In contrast to different live performance venues, Sphere provides up a extra immersive expertise, with 580,000 sq toes of LEDs behind, above and across the artists on stage.

“Nobody has finished what we’re gonna do on this specific venue,” McLean informed TooFab throughout an interview about his upcoming Netflix competitors sequence, Constructing the Band, “We’re taking Sphere to the following stage.”

McLean stated that the expertise might be like “two exhibits taking place on the identical time,” referring to the present the boys themselves might be doing on stage and the movies on the screens round them. In line with AJ, followers are “gonna need to see the present greater than as soon as” to take all of it in — including, “You really cannot watch them each on the identical time.”

“We’re undoubtedly pulling out all of the stops as a result of we’ve been given the go-ahead to strive some issues which have by no means been tried on this specific venue,” he continued. “We really shot content material for about 5 totally different songs. Some fairly trippy stuff that individuals are gonna see that I do know they’re gonna discuss.”

Whereas he cannot anticipate followers to see what they’ve up their sleeves, McLean stated the group themselves additionally will not get the total scope of it till the final second — telling TooFab the “ultimate content material” will not be prepared “till mainly the day earlier than opening night time.”

“It is a bit nerve-wracking,” he continued, claiming they have been informed again in January that “9 occasions out of ten,” for almost each present finished on the venue, “the content material was finished the day earlier than.” He added, “So, it is mainly right down to the wire.”

When requested what he is in a position to tease concerning the visuals being created for the present and which tune’s video content material he is most excited for followers to see, McLean had one in thoughts, however would not spill an excessive amount of about it.

“There’s one particularly, however I can not say what tune it’s. All I am going to say is, it isn’t from Millennium,” he teased, referring to the band’s 1999 studio album, earlier than confirming, “We’re doing the complete Millennium album. That’s taking place.”

“I feel visually, what we’re doing for the intro of the present is fairly spectacular. I feel what’s taking place on a tune known as ‘Get One other Boyfriend’ is gonna be fairly freaking cool,” he additionally teased.

“I’ve received ultimate gown rehearsals on my telephone — we name them our work tapes, so we will sort of go over all the things whereas we’re on this little break earlier than I’m going again to Vegas subsequent week — and my daughters caught me watching it they usually wanna watch it,” shared McLean. “I stated, ‘Nope.’ I closed my telephone and I stated, ‘It’s important to expertise it in actual time. Sure, you are my daughters, usually I am going to allow you to hear issues earlier than anybody else does however, no.’”

Lastly, McLean made it clear he intends the viewers to decorate up for the live performance, asking our reporter — who might be attending a present in August — whether or not he is received his white out prepared. So, all you BSB followers on the market, you’ve got been placed on alert!

The Backstreet Boys’ residency at Sphere is slated from July 11-August 24, 2025. McLean’s Netflix sequence, Constructing the Band, debuts with the primary batch of episodes July 9.