Brothers, sisters, everybody sing! The Backstreet Boys and Rascal Flatts are joining forces at the 60th ACM Awards to bring you... Flattsreet Boys, as the two iconic groups will take the stage together for a performance of "What Hurts The Most."
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00:00We are backstage at the 60th annual ACM Awards with the Backstreet Boys.
00:04Oh my gosh, we're back again.
00:06I know, you're back again.
00:07And you're performing on the ACM Awards with Rascal Flatts.
00:10Their song, What Hurts the Most, which is going to be on their Refuel Duets album.
00:14Talk about how this all came about, working with Rascal Flatts.
00:19Yeah, just running into them throughout the years at award shows and different industry functions.
00:25We're fans of their music.
00:27They're a great vocal harmony group.
00:29And they reached out to us and said, hey, this is what we're doing.
00:32What do you think?
00:33You want to jump on a song with us?
00:34And we're like, heck yeah, let's get it.
00:36How fun has it been working with those guys?
00:38Oh, it's great.
00:38We have a new name.
00:39We're the Flat Street Boys.
00:40Yeah.
00:41I love this so much.
00:43You guys are going to close out the show.
00:44This is going to be an incredible moment.
00:46We're so excited about it.
00:47And I feel like, I want to know from you guys, like what other country artists are you excited to see at the show?
00:51Like what have you guys been listening to that you're into?
00:53Man, I listen to all kinds of country.
00:55Yeah?
00:56All the time.
00:57So it's my truck.
00:58I live in Georgia.
00:59So it's just a staple in my household.
01:01Yeah.
01:01How could you not be listening to that?
01:03Of course.
01:04But I mean, I look forward to seeing all the performances because these are the moments that the fans want to see.
01:10Yes.
01:11You know, so we get to close tonight, which is a pretty cool thing.
01:15Yeah.
01:15Tomorrow night.
01:16Sorry.
01:16Tomorrow night.
01:16Tomorrow night.
01:17Tomorrow.
01:17Whatever you want it to be.
01:19I'm excited for fellow Kentucky boy, Chris Stapleton.
01:21Chris Stapleton.
01:22I heard him.
01:22A little snippet of him rehearsing.
01:25I love him.
01:26Yeah.
01:26He's going to be playing tribute to Keith Urban, which I think is going to be a magical moment.
01:30And we could listen to him all day.
01:31I know.
01:31We absolutely could.
01:32You guys recently just announced some more dates at the Sphere.
01:35How excited are you for this residency?
01:38Super excited.
01:38Yeah, it's three more dates.
01:41So that means things are going good.
01:43Yeah.
01:44August 22, 23, and 24.
01:46Wow.
01:47So we're up to 21 shows now, which is amazing.
01:50You know, you build it and you hope they will come.
01:52Yep.
01:53So we're excited.
01:54They're coming.
01:55But yeah, it's the most incredible venue I've ever been in.
02:00Experience to show in.
02:02We got to go see the Eagles a few times there.
02:04Yeah, it's like nothing you've ever seen or experienced.
02:09A hundred and some thousand speakers in the venue.
02:11So most badass PA you've ever listened to music through.
02:15And then you've got this ginormous, you're immersed in.
02:19It's like being immersed in a film and your favorite artists are the soundtrack to it.
02:24It really is incredible.
02:25It's like a planetarium.
02:26Yes, it is.
02:27So I talked to Kenny Chesney about this because he's about to start his residency there.
02:29Yeah, I'm going to go check him out.
02:31That blew my mind is that once they hit download, it takes two months to render that video.
02:36And I was like, that would give me so much anxiety.
02:38Yeah.
02:38It's in 16K.
02:40That is wild.
02:42And I think the servers take up an entire convention hall floor, the servers for the content.
02:48And you guys are just like, I don't think it really has a roof, but if it did, you guys
02:52would be blowing it off.
02:53We're going to try to blow it off.
02:54Such amazing shows.
02:56We cannot wait to watch you on the ACM Awards tomorrow night.
02:58Hey, Kevin, Brian, thank you so much Backstreet Boys here with us backstage at the 60th Annual
03:03ACM Awards.
03:06Thank you for bringing us the Backstreet Boys.
03:09You're welcome.
03:09So welcome.
03:10That's what we do.
03:11You are making the dreams of so many millennial women in this room come true.
03:15And we could not be more grateful.
03:17Talk about the performance with the guys.
03:19It's going to be gigantic.
03:20It really is going to be huge.
03:22Larger than life.
03:23And we're not drowning.
03:26I get you on that one.
03:31You know, they did what hurts the most on our duets record.
03:35The performance is going to be out of this world.
03:39Everybody's going to have a blast.
03:41I know that they're still doing all their dance moves.
03:43Are you guys going to be dancing?
03:45We will not be dancing.
03:46We tried.
03:47Oh, you did give an effort.
03:48We failed miserably.
03:49Choreography is too hard.
03:51It was?
03:52There wasn't enough Advil in the state of Texas to help with my stiff back and knees.
03:58Stop it.
03:59You guys are killing me.
04:00Okay.
04:00Refueled duets coming out June 6th, right in the middle of CMA Fest.
04:05What was the initial inspiration to do this album of Collabs?
04:09I think to make more money.
04:10Oh, obviously.
04:12No.
04:13Benefit of financial?
04:14It's a long story, but when we were going to do the farewell tour in 2020, we figured
04:20the best way to close that out was to revisit some of our biggest hits and invite some friends
04:24that had either opened for us or were friends of ours.
04:27And so the concept started there, and then the pandemic shut everything down, so it turned
04:32into more of just a labor of love, trying to make some music with some of our friends.
04:36And it's been really cool to revisit those hits and hear their takes on them.
04:41So that's how it was born.
04:42Backstreet was the very first people that we reached out to to do it.
04:47That's very cool.
04:48We cut that track in 2019.
04:49That is insane that that has been in the works for this long.
04:55Stop it.
04:55Okay, so this is coming out.
04:57You've got the single with the JoBros.
04:59How fun has it been to work with those guys?
05:02I mean...
05:03Again, we've known them for a long time.
05:04We used to be signed to Disney.
05:06We used to change Nick's diapers.
05:07Gosh, yeah.
05:08Back in the day.
05:10Five years ago?
05:11Yeah.
05:11Yeah, five years ago.
05:14And we're running out of boy bands to do things with.
05:17Oh, yeah.
05:18You really have tapped all of them.
05:19I mean, we have.
05:21It's true.
05:22We'll keep looking, though.
05:23What song on here are you most excited for everyone to hear on this project?
05:27I mean, I know you love all of them, but what do you think is going to be the most surprising
05:31or the most different arrangement?
05:32I think the Brandon Lake collaboration.
05:37You know, a lot of people may not know who he is.
05:39Oh, no.
05:39Brandon Lake is huge, man.
05:42He did Stand with us, and it's really great.
05:44I'm very excited to hear that.
05:45I was talking to Jelly Roll about him in an interview, and that video has like a million
05:50comments every day.
05:52People love Brandon Lake.
05:53And he's such a good man, you know?
05:54Yes.
05:55His heart comes through his music.
05:56Thank you, buddy.
05:57We're talking about Brandon.
05:58Oh, I'm sorry.
05:58We were.
05:59My bad.
06:00I get off like that.
06:01It's easy to do.
06:01You know, I thought Carly Pierce, she absolutely sang her tail off on My Wish.
06:05Yeah.
06:05So I'm excited for everybody to hear about that.
06:08Well, we're excited to hear all this.
06:09I'm excited to see the performance, the awards tonight.
06:12Thank you guys so much for stopping by.
06:14Well, it was good to see you, but I really think it was just because of the Backstreet Boys.
06:18No.
06:19Oh, flat street.
06:21Flat street.
06:22They did tell me about Flat Street.
06:23They were very excited about that.
06:24Oh, yeah.
06:25We are backstage at the 16th annual ACM Awards for Rascal Flatts.