If you've been seeing a lot "Backstreet's back" puns lately, it's for a good reason. All five Backstreet Boys are together again, about to launch the latest phase in their two-decade long career.
And no, they aren't tired of that joke being made in the wake of their reunion with Kevin Richardson. "We're playing it up now," Brian Littrell told MTV News. "It's like we manifestoed it when we created that song," Richardson added, referring to their 1998 hit, "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."
The guys will release their Max Martin-produced "In a World Like This" on June 25. Working with the super producer was a full-circle moment for fivesome, as he helped shape their careers, producing some of their biggest hits including "I Want It That Way," "Shape of My Heart" and "The Call."
"It's definitely a symbiotic relationship that we share," Nick Carter said of working with Martin again. "Like Kevin said, we've changed each other's lives. Everything seems right now. It just seems like the right fit. The right time for him because he's a really busy man, but what we created together from our hits... they're kind of like masterpieces in his mind. So he wanted to live up to that in a certain way. So that's why it took this long to maybe come back around. It was just the right time for both of us."