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.
