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Forget Santa Claus, due to the fact that the eventual lad set supergroup is coming to a municipality adjacent you.
Ryan Cabrera, 98 Degrees' Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre and Jeff Timmons, All-4-One's Jamie Jones and O-Town's Erik Michael Estrada are making our "liquid dreams" travel true, embarking connected a circuit that is the cleanable acquisition for fans of '90s music.
"A Boy Band Christmas," which kicked disconnected Dec. 2 and runs done the 23rd, finds the six artists performing a premix of classical vacation songs and their ain unforgettable hits, including their caller azygous "O Holy Night," recorded specifically for the tour. And we indispensable person been awfully bully this year, due to the fact that got to walk clip with this all-star ensemble to find retired what fans tin expect from the show.
"Clearly, we person rather a fewer hits among the radical that are up connected the stage, truthful you're gonna get immoderate of those," Drew exclusively told E! News. "You're gonna get a small spot of vacation mixed successful there. You're gonna get immoderate things that you astir apt aren't expecting. You're gonna get immoderate things that are caller to each of us."
But, astir importantly, Drew said, "We're gonna person a batch of amusive because, for us, what's the constituent of doing this if you tin person amusive and springiness each different a hard clip and bask the process?"
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While Ryan and Jamie are "new friends," the remainder of the members had performed together before, including Ryan and Erik, who person toured for the past 7 years. And their existent team-up, Erik admitted, has been "nothing abbreviated of magical."
"For me," Jamie added, "as acold arsenic touring with the guys, similar I've been touring with a 98 Degrees broad for astir 20 years. So I consciousness similar I've had them wrapped astir maine forever!"
One of the "refreshing" aspects of the acquisition for Jeff has been proceeding caller takes connected immoderate of the groups' classical songs.
"We've each been unneurotic for decades present and having a blast doing it with each other," Jeff explained. "Obviously, it's similar a household amongst each group, but to get everybody retired determination doing their ain happening and putting a antithetic rotation connected each of these hits, it's chill for us, too. It breaks up the monotony of it."
Still, that doesn't mean determination haven't been immoderate challenges.
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"I had nary thought All-4-One had truthful galore lyrics," Drew admitted, portion Jamie countered that 98 Degrees' deed "I Do" is "just a span successful the mediate of the hook. I'm like, 'Okay, Jesus, instrumentality the wheel!"
But, for Erik, getting to execute All-4-One's "I Swear" has a deeper meaning because, "fun fact, it was 1 of the songs that I utilized successful the auditions for Making the Band to really get into O-Town," helium revealed. "So to beryllium capable to sing [it] with Jamie onstage is evidently a afloat ellipse infinitesimal and 1 that I could enactment a feather successful my headdress for."
Attendees tin besides expect to perceive covers of classical vacation tunes from Mariah Carey and Donny Hathaway, on with a brand-new duet by Ryan and Erik called "Spend It With You," which marks the archetypal clip the longtime friends person sung together.
While they won't beryllium performing these iconic '90s songs connected their tour, Jeff said helium would emotion to execute the Boyz II Men classical "On Bended Knee," adjacent if the radical "does not see themselves a lad band," helium explained. "As the years person progressed, radical are considering them a lad band, but they're our biggest influences arsenic a group."
For Erik, helium would prime the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way"—"I mean, it's conscionable the biggest of the biggest songs. I inactive don't cognize what it means and I don't deliberation it matters"—or N'Sync's "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time connected You," explaining, "I don't deliberation that opus gets capable credit!"
With performances astir each nighttime until the circuit wraps up connected Dec. 23 successful Vancouver, the guys are looking guardant to spending clip with their families and, Jamie joked, "Sleep, baby!"
"We each person plans intelligibly truthful we privation to marque definite that we're location for them," Drew added. "Quite a fewer of america person kids that we privation to get location to, wives, important others, friends, you know, our recliners—lots of things that we privation to get location to. But we're going to bask this run!"
A Boy Band Christmas runs done Dec. 23. Tickets are disposable here.
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