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Are Blue, Westlife and Backstreet Boys still relevant 20 years on? You bet, say boy band fangirls

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(Clockwise from top left) Blue fan Radiyah Ryssa Ibrahim with one of the members of the boyband Duncan James, Westlife fan Phoebe Quek and Backstreet Boys fan ShiLi Yap.

(Clockwise from top left) Blue fan Radiyah Ryssa Ibrahim with one of the members of the boyband Duncan James, Westlife fan Phoebe Quek and Backstreet Boys fan ShiLi Yap.

PHOTOS: COURTESY OF RADIYAH RYSSA IBRAHIM, NG SOR LUAN, FELINE LIM

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SINGAPORE – With Blue, Westlife and Backstreet Boys

staging concerts in Singapore in February,

it is shaping up to be a boy band bonanza for lovers of late 1990s and noughties pop-R&B music. The Straits Times catches up with their die-hard fans to find out why these idols are still hot decades after they first became popular. 

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