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TikTok is awash in videos with phrases like “Y2K office inspo,” featuring tips on how to dress like the long-lost Backstreet Boy or Destiny’s forgotten Child.

That night, the team whisks Doncic to Las Vegas for a Backstreet Boys concert, where somebody ’grams a photo from backstage and again the internet explodes: Dang, look at Luka.

Martin, 54, has spent his career constructing instantly recognizable hits for Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, the Weeknd and Ariana Grande.

With no heel clicks needed, I was whisked to “The Wizard of Oz’s” Sphere premiere in a red sedan by a Lyft driver named — no fooling — Ruby, who said she was grateful that the Backstreet Boys’ recent stint at the arena “made Vegas busy for a minute.”

The production, which opened Friday at the Ahmanson Theatre under the fizzy direction of Luke Sheppard, reimagines a new post-Romeo life for Juliet while riding a magic carpet of chart-toppers from juggernaut Swedish producer Max Martin, who has spun gold with Katy Perry, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, among other pop titans.