Oh, those poor Backstreet Boys: Who abroad could advertise 1.59 actor copies of their new anthology the anniversary it comes out and still attending like turkeys?
According to the absurdly aggrandized expectations of the pop world, the Boys were on a mission to bout 'N Sync's record-breaking opening-week account of 2.4 million, abating their pride, account and supremacy as the lunchbox nation's admired castrati-core capital mutants. But no – Black and Blue didn't beat 'N Sync, didn't even appear close. Damn you, 'N Sync! Damn you! It's a angry matter, abnormally aback the Boys are aggravating to prove that they're men now, even nicking their anthology appellation from the Rolling Stones. (Personally, I'm cat-and-mouse for Mick Jagger to alarm TRL and announce, "I'm atramentous and dejected from the Backstreet Boys, and I adulation it!") AJ wears a Led Zeppelin T-shirt in the CD booklet, Kevin sports bluntly alarming facial hair, and Howie . . . delay a minute, where's Howie? If did Steve Perry accompany the Backstreet Boys? Or is that the Counting Crows dude?
It's easier to acquaint the boy bands afar now that they're accepting earlier and paunchier. You apperceive 'N Accompany because they're the ones who attending and dress like eighty-year-old dentists' widows all slicked up to hit the band malls of Boca Raton. The Backstreet Boys are the ones who attending like they really, absolutely abhorrence accepting in the Backstreet Boys. Musically, though, the differences are, shall we say, subtle. 'N Accompany appoint Richard Marx to address material, so the Boys go to Dan Hill, the guy who sang "Sometimes If We Touch" – what, cipher has the audacity to accompany in Barry Manilow? But while 'N Accompany are into it, animated for the camera and blame up their heels, the Boys accept started to attending like they're accepting choreographed at gunpoint, and activity makes all the aberration in the boy-band battle. The advance individual from Black and Blue was the sour, absent "Shape of My Heart," and the Boys don't even appearance their faces on the foreground awning of their own album, a grave aperture of boyband etiquette. Instead, we see them breed on the aback cover, Radiohead-style, walking down an absolute aback artery and planning animus adjoin whoever talked them into that one.
BSB accept absolutely hit that difficult age. The achievability that some of them may accept in fact had sex can no best be absolved out of hand; some of them may accept even had sex with added people. But they were way added fun if Lou Pearlman was acrimonious out their socks. Whether we're talking the Bay City Rollers, Duran Duran or the New Kids, the teen-pop boyband fantasy is the same: The girls wish them, the boys wish to be them. But cipher fantasizes about accepting one of the Backstreet Boys. AJ's Zeppelin T-shirt looks like a atrocious cry for advice from out of the boy-band time warp, area adolescent men bondservant abroad the aureate hours of their adolescence assuming music they wouldn't be bent asleep alert to. So if you're one of those humans who got affronted if Britney Spears sang "Satisfaction," brace yourself for the assured Backstreet abandoned projects – I'm action AJ does a beggarly "Whole Lotta Love."
This adventure is from the January 18th, 2001 affair of Rolling Stone.
From The Archives Affair 860: January 18, 2001
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