Holy shit

poptimism everybody

>>74571528

Backstreet boys is barely pop.

Boy band =/= Pop

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Backstreet Boys [Jive, 1997]

I'm not claiming I would have gotten the message without a 13-year-old I know broadcasting it from her boombox. But keynoted by two guaranteed pop classics, one dance and one heart, this is genius teensploitation. I give half credit to songwriter-svengali Max Martin, who's put in time with Ace of Base. But as someone who still suspects Abba were androids, I award the other half to the Boys, without whose sincere if not soulful simulations of soul and sincerity Martin's slow ones would be as sickening as any other promise that's made to be broken. Together the team manufactures a juicy sexual fantasy for virgins who get nervous when performers grab their dicks and think it's gross when teenage ignoramuses copy the move. They deserve one. After all, it is gross. A-

Backstreet's Back [Jive, 1997]

"That's the Way I Like It" Choice Cuts

Millennium [Jive, 1999]

softening it a little up for their younger demographic, sexing it up a little for their own peace of mind ("I Want It That Way," "Larger Than Life") **

Black and Blue [Jive, 2000] *bomb*

>>74571510

EVERYBODY

>>74571850
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

TELL ME WHYYYY

I hate every single boy band song I've ever heard except I Want it That Way, I don't know why. Maybe it's nostalgia for when I was a kid but it's hard to hate that song.

>backstreets back
ALRIGHT!!!!

FUCK NSYNC
BACKSTREET 4EVER

>>74571953
remember when that upload of Lodger was fucking bait cause every track except the first one was I Want it That Way in disguise

also remember when Crazy For You by Best Coast came out and the upload people kept sharing here had crazy Seinfeld samples and it became known as seinfeldcore

if anyone still has that version please share it I wanna relive it

I BOUGHT IT ON EBAY!!!