Backstreet Boys' return thrills the girls

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Mar 28, 2005 Source: Philly.com Submitted By: Gina By A.D. Amorosi. For The Inquirer The Backstreet Boys died for your sins. OK, not your sins, rather those of the Clay Aikens and Anthony Fedorovs who followed in BSB's boy-cooing footsteps. For after having ruled charts and hearts with their steely brand of harmony-laced Caucasoid new-jack soul, BSB went away in 2001. Said it was to regroup, withdraw from bad habits. Maybe they had a sugar rush. But on Friday at the Electric Factory - to a sold-out crowd of shrieking girls - AJ McLean, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson came to reclaim their crown. It wasn't always pretty. Though they say they're concentrating on the music now, rather than dancing and costuming (how novel), BSB could have done better than the ill-fitting, unmatched white blazers and fedoras they wore atop what would have, in the long-ago '90s, been tagged "grunge": flannel checks, ripped jeans. Still, if they were here for the music, I'm here for the music. That unfortunately meant Littrell ("the cute one until he lost all that hair," said one girl next to me) squeaking through limp anthemic ballads old ("More Than That") and new ("Weird World"). That meant a chunkier-than-previously Carter, on his knees - an act of groveling surely derived from dating Paris Hilton - unnervingly and tunelessly howling through "Shape of My Heart." That meant awful cornball attempts at Korn-like metal and drippy Radiohead-esque shuffles. Yet that also meant BSB's house-pop arrangements of cheesy guitars and chopping syn-strings were happily intact behind heavenly, flawless harmonies in songs such as "The Call." Even some of the Boys' experiments in deglossing their sound worked wonders. While the group lifted the slurry infectiousness of "I Want It That Way" and a dirty Kraftwerkian stab at "Larger Than Life," newer tunes - the half-steeping soul of "Beautiful Women," the acoustically strummed nervy jangle-pop of "Climbing the Walls" - benefited from raw arrangements and wide-screen vocals. Reluctantly, I welcome Backstreet back. But 98 Degrees better not try this same stunt. Comment on this item. 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But i'm sure dat i am the biggest fan. especially Nick...I love him...I even hav a book full of bsb's pics. I love you guys. If any of the bsb's read this; pleeeeease.....i said pleeeeeeeeeease come to KSA. Thats where I live. But I actually am from India. I want to see a live concert of the bsb's. I'd die to see u guys.......LUV YA LOTS Submitted by: Dina Hello Fans too all from you. WOW AMAZINGS CONCERTS FOR ALL. SOOO LATER ON BY!! Submitted by: rachel god dang it u stupid reporter how dare u rite that about our boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alrite lemme tell you something: the bsb have accomplished more in a day then u hav in a year! all u do is say bad things about them cuz u are bored to death probly scratching ur moms back cuz uve got nothing better to do!!!!!!! so u wanna make fun of people who have done more then u have ever even dreamed of cuz u are bored with ur own life???????????? u r the stupidist person on earth! 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MY E_MAIL:AR0O0MA@HOTMAIL.COM THANK YOU GUYS AND GOOD LOCK OOOOOPSE I FOR GET NICK YOUR MY DREAMS MAN ILOVE YOU Submitted by: bezdar1 Submitted by: kipetok Submitted by: peto4ok Submitted by: girl of backstreet boys hello everyone i this world i think you know me i am a girl that she loves 5 boys in same time .how it's possible mm......... .it's the treuth yes nick brain kevin aj howie are my dreamboys my heart is just for them.i dont think that ther's someone in this world love backstreet boys like me .big kiss for you bsb you are the greatest band all over the world with all my heart isay (I LOVE YOU) Click here to see more comments. Comment on this item. Next Item: KATU Review: 2/27/01, Portland, OR Prev Item: Backstreet Boys @ M.E.N. Arena In Manchester, UK