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millennium
Millenium Released: 1999 Rating: 3/10 Track listing: 1. Larger Than Than Life/ 2. I Want It That Way/ 3. Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely/ 4. It’s Gotta Be You/ 5. I Need You Tonight/ 6. Don’t Want You Back/ 7. Don’t Wanna Lose You Now/ 8. The One/ 9. Back To Your Heart/ 10. Spanish Eyes/ 11. No One Else Comes Close/ 12. The Perfect Fan Backstreet Boys! Why? Well, since I’m sitting here lonely, unemployed and got no access to any of my records except for Neil Young’s Weld and On The Beach, I had a look at my sisters record collection. What can I say? I decided to judge this album purely based on the music and ignoring the fact that this band was put together to make a rich record company richer, that their fan base is mostly girls that’s not in their teens and that they are singing other people songs. That’s quite hard when the album starts off with a tribute song to their fans! However, Larger Than Life might just be the best song they ever did, and by saying that doesn’t mean I puke on their other material. No, I really like Larger Than Life. Honestly. Millennium is slick beyond belief and would make both Eagles and Toto green of envy, you won’t find one note out of place. The music moves between classic ballads, slightly leaning towards modern R’n’B, and pure dance tracks. The actual songs could have been good with a different production and other artists. You know, BSB is totally unable to deliver feelings that sounds honest and real and I guess that the choice of songs partly effect that. Just look at the titles: I Need You Tonight, Don’t Want You Back, Don’t Wanna Lose You Now. With titles like that it makes it hard to buy it, especially when the songs sits right next to each other on the record. Someone like Dylan manage to pull that off, because his lyrics together with his emotional effort he puts into the music sums up in an image of a man that’s having complex and conflicting feelings. However, BSB seems so unexperienced and that if something isn’t white, it must be black. Of course these boys can sing. Technically speaking, that is. Anyone who says they can’t has obviously not listened to their songs properly or is just a stubborn idiot that reject BSB on purposes other than the music. For me, the Backstreet Boys probably is the best boy band that popped up during the mid-1990’s for the reason that they seem more mature than their colleagues and the songs they’ve been given generally is of higher quality than Westlife, N*SYNC and others. If you for some strange reason need an album by a 90’s boyband, be sure it’s a BSB-album. Not necessarily Millennium, though.
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