![]() ![]() The second single from that record-breaking Black and Blue album had a bit more oomph to it, and also contained the turn of the century’s best key change.Ĭoming off the back of two iconic pop singles, the third release from 1997’s Backstreet Back sounds a little wet in comparison, but is still one of their better attempts at pure R&B.īSB’s stuff since they returned as a ‘man-band’ has been largely ignored, but there have been several highly listenable tunes, including this epic 2005 power ballad.Īnd this guitar-driven follow-up, which may have come complete with an 80s pop metal pastiche video, but actually sounded more like Breakway era Kelly Clarkson. ![]() Their first UK Top 10 hit, this New Jack Swing-lite stomper offered an early glimpse of the polished pop sound that the group, and Max Martin, would later perfect.Ī perfectly pleasant BSB ballad, but it doesn’t exactly sound like the lead single from the (then) fastest-selling album of all time. Get Down has been pretty much forgotten, but after a few false starts, this was the track that finally gave them a UK breakthrough. But at the time, Boyz II Men were doing this kind of thing so much better. I’ll Never Break Your Heart – which flopped on its first release in 1995, before becoming the guys’ second Top 10 hit a year later – was a showboating ballad designed to prove they were more of a vocal harmony group than a boyband. ![]() The fifth and final single from BSB’s first album and it sounds like it, a saccharine R&B-lite ballad which you can just imagine being performed with multiple air grabs.Ĭould Kevin, aka the tall but quiet one, really have been the source of all their powers? Inconsolable, the group’s first single since his 2006 departure, is easily the most forgettable of their career.īSB took a four-year break in 2001, and they probably needed it judging by Drowning, a drippy love song which rather embarrassingly bore more than a passing resemblance to O-Town’s All or Nothing.īrian and AJ’s shirtless appearance in the video may have caused their fans’ hearts to flutter, but the unremarkable Ryan Tedder-esque song it was accompanying certainly wouldn’t have. ![]()
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