― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway the Backstreets are the greasiest boy band therefore they are great, I mean look at them. I'm really not a huge fan of I Want It That Way but Backstreet's Back and The Call are the two greatest songs of the past like ten years or whatever.
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 November 2002 09:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Saturday, 30 November 2002 09:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 30 November 2002 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think we had a thread on IWITW before. It kind of turned into the American "Back For Good" - hey I don't like boybands but this is CLASSY POP MAN - and like "BFG" it is good but not that good.
Grrrr. I try my best to give up on my rockist ways, but everytime I actually like a Pop song, ILM informs me that it's not the real deal! First I fall in love with the current Neptunes-produced brand of Chartpop and get told that it's just a watered down version of the current Neptunes-produced brand of Hip-Hop; then I remember that two of my previous "guilty pleasures" were these two songs and proceed to gleefully turn them into proud pleasures, and now this!!!! What does a poor Elvis Costello fan have to do to belong, damnit?
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 30 November 2002 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 30 November 2002 12:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm hoping that's the title of an upcoming BSB single.
― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 30 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Surely you wouldn't say the same about "Shape of My Heart"? A few months ago I heard it on the radio and it led to me downloading all their "greatest hits" tracks, but none of them are in the same league. (Although I think IWITW and a couple others distinguish themselves from the rest.)
As for "Backstreet's Back", I'm not in denial at all Tom- I just can't imagine it being any fun except in an ironic way, and I'm not generally a fan of liking songs for ironic reasons. "The Call" on the other hand is pretty good by itself.
Curtis - it can't be because they broke up a couple years ago didn't you hear? :(
― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 30 November 2002 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Sunday, 1 December 2002 01:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 1 December 2002 02:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 1 December 2002 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 1 December 2002 03:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 1 December 2002 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 1 December 2002 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 1 December 2002 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 2 December 2002 01:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Monday, 2 December 2002 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
People! Open-ended meanings = good. BSB dance trax gr8 but are primarily showcase for Swedish geezers & don't allow Boys to show personalities (stop laughing) like ballads do."Shape of My Heart" sounds like Chicago - overproduced into a ball of lacquer, structurally formulaic with a crap key change to boot - I'd trade all that album for "As Long As You Love Me". Ultimate all-powerfulness of IWITW shown beyond doubt when you sing it karaoke - melody all-enveloping, gain respect for Boys' singing - smoothness with which that high B on the key change is hit is unbelievable (shows up soullessness of "Shape"'s) - probably thanks to Max M. "Shape" produced by faceless machine, IWITW produced by mega-awesome supersonic faceless machine!
(Days of pent-up anger at paying $70 to see Pink and then having her lose her voice and not sing and then not get a refund subside. Hate stops, self-pity returns.)
― B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 2 December 2002 04:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 December 2002 05:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Uh... yeah.
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 29 March 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Tell me why?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 March 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
Yesterday I went to watch my nephew and his friends sing this for a school choral competition (they are like 12, I don't understand how this even exists in their universe) and it was the funniest shit I've ever seen. As it happens they did not win, but they did remind me how impossibly catchy this song is.
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 29 March 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
No one has bothered mentioning that the OP may be an indie twat.
― Oreskes Klein Watts (Sanpaku), Sunday, 29 March 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
That is deeply inaccurate.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 March 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I Want It That Way has a nice melody, but I can't tell what they're singing about (I'd like to think its about their fear about some daunting sexual position, but I'm naughty).
― bernard snowy, Monday, 30 March 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link