Also, to be very clear BSB received their star first way back on April 22, 2013. I say pop because let’s be real none of these boys can harmonize like Boyz II Men. Hold on I’mma let you finish but BSB is the best pop boy band of all time. In the Sunken One aka Kanye West’s voice: Last week, *NSYNC (is there a star, an apostrophe, just all caps?) received their star on the walk of fame and their fandom began to proclaim this immortalized them as the best boy-band of all time. Well long enough to informally poll my Facebook friends on some of the best *NSYNC and BSB songs. I finally peeled myself away from watching Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” video on repeat.
NSYNC post and BSB slander will not be allowed in the comments. It’s appropriately bouncy, and JC gets a chance to show off his voice (and to sing “y’all” a bunch).Warning this is a Backstreet Boys vs. “Shining Star” is the anti-ballad, though-which would be fine if it were as good, or even almost as good, as “Get Another Boyfriend.” Instead, it’s an exhausting attempt to emulate NSYNC that’s too turbulent to be enjoyable.įor you those times when you need to, you know, bring down da house or raise the roof, this track is here for you. This comes right after “Get Another Boyfriend” on Black & Blue, a track that’s so wonderfully manic the listener needs at least one ballad afterwards to calm down. And that’s a pretty big feat to accomplish, given that this is an album that includes radio-ready singles as well as anthems blatantly advocating phone sex. Justin previews his future solo career by (mostly) taking the lead on “I’ll Be Good For You,” a song you might hear on the smooth jazz station-and that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the album. This Howie-penned song is inoffensive enough (that piano!) until you listen to the lyrics: “Remember when we never needed each other, the best of friends like sister and brother.” It’s a love song, and freakin’ Howie is trying to seduce this woman by recalling how they were like siblings when they were kids. Sometimes it works sometimes not so much-like with “That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You,” a track that’s too bland to truly deserve a place on this otherwise super-colorful album. NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached’ and Backstreet Boys’ ‘Black and Blue’: We rank the songsĮvery so often, Backstreet Boys will slip into NSYNC’s uptempo territory and NSYNC will slip into Backstreet Boy’s ballad territory. Like, really, Nick: You prove the sky is blue by going outside. This could easily be any boy band’s ballad, and lyrics like “How do you prove the sky is blue?” don’t help elevate it. Is this Backstreet Boys, or a teenaged Backstreet Boys cover band? It’s hard to tell, because it sounds too much like a generic love song made specifically for Delilah to play on her evening show.Īnother built-for-weddings track that doesn’t have the heart of “Yes I Will” and doesn’t adequetely show off its singers’ voices.
#BACKSTREET BOYS NO STRINGS ATTACHED ALBUM FREE#
So read on, and feel free to speed past the dull stuff to get to the good parts-just like you would on the actual CDs.
Both groups occassionally drifted into the other’s territory, and sometimes succeeded in doing so.įor the purposes of this ranking, though, we’re pretending like No Strings and Black & Blue are one big super album. The Backstreet Boys are ballad experts NSYNC had the uptempo dancers. (He’s now serving time in prison for multiple fraud-related charges.)īut despite those oft-cited similarities, the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC are separate animals. And both NSYNC and BSB started in part thanks to Lou Pearlman, a man who quickly made a name for himself as a boy band Svengali before everyone figured out he was a scammer. albums around the same time in the late ’90s both No Strings Attached and Black & Blue were released by Jive Records. Each group consists of five guys both released their debut U.S. These boy bands spent most of their careers being compared, for obvious reasons. So to celebrate their anniversaries, we’re ranking all the songs on both albums-together. Six months later, the Backstreet Boys released Black & Blue. NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached’ and Backstreet Boys’ ‘Black and Blue’: We rank the songs NSYNCĮxactly fifteen years ago today, NSYNC gave the world No Strings Attached-the group’s second (and strongest) album.