Bradford Pearson

My Case For: the new Backstreet Boys album

So. There’s a new Backstreet Boys album. October 6. This is Us.

Back in high school, I was a closet fan. It’s not like I owned the albums or anything, but “I Want It That Way” was undeniably an awesome song.

Harmony? Check.

Killer bridge? Absolutely.

Acapella opening verse? Yes, yes, yes.

So when I heard that Backstreet was back (ha!) I actually kind of got excited. Ok, maybe morbidly interested is a better way to put it. But boy bands always served their place in pop music, and BSB (embarrassed that I just typed that) filled a niche, and a very lucrative one at that.

Sure, Kevin wasn’t back (he’s 37, which apparently is over-the-hill in boyband-ese), but it seemed like, in a weird way, that a piece of me from 10 years ago was back. Minus the bowl cut, which I could bring back relatively easily.

ANYWAY the new album has tracks with Lady Gaga, Ne-Yo, and T-Pain, so it can’t be that bad, right? Right?

And yes, I realize I’m writing this the same week that Pavement announced they were getting back together. But, to tell you the truth, I really don’t care about that as much as I should. (Indie God comes and takes away Brad’s credibility.)

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Posted by Bradford Pearson at 4:05 AM