September 30, 2000

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SHAPE OF MY HEART (single)
Backstreet Boys
(Jive/Zomba)

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Speaking of human clones ...

Try washing down a meal of Radiohead with a taste of Backstreet Boys. You'd better have a strong stomach.

On this empty-headed love song from the forthcoming album, Black & Blue (out Nov. 21), the boys are obviously going for mid-tempo maturity - the character is begging forgiveness for some unspecified wrong against his significant other - and yet cling almost desperately to the sappy, syrupy performance and production that has marked all their recordings.

Sigh. Backstreet's back ...

Saturday, September 30, 2000

Backstreet Boys empty-headed

By MIKE ROSS
Edmonton Sun