In a world of 1D’s and Justin’s we
slowing started to forget that they weren’t the first ones in this
game, that long ago boy bands once before roamed the earth, holding
young girls hearts with bad songs and cheesy dance moves.
We forgot what being a boy band was
really about, but we don’t have to worry because, with the risk of
being the millionth person the make the joke, Backstreets back and
they are showing us just how cheesy the boy band game is meant to be.
What we have here is a song that by all
accounts can only be described as “1D didn’t want it so you can
have it”, because really it does just sound like one of their songs
with men singing it instead of boys.
And that is just bad one the only
difference musically between new Backstreet boys and One Direction is
lower hang balls.
The thing that really sets this song
apart though is its film clip. To sum it up fast “cheesy as hell”
While other bands (term used very
loosely) in this scene make their film clips about having fun and
jumping up and down, the Backstreet Boys have straight out stuck to
what they know best. standing next to each other and doing a move I
would call “passing the sandwich”, close up shots of their faces
doing odd expressions which I think are meant to be passion and
bending at the knees to the beat of the music.
This all may have come across well back
in the day but now that they are old I think we need more, they
aren’t good looking enough anymore to just swoon over anymore we
need substance.
Oh let me mention that they do attempt
this once but it doesn’t work because they show they have no real
idea. We get a few shots of them playing the guitar, which at first
was cool, you think “ok they finally learnt to play” but when you
start to see shots of them playing guitar again in parts of the song
that don’t have guitar in them, you start to relies that it’s
just for the film clip and they don’t know how to play still.
This is nothing but a letdown to say
the least, if you are going to step back into a game you have been
gone from for so long then I think you need to bring more than this
song did.
