I was living in a fantasy world of naivety. In my many years of road-trip sing-alongs and extensive curations of '90s playlists, I had completely failed to comprehend the overtly sexual undertones of their greatest hits.

Like Christina Aguilera during her 'Stripped' era dirty.Ĭolor me surprised. It turns out that Backstreet Boy songs are dirty. The only reason my parents let me listen to such sexy bad boys is because they sang innocent pop-songs about puppy love and heartbreak or so we thought. But I never realized just how bad they were: The Backstreet Boys had some secretly dirty lyrics. And who could ever forget about Kevin's untamed eyebrows? They were bad boys and I was hooked. Verse 1 Well, I gave you everything I had But you left me sitting on my own Did you have to treat me, oh, so bad All I do is hang my head and moan Chorus Tell me why you cried And. Brian has an angel's face but I knew he had some edge. First of all, the song makes no sense, McLean answers. It makes no sense, and turns out there’s no reason behind those lyrics at all. We’ve all been singing these lyrics for years without understanding what it means, and the boys set it straight for us. As a fourth grader, I was drawn in by their sexy and dangerous personas: A.J.'s had tattoos and a goatee - such a wild combination. What way do you not want it to be It was such a good question.

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In the never ending battle for boy-band domination, one question has always remained: The Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC? I was always squarely in the Backstreet Boys camp. which featured music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

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