
Backstreet Boys—“I Want It That Way”
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Boy Bands and the Black Lagoon
I'm not surprised because I find that when people get older, they like lose some of their hang ups of adolescent embarrassment or at least boy band fans have expressed that sentiment to me. Critically, it's funny because there is this weird language and this exists a lot in the boy band story where critics are like, it's a good pop song, but I need to be dismissive of it in some way. There's the entertainment weekly quote where the guy said it was like the sonic equivalent of warm milk, which feels like it's kind of a gross idea. That doesn't seem like a horrible thing to be though. It is unbearably white.
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