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Backstreet's back? Alright!

Backstreet Boys Boyband daddies the Backstreet Boys are to return to charts worldwide in June this year with a new (as yet untitled) album, their first for five years.

The group, whose 2000 album Black & Blue shifted a staggering 5.4 million copies in the US, will be thrown back into the limelight currently occupied by, um, Blue. And some other super-bland pretty boys. Meh...

Howie Dorough, one-fifth of the awesome five, spoke to Billboard about the pressures of being back in the public eye:

"That's the first thing we thought about when we started making the record. That's why we said we weren't going to give ourselves a time limit. We wanted to make sure this album would give us a shot again to be around for the long haul so people will realize that we're not, hopefully, a flash in the pan in their eyes. The music has matured. It's a little more stripped down, a little more organic. There's not necessarily five-part harmony on everything you hear."

At the last count, Blue's Greatest Hits had shifted eight copies in Bangor, and seventeen in Falmouth. Cornish suckers...



  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    I am now.
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    Aren't they called Maroon 5 nowadays?
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    You know this reminds me of Futurama when The Professor said to Fry (Dom) "Boring Ages? Wasn't that when they cracked the genome and boybands roamed the earth?"
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    Backstreet Rock! They'll show Blue and the other pretenders how to do it properly. All we Need now is for JT to reform N*Sync and there'd be and old skool Duel for Chart supremacy.
    Backstreet Boys -vs- N*Sync, fucking awesome.
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    You think they'll do a duet with Aaron?
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    They were always the best of the boybands (faint praise yeah but they did have some pretty good songs!).
    • Re: Backstreet's back? Alright!

      there are still 3 copies left in cob records in bangor...if you are quick
    • Re: Backstreet's back? Alright!

      Agree with oceanstorm.....they WERE the best of the boy bands. Not sure if that says much, though. A 5-part harmony? They'll have to battle it out with Maroon 5, D12, and G-Unit for the battle of Things-That-We're-Not-But-Are-Marketed-To-Be award.

      You could throw in U2 into the mix if they weren't so friggin geriatric
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    That's a picture of GLC, surely?
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    where does Justin figure in all this? If he doesn't rejoin, can I? The nosebleeds have stopped.
    • Re: Backstreet's back? Alright!

      Justin was in NSync...
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    why can't they all just fuck off?
    • Re: Backstreet's back? Alright!

      oh no, this is horrible news. Might as well kill myself now.
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    The best was one of them tried to 'rock' a few years ago. Oh so tragic.
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    The only good part of this is that thry'll be made fun of more again. YES!
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    check out those mega curtains on the blonde one!

    curtains....YES!
  • Backstreet's back? Alright!

    is that a recent photo? they don't look any different from 10 years ago... i think.