"Shape of My Heart", "Incomplete", "I Still", "Inconsolable", and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" all qualify as the "Please don't go/I want you back/I wish we were still in love" type."Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" is a "You're cheating on/lying to me so we're done" type.However, despite still having "Boys" in their title, the group has insisted on rejecting that label for nearly two decades, identifying instead as a "vocal harmony group". They are the most successful boy band of all time (although NSYNC were more successful domestically, and One Direction and BTS would arguably later surpass them in worldwide fame due to the effects of globalization and social media). Boy Band: Right above *NSYNC, they were the boyband of the late '90s.Bolivian Army Ending: The music video for "The Call" ends with the boys facing a woman who is obviously pissed at them leading a bunch of people seemingly ready to beat them to death.Big Ol' Eyebrows: Kevin is the embodiment of this trope.Beach Episode: The music videos of both "Incomplete" and "Inconsolable" are mainly set on a beach.Brian was brought in on Kevin's recommendation. Band of Relatives: Brian and Kevin are cousins.Badass Longcoat: Kevin in the video for "I Want It That Way" and "The Call".Poor Howie got pranked by him all the time. Annoying Younger Sibling: Nick, to the rest of the guys, being the youngest."If you want it to be good girl, get yourself a bad boy".The music video for "Just Want You to Know" is a parody of the '80s Rockumentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot with the band playing Metalhead fans of a band called Sphynkter, which they also played.He later revealed, during a concert in Brazil, that he wanted to grow out his hair to look like Kurt Cobain, but thinks he ended up looking like a lesbian instead, which he sees as the reason why he wound up as the most popular among the fanbase. '90s Hair: Nick (in)famously sported a bowl cut at the start of the group's career.According to Billboard 200, they are the first group since Sade to have their first seven albums reach the top 10 on the chart. The band has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making them one of the biggest selling groups of all time. The Hits: Chapter One (2001) note This was their greatest hits compilation, with "Drowning" as the album's only single.
Uses the cover photo of Backstreet's Back. edition 1997) note A compilation of songs from their first two albums, released as their American debut. After even more legal troubles (specifically, a horrible contract which allowed Pearlman to take a massive fraction of their profits), the band left his management and have continued to perform ever since. After plenty of legal troubles, the group became first famous in Europe, and then became the Boy Band for girls to swoon over in the U.S., being a major part of late-'90s pop culture. He recruited local talent from Orlando and spent the first half of the '90s training them in singing and choreography. The group was formed by airline mogul Lou Pearlman, who had leased one of his airplanes to New Kids on the Block and realized there was money to be made in a clean-cut band of boys. Richardson left in 2006, making them a four-man group for a while before he permanently returned to the band in 2012. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, and Kevin Richardson. Formed in 1993, they became hugely popular after debuting in the States in the summer of 1997. If you are thinking of a Boy Band, chances are the first that pops up in your head will be the Backstreet Boys.
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