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Backstreet Boys’ ‘Millennium’ at 25: Ranking All the Songs From Worst to Best
Backstreet Boys' 'Millennium': Ranking all the songs, from worst to best, on the 1999 album.
Since making their belated U.S. breakthrough with 1997’s Backstreet’s Back, Brian Littrell had undergone open heart surgery, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson had both lost close family members, and their early hitmaker Denniz Pop had passed away from stomach cancer. From Joseph Kahn’s Blade Runner-meets- Star Wars epic (still one of the costliest videos of all time) to the Cheiron team’s unashamedly bombastic production, every aspect of Millennium ’s aptly titled opener is indeed larger than life. “I Want It That Way” boasts an earworm chorus which feels like it’s always been part of pop’s fabric, multi-layered harmonies (the “you are” crescendo is particularly glorious) that would put any classic vocal troupe to shame and an iconic airport-based video that perfectly encapsulates the mania the group inspired.
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