Hermione Hoby 

Backstreet Boys: In a World Like This – review

Backstreet Boys have grown up but their music remains preteen fodder, says Hermione Hoby
  
  


Backstreet's back! Except, it's not. Because really there's no going back to 1997, when Everybody (Backstreet's Back) was playing at every school disco across the land and Nick and Kevin and Howie and the other two were urging us all to rock our bah-dey, ye-eahh. The boys are now mostly approaching 40 – this eighth album marks the band's 20th anniversary – but they've retained that curiously nasal delivery that must have been focus-group tested on the ears of preteen girls. The music is just as you'd expect: uplifting cheese. Another reminder that pulling off a Take That-style comeback is just really hard.

 

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