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Backstreet
Boys Post Songs, Video Online
Source: MTV
11-10-00
The Backstreet
Boys won't release Black & Blue until November 21, but fans who can't
wait to hear what the boys are up to can check out four songs and the "Shape
of My Heart" [RealVideo] video on the group's official Web site.
The site, www.backstreetboys.com,
contains a video excerpt from the ballad "Shape of My Heart," which features
a forlorn A.J. McLean pleading for forgiveness in an empty theater, wanting
to show his ex-girlfriend "the shape of my heart."
The site also
features Liquid Audio and Windows Media versions of "The Call" that are
available as downloads that will expire the day the album comes out. "The
Call" is a hard, funk-pop cut that begins with the sound of phone ringing,
a flourish of Spanish guitar, and a phone call in which a guy tells his
girlfriend not to wait up for him.
It turns out
he's met another woman, and the song's first verse begins with, "Let me
tell you the story about the call that changed my destiny."
The "Black
& Blue Multimedia Showcase" also includes samples of three other tracks
in streaming audio, as well as a video message in which the group thanks
fans for their support.
"Get Another
Boyfriend" is an aggressive, beat-heavy dance number with lyrics telling
a woman to dump her man, because he's no good for her. The other two songs,
"I Promise You (With Everything I Am)" and "Time," are ballads in the tradition
of "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" [RealVideo], though the focus
seems to be more on solo vocals than on the group's harmonies.
-- Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen
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