Random: Black & Blue
The Call
- Hello?
This girl sounds like she's twelve.
- AJ. All growly when he sings. I like it.
- Nick. Trying to be all growly like AJ. Cute. Sorry Nick, but you're a few Marlboros short.
- I like the Neptunes remix better.
- Ah! Favorite part! Keyboards, then crescendo. Love that.
- Destin-ay-ay. Stupid Nick.
- Howie? Are you there? I can't hear you. Like... at all.
- Gotta go. Click.
Shape of My Heart
- Brian just said "may" instead of "me." He can join *NSYNC now.
- I love Brian. Like, a lot. He's almost my favorite, even.
- Tragical. Hahahahahaha.
- Ah! Nick and AJ harmonizing. I like it. I want to hug them.
- Nick. No. No singing alone for you. You're whiny. Go away.
- I think Kevin was sick the day they recorded this.
- "Shape of My Heart" is a stupid idea for a song.
Get Another Boyfriend
- Yay! Favorite song.
- "Bay-bay." No AJ. It's "baby." You can join *NSYNC now too.
- AJ and Nick singing together again. Yay!
- I love Nick's voice in this song.
- "DON'T TAKE!"
- AH! "Must come to an eeeeeeeeeend." Brian. Love Brian.
- "STOP!" Okay AJ you can go do backup for Britney Spears now.
- I like how they're saying "Get Another Boyfriend," but they're not saying "dump him for me." They're not all "I would be better." They're just like "you can do better."
Shining Star
- No me gusta this song.
- AJ. Nope. Sorry. Still don't like this song.
- Nick. Nope. Still don't like this song.
- "Angels everywhere, everytime you're near." That's stupid.
- Okay, I agree with Sarah. This does sound like *NSYNC. Except bad.
- All of a sudden there's talking in this song. "Darkchild, Backstreet Boys, c'mon." Not allowed.
- Someone just sang all high and it sucked. Boo.
- Clapping. You'd think that after "The Perfect Fan," they'd realize that clapping IS NOT COOL. At least it doesn't suck as badly.
I Promise You (With Everything I Am)
- Hate this song.
- Like, a lot.
- It's the longest song on the album. Britney Spears pulled that ish with "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" on Baby One More Time, too. If you're going to make a song that sucks ass, at least make it short.
- Nick's singing. Ewww.
- Brian's singing. Awww.
- I can't believe they liked this song enough to put it on the CD.
The Answer to Our Life
- AJ just said "chicka-ahh!" Like Aerosmith in "Jaded." And Janet in "All For You."
- Show me the reason, give me a sign... aww. I like this one.
- Why is it "life" and not "lives?" Maybe it's some big philisophical thing about how all lives are integral in the world and that in a way, we all share our lives with each other. Or maybe it's a typo that never got fixed.
- "The jury's here so let's take the stand." Um, nice try with the metaphor there. Too bad it makes no sense.
- Howie! Hi Howie. Nice to see you.
Everyone
- "We've been through days of thunder." Me too. I've also been through days of rain and days of hail. It's weather, Brian. Get used to it.
- (Apologies for the lame attempt at humor above.)
- "We've been inside the circus. *cue circus music*" That's stupid. No circus music.
- "Time for the show to begiiiiiiiiin. *cue siren in the background*" No. No siren. It makes me think I'm being pulled over every time that I listen to this in the car. No siren.
- This one went out to me. They said so. Rock.
More Than That
- I love this song SO MUCH. It's almost up there with "This I Promise You" and "If You're Gone" as my favorite contemporary ballads.
- Nick. I love Nick in this song.
- The lack of comments on this song just proves that I'm sitting here happily listening to it instead of being snarky.
- This is the part in the video where Nick starts twirling. Hehehehehehehe.
Time
- This song isn't good.
- These lyrics aren't good.
- Nick's mom is the epitome of a stage mother. I don't like her.
"...at the drop of a dime." Were they street performers? Did they have a guitar case in front of them and sang for people who gave them dimes?
- I don't understand this. "Way back when nothing else mattered."
- Nothing else but what? The music? Stupid Backstreet Boys being all vague.
- This good/understood rhyme makes me want to flick AJ on the forehead.
- "Dreams dreams dreams awww yeah." I just now noticed that.
- Kevin was sick the day they recorded this one, too. Kevin? Are you there? Hey Kev? Kev?
- This ending is stupid. I veto this ending.
Not For Me
- Aww yeah. I like this song. Who wrote it?
- Kristin Lundin/Jake/Andreas Carlsson. These guys are amazing. I want to go to Sweden to meet them and be like, "Dude. You wrote 'Bye Bye Bye.' You wrote 'Born to Make You Happy.' Why are you guys not as famous as Max Martin?" I talk pretty fast though, and they're Swedish, so I bet they wouldn't understand me and they'd be all like, "What?" and I'd be all like, "Um. Nevermind," and go back to driving around Sweden on my moped. Because you know I'd be getting a moped.
- Confession: I hadn't really listened to my Black and Blue CD a lot before I went to their concert in February. This song was awesome live. I was thinking, "Is this song on that CD?" ...and I was all happy that it was on there. I listened to this song a bunch of times while I was waiting to get out of the parking lot of the Silverdome.
- "No no uh uh. Whoooh!" That's so good.
Yes I Will
- No, I won't.
- -begin tangent about Rachael's personal music preferences-
Songs like this remind me why I find *NSYNC's music better than Backstreet's. The Boys do a lot more ballads, and that's totally okay. The problem with all the ballads is that if a ballad isn't good, it's just not fun. I can listen to that piece of crap "Bringin' Da Noise" from No Strings Attached and rock out to it in my car. With songs like "I Promise You (With Everything I Am)" and "Yes I Will," I can't do that. You can't bodyrock to a ballad. Whereas I can still bounce up and down to songs like "Giddy Up" or "Space Cowboy" (which are admittedly not great songs), "Yes I Will" is just flat. It's not good, it's not well-written, and it's not fun. There's nowhere to go.
-end tangent about Rachael's personal musical preferences-
It's True
- Pretty keyboards.
- This song isn't nearly as good as "More Than That" or "Shape of My Heart," but it's not bad, either.
Kevin, Max Martin, and Andreas Carlsson all wrote this together. I am slowly learning to like Kevin.
What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)
- Sometimes I wish I were more of a Backstreet fan so I could go to Backstreet forums and see people calling this song WMYDMYB. I love acronyms.
- Fun fact: Windows Media Player thinks this song is called "Hod Did I Fall in Love with You." Yes. Hod. Not "how." Hod. Wrong on two counts.
Why is this the bonus track? It's so much better than "Yes I Will" and "I Promise You (With Blah Blah Blah)." If I could have bought a version where there was no "I Promise You (With the Rest of the Title)," I would have.
How Did I Fall In Love With You
- ...or, as Windows Media Player calls it, "Track 14."
- I burned a CD called "Songs That Are Easy to Fall Asleep To," and I wish I'd put this on there. (No, that's not a diss.)
- "...the rest of my liiiiiiiiiife." That was really good, Howie! You go girl.
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