Johnny Cash to Billie Eilish, to Stevie Ray Vaughn and Backstreet Boys. Here are the lyrics I definitely didn't get the first time around. Fun, danceable music, positive lyrics, and great vocals are some of the duos. But I've also noticed how many of the lyrics I completely misunderstood as a tween, because I was probably too overwhelmed with screaming and debating with my friends over which member was the best one (it's Brian, by the way. Look, I'm 28 years old, and there are few things on this Earth that bring me to my happy place as swiftly has the earnest harmonies of BSB, so just let me have this, mmmkay? Being the unabashed grown up fan that I am, I have come to understand a little bit more about BSB's music over the years - like the fact that "I don't want you to cry no more inside," is a grammatically incorrect phrase. And, as I get older, I start to realize that there were a lot of misunderstood Backstreet Boys lyrics that went right over my head when I was younger. Ever since their chiseled bodies, covered in silk and rain, made their way onto my TV screen and my heart, I have been a die hard Backstreet Boys fan. Nineteen years after releasing the pop hit I Want It That Way, the Backstreet Boys still have to explain what exactly they were trying to say in the song. When the Backstreet Boys first asked me, "Am I orignal? Am I the only one? Am I sex-u-al? Am I everything you need?" in 1997, my answer was a resounding YES.
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