Speaker 1: What up, everybody? Welcome back to Crash Course Pod. I'm
Speaker 1: your host ash to Ney and in this episode we
Speaker 1: are doing part two of the Backstreet Boys. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard part one, rewinded back and then join
Speaker 1: me here. Just to let you guys know, we talked
Speaker 1: about their origin story. We talked about the Imperial phase
Speaker 1: from ninety seven to two thousand one. Then we talked
Speaker 1: about nineteen ninety nine Millennium and the turn, the turmoil
Speaker 1: in the pivot. So yeah, that sounds like something interesting.
Speaker 1: Go listen to that and then join us back here
Speaker 1: because now we're gonna get into their legacy. So where
Speaker 1: we left off was the rock light era where they
Speaker 1: faced a lot of massive personal hurdles, dealt with health
Speaker 1: scares and the heavy toll of three hundred days a
Speaker 1: year on the road. So they took a hiatus and
Speaker 1: the early two thousands many critics wrote them off, and
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five they released Never Gone, and
Speaker 1: that was rocklight, less dancing routines and more of an
Speaker 1: organic sound. Definitely a grown up version of Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1: So why are we still talking about the Backstreet Boys?
Speaker 1: Why did they survive when others didn't? First, I would
Speaker 1: say it's their vocal ability. Unlike many manufactured groups, Backstreet
Speaker 1: Boys were an a cappella group. First, they can actually sing,
Speaker 1: and those five part harmonies are their insurance policy. Even
Speaker 1: as they get older, their voices still blend perfectly. Second,
Speaker 1: I would say adaptability. In twenty nineteen they really DNA,
Speaker 1: which debuted at number one. They embraced modern production without
Speaker 1: losing their identity. Basically, they've turned their career into a legacy,
Speaker 1: evidenced by their massive Las Vegas residencies. What's the takeaway?
Speaker 1: They survived the boy band expiration date by leaning into
Speaker 1: their fans as nostalgia without becoming a parody of themselves.
Speaker 1: They respected their past but never stopped moving forward. That's
Speaker 1: why I said, if you listen to the last episode
Speaker 1: them Remaking, I want it that way, and their big
Speaker 1: age as of ty versus the original from years years ago.
Speaker 1: I think they captured the nostalgia for their fans perfectly.
Speaker 1: And let's take a look at some of their comments
Speaker 1: under that, just so we can get the the true
Speaker 1: meaning of Christmas. And I'm kidding that the true meaning
Speaker 1: of Christmas, but you know, the true meaning of the
Speaker 1: nostalgia for their fans. I personally also believed that they
Speaker 1: were able to last as long because they came up
Speaker 1: at a good time between like the nineties and like
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen. The world has changed drastically when it
Speaker 1: comes to cancel culture, social media, even how music is
Speaker 1: you know, generated for like that TikTok viral moment, they
Speaker 1: came up at a time where, like there is loyalty
Speaker 1: in the fan base, there wasn't so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was parasocial nests, but we weren't obsessed with their
Speaker 1: lives because we didn't have access to it. For us,
Speaker 1: getting access to the Backstreet Boys was if they went
Speaker 1: to MTV cribs and we like got to see inside
Speaker 1: their house. Otherwise, our connection was through the CDs, through
Speaker 1: the tapes, through a show, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: when you build an audience based on that, it supersedes
Speaker 1: any trend, like because there was a genuine connection versus
Speaker 1: I only like you because you're viral and everyone's telling
Speaker 1: me to and the algorithm's recommending you. So if we
Speaker 1: look at I want it that way. The remake it
Speaker 1: was thirteen days ago, actually four point five million views.
Speaker 1: We have a comment, I actually cried, we made it, folks.
Speaker 1: We are here. We survived, alive to see this iconic
Speaker 1: recreation of the best songs of the nineties group Hug.
Speaker 1: What makes us happy is after one quarter century, no
Speaker 1: one is missing. Never thought we'd see this video recreated
Speaker 1: and shot vertically on a freaking mobile phone. We would
Speaker 1: have been a crazy idea back in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Someone says a tech I don't know what that means
Speaker 1: that I want to I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: Millennials all over the world managing their chill during high
Speaker 1: stress jobs and life with tears in their eyes watching
Speaker 1: this recreation of a masterpiece, reminiscing the innocent childhood in
Speaker 1: preteen days. Oh man, this came out when I was
Speaker 1: nineteen years old in ninety nine. I am a forty
Speaker 1: five year old man now and this feels so awkward.
Speaker 1: But hanging out at the mall, eating pizza, going to
Speaker 1: drive in movies. While this is so nostalgic, this is
Speaker 1: so cool. I'm happy they are still around and able
Speaker 1: to remake this classic. Everyone knows someone but director shot
Speaker 1: vertically Backstreet Boys. I want it that way, hilarious. Other guy, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty three years old. I have survived long enough
Speaker 1: to reach this checkpoint and having a nostalgic feeling about
Speaker 1: this life is good. Someone else, yes, multiple exclamation points.
Speaker 1: Millennials stand up someone else man. I used to clown
Speaker 1: so hard on this song when I was in middle
Speaker 1: school and complain only girls like Backstreet Boys. Thirty years later, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this song is a certified banger. My kids and I
Speaker 1: always sing this in the car. I could go on
Speaker 1: and on reading these reading these comments, but I think
Speaker 1: it's safe to say that everyone feels nostalgic about the
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys. So how would I say this in regular
Speaker 1: words and a one angot sentence. I would say this
Speaker 1: their initial fame and yeah, their initial fame was because
Speaker 1: they were very, very talented, because seeing their little butts off.
Speaker 1: Their current fame is because of who they represent. I
Speaker 1: think Backstreet Boys represents music of the nineties for a
Speaker 1: lot of nineties kids and millennials. They represent a time
Speaker 1: of innocence in our lives and not too too many
Speaker 1: scandals to where we lose respect for them. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not like R Kelly or P Diddy around here.
Speaker 1: They just genuinely have a good vibe to them, and
Speaker 1: they represent like a wholesome nostalgic vibe where to this
Speaker 1: day a lot of us have fond memories attached to
Speaker 1: the Backstreet Boys, especially with their old songs, even in
Speaker 1: their new songs, So they have that working for them.
Speaker 1: Like I want to say sixty five percent, I want
Speaker 1: to say seventy five Honestly, seventy five percent are still
Speaker 1: there from day one in their nostalgia, and then they
Speaker 1: have the other like fifteen percent and twenty five percent
Speaker 1: all new fans that fell in love with them, just
Speaker 1: like the nineties people fell in love with them. So
Speaker 1: they're just constantly gaining more more fans and keeping retaining
Speaker 1: their regular fans. Their retention is immaculate. Also, they're working
Speaker 1: hard their Las Vegas residencies. I think they have a
Speaker 1: tour starting up in Germany overseas, which makes sense. When
Speaker 1: I first heard of it, I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: why are they not doing it out here in the States.
Speaker 1: But then when I dug into their history and saw
Speaker 1: that's kind of where they got their initial buzz overseas,
Speaker 1: it makes sense to return to the home source. The
Speaker 1: US caught on late, So that's kind of my spill
Speaker 1: on the Backstreet Boys, not your course, your crash course
Speaker 1: on the Backstreet Boys. Whether you were a Nick person,
Speaker 1: or a Brian person, or just a fan of great
Speaker 1: pop production, there's no denying their impact on the charts
Speaker 1: and their share resilience. I was most definitely an AJ person,
Speaker 1: hands down growing up. Now that I'm older, I am
Speaker 1: still an AJ person, but I'm also a Kevin and
Speaker 1: a Brian person. I love Kevin and Brian's image, you know,
Speaker 1: of values and stuff like that and wholesomeness. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that, and i still love AJ's edge. But
Speaker 1: now that I'm older, I'm like more able to appreciate
Speaker 1: other qualities other than the bad boy personam So let's
Speaker 1: talk songs. What are their top songs? Well? When looking
Speaker 1: at the Backstreet Boys, and I'm going by YouTube music,
Speaker 1: by the way, you guys so so pooh, so pooh. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I went it that way. The original released, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was sixteen years ago specifically, but it
Speaker 1: was uploaded sixteen years ago on YouTube one point six
Speaker 1: billion views. As Long as You Love Me six hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty seven million views, Everybody Backstreet's Back six hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine million views. My second favorite, Shape of
Speaker 1: My Heart four hundred fifty four million views, Show Me
Speaker 1: the Meaning of being Lonely three hundred forty five million views.
Speaker 1: Drowning my third favorite song two hundred eighty three million views.
Speaker 1: Quit playing Games with my Heart two hundred sixty three
Speaker 1: million views. You get the point, Larger than Life one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two million views. All I have to
Speaker 1: give ninety million views. I actually forgot about all I
Speaker 1: have to give until I saw a YouTube clip with
Speaker 1: the song playing, and I was like, oh shoot, I
Speaker 1: completely remember this song. I'll Never Break Your Heart eighty
Speaker 1: nine million views. By the way, you guys should be
Speaker 1: writing this down if you want to go down your
Speaker 1: own nostalgia trip. Let's listen to All I have to
Speaker 1: give for a little bit, a little bit, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a clip clip, because I really like this song.
Speaker 1: Number one obviously is for me. I want it that way,
Speaker 1: and then I like Shape of my Heart, and then
Speaker 1: I like Drowning, and then I like all I have
Speaker 1: to give. Those are like my top four I don't know,
Speaker 1: awesome song. This is Drowning. In case you guys forgot
Speaker 1: what Drowning was. MM Okay, here we go, nothing at
Speaker 1: all when you range the bottoms now on neever, Ugh,
Speaker 1: I love that song. They sing ballads so so well,
Speaker 1: so so well. Then they have their more upbeat songs
Speaker 1: like oh my god, we're back again. M mm am
Speaker 1: i a ridgeon? No, yeah, am I? Everything you need better?
Speaker 1: Rock your body now, everybody? Yeah? What else can we
Speaker 1: talk about? Let me take a look at my notes.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I wanted to talk about the actual structure
Speaker 1: of the five band group. Another reason why I think
Speaker 1: they lasted so long, even within their relationship, Not saying
Speaker 1: their relationship has been perfect all of these years, but
Speaker 1: why they're able to still get to the music together
Speaker 1: in this day and age since knowing each other in
Speaker 1: ninety three. Is their age groups. So you have Nick
Speaker 1: being the youngest, and then you have aj being I
Speaker 1: think like three years older than Nick. And then you
Speaker 1: have Kevin, which is the oldest I want to say
Speaker 1: by far hashtag respectfully. And then you have the two middle,
Speaker 1: which is how We and Brian if I say everybody
Speaker 1: too top yes, Howie and Brian just from looking at
Speaker 1: the vibe seems so chilled, nonchalanta, I say, and laid
Speaker 1: back Kevin seems grounded. Brian seems also grounded, but a
Speaker 1: fun person, very wholesome, very you know, entertaining. And then
Speaker 1: you have Nick, which like fools around, practical jokester, and
Speaker 1: aj the I was gonna say emotional, but yeah, the
Speaker 1: emotional one, the emotionally deep one that is also young
Speaker 1: and practical joker. I think that age you group balanced
Speaker 1: everyone out. You know, everyone wasn't always ego tripping in
Speaker 1: their youth and in their fields. You always had the
Speaker 1: wisdom of the older ones. And I also think it
Speaker 1: helped balance everyone out so that way they didn't go
Speaker 1: too far on the deep end. Also with some being
Speaker 1: from Florida and the other two I think it's Brian
Speaker 1: and Kevin being from Kentucky. I think they brought those
Speaker 1: Kentucky values over into the group, so it wasn't just
Speaker 1: too much efery, you know fs shall I say going
Speaker 1: on in the group. I just think the whole dynamic
Speaker 1: was a win overall. They could sing very well, their
Speaker 1: backgrounds all meshed and kind of like balanced each other
Speaker 1: out to where no one was too far on the
Speaker 1: deep end. The ages were a great were greatly staggered
Speaker 1: to where everyone's not all in one energy. It was
Speaker 1: very well rounded overall, shall I say it like that?
Speaker 1: And they have really good hits. I saw an interview
Speaker 1: with Aj and he said and his wife said it
Speaker 1: perfectly and Sync had better dance moves, but Backstree Boys
Speaker 1: had better songs. And I agree one percent. Backstree Boys
Speaker 1: has the most amazing songs and not just like one hit.
Speaker 1: I feel like with new kids on the block, they
Speaker 1: have like two really good hits that I like. The
Speaker 1: rest I wouldn't listen to. Bakstree Boys has over like
Speaker 1: fifteen hits that will listen to. Thanks for listening by