For Pop Stars, a Day to Pledge Fidelity to Radio
"Backstreet Boys may have been thinking grim thoughts about declining
boy-band standards. With four members from their ’90s heyday as a
quintet, they harmonized carefully and hit their marks for every
choreographed beat of their uptempo songs: discipline, not just
preening. Lately, though, Backstreet Boys have been concentrating on
bombastic, lachrymose power ballads, which could be mourning both lost
romance and fading teenage appeal."