![]() There was no reason NOT to believe that the Backstreet Boys were an unstoppable pop music force. Black & Blue‘s artistic merit aside (as you might remember, I wasn’t a big fan), the thing sold 1.6 million units in its first week alone, surpassing even the boy band touchstone Millennium. More success than 99% of music groups in the history of mankind. ![]() Backstreet had two or three years of unassailable success. These guys survived.īut what of our poor old Backstreet Boys? What did they do? Christina got dirtied up, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson became reality TV stars, and Justin Timberlake cut his losses with *NSYNC and kicked up a solo career. In the wake of 9/11, teen pop’s former kings and queens were forced to un-teen themselves in a desperate attempt to survive the anti-teen onslaught. And so, at the turn of the millennium, teen pop died.
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