A funny thing happened recently on MuchMoreMusic, a channel that occasionally shows music videos betwixt half-hour exposés on the secret life of Pam Anderson’s cooter. Following Gene Simmons Family Jewels but before Listed: Top 10 Items Found in the Rectums of ’80s Child Stars , viewers were treated to marathon reruns of VH1′s Mission: Man Band , a show where former members of Color Me Badd, 98 Degrees, ‘N Sync, and LFO come together to form a pop-vocal group. They’re hoping for another shot at fame, using the boy-band template to relaunch their dead-and-rotting careers.

They’re grown men, so the notion is ridiculous. The show is predicated on schadenfreude, and viewers are implicitly asked to laugh along with the cameras at how retarded boy-band music looks on adults. All’s well and good with the latest salvo against human dignity launched by reality TV, except cut to commercial and there’s an advertisement for Unbreakable , the latest album from the Backstreet Boys.
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Backstreet is (almost) back yet again, with their second tour since reforming in 2005.

The band are sure to play hits from their whole career, right up to their latest record ‘Unbreakable’ and last time they were here their synchronised dancing was enough to set a whole new generation of young girl’s hearts on fire (not to mention those who were around to love them ten years ago).

Expect to hear ‘Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)’, ‘I Want It That Way’ and ‘Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely’.

The band also have a whole new show for this tour too, so it’ll be all new and exciting!
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While it may be a little cheesy, I feel obligated to say it: Backstreet’s back- again!

The Backstreet Boys released their sixth studio album, “Unbreakable,” on Oct. 30, attempting a second comeback. Their 2005 album, “Never Gone,” did not quite infiltrate the radio airwaves as a boy band’s music often does. And now, although the title may be “Unbreakable,” the Boys seem to be broken.

They are missing one member, Kevin Richardson. The fifth rarely heard member of the group is not on the CD’s cover. So, you might ask, where’d he go? Maybe he got too old to be considered a boy. Or maybe he knew when to let a good thing go.
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Since the release of their entirely forgettable 2005 comeback album, “Never Gone,” which included the tellingly titled “Incomplete,” the Backstreet Boys have been hard at work attempting to expose everything they lack. They achieve as much with their newest release, “Unbreakable,” which has the first single, “Inconsolable.”

The Boys are down to four since the departure of Kevin Richardson, the goateed, moody one. The band seems to have lost more than a member — the Boys lost relevance. For the period before “Never Gone” when they were, in fact, gone from the music scene, the world lost interest in five men pummeling prepubescent fans with PG-13 croonings and mock sincerity. In a world that still grooves to Justin Timberlake’s “Future Sex/Love Sounds,” The Backstreet Boys obviously had some catching up to do.
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With no Justin Timberlake opting for solo success at the expense of the group, the Backstreet Boys continue on, delivering their fifth studio album, Unbreakable.

The departure of Kevin Richardson has turned the Backstreet Boys into a quartet, but the absence doesn’t leave a noticeable hole in Unbreakable. These 14 songs are built on ensemble harmonies that showcase the strength of the unit more than individual members.

Big choruses, such as the one that powers the single “Inconsolable,” will please fans of the group’s signature pop hits. Gone are the prominent guitars that attempted to give a rock edge to 2005′s Never Gone. If anything, the group has gone too far the other direction here, opting for midtempo ballads that seem strangely faceless.
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