Backstreet Boys Discography
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 Backstreet BoysThis Is Us Release Date 2009 10 06 Label Jive Rating:  Since their mid-2000s reunion, the Backstreet Boys have been acting like adults so it's not entirely a surprise that they've decided to shake things up on This Is Us, their third album of the comeback and second since becoming a quartet. Teaming up once again with Max Martin and working with a host of modern hitmakers as RedOne, the group takes a left turn back toward the rhythm-heavy, harmony-laden dance-pop that made their reputation a decade before. Never mind the name of the album -- the group is tellingly quite willing to fade into background, letting the producers do their work, just content to sing the hooks. It's a sharp move in two ways: BSB never had as much on-record charisma as *NSync, their best trait was how they could sell a hook without affect, and that returns here. Of course, it helps that they have a bunch of hooks here, too -- hooks that aren't quite as galvanizing as &"I Want It That Way," but easily eclipsing those on the pedestrian Unbreakable, helping the band seem modern without seeming pandering. It's a move that the New Kids on the Block couldn't pull off on their tawdry, sex-obsessed comeback, and it's one that the Backstreets seemed incapable of doing just a few years ago, but on This Is Us, the group sounds great for their age, and they sound like they're at their peak -- which is no guarantee of a hit, but it sure makes for a better album than they've produced in quite a while. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Straight Through My Heart | Bilal "The Chief" Hajji, Jannusi, Jannusi, Kinnda "Kee" Hamid, Red One [1], Red One [3] | 3:27 |
| 2 | Bigger | Amber, Martin, Shellback | 3:15 |
| 3 | Bye Bye Love | Schack, Kelly, Karlin | 4:20 |
| 4 | All of Your Life (You Need Love) | Charles Hinshaw, Red One [1], Red One [3] | 3:55 |
| 5 | If I Knew Then | Schack, Kelly, Karlin | 3:16 |
| 6 | This Is Us | Romano, Scheffer, Dorough, Omley, Mani | 3:03 |
| 7 | PDA | Mario "Tex" James, Board | 3:48 |
| 8 | Masquerade | Kennedy, Collins, James, Busbee | 3:03 |
| 9 | She's a Dream | McLean, Simmons, Carter, Dorough, Littrell, T Pain | 3:58 |
| 10 | Shattered | Camper, Chad "C-Note" Roper, Tiron "TC" Mack, Suecof | 3:53 |
| 11 | Undone | Johnson, Tedder, Hoge | 4:14 |
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