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"Backstreet Men" doesn't really have the same ring, but make no mistake, the Backstreet Boys are coming back more mature on their first album in five years.
"We've been working on it for more than a year now, but it really started taking shape and changing over the past six months," Dorough said. "It's going in a more pop/rock direction, kind of us-meets-Matchbox Twenty /Goo Goo Dolls /Train." Sifting through a pile of 100-150 songs that were written for them, the band recorded 40, including "I Still," "Weird World" and "Incomplete."
The final track listing hasn't been set yet, but the sessions marked a reconnection with uber-pop songwriter Max Martin (Britney Spears, 'NSYNC), who wrote and produced three songs that could make the album (see "What Year Is It? Backstreet Boys Planning World Tour, Working With Max Martin"). Dorough said "Climbing the Walls," "I Still" and the ballad "Siberia" have a harder edge than such memorable Martin-penned BSB hits as "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)."
"Weird World," a "message song" written by Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik, sounds very different for a BSB song at first. "Sent a message to a GI today/ Thank you, man, for sending us another dawn," is one of the lyrics Dorough quoted, explaining, "You can get so caught up in your own world, and on the other side of the world, people are fighting for our freedom. So it's a very timely song with the war going on."
The band has also hooked up with former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes on the midtempo song "Lift Me Up," as well as the a cappella group Take 6, who produced a song written by Dorough called "Moving On." Their musical heroes, Boyz II Men, collaborated on "Jealous" and Dorough described the Underdogs-produced "Not No More" as "us meets R. Kelly."
Other songs recorded for the album include the uptempo, early Michael Jackson-style "Beautiful Woman" and "Rushing Through Me," which Dorough said was inspired by the "tribal African" feel of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." Many of the songs feature live instrumentation and the familiar multi-voice harmonies are less prevalent than in the past. Dorough, 31, said the group — which wrote or co-wrote 10 songs — has enough material that it could release separate pop/rock and R&B albums if it wanted to, but he suspects the 10-to-15-track final result will be a mix of the two sounds.
The first single, slated for release in mid-February, will be chosen next week, with Dorough pulling for the uptempo, feel-good pop-rocker "I Still." The album is due in early June, with a major tour starting on the Fourth of July weekend. But before that, the Boys are scheduled to play a series of warm-up radio promo dates and House of Blues gigs during the first week of March to reconnect with their audience, according to Wright.
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Anycrap, I will be buying their album AND seeing them on tour. h;hjdg;hjdgs;hjdg; I LOVE THEM.
Loving every inch of your skin 
, my friend has been telling me this for couple months now she is a big BSB fan 
