I mean, have you ever been married to four dudes?"
Here’s what might not have been obvious about their music for their young fans in the ’90s.
“I wanted to punch A.J.
’s lights out for a little while,” Kirkpatrick toldBillboard.
“I was dating a girl, I broke up with her and he started dating her.”
But the singer admitted that they settled things over beers before the dispute got physical.
“I think boy band fights are in the same realm as hockey fights.
Now we’re really good friends,” Kirkpatrick explained.
The truth is that the beef was between the bands and their shared manager, Lou Pearlman.
But Pearlman brushed off their complaints, likening his decision to launching competitive soda brands or burger chains.
The lyrics were a stark departure from the band’s tame pop image up to that point.
However, this was quite the claim considering that the song peaked at No.
52 on the Billboard Top 100 and only stayed on the charts for six weeks.
Nick Carter was the youngest member at just 12 when he auditioned and 13 when the group was formed.
On the other end of the spectrum, Kevin Richardson was 21 when the group was formed.
These days, the band members are all dads, and their age difference is no longer as noticeable.
“We don’t do that anymore.
We don’t do kip-ups anymore, when you’re laying on your back and kip-up.
We don’t do splits anymore,” he explained.
What starts out as a simple love song drops into a chorus that confuses things.
Perhaps everyone has been wondering about the meaning of the song since it was released.
But Chrissy Teigen represented all of us when she finally questioned the confusing lyrics in a hilarious 2018tweet.
“He doesn’t wanna hear it because he is the one that wants it that way?
He wants to be the one to say it?
Also what is ‘it’?”
Then, the official Backstreet Boys Twitter account weighed in on the conversation.
He underwent surgery to correct the condition in 1998 while the group was simultaneously performing at a frenetic pace.
Kevin Richardson explained in 2002.
And this just hurt Brian so much because he was like, ‘Dude, this is my heart.’
Thirty years later they continued to make a charitable impact.
All the while, he blamed the cost of running the band to explain the unaccounted-for income.
They also felt that letting management negotiate their tour ended up alienating fans with exorbitant ticket prices.
In 2021, AJ McLean admitted toBillboardthat the song is the band’s least favorite in their entire catalog.
“But now we know that it’s toxic for 5-year-olds,” McLean explained.
“I have an almost 5-year-old, I don’t want that for her.”
And to think, Nick Carter was only 17 when the song was released!
