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But first, a [rant]:
I would just like to express my seething envy of the egalitarian distribution of singing parts within the Backstreet camp (at least their early stuff, which is what I know). I wish that Joey, Lance, and Chris were more than backup singers, that they were a band, not Justin Timberlake featuring JC Chasez and friends.
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Being too tired does interesting things to your brain, a lot like being drunk or stoned, when you're convinced you can carry on normal functions until you actually try them and realize that maybe you can, but they're a little slurred and take more concentration than they should. I'm just typing here, awake and writing, and this interesting thing is beginning to happen, where I'm confusing my homophones (they're and their, sole and soul) and don't realize it until I've already typed the sentence. My eyes feel heavy but my head feels fine, so the fact of my fingers typing funny things doesn't quite compute.

MMC ended October of 1994, right? Does it boggle anyone else that by October 1996, they were already performing on German television shows? Didn't Justin say he had almost a year and a half to be a "normal" kid before he and Chris hooked up? *boggles some more* Also, can I just say how insane it is that there are people out there with camcorder footage of Justin and Lou at Universal recruiting Joey? How does this stuff exist? How did anyone ever get their hands on it? *probably taking boggling to unhealthy levels now*

Okay, so Joey is completely hammy and still as in love with partying and women and being raunchy as ever, even if it now entails unfortunate facial hair. Is anyone jumping his story about partying with Lance in the French Quarter, wasted on Hurricanes and not remembering anything after two-thirty? Because it doesn't get much more golden than that, kids.

*points to musical selection* If this is the sort of music we can expect from our man Chasez's solo career, I personally cannot wait. It's just such a fun song! Listen to the lyrics! So slinky and fun and completely JC. Have we all given Digital Get Down and Up Against the Wall the proper listen they richly deserve? (While we're on the topic, I'd just like to mention that all *NSYNC songs should be listened to at full volume on quality speakers at least once to hear all the sexy background stuff, new and German debut.) But if this is what we have to hope for in the future, I'm a happy, happy girl.

I wanna be your fantasy
and maybe you could be mine

Date: April 3rd, 2003 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ramblinround.livejournal.com
I love how BSB split the parts too, how everyone sings in each song. Nice. :-)

Date: April 3rd, 2003 05:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com
Admittedly, I've only recently began listening to their stuff, which for me consists of their debut album and a couple of errant singles. But yeah, I was truly surprised by how the Boys were all given very decent amounts of "screen" time, where it was never like that with *NSYNC, not even in the beginning, when Chris got the odd verse here or there, and Joey the even rarer single line. It's a particularly sore spot for me because Lance is my favorite, and that's all that needs to be said about that. But yeah, they're supposed to be a group, you know, an ensemble, and it just doesn't feel like that when I listen to them.

Date: April 3rd, 2003 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ramblinround.livejournal.com
If you watch BSB videos, it's clear even in their later stuff. They all sing, they all have their own parts.

In a way I wonder if it's partly because their voices are closer in range than NSYNC's voices are to each other? I don't know if that's true or not, but it seems like that to me. (Admittedly I don't know much about voices.) It definitely seems more democratic than NSYNC, at any rate.

Of course, Lance is my favorite, too. So I know what you mean about wishing NSYNC did more of that.

Date: April 3rd, 2003 06:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com
When I stop for three seconds after being a petulant brat about the issue, I do realize that. The Boys' voices are not only much closer in range, they are within that pleasant Tenor range pop music audiences fawn over so much. I've heard *NSYNC describe their own as a "round sound" because in addition to Justin's first and JC's second tenor, there were Chris and Lance at either end and Joey in a lovely little versatile position where he can go high or low. They claim he's a baritone, we have our doubts. So yes, logically, I do realize why things are as they are, but it doesn't change the fact that three out of a five-member group are so limited in their participation.

And every time Lance rolls his eyes and laughs off any solo effort as "no bass singers have solo albums" I just want to take him by the arms and gently sit him down in a chair to listen to some Barry White. Honestly, if anything he did wouldn't be colored by the pall of public opinion as far as pop music, I think he could make quite the remarkable, acclaimed solo effort.

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