About BSB & Nsync

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I've been reading some earlier posts about pop music and I disagree that most of you thinks that all boybands or pop stars fully don't write all their music. Not to take sides, but since some of the visitors seems to aim at the backstreet boys, I think the bsb so far is one of the talented boyband that I actually believes who write/co-write all their stuff.

There is a british boyband called A1, who wrote 10 songs all by themselves out of 14, which is not bad for a boyband while they co-wrote the rest.

Here's some list of Backstreet Boys (BSB) songs either the member or the all boys wrote:

*BSB = backstreet boy

Answers To Our Life - Fully written by all members of BSB
Time - Fully written by all members of BSB
Larger Than Life - Brian Littrell (BSB)/Max Martin
The One - Brian Littrell (BSB)/Max Martin
Show me the meaning of being lonely - Brian Littrell (BSB)/Max Matin
The Perfect Fan - (about his mom) Brian Littrell(BSB)/Smith
Shining Star - Carter (BSB)/Dorough (BSB)/Franciz/Lepont
It's True - Carlsson/Martin/Richardson (BSB)
How Did I Fall in Love With You - Dorough(BSB)/Fromm/MacColl
Yes I Will - Kierulf/McLean (BSB)/Schwartz

*Source: Netscape Music

There's more, but you get the idea. I'm a pop singer/songwriter and I don't think it's that easy to write melody/words into each song to get into a top list. Maybe that's why most boybands go solo, since all of us think of toyband when you hear a song from a pop group.
 
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Well, they wrote nothing on their first album at all. By the time the second album came out (they gave Littrell a shot at songwriting on ONE SONG) every teenage girl would buy anything that said BSB on it - hell, you could crap in a cup, call it BSB and some young chick would buy it. So, my point is - they didn't get to their lofty perch in the pop music world BASED on their writing. They got there because they were carefully assembled, they look good to little girls, and they can, ahem, sing manufactured hits - hits that were penned specifically for them.

So, I say that their success has nothing to do with their songwriting talent and everything to do with good marketing. They were allowed to write (note the word "allowed") after they were pretty damned sure that they could move records despite what was actually on them.


And maybe, just maybe, hanging out with Max Martin taught them a thing or two about the pop formula - at least enough that they could get away with writing some of their own tunes.
 
Brad said:
And maybe, just maybe, hanging out with Max Martin taught them a thing or two about the pop formula - at least enough that they could get away with writing some of their own tunes.
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I agree....%100

everyone has to learn sometime from someone...why not from one of the best...
 
what would be the big deal that they dont write their own songs.....I know many great songwriters that cant sing.....so big whoop if a singer cant write a song......
 
I agree about Max Martin and I'm a big fan of Michael Jackson songwriting, that Max is the mastermind behind teen pop music. Plus he has co-written Bon Jovi's 'It's My Life'. But you have to admit that the BSB does vocally sounds good. We all had heard the 'I Want It That Way'. If it wasn't for the vocal, that song would not even get to the top whether if they were sung by a boy band or a solo singer, because we know that 'I want it that way' lyrics makes not that much sense. Same goes for the emotional 'show me the meaning...' - vocal/lyrics great.

Does Celine Dion write all her music? How about some R&B singers? Did boys II men wrote all their songs? Does A&R people look for who can sing or who can write? Now I'm not a big fan of BSB, but I do agree that when they started, they were only kids around 18 yrs, they were learning the pop music culture. Plus they started the small era of 5-standard boyband, after the New Kids On The Block (same producer, i think). Seven songs of their 3rd CD is written/co-written by them, which is probably not that much, but I have seen who write nothing at all.
 
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It doesn't matter to me who wrote their songs. I find each of the Back Street Boy's songs equally as uninteresting, both lyric-wise and vocally.

A circus seal could become 'big' these days if it had a decent stylist and marketing team, and thats pretty much how I view BSB. They're just a bunch of talentless muppets. But hey thats my OPINION :D
 
Brad said:
Well, they wrote nothing on their first album at all. By the time the second album came out (they gave Littrell a shot at songwriting on ONE SONG) every teenage girl would buy anything that said BSB on it - hell, you could crap in a cup, call it BSB and some young chick would buy it. So, my point is - they didn't get to their lofty perch in the pop music world BASED on their writing. They got there because they were carefully assembled, they look good to little girls, and they can, ahem, sing manufactured hits - hits that were penned specifically for them.

So, I say that their success has nothing to do with their songwriting talent and everything to do with good marketing. They were allowed to write (note the word "allowed") after they were pretty damned sure that they could move records despite what was actually on them.


And maybe, just maybe, hanging out with Max Martin taught them a thing or two about the pop formula - at least enough that they could get away with writing some of their own tunes.
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All I can say is that Brad knows way too much about the BSB. :(
 
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