50,000,000 Backstreet Boys' fans can be wrong
Ira Robbins, salon.com, 8 June 1999
THE SWEAT-DRENCHED rock 'n' rollers of the '50s knew all about good and evil. Forty years later, the Backstreet Boys are singing love songs to their moms. How did pop music get this insipid?
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