Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys Unbreakable BY ALICE SHYY hrough the lush popscape of the Backstreet Boys’ vocally fertile forests in their comeback album Unbreakable speed questions with the urgency of does at the mercy of bloodlusty hounds: 1. Backstreet’s back? Really? 2. And they spent a year and a half in the studio with legendary pop songwriters and producers? 3. So why do tracks like “Inconsolable” and “Something That I Already Know” have the same chorus relative within a half-step? 4. Since when did the Boys come to Jesus, or at least to His godforsaken form of popular music? 5. And why, oh why are there only four of them now? Some answers: 1. Actually, Backstreet’s back again . In all fairness, Unbreakable , the Boys’ sixth full-length release (including a greatest hits anthology), is a comeback-comeback album—2005’s forgettable Never Gone was the group’s poorly received first effort to return to the glory days of Backstreet Boys (1997) and Millennium