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Backstreet Boys don't have any songs that will lift them out of the adult contemporary world--but the audience who has turned from teens to adults with them will likely enjoy its easy sound, as there is nothing bad here. There's just nothing great, either.
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Like every Backstreet record before it, Unbreakable boasts Super Glue-strength harmonies and an overall tightness of sound--the boys may be practitioners of the kind of pop that music snobs love to skewer, but that doesn't mean they're not exceptionally good at it, or that there's not a lot here worth whistling to.
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Nearly everything here is top 40 or AC radio-ready.
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Entertainment WeeklyThey come close to recreating the sheer euphoria of their biggest pre-2YK smashes on many of the up-temp dance-pop numbers that follow, [2 Nov 2007, p.64]
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A deadly dull set of cliché-packed piano ballads probably isn't the best way for aging harmony synchers to prove to their shrinking tween audience that the old Boys (sans Kevin Richardson) have still got it.
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Unbreakable makes small nods to adult pop, peppering the processed music with tasteful piano and light guitar riffs and keeping bright, danceable grooves to a minimum. But the material stinks worse than ever.
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Minor complaints aside, pound for pound and song for song, Unbreakable may just be the best pop album of the year so far.
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An album that lacks both a mission statement and a sense of purpose.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 53
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Mixed: 0 out of 53
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Negative: 12 out of 53
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MoradMMay 24, 2008
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OyinOFeb 22, 2008
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JuliaB.Feb 4, 2008I like the album because they evoluted, the musics are more creative, the beat is good to hear... they did a pretty good job on this album.