

So they present more ideas, and that inspires you further, and that inspires them, and etc etc until the song is finished. Sometimes you have a good idea started but don't really know where to go with it yourself, and you bring it to someone else to see what their voice or writing can do to it. Sometimes you have a great song idea, but you sort of wrote it with another singer or voice in mind, and they end up loving it and you guys finish it together with that specific direction. Sometimes you write songs that you love but just don't work that well with your own work or image, but it works very well with someone else. What I find really interesting is when you have songwriters that write songs for other artists but have their own singing career. She is perfection, their passion, their "one desire" (Heaven) but seemingly unobtainable and almost distant from the emotional lower tier on which the Backstreet Boys are forced stand and suffer (Earth).Īn excerpt from the classroom textbook for "ENGLISH III: Boy Bands of the Late 20th Century", which by the year 2047, will become a required course for all 10th Graders in U.S. Which most scholars generally agree is an analogical stand-in for this alluring but only ever vaguely described woman that all five Backstreet Boys have such passionate but unrequited love for. Where Jehovah, or Yahweh as the figure is also referenced as in the Old Testament, reigns in physical form. The following line ("But we are two worlds apart") continues this theme in the sense that it is illustrating the division between the imperfect world of the Earthly realm (where Moses and the Backstreet Boys are similarly confined) and the seemingly unreachable embodiment of peace in Heaven itself.

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