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Backstreet Boys – Larger Than Life (3:55)

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Released August 24, 1999

“Larger Than Life” is a song by the Backstreet Boys, released as the second single from their 1999 album, Millennium. It was written by Max Martin, Kristian Lundin and Brian Littrell and is mainly a tribute to the group’s fans. The song broke the record for longest running #1 on MTV’s Total Request Live. Longtime friend, Brian McAndrew, was featured in the song with a guitar solo. The song reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.

The music video for “Larger Than Life” was a big-budget production directed by Joseph Kahn in August 1999, who also directed the band’s “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” video in June 1997, which bears a number of similarities to this video. It takes place in a futuristic space setting, and includes elaborate special effects and animation, as well as a break-down with a dance number. The video opens with a long pass of a spaceship over the top of the camera as a number of the band’s past singles cycle through as if on a radio dial. A robot, whose face is portrayed by Antonio Fargas, who played the driver in the “Everybody” video, awakens the band members from their sleep in pods on the ship.

Each of the band members is subsequently featured in their own separate vignettes, while being featured together on a large stage doing a dance routine with backup dancers. A breakdown was added to the album version of the song before the final choruses for the extended dance sequence which continues to the end of the song. The vignettes are intercut with the dance sequence following the breakdown.
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  • Millennium
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  • The Hits: Chapter One
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  • Chapter One
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  • Greatest Hits - Chapter One
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  • N-a-n-a-s-h-i

    I loved this Song when I heard it in the Halloween-Episode of Sabrina the teenage witch... So funny :D

    last month

  • aphroditeangel

    Classic BSB this song will never get old

    March 2012

  • sammy8a

    Classic!

    March 2012

  • EnfantTerribl

    OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!! I love this song soooo much!!!

    March 2012

  • violetlines

    SUCH A FUCKING TUNE.

    March 2012

  • Jouriichijourou

    AHHH, NOSTALGIA!

    February 2012

  • MJRocker1987

    This song MADE my 2000.

    November 2011

  • Simon_garcia

    I remember this songs when I was childhood, also is my first listen to "Backstreet Boys" when this songs starting. It was not CD but is a bonus pack from: Burger King USA and they have DVR Movie... And the first songs is this songs "Larger Than Life", I what why I remember when I was Childhood... Later on now I listen other music of this group artists! I remember and still I playing this songs & Other songs with my subscriber only!

    October 2011

  • watchintv

    nostalgic omg

    July 2011

  • LivFreeOrTwiHrd

    Seeing them in concert with NKOTB this coming Tuesday:D So excited! BSB 4EVER!!!:D

    June 2011

  • Pricy83

    BSB 4ever ♥

    June 2011

  • BeckyLovesDelta

    the scream always makes me laugh. No idea why XD

    May 2011

  • nikkicoyote

    death growls

    April 2011

  • caselcole

    I love this song :p

    April 2011

  • irmcintyre

    they all need ridalin

    February 2011

  • Kawabiker1958

    Geniale Band

    January 2011

  • straw4uberry

    All of our time spent in flashes of light.........I know If I ever saw them I would be part of the crowd taking pictures. Thanks BSB for your fan song

    October 2010

  • lecielx

    LOVE IT!

    October 2010

  • matheuszonex

    Uma das melhores. Marcou.

    October 2010

  • Xaijul

    win

    September 2010
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