Date: July 29, 2000
Weeks: 2
I'm not sure I have it in me to really hate on 'N Sync's only No. 1. This certainly isn't a good song, but all things considered it's not really all that bad, either.
The core of this song really isn't so bad. It's a basic drum kit beat and bass line, with a healthy mix of decently synthesized sounds, and some musical variety. And hey, the vocal harmonies are even pretty decent. Yeah, maybe there's some Auto-tune polishing, but at least it's not used as an intentionally obvious effect. It's catchy and fairly simple in an ear-pleasing way. At its core, this song is quite listenable, if not particularly profound.
Where this song goes wrong is some of the styling around the edges. The weirdly minor-key opening chords are pretty terrible. The distorted vocal effects right at the beginning are jarring in a song that is otherwise trying to sound reasonably pleasant. The bridge breakdown is also terrible, including some odd beatboxing vocal effects that are cowardly downmixed to almost being nonexistent. Either they were good enough to put in the whole song, or they were bad enough to remove entirely. Also a problem is the how often the synthesizer comes off sounding like a harpsichord. It's a weird fit with the rest of the song.
The songs lyrics are pretty bad. Obvious rhymes and bad messages abound in lines like "Baby when you finally get to love somebody, guess what, it's gonna be me." This seems to be yet another song on the variation of the singer just waiting for the person they're singing to to notice them. And the "can't you see how romantic that it is that I'm suffering so much for you?" sort of model that just keeps on going in pop music.
My verdict: Don't like it. Not as bad as I feared it would be. Maybe this really was their best song. But still not very good.
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