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Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Sep 28, 2000 Source: Rochester Tribune Submitted By: kelly Backstreet Boy fans are counting the days to release of the group's next album, Black and Blue, slated to hit stores near the end of November. Some careful scourers of napster, the search engine which allows listeners to download music for free, have noticed "Black and Blue" has been available for a few weeks now. It's no surprise: Madonna, Metallica, and Stevie Nicks have been among the many artists who have seen supposedly unreleased material surface on the popular file-swapper. But beware Backstreet fans, for napster files are only as reliable as the people who provide them. Listeners of the song first get a dose of the ukulele, a definitively un-Backstreet instrument, then some singing far inferior to Brian Littrell half a week into strep throat, and finally a screaming voice, of a woman or a man trying to sound like one (Nick Carter?). Not quite. Even teenage girls aren't that easily fooled: this isn't Howie, AJ, Kevin, Brian, or Nick, but a couple of guys who we can only imagine had fun pretending they were. This song is called "Skankmobile," and it's been turning up on Napster for the past month under every artist imaginable: 98 degrees, Tom Petty, NSync, Barbra Streisand, and now the Backstreet Boys. A lesson for all you Backstreet fans: buy the album. Comment on this item. Next Item: Album Preview from J-14 Magazine Prev Item: MTV Europe Music Awards - BSB Nominated and will Perform