I'll Never Break Your Heart
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US CD single part 1 cover
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| Single by Backstreet Boys from the album Backstreet Boys |
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| Released | August 6, 1996  July 21, 1998  |
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| Format | CD single | ||||
| Recorded | 1996 | ||||
| Genre | Slow jam | ||||
| Length | 4:48 | ||||
| Label | Jive | ||||
| Writer(s) | Eugene Wilde Albert Manno |
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| Producer | Timmy Allen | ||||
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"I'll Never Break Your Heart" is a single by the Backstreet Boys from their self-titled debut album. It was later included on their US debut album as well. The song was released in 1996 internationally, and subsequently was re-released in 1997/8 off of the US debut.
The song replaced "I'll Never Find Someone Like You" on the album, which was to be the band's first single. The band's label, Jive Records, had not committed to using the song for the band, and as a result, it was offered to singer Keith Martin, who accepted it and released it as a single on the Bad Boys soundtrack, and his own albums It's Long Overdue and All the Hits. Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell supposedly discovered this when he heard Martin's song play on the radio one day.[1]
"I'll Never Break Your Heart" was supposedly recorded over two weeks, because Littrell and A. J. McLean, the two lead vocalists on the song, had colds.[1] Spanish vocals for the song, titled "Nunca Te Haré Llorar", were later recorded in Zurich along with a Spanish verison of "Anywhere For You".[1]
[edit] Track listing
1996 single
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (Radio Edit)
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (LP Version)
- Roll With It
US part 1
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (LP Version)
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (Spanish Version) - Nunca Te Haré Llorar
- Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) (Live Version)
US part 2
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (Radio Edit)
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (LP Version)
- Get Down (DESIGN Radio I)
- Get Down (Smokin' Beats Club Mix)
Europe part 1
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (Radio Edit)
- We've Got It Goin' On (Amadin's Club Mix)
- Mark Goodier Interview (Part I)
Europe part 2
- I'll Never Break Your Heart (Radio Edit)
- Roll With It (Mr. Lee & Mad Mike Remix)
- Mark Goodier Interview (Part II)
Remixes double vinyl
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Davidson Ospina Extended Club Mix)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Davidson Ospina Edit)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Soul Solution Vocal Mix)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Soul Solution Radio Edit)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Original Radio Edit)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Soul Solution Dub Mix)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Soul Solution Bonus Beats)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Davidson Ospina Chronicles Dub Vocal)
- I’ll Never Break Your Heart (Davidson Ospina Chronicles Dub Instrumental)
[edit] Music videos
Two music videos were released for "I'll Never Break Your Heart". The video released in conjunction with the original single release follows a group of girls, one of whom has just broken up with her boyfriend as explained in the video's preface. The band members are on a ski vacation, and each partners up with one of the girls. Brian Littrell attempts to get together with the girl who has just broken up. The girl Kevin Richardson is matched with was his then-girlfriend and now-wife Kristin Willits.
In 1998, a second video was released for the US market. The video features each band member singing in their own uniquely styled apartment which are stacked atop one another in a tall building. Late in the video, each of the the members is shown to have a girl their apartment. The group is also shown singing together in a cylindrical tunnel which has a rotating round porthole at the near end, though which the camera observes. A version of the video was also released for the spanish version of the song. The dog in Littrell's apartment was actually his dog, and the girl in his apartment was his then-girlfriend, now-wife Leighanne Wallace.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Interview with Backstreet Boys, management, and others from Entertainment Weekly 10th Anniversary Issue.
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