Larger than Life (Backstreet Boys song)
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| Single by Backstreet Boys from the album Millennium |
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| Released | October 26, 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD, 7", 12", cassette | ||||
| Recorded | 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Pop/Dance | ||||
| Length | 3:50 | ||||
| Label | Jive | ||||
| Writer(s) | Max Martin Kristian Lundin Brian Littrell |
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| Producer | Max Martin Kristian Lundin |
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"Larger Than Life" was the second single released from the Pop Music group Backstreet Boys 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.
[edit] Music video
The music video for "Larger Than Life" was a big-budget production directed by Joseph Kahn, who also directed the band's "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" video, 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[citation needed], 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.
The video reportedly went over budget, which was the reason that Howie Dorough's vignette was not particularly elaborate.[citation needed] The video holds a Guinness World Record for the 8th most expensive music video with estimated production costs of over US$2,100,000.[citation needed]
[edit] Track listing
Standard
- Larger Than Life (Video Mix)
- Larger Than Life (Video Mix - Instrumental)
- If You Knew What I Knew
Cardboard sleeve
- Larger Than Life (Video Mix)
- Larger Than Life (Album Version - Instrumental)
UK
- Larger Than Life (Video Mix)
- Larger Than Life (Eclipse New Life Mix)
- If You Knew What I Knew
Remixes double vinyl
- Larger Than Life (Keith Litman Club Mix) - 6:03
- Larger Than Life (Jazzy Jim Bonus Beats) - 3:44
- Larger Than Life (Extended Video Mix) - 4:14
- Larger Than Life (Keith Litman Dub) - 9:16
- Larger Than Life (Jazzy Jim Streetshow Mix) - 4:05
- Larger Than Life (Jack D. Elliot Club Mix) - 5:48
- Larger Than Life (Album Version) - 3:52
- Larger Than Life (Eclipse's New Life Mix) - 8:47
- Larger Than Life (Madgroove Progressive Mix) - 9:16
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