Music Review

''Help Me''

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Lead Performance: Nick Carter

No, it's not the Joni Mitchell classic -- damn! -- only Backstreet Boy Carter's first solo single, a competent, if busy, bit of pop-rock fluff that may strike a chord with listeners who think Avril Lavigne's ''Complicated'' is edgy. ''I've got so much information here/But nothing I can really grasp,'' Carter sings breathily over churning synths and guitars, inadvertently nailing the problem -- lots of studio gloss, little emotional substance.

Originally posted Sep 27, 2002 Published in issue #674 Sep 27, 2002 Order article reprints

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