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Unfortunately forAJ McLean’s daughter, theBackstreet Boys' hits are still larger than life.
“My oldest daughter hates that song, hates it with a passion,” he said.
“Because she gets teased at school when she walks into school.”

AJ McLean and daughter Elliott in 2023.Credit:VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
The band still “love that record.
We love showing the meaning,” McLean said.
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About that meaning.

Backstreet Boys in the 1999 music video for ‘I Want It That Way’.Backstreet Boys/Youtube
Yet just two years later, McLean admitted that the song “makes no sense.”
McLean announced last year that he and wife Rochelle DeAnna McLean wereseparating after 14 yearsof marriage.
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