Looks like those "100" kisses finally wore off. Backstreet Boy Howie D looked pretty perky in his debut solo clip a few weeks ago while watching that lady dance all sassy-like around his house. Not so much now with the premiere of his video for "Lie To Me," the second single off of the singer's debut solo album, "Back To Me," is a sweepingly fanciful song about heartbreak and loss."Lie To Me," is a slower track that closely resembles some of Backstreet's more classic pop ballads. "At the time [I was putting the album together]," Howie D tells Entertainment Weekly, "I was really in this positive place in life, had lots of energy, between Backstreet-New Kids and my family. So a lot of the album is dance and up-tempo [music]. But there's definitely also the crooner ballads that people would know me for."
The Cazhhmere-directed visual was put together in Toronto, and features Canadian pop-rock quartet Neverest and tells the story of Howie D as he is reeling from a break-up as he's about to shoot his music video. Howie D goes the devastation route in his new clip, looking pained and forlorn while gushing to the camera and really showing us the meaning of being lonely. "Nobody told me we were too young/Nobody told me we couldn't love," he sadly croons during the devastation ballad's crushing chorus.
The black and white clip shows Howie D trying his best to stay busy on a set, responding to a lengthy text message breakup? with a broad statement resembling something of an invitation to chat. But talking is easier said than done, as he still gets distracted by instruments, inviting performance spaces and his compulsion to give artistic notes to any surrounding crew members, so he'll settle for singing his way out of this one. Old dogs.
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