The one thing I love about music is that everyone has their own story to tell – the musician, the lyrics, the way the fans decipher them and also the way a song can also create a memory or a meaning to someone. That is what this new article is all about. Each fortnight, we will take a look at a different song and I will take you as a trip down memory lane as to what it means to me. Welcome to Music Memories.

Track: Siberia
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Original Release Date: 2005

I am a dreamer, I think that’s what you call someone who when they can walk down the street and just get lost in their music. I tend to do this a lot, especially if it is a song that I really love I can come up with a concept for a music video pretty much straight away and when I am in music video creative mood when I walk down the street I am on a different planet coming up with a whole concept for a video.

One of the bands that I have listened to a lot and had these sort of ideas has been the Backstreet Boys. There are many different album tracks that I have listened to of theirs where I come up with a concept and one of those is the ballad Siberia. This track is slow, catchy and I instantly enjoyed it straight away. Here below is the music video idea that I imagined one day and always think of whenever I hear this song.

There is a wooden based house in the middle of a sandy and grassy desert like area, when the song starts the camera slowly pans into the house and sees Brian near the stairs singing his lines and when he does the image changes from a grey sepia colour to a distant image of him and his girlfriend breaking up and then eventually fades back into the room that Brian is in on his own.

When the chorus comes on the other guys appear in different rooms of the house. The next verse it focusses on AJ standing alone in a bedroom looking in a mirror which has images of his relationship with the girl that he just broke up with. Nick then appears in the chorus and he is in another room and Kevin is outside in the desert like area. In the last verse it goes to Kevin outside in a dark and thundery garden singing in a black jacket and kneeling down with his hands to his head pointing when the lyrics say in my head.  

It then goes back to Brian on the hallway reading a note and holding it in his hand when it goes to AJs high part it then goes to a high shot slowly panning downwards to the bed that he is now laying on with part of a dark brown duvet on him and the bits that are on show are skin like his torso and his singing the high notes whilst blossom like flowers fall slowly onto him connoting the end of a relationship. The rest of the shots are of the other band members in the other rooms looking sad with different images of their relationships fading in and out in a ghost like mode.

Facts About Siberia

• Written by Alexandra Talomaa, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub
• It is featured on their 2005 album, Never Gone.
• Produced by Christian Nilsson, Johan Brorson