Backstreet Boys And Steve Aoki Cede Emotional 'Let It Be Me' Video To Real Stories About Love

Steve Aoki is a teamwork machine. He consistently racks up a dozen or more superstar team-ups each year, often fusing genres and language boundaries. This year, as an example, he paired with Monsta X for the house-influenced "Play It Cool" and recruited Darren Criss for a lite-EDM take on Dave Matthews Band's "Crash Into You."


This month, he kept on rolling with "Let It Be Me," an acoustic-led pop number alongside Backstreet Boys. It arrived just a number of days before with a new video that dropped on Monday (September 9) and features open-hearted confessionals from real people sharing their stories about the challenges of love.


"This is a special one for all of us," the BSB team wrote in a Instagram caption. "It's about working through any challenges that life brings to be with the person you love." As such, the stars of the clip are not even the dapper, besuited five Gentlemen themselves, nor the similarly spiffy Aoki, nevertheless the everyday storytellers who spin their tales of love in black-and-white portraiture.


"We've all defeat challenges once loving someone, yet love habitually wins in the end," Aoki tweeted to promote the clip. And by the end, there's a nice and subtle Wizard of Oz moment where love indeed wins — and also you could tell by how saturated the video's color becomes.


Watch the stark, emotional video for "Let It Be Me," which premiered today on MTV streams, above.