Helpless When She Smiles

"Helpless When She Smiles"
Single by Backstreet Boys
from the album Unbreakable
ReleasedDecember 26, 2007 (2007-12-26)
StudioHenson (Hollywood)
Length4:04
LabelJive
Songwriter(s)Brett James, Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, Troy Verges
Producer(s)John Shanks
Backstreet Boys singles chronology
"Inconsolable"
(2007)
"Helpless When She Smiles"
(2007)
"Straight Through My Heart"
(2009)
Music video
"Helpless When She Smiles" on YouTube

"Helpless When She Smiles" is the second single from American vocal group Backstreet Boys' sixth (fifth in the US) studio album, Unbreakable, which was released on October 30, 2007. The single, produced by John Shanks, was released on December 26, 2007. This song was leaked on the Internet back in May 2007 along with "Happily Never After" which never made the album.

The song was originally written in 2004 for Rascal Flatts,[1] and first recorded by Dutch singer Bastiaan Ragas in 2005,[2] then by German singer Mike Leon Grosch in 2006 before it was recorded by the Backstreet Boys.

  1. ^ "Rascal Flatts demo CDs".
  2. ^ "Outragas - Bastiaan Ragas". All Music. Retrieved June 27, 2012.