[新聞]Backstreet's back, alright!''
(Boston Herald) - If you're a Backstreet Boys fan
- either admitted or secret -
right about now you should be singing under your breath,
"Backstreet's back, alright!''
Today the grown-up boy band releases "Never Gone,''
its first album of new material in five years.
It was a busy five years.
Kevin Richardson appeared in ``Chicago''on Broadway and London's West End.
Nick Carter released a solo album and dated Paris Hilton.
A.J. MacLean got sober.
Brian Littrell got married and had a son.
And Howie Dorough began a side career in real estate development.
Testing the waters with the Top 10 hit "Incomplete'' and a spring club tour,
the band continues on the comeback trail with a summer tour that touches down
at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield on Aug. 14.
Yesterday the Boys - now men ranging in age from 25 to 33 -
chatted by phone with reporters about their re-entry into a very different
pop music atmosphere.
On what sparked their reunion:
"A.J. was doing a special on the Oprah Winfrey show with his mom about his
sobriety and his drug addiction and that's when we all decided to hop on a
plane and go surprise him,''
said Carter of their December 2003 talk show appearance.
"It turned out great. And the feeling was just there again.''
On the more mature, pop-rock sound of "Never Gone,''
produced and written with old friends such as Swedish hitmaker Max Martin
and new ones such as John Shanks (Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch):
"We took a year and a half to record it,'' said Richardson,
"and we all came into this recording process with a commitment that
we were going to keep an open mind and really experiment musically and
sonically. We let the direction of the album reveal itself.''
On their longterm future:
"We're going to take it day by day, album by album,'' said Richardson.
"And who knows, we may be like the Eagles, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones
and the Temptations, still doing shows when we're in our 50s.''
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