Backstreet Boys are coming back

Written by Marty Dodge
Published November 21, 2003

The Backstreet Boys will be back with a new album in 2004 - or at least that's what Backstreet Boy Howie Donough has told Sharon Osbourne on her US TV show.

The Backstreet Boys have been in hiatus since 2000 because of a falling out
with label Zomba, who the band's management said were using Nick Carter's
solo project as an excuse to put the band as a whole on hold and in doing so barring them from a pre-arranged bonus for fulfilling all their album commitments to schedule.

No word yet on whether the return to the studio means all has been resolved
with Zomba or if the band are hoping to break free from their current recording contract. If Zomba are back on board it may be because of BMG's subsequent takeover of the label, or the fact that Carter's solo album kinda lost the [albeit media created] battle bigtime with fellow boyband-star-gone-solo Justin Timberlake.

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#1 — November 21, 2003 @ 15:48PM — Cindy [URL]

Okay laugh away...but my #1 guilty pleasure is the Backstreet Boys. I LOVE them like a giddy schoolgirl...I does I tells ya..I really does.

I took my daughter (damn fine excuse to go) to see them a few years ago and I actually found myself screaming, crying and pleading for Brian to look my way with the other 13-year olds...ah to be really really really immature...;-)

Brian Littrell & AJ McLean both have amazing voices...siiiiiiigh...teeheehee...

#2 — November 21, 2003 @ 15:53PM — Eric Olsen

Cindy dear, there are far worse gulty pleasures - rock on, er, harmonize on.

#3 — November 21, 2003 @ 15:58PM — Mark Saleski [URL]

really?

c'mon eric, name 'em!

#4 — November 21, 2003 @ 16:02PM — duane

I can name them. Puddy, Binky, Smudge, Drippy, and Neander. Oh, you meant name the guilty pleasures. Sorry to butt in.

#5 — November 21, 2003 @ 16:02PM — Eric Olsen

ask Jacko

#6 — November 21, 2003 @ 16:15PM — Natalie Davis [URL]

All of them are over 18. MJ would have no interest in them. Ba-DUM-bum.

I am not a boy-band fan in general, but that single of theirs, "I Want It That Way," is such a great, catchy pop song, and Backstreet sings it so well.

"ain't nothin' but a heartache...
ain't nothin' but a mistake..."

#7 — November 21, 2003 @ 16:16PM — Eric Olsen

that is one snappy little ditty

#8 — November 21, 2003 @ 16:56PM — visualsimplicity [URL]

It's about time. I'm tired of hearing all about those N'Syncers. It's all about the original ones who revived the boyband craze, that would BSB, not N'Sync.

Oh and "I Want It That Way" is possibly the catchiest pop song ever. I mean, what does that song have? A total of like 5 different lyrics? I should go pop it in and cruise in my convertible right now.

#9 — November 21, 2003 @ 17:00PM — BB [URL]

I am generally repugnated by pretty-boy pop groups, but I must confess I have not heard harmonies as good since Lennon and McCartney.

#10 — November 21, 2003 @ 17:31PM — BB [URL]

I forgot to mention during my stint in Malaysia, the Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees were the only western music deemed palatable by the powers that be. I might also add the only western TV show I could get was X-Files. Mulder and the boys helped get me through that difficult time of my life so I will always have a soft spot for them.

#11 — November 21, 2003 @ 17:36PM — Eric Olsen

"tell me why-eee"

#12 — November 21, 2003 @ 18:46PM — Natalie Davis [URL]

"I have not heard harmonies as good since Lennon and McCartney."

Don't know if I would go quite that far, but yes, the boys' harmonies are simply divine and the blend is a vocal arranger's wet dream.

#13 — November 22, 2003 @ 05:26AM — BB [URL]

"and the blend is a vocal arranger's wet dream".

Now that is a little over the top for me, BUT..

#14 — November 22, 2003 @ 11:17AM — Natalie Davis [URL]

Oh, honey, there is nothing like a perfect blending of voices; I get all gooey when sweet, lush harmonies fill the air. And IWITW's choruses... wow. The precision, the dynamics, the emotion... man oh man. 'Nsync wishes they could pull off what BSB did on that song. As someone who has done quite a bit of choral and theatrical singing and vocal arranging, I can tell you in all honesty that the perfect blend is *my* wet dream.

#15 — November 22, 2003 @ 17:45PM — BB [URL]

Well then, what can I say but.. ENJOY!!!

"Nsync wishes they could pull off what BSB did on that song."

I couldn't agree with you more Nat. Nstink sucks (oops, please forgive the slip Ziggy ;-)

#16 — November 22, 2003 @ 18:15PM — Natalie Davis [URL]

Simon Cowell on whether he would have signed 'Nsync: "No... just the curly-haired one."

#17 — December 3, 2003 @ 05:06AM — white boy [URL]

Us Weekly reports Backstreet Boys star AJ McLean was spotted at the Crush store in Malibu picking up a Beverly Hills Pimps & Hos trucker cap.

#18 — December 21, 2003 @ 23:51PM — michaela

ok .... i cant wait!!! i love them guys more then anything. my favorite is brian!!

#19 — January 9, 2004 @ 04:24AM — Heather

BACKSTREETS BACK....pretty brilliant news any way you cut it...Backstreets back.. to save us all from this rap/crap can't even call it music nonsense.I love BSB music ..fantastic voices..IWITW never get tired of them looking forward to all their new stuff..Hooray ..at last something to look forward to in 2004.
Forever a teenager...been singing BSB eversince I heard they were hitting the studio again...loved all your previous comments..keep posting...GOTTA GO..by the way cindy...good for you BSB appeals to everyone... carry on being immature and like a giddy schoolgirl..great music has no age barrier ,.lets put it like this ..I liked MJ when he looked like MJ..,The Osmonds have not been strangers in my record collection...Beatles songs know and love them all...Michael Bolton ,Wham,Take That, Westlife,The Proclaimers,Avril Lavigne,Spice Girls,Savage Garden ,and even Chumbawamba have spun around on my C.D player..Great music is great music and BSB just kinda make me happy...love all they do, songs are catchy...and well ok I'll say it Howie is very cute....now really GOTTA GO..(copywrite..THE CALL...ha ha ha)

#20 — April 19, 2004 @ 06:55AM — megan

hahahaha when ur gone stay gone don't try to come back its not worth your time!!! thank you 4 ur time

#21 — May 10, 2004 @ 15:43PM — Amber

I can't wait till backstreet boyz come back cuz they are my favorite band and i miss them so much,I can't wait till they go on tour so i can rush and get a ticket!! My favorite is Brian!!!

#22 — May 10, 2004 @ 15:58PM — Stately Wayne Manor

I rebuke you in the name of Menudo...

#23 — May 10, 2004 @ 16:47PM — Duane

Yep me and the boys down at the plant are shittin our pants over the Backstreet Boys reunion. Gus and his ladyfriend Marge promissed us to go down and get tickets for me, Benny, Rocko, Jack, Smitty, and Vance. We jes love it when those guys all spin around at the same time. An there singin at the same time that's real talent by god. I'd put those guys up aganst the Oak Ridge Boys any day for harmunizin. An we appreciate the tough kinda lives those boys have had growing up on the backstreets an all. Jes like me and the fellers down at the plant.

#24 — June 5, 2004 @ 12:33PM — TT

Wow! I thought I got over them already but now I have to agree, even if theis new album isn't at all different than the ones before, that had been collecting dust in my cd-rack 'til yesterday, I'm still going to buy it. It could beat the rap songs anyday. What's so bad about a little bit of good old fun? Maybe I'm not over the boyband-thing after all?

#25 — July 21, 2004 @ 17:40PM — dina

yeeees..the boys are back i cant belive it and i like all there songs they just sing what they feel and are full of passion i feel like they are singing just to me and i cant stand untill they release the new album that i will buy and will not hear anything but it....they are really gr8

#26 — July 21, 2004 @ 17:44PM — dina

brain .. kevin.. AJ .. nick .. hawi ...... what can i say more than that

#27 — July 25, 2004 @ 20:14PM — MARIA

I LOVE THE BACKSTREET BOYS A LOT THEY ARE SO SEXY AND HOT I LOVE THERE SUPER VOICE'S RELLY BLEND TOGHERE ONE SOME LOVE SONG'S I STILL LOVE THEM

FROM
MARIA VALIANTE

#28 — July 26, 2004 @ 05:37AM — Bob A. Booey [URL]

ME TOO! ES TAN CALIENTE! MUY PICANTE!

Goooooooooo AJ. I love your thin mascara goatee! 35 year old men are so hot. That's why I'm gonna marry Kevin!
Watch out Paris ... Nick's mine!

E-mail me BSB!!!!! That's HOTTTT!!!

#29 — May 1, 2006 @ 22:38PM — Jimena

I'm from argentina...and I love the backstreet boys!!...It's the first time I've seen this page...and it's great! PLEASEE, I can't wait for them to come here!! My favorites are Brian and AJ!! I LOVE THEM!!

#30 — May 27, 2006 @ 20:27PM — zo

i luv the backstreet boys!!!, they r my all time favorite band, they have got the whole package the voices, moves, and definatley the looks!!!, i am soooo happy they came back with their latest album "never gone", because to their fans they were truly never gone and never will be!!
KTBSPA!!!!!!!!!!
BSB ALWAYZ AND FORVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#31 — November 8, 2006 @ 20:06PM — tinacondic [URL]

hi backstreetboys
brian littrell
brian nick aj howled
bsb
backstreetboys back may 18 and song happy birthday tina be 21
buy me
miss kevin
love tina

ps i love you brian

#32 — June 6, 2007 @ 19:19PM — tina [URL]

hi boyfriend nick
i love you brian
miss kevin
my birthday
need backstreetboys
need you brian
come over my house party
brian nick aj howled tina
need you guys
love tina nick

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