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.
From: CMU
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— go to most recent comments1 - Cindy
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 - Eric Olsen
Cindy dear, there are far worse gulty pleasures - rock on, er, harmonize on.
3 - Mark Saleski
really?
c'mon eric, name 'em!
4 - duane
I can name them. Puddy, Binky, Smudge, Drippy, and Neander. Oh, you meant name the guilty pleasures. Sorry to butt in.
5 - Eric Olsen
ask Jacko
6 - Natalie Davis
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 - Eric Olsen
that is one snappy little ditty
8 - visualsimplicity
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 - BB
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 - BB
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 - Eric Olsen
"tell me why-eee"
12 - Natalie Davis
"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 - BB
"and the blend is a vocal arranger's wet dream".
Now that is a little over the top for me, BUT..
14 - Natalie Davis
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 - BB
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 - Natalie Davis
Simon Cowell on whether he would have signed 'Nsync: "No... just the curly-haired one."
17 - white boy
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 - michaela
ok .... i cant wait!!! i love them guys more then anything. my favorite is brian!!
19 - 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 - megan
hahahaha when ur gone stay gone don't try to come back its not worth your time!!! thank you 4 ur time
21 - 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 - Stately Wayne Manor
I rebuke you in the name of Menudo...
23 - 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 - 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 - 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