Touring in Europe to promote their 8th and newest album, "In A World Like This", the Backstreet Boys stopped in Milan, Italy, for a signing session (Nov. 10th) and to attend a reality show called "Io Canto" (Nov. 10th, also). As part of the promo tour they're also visiting tons of radio stations, TV show and giving a lot of interviews. One of them was for Vanity Fair Italy, let's summarize what they talked about.
Welovers, have in mind that we don't properly know Italian, so we tried to do the best we could, hope it's enough at least to give you an idea of what was going on during this interview.
1) Why this album is different from the previous one?
AJ: In this album we wrote something about 80 to 90% of the song, it's the first time in twenty years that we have full control of the creative process. Now we have our own label, also.
Howie: We tried to make it more personal. Some songs were inspired by our children, Madeleine talk about bullying and the incrised number of teen suicide that has being going on in the US.
2) This album may be different but you still have dance routines.
Nick: We do that to stay in shape.
AJ: Two hours of cardio...
Kevin: In this tour we tried to bring back some of our old routines, the ones that our fans know, love and want to see again.
3) You used not to like the "boy band" label but you are most succesfull and popular boy band in the world. Would you like to called differently nowadays?
Nick: No, if they call us as the most succesfull and popular boy band, I can live with that.
Brian: Once it was used as a bad thing, like pretty guys that could sell albuns but not actually sing. Now people know who we are so if they call us a boy band that's ok. With that they may even bring along even more fans.
Howie: At the very first begining it was a new word. Now it's just another musical genre. We were the ones who created it.
4) Who could carry your legacy?
AJ: Everyone has to follow his own path. Some people say One Direction could be it because they've had some of our own producers and writers, it's like they're following our steps.
Nick: We can't say that right now. There's a time for everything, including music. Will there be people who will make songs similar to ours? Probably yes, but it will be something new for this new generation and that's cool. Will the do the very same things we did? No, because each one is unique in it's own ways.
Howie: Kanye West said in an interview: "There will never be another Backstreet Boys."
5) It's something like what Eminem has said in his newest album where he laments that there aren't any more Backstreet Boys to be attacked. It's almost a tribute.
Howie: The music indutry has changed. There are some boy bands that can be visually similar to us - four or five guys - but that don't do the same coreography we've been doing.
Nick: If we're here after twenty years it's because we think carefully to put out a great show. What's left when you turn off your radio or TV? People know that among all things we also are entretainers. That our show will be great.
6) Don't the newest boy bands dance?
Nick: Once I wrote on Twitter: Have One Direction started to dance? Because that's what we do. We give 100% in everything we do. I don't know how many hours we spent locked in a warehous in Orlando, Florida, practicing because I was a terrible dancer.
Brian: I went to see an One Direction concert in the US. They haven't done a single move and I was almost disappointed. But, again, let's talk about how the time have changed, new generations and how tings are different now.
7) Fame came when you were all very young, was it difficult to deal with?
Kevin: We all come from middle class or working class families. When you have the first tast of success and money the biggest chalange is to remain humble and down to earth. And then you're always surrounded by people that you don't know if they're there because they really like you or because the money and the things that you have. They can also be not very great people, you have to learn to figure it out.
Nick: If you don't have a strong family background you can easily fall into traps, like me and AJ did. You must learn to see beyond the masks. The two of us are suffered the most because we had to learn to avoid certain kind of people that were always carrying drugs, alcohol and leading us to wild parties.
8) You are a symbol of the nineties. What do you guys miss about it?
Nick: There wasn't any social network at that time, everything was more mystical. You were not the artist that's always just a click away. When you could finally see them at a TV show or a concert you would really get excited about it.
Howie: We used to knew how to wait.
Originally posted by Vanity Fair Italy
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