Title: Teen star wants lake cabin here [Nova Scotia]
Source: The Halifax Daily News
Source: Matinee; Pg. 36
Date: June 8, 2001
Location: Canada
Author: Marla Cranston
Topic: Article/Interview
The rumours are true -- Aaron Carter wants to move to Nova Scotia.
Not to live here year-round, because he's not used to staying in one spot for very long. Even when the teenage singer is home in Florida, it only takes two weeks before he's bored and ready to hit the road again.
But Carter loves the chance to stay awhile in Halifax -- it's officially his favourite place to perform, so he's rehearsing here for a week before his U.S. tour starts in Phoenix on June 14. He was just here to perform on the IWK Telethon, and his March concert attracted 4,000 screaming girls to the Metro Centre.
"Yeah, it's a really beautiful country, and a really beautiful place to be," the poised yet rambunctious 13-year-old said yesterday, taking a break from his sound check at the Halifax Forum. He banged off five interviews in rapid succession, including a freestyle rap session with Global TV reporter Nelson Hansen.
The Daily News got some help from Amanda White, a 12-year-old Grade 7 student from Clayton Park Junior High. A longtime fan of Carter's, White was thrilled to meet him but kept her cool -- she did not even need to look at the list of questions she'd prepared in case she got nervous and tongue-tied. (She was careful to touch up her purple Lipshake lip gloss just before the interview, though.)
"I heard a rumour that when you turn 16 you want to come live in Halifax. Is that true?" she asks.
"Yeah, I wanna get like a cabin on a lake or something," says Carter, who held a 15th birthday bash for sister Leslie at the Press Gang on Wednesday. "I love being out in the wilderness and just hearing nothing but wildlife, you know?"
Carter -- younger brother to Backstreet Boy Nick -- doesn't say much about his upcoming tour, and he's downright secretive about his new record coming out on Aug. 7. He just shot some videos in Toronto, for two new tunes called Not Too Young, Not Too Old, and Oh Aaron. But he'd rather talk about the porcupine on the highway near the airport when he flew in three days ago.
"We pulled over and started shooing it off the road," he says.
We also learn that his shoes are size 91/2, he hasn't got a girlfriend, he's never taken a dance lesson in his life, and his most embarrassing concert moment was tripping over his monitor and nearly falling into the audience in Argentina.
When fans give him gifts, he often passes them on to his sisters or to charity. He's got 320 Beanie Babies, and stresses he doesn't need any more stuffed animals. His new obsession is baseball cards.
"I've got a rookie card signed by Babe Ruth. I have a Mickey Mantle card signed by him. Too many things that I really don't need," he says with a chuckle.
"He seemed like a really nice guy," White remarked afterwards, adding "I never knew it was this much work to put on a concert."
She's looking forward to tomorrow's concert, and hopes her friends aren't too jealous.
"Actually one of my friends won't even speak to me, she's so mad at me!" she says.
Aaron Carter and his dancers perform tomorrow at the Halifax Forum. Showtime is 7 p.m. and plenty of tickets are still available by calling the box office at 490-4628. Tickets are $25, with $2.50 from each ticket going to the IWK Grace Hospital.
GRAPHIC: Aaron Carter does a rap during a TV shoot at the Halifax Forum yesterday. AMANDA WHITE
