BSB Does it Again!

INTRO 2: The promotional visit by the men of the Backstreet Boys was BIG! Days after days they did interviews, for every part of the world. The day Hitkrant traveled to our 'Eastern Neighbors' {Germany}, there was organized a gigantic press conference, for a whole room full of journalists from all kinds of countries. The BSB just had some days off, and that was obvious. Each one of them was relaxed, 'not tired', and also not unimportant - VERY happy to be back again. One of the reasons why Nick, Howie, AJ, Kevin and B-Rok were so happy was, according to themselves, their 'new start'. And then they weren't only talking about their new single and CD, but especially about their new management. Last year all of a sudden came the news that they'd fired their old manager Johnny Wright, also because of a financial matter. Now they told this had only been one reason to brake the contract: according to themselves, Wright gave them work schemes that were much too tight, which made the Boys tired and mise rable. Now they are looking forward to everything again, and it's pretty obvious. When the presenter of the press conference called it to an end, the Boys even asked twice for more questions; it was clear they enjoyed it. And that's how we like it!

• Do you like to be called a boy group?
  Nick: No, really not. From the beginning on people called us that, and since then we've tried our hardest to get rid of it.
  Kevin: Although I still don't really get what people think is a 'boygroup'. If that means, like I was told before, that we only have to be beautiful and don't need to be able to sing, then I don't like to be called like that, thank you. All of us, by the way.
  

• You're together now for six years already, but what's up with your plans of going solo now?
  Nick: That's something I'd like to make clear for once and forever: we are NOT splitting up. We know we really we have to thank everything to this group, so that's what we're continuing. It is possible that one of us will want to do something on his own one day, but we'll first have to talk about that. Whatever will happen: We will stay the Backstreet Boys!
  

• Do you already have plans for a movie?
  Nick: That's a question we get asked a lot, indeed. Our music is the most important thing right now. That's also the best, else we'd be distracted from that and we wouldn't be doing anything for the full 100%.
  Howie: But we keep possibilities open for the future.
  

• In the US the album of Britney Spears contained little previews of your new songs. Why was that?
  Kevin: When you go to the movies, you also get previews of new movies that are coming up. This was sort of the same. But I have to say it was an idea of our record company...
  Brian: ... and we didn't know a thing about it. And we're also not really happy with it. We'd rather waited some longer with showing the new music.
  Kevin: The surprise would've been bigger then.
  

• You guys are young, religious men. What do you think about sex before marriage?
  Brian: What has that got to do with our music? I thought we were here to talk about our music?
  Kevin: Look, we're not perfect. I personally have been brought up with the idea that sex is something for two people who are married. But if we also always keep us to that...?
  Brian (laughing): How old were you again by now, Kev?
  Kevin: I'm 27, so I think that's pretty clear!

• You also got a lot of fans in the gay scene. What do you think of that?
  Kevin: We love everybody, all the fans. And our music is for everybody.
  

• Are you gay yourselves?
  AJ: I got a girlfriend!
  Howie: I speak for all of us if I say we're attracted to girls.
  Kevin: I do have friends who are gay, it's not like we have a problem with it or something. It's just we're not gay ourselves.
  Brian: But if you take a look on the Internet, you'll find that at least three of us are gay, I think!
  

• Have you ever come to the point you thought of giving up BSB?
  AJ: Of course you always have less better times. Offstage we're also normal guys, and the attention of the media tends to get a but too much sometimes. Oh well, I can't do something else! Well, maybe work at McDonald's, if I try really hard, haha.
  Nick: No-one has ever threatened to quit, although everyone sometimes gets to a point he's had it. We just had some time off for the first time, after working for three years non-stop! But this means everything to us.
  Brian: I do have to say, that when you're gonna have heart surgery, you're gonna take a whole different view at things. Backstreet Boys is great, but when your health is in danger, it doesn't mean a thing anymore!
  

• What's the weirdest thing a fan ever has done?
  AJ: We've seen everything happen. Fans who wait for us in our dressing room, even with their pants tore cause they had to climb over a barb-wired fence. And our manager once found a leg in a bed in our tourbus, which was obviously attached to a girl.
  Kevin: Tons of dollars to damage to cars, they were jumping on...
  Howie: They come to our houses. And then they bring flowers for my mom, haha. Some magazine unfortunately gave out our home addresses.
  Nick: Can I take this chance to thank the fans who tidied up my garden...?