damn …! is the recession that bad!?!
The guys are hoping their latest, grown-up album takes off and puts them back in the spotlight.
HOTT NEWS!
They’re back once again!
Back in the day, the BACKSTREET BOYS blazed the boy band trail. Nick Carter and his 4 bandmates faced crowds of screaming teen girls (kind of like the swarms of ladies who follow Robert Pattinson’s every move today) and sold over 100 million albums. But, the musicians eventually got brushed aside and fell out of the spotlight. A couple rehab trips, babies, and break-ups later, Howie Dorough claims the band’s 7th album This is Us is going to put them back on the map. And, if not, they’re touring the map, anyway.
The group of 4 will go on the road at the end of the month (Kevin Richardson left the group a few years ago to start a family) and they’ve all apparently grown up a lot since hits like “I’ll Never Break Your Heart” from the late ’90s. It’s probably about time, but we’ll always have a soft spot for those 6th grade dance memories they made for us.
Dorough said in a Reuters interview, “We have grown into the adults we are now — the fathers, the friends, the entertainers that we are now and the career minded people that we are.”
Despite claiming they’re not the same girl-crazed music makers they once were, they’re still fine with being called “boys.” “Backstreet Men” does sound a little off, for sure. Dorough said: “Boys to us has never been an age thing. If the Beastie Boys and the Beach Boys and Pet Shop Boys can stay boys, so can we.”
The album debuted last week at #10 on the charts.
