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OKEJ Interview with Kevin & Nick
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Date: Dec 12, 2000 When Backstreet Boys were in Stockholm recently they didn’t do any personal interviews, only a pretty boring press-conference…but OKEJ can still present an exclusive interview with Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson. It’s already time for the fourth album guys. How is Black & Blue different from Millennium? Kevin: I think this is the right development for us. We’ve been experimenting a little this time, working with new producers like Babyface and Rodney Jenkins, while we also have the base in the Cheiron-sound. Max Martin, Rami and Kristian Lundin have all contributed with awesome songs! The new is that we are going different way this time. A little R&B, almost a hip-hop-feeling in one song, yes, even country! Nick: We have written 7 songs on our own this time, about half of the album. Kevin: Yes, we wrote them on Bahamas during the two weeks we were there this spring. This was actually the first time we really wrote together. Earlier we have only come up with different ideas, but now it was a group-thing. But not everything worked out, Nick’s calypso didn’t make it, ha ha! Did you feel, after all this success, the famous pressure to create another superhit? Nick: Well, I guess there was a little pressure, but we went through the worse pressure when making Backstreet’s Back, so we’re use to it. That wasn’t a game! Back then we were nervous as hell. Now it’s pretty cool. We make an album for us and the fans and don’t care what people write. Kevin: We have such a wide age-range of fans now. We got hits on the adult-radios in USA, mostly with our ballads, while the kids like the up-temposongs better. Our fans are loyal, maybe mostly here in Europe. The fans in USA seem to jump on new trends and forget their old heroes. You are hardly alone out there today. There are lots of boybands, and the biggest threat comes from N’sync who also are on the same record company as you are. How do you feel with that competition? Nick: Hmm, it wouldn’t be so strange if we feel that they take after us. But competition? That’s something that the media fight hard for to keep up. We don’t fight. We have been around for such a long time now, so it doesn’t matter if there come some new players. We have seen many bands come and go. We’re here to stay! Kevin: We don’t have anything against the guys in N’sync personally, but there are some circumstances that are pretty weird. Our old management started N/sync behind our backs! While we were working hard in Europe to keep all the doors open there and in USA, they could just ride on our wave. The management repeated everything they had done with us, with them. They got the same songwriters and the same producers. They were even foreband to the same artists that we had been. They got very much for free. Now we have changed management and recordcompany, but we hardly got signed on Zomba Records before N’sync also got signed there. That’s actually pretty weird. I remember that we used to eat on a restaurant in Orlando called The Outback Steakhouse. One of the servants always used to talk with us and he said that he also sang, and that he dreamed of that he once would be a part of a band like Backstreet Boys. He had called up our manager. That was Chris Kirkpatrick- he’s in N’ sync now. Great for him, he’s got talent and deserves all success. But he should know that if there hadn’t been Backstreet Boys, there hadn’t been any N’sync. You also plan on starting your own recordcompany, and you have already started to work with an artist. Kevin: Yes, her name is Crystal and she comes from Indiana. Nothing is finished yet, not even the name on the company. First we will finish her album, then we’ll check around and see if a bigger company can distribute it. We’re also keeping an eye on the internet. Maybe we will distribute our music that way. There has been a lot of talk about Napster, but I think that such a site is on good and bad. Good for the new artists, and bad for the already established ones. It’s not very funny for Metallica, for example, that their album can be downloaded for free. The artists must get paid to. Speaking about the internet, we are redoing our homepage. We surfed around on a lot of websites and discovered that many of the fans own sites were better than our own. So now it’s getting a redo, and we’ll bring a web-cam on the tour, so everything new will be aired. Sometimes even live! It’s a lot of business. How have you invested your money? Kevin: In different places. It’s important to spread the risk. I’ve invested in property, in shares… I have a small part invested in high-riskshares, and when the IT-world was blooming, they increased a lot- but that was before the crash. But I didn’t loose in the long race. Most of it is safely invested in options. Have you ever been near a break-up? Kevin: Yes, actually we have! It was before the release of Millennium, when we changed management. It was a difficult time with lawyers and trials. It wears you out. And for a while, we didn’t feel that it was fun anymore, and if we hadn’t broken out of the old contract, we probably would have broken up. We prefer to have nothing before slavery!
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