Backstreet Boy Flies Solo

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Oct 29, 2002 Source: The Saskatoon StarPhoenix Submitted By: Jennifer Gelowitz Toronto (CP) -- After spending a decade as a Backstreet boy, Nick Carter is giving up his dancing shoes and heavily chreographed moved that propelled the Backstreet Boys to inernational fame. Instead, he's picking up pen and paper, as well as a guitar and drum sticks so he can "rock out" on his solo effort, Now or Never. Carter, 22, says he felt a need to branch out after years of being in Backstreet. "When I first started recording and writing songs, I had a lot of stuff inside me as a little kid that I couldn't get out or express too much because you're in a band and when you're young you just don't know how to do things or express yourself," he says about his early days in the business at age 12. "But now I started to find myself just by being by myself. I wasn't in that situation where I had the four other guys around me...which I loved, they pretty much raised me, but you have to step out and find yourself in order to be somebody and that's what I've done with the music." After Backstreet Boys' 2001 Black and Blue tour, the youngest band member went into the studio while the boys were on hiatus "to see what happens, not to record an album," he explains. But after goofing around for a week with some producers he left with eight songs, including the ballad, Do I Have To Cry For You. "The record company got really excited," he recalls in an interview during a recent stop in Toronto to promote his CD. "They were happy that I could actually write songs." Carter co-wrote most of the dozen songs on the rock-infused pop album. He's replaced the Backstreet Boys' harmony-laden pop melodies with some '80s rompin' rock flavour a la Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams and Journey style. The sound is especially prominent on Girls in the USA, Miss America and I Stand For You. Carter is eager to persuade anyone who will listen that his evolution to solo artist isn't a gimmick but a natural part of his evolution as an artist. "It's going to be difficult in some people's eyes to see me do this," the blue-eyed singer admits. "It might take a while for people to accept it just like it was before with the Backstreet Boys." Comment on this item. Recent Comments Submitted by: Lemat Submitted by: Carol Clark Submitted by: Ann Elisabeth Submitted by: Kelly Submitted by: Mark Submitted by: Eugene Submitted by: Carol Clark Submitted by: Joe Submitted by: Kevin Shen Submitted by: Dirk Click here to see more comments. Comment on this item. Next Item: MTV Latin Awards: From Stones to Shakira Prev Item: Now's The Time!