Transcript of Howie Interview with JoJo 9/25

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Date: Sep 28, 2000
Source: KIIS FM, Los Angeles
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DJ- JOJO Wright Monday, September 25, 2000

JoJo: Okay Howie, are you ready for my in depth interview, dude?

Howie: Yeah as long as your feet aren't stinkin' man, and your toes don't got some fetish goin' on....it's all good, alright?

JoJo: All right, well I'll just jump into it then. You guys are shooting a video today, uh actually the last couple days. How'd that little thing go?

Howie: This has been an awesome shoot out here. We're shooting over at the Orpheum Theatre downtown LA here, and we decided to go with the first single Shape of My Heart. We got together with Matthew, our director and kind of came up with this concept....Matthew Ralston. And uh, kind of came up with the concept about shooting in a theatre cause the lyrics are, in the chorus, um "I played my part, kept you in the dark, now let me show you the shape of my heart." Um, so it's almost like, you know, playing these different roles, you know, sometimes people would even think of, you know, even us, you know, playing like, you know, the entertainment thing playing the role and stuff like that, you know, and not being able to have the true love, like you know, sometimes it's easy to have as a normal person, so it's like you know, now telling the girl I want to show you the real shape of my heart, who I really am. So it's been a great shoot out here. We've been out here two days now. We're just about ready to wrap up today and uh....a lot of great funny stuff. Actually it's really simple, it's uh...we stripped it down. Kind of very similar like Quit Playing Games. There's not much of like a big set around us, or explosions, or any, you know, graphics or anything going on....it's just, you know, straight up on the stage, and just singing our hearts out. We had some funny moments in where AJ and I are actually doing some acting mime scenes, and we're jumping around and doing these like yoga exercises, and uh, you know, just hanging out. It's fun though. It's been a great shoot.

JoJo: Now obviously I haven't heard the rest of the album, but what made you choose this song over the other ones as your first single?

Howie: Well after finishing up 15 songs on the album, which we're still right now in the process of making the final decisions of which ones are going to go on the album, uh...we really felt strong with Shape of My Heart as being the first single. It's kind of very similar to the same concept we were going with the last album, with Millenium, how we had I Want It That Way, a mid-tempo, as a cross between the last album before that, Backstreet....um Back...and Millenium. This is the same kind of concept, you know....it's...it's a uh....it's definitely a bridge between the two albums, and uh....we didn't want to come off with anything hard right off the front, because this is, you know, we feel really is our signature sound, is mostly our mid-tempos, and people can really relate to, you know, I think relate to this song here especially. You know, the words aren't that far out there to, you know, that nobody can really relate to. So we just felt this was a good start off, you know, for the album, and then you know, we're just gonna keep on climbing with these singles.

JOJO: Now you guys are calling the album Black and Blue, is that right?

Howie: Yes, we decided to title the album Black and Blue.

JOJO: Now what's the meaning behind that?

Howie: Um...Well, the title Black and Blue is for several different reasons. Um....actually we came up with the concept, um....when we were doing the last photo shoot for the album and uh....we were constantly thinking of, you know, possibly going with a color, you know like how the Beatles went with the White album. And there was, you know, several groups out there. And uh, Brian actually....we were...we were shooting in a black outfit, and there was a uh, blue backdrop behind it, and Brian just said, "What about Black and Blue?" And we were like, "Well what exactly do you mean?" you know, and the colors looked really good, you know, the photo shoot and the shot looked really good. I'm like cool, maybe it could be a good color for the album, but we didn't really know exactly if the title would be good. And then Brian's like, "You know what? There's a lot of, you know, the critics out there that constantly, you know, try to throw, you know daggers at us and everything, you know, and every once in a while get beaten down, here we are, but, but we're still staying around." That's what, you know, he thought about Black and Blue. And we're like, you know, that's kind of cool. And also it was GREAT since we found out the Rolling Stones had it, an album titled Black and Blue 25 years ago. So if we have any kind of success like they did, you know, they're definitely, you know, idols we look up to in the music industry.

JOJO: Okay hang one second Howie. I'm gonna play a little snippet of your song and then we'll take a quick break, we'll come back and we'll chat more with the man, Howie D.

Howie: Sounds good, sounds good.

(Plays snippet of Shape of My Heart, and then goes into IWITW)

JOJO: Are you ready for some more questions, dude?

Howie: Yes

JOJO: All right, jumping into the Black and Blue album, the new album coming out, how do you think you guys have grown since Millenium into...into the new one.

Howie: Uh....I definitely think it's a growth between Millenium and this album. We uh...as a group I think have first of all grown a lot um...you know, together even tighter than ever, and uh we actually have wrote a lot of stuff for this album. Uh, out of the 15 songs, we're not exactly sure which ones are going to go on the album, but I'd say out of the 15 songs, the group wrote, uh...about 6 or 7 of them ourselves. Uh...individually and group-wise as well. And there's 2 of the songs that all 5 of us actually participated in, and a couple other ones that I wrote, and AJ wrote and then we all worked with Max and everybody, so we actually had a lot more of a hands-on creative uh...input for this album and uh, you know, I think the sound has definitely matured a little bit. I think, you know, the up-tempos are really slamming, and then we have some really really great stuff we got from Sweden, and the ballads are very very good, and the mid-tempos are normally the mid-tempos for Backstreet kind of sound.

JOJO: Now what about a tour? Everybody wants to know if you guys are gonna be doing some shows here?

Howie: Yeah. We're actually talking about possibly touring um...after the first of the year in January sometime. Probably the end of January....maybe a possibility of hitting, you know...we're talking about like hitting America first, and then like Southeast Asia, Europe, and then back to America and possibly South America after that. But everything's all up in the air right now....it's all God willing, you know, with our schedules, you know, things change from day to day, but that's just, right now we're kinda talking about that.

JOJO: Now I assume you guys had a little time off between the last tour and album....or did you have time off?

Howie: yeah

JOJO: What'd you do?

Howie: Well, since Brian got married and had a little honeymoon, (laughing) it gave us all a little time off. (laughing) So uh....I actually really got in depth working with my sister's...uh... Pollyanna's stuff, for her demo. And her and I actually went on a little tour down to Puerto Rico and Buenos Aires, Argentina, for my Lupus Foundation, the Dorough Lupus Foundation that my family started. We did a little mini show, that I did a bunch of cover tunes from everybody from Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Marc Anthony, Santana, and uh...I even did a little Backstreet Medley as a encore salsied (?)...and uh...it all had a little Spanish feel and I did that on my off time as well as writing music. And we all caught up with each other here and there, you know in town, and we all went to Brian's wedding. It was good, it was....now we're all rejuvenated and ready to hit it hard now.

JOJO: In Brian's wedding, were you the best man or anything like that?

Howie: No I was one of the uh...seat warmers in Brian's wedding.

JOJO: Did you try to catch the garter belt when he threw it up?

Howie: (Laughing) No....that was the last thing I was trying to catch right now...I was definitely not trying to catch that garter....I'm running out the door.....not yet....not for me!

JOJO: Dude!!! Okay, so let me run over this real quick....the album comes out the 21st...the 21st of November...

Howie: The 21st...yep.

JOJO: And dude, when you get some free time, brother, we gotta have you in the studio, man. That would be killer. Howie: Awesome

JOJO: That pretty much covers it as far as music goes...now you did some acting on the tv show Roswell...any more uh....any more episodes of that you gonna be in?

Howie: Well, I actually was the cliff hanger for the last episode of Roswell last season, and I'm talking with management and everything right now, trying to figure out during our off time if it's possible to do another episode or two...especially since I supposedly introduced this new alien life form on the last episode, so uh....

JOJO: Dude, that would be cool!

Howie: It might be very interesting to see me back on that show again so I'm looking forward to it.

JOJO: So is it safe to say we'll see you on Roswell and maybe some other tv shows as well?

Howie: Definitely, definitely. I'm actually taking some meetings out here in LA, and uh, checking with some different casting directors and producers, and you know, just fill in that off-time, you know.

JOJO: Yeah, like you got tons of off-time.

Howie: (laughs)

JOJO: Well, Howie brother, best of luck on the album, and I can't wait to premiere the single tomorrow night, and uh...maybe I'll bump into you later on tonight, and we'll run around and start all kinds of drama, dude.

Howie: Alright

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