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Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Backstreet.
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Friday’s “The Late Late Show” was dedicated to Westlife and our Boys left a special message for their British colleagues.
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Video.
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As you can see, Track Back has undergone an extreme makeover… I hope this new design will allow me to get all the Backstreet info and goodies to you in more structured and pleasant way. Stay tuned for more exciting updates! And thanks for visiting!
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Site.
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It’s not just the female pop stars who are under pressure to keep fit and look good. Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys lost nearly 20kg to get in shape for the release of the US boy band’s latest album, Unbreakable, and upcoming world tour. “I was really unhealthy the last tour,” Carter says.
“I was really fat and disgusting. I never want to get to that again. People are watching you so you have to uphold your image to a certain extent.”
The 27-year-old weighed about 100kg at his heaviest, and says it took him six months to lose the weight.
He hasn’t gone on any special diets but has simply been eating healthier and working out at the gym.
“I am feeling great,” Carter says. “I look better. I feel better. I am ready to get out there and perform. I am so ready.
“It was exercise and eating healthier, eating less calories and more working out – that is pretty much what I was doing.”
Carter grew up in the public eye, joining the group at just 12 years of age.
Backstreet Boys have sold more than 100 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide and group members are recognised wherever they go.
Their first two US releases – Backstreet Boys in 1997 and Millennium in 1999 – each sold more than 10 million copies, with the latter reaching No.1 in 25 countries.
Their hits include Quit Playing Games, As Long As You Love Me, Everybody, I Want It That Way, Incomplete and Just Want You To Know.
“We definitely have to just take care of ourselves because we are getting older,” Carter says.
“Anybody who is getting older in life, they have to take care of themselves.
“They have to realise that you can’t just jump right back into something because you could injure yourself.
“So we all have to prepare ourselves and make sure we are ready – it is a gruelling schedule.”
It has been two years since the band last visited Australia and a lot has changed.
They’re now a four-piece – Brian Littrell, Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough – after Kevin Richardson left the band in June last year to pursue other interests.
“The dynamics of the group is different with Kevin gone,” Carter says.
“We are on the exact same page with where we want to be musically, and with what we want to do on the show.
“Kevin was a perfectionist which, maybe at certain times, prohibited the creative atmosphere.”
The album title Unbreakable signifies the group’s strong bond and all they have been through since forming in 1995.
“No matter what road blocks or adversities that come in the way, whether people have heart issues, whether people go to rehab, whether people leave for a solo stint, whether a member leaves the group, the actual group the Backstreet Boys is unbreakable,” Carter says.
The new album continues to offer fans the band’s trademark melodies and well-crafted three and four-part harmonies – signs of the mature musicians they have become.
The group devoted 18 months to recording Unbreakable. The first single, Inconsolable, is a piano ballad reminiscent of the group’s biggest hits.
Carter says his siblings are also in show business. His singer brother Aaron and three sisters, Angel, Leslie and Bobbie Jean, featured in a reality show called House of Carter.
Carter lives in Los Angeles and many would think he leads the A-list Hollywood life but that is apparently a misconception.
Carter, who has dated the likes of Paris Hilton, Ashlee Simpson and Kathy Griffin, says he doesn’t like to mix with other celebrities.
“I am not friends with a lot of people out here in Hollywood,” he says.
“I barely know any celebrities out here and I like it that way. It is the craziest thing in the world and they are not real friends. Most of my friends are just normal people.”
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Posted: December 31st, 2007 under In The Press.
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The Backstreet Boys may have put on a mile-high performance Friday night at the Jingle Ball show in the Big Apple, but AJ had a rough ride back to his Hollywood home on Saturday when he spilled his Starbucks everywhere while boarding.
The crooner was obviously feeling cranky without his caffeine hit as he scoffed away at his sandwich.
“It’s been a bad day so far, just as well I didn’t spill my lunch too,” the pop prince said. “Then I would have been real mad.”
Meanwhile, AJ’s bandmate Nick Carter took every opportunity to chat on his cell from takeoff to immediately after landing. Was it a special somebody?
Pop Tarts has been told that the boys will be up to some sins in Vegas over New Years as they “Rock Your Body” at the Body English in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
But one bopper who won’t be behaving badly (we hope) is Howie Dorough, who tied the knot just last week in his home base of Orlando to his longtime love Leigh Boniello.
The 34-year-old wed the real estate broker in a traditional white wedding that our spy says was “so incredibly sweet and perfect. All the boys were there supporting Howie on his big day.” Awww.
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Posted: December 31st, 2007 under In The Press.
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Knee-high snow drifts and a citywide parking ban weren’t enough to keep a hardy few from making their way to Hartford’s Webster Theatre Thursday night for a radio-station holiday concert featuring the Backstreet Boys. Their reward for braving the storm? A headline act that went on an hour late and then performed for just 30 minutes, with no encore.
Despite the slippery conditions, the Backstreet Boys refused to cancel or postpone the show, which is a scenario with great potential: You and your friends, among the lucky ones who make it to a half-full club that was supposed to have been packed, ready to have an unforgettable night. This was unforgettable, but for the wrong reasons.
At least the quartet was in peak form for its seven-song set. Accompanied only by keyboard and guitar, the Boys showed off their vocal chops without the bombastic song arrangements from their albums — and they certainly can sing.
Their voices fell into layers of multihued harmonies on “Unmistakable,” and they perched on stools to deliver the catchy minor-key melodrama of “Shape of My Heart,” grinning at each other and looking as though they were having a great time.
A spiky current seemed to surge through the crowd, mostly comprising young women, after the opening notes of “I Want It That Way,” and the audience sang along at top volume, all but drowning out the Backstreet Boys.
“You know this one?” A.J. McLean cracked.
There was a different energy rippling through the theater when the Backstreet Boys said good night after “Helpless When She Smiles.” The stunned audience paused for a few moments, then started chanting the band’s name and “one more song!” before trudging out of the venue as if in shock.
The sound in the venue was often an issue, too. The sister duo Karmina performed before Pras, but their harmonies on pop-rock songs were lost in a wash of drums and keyboards from their backing band.
A pair of Connecticut acts opened: Columbia Fields, which played a set of slight but hooky songs built around acoustic guitar and piano, and singer Bek Phillips.
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Posted: December 31st, 2007 under In The Press.
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