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KTU Transcript 10/6/00
Source: KTU / Donna
They opened by playing SOMH and IWITW.
DJ Michelle: It’s freak ass Friday and joining us for this scoop. We have 3 of the 5, 3/5, of probably the most popular group out there right now. We have Howie, We have Brian and we have Nick from the Backstreet Boys.
Boys: Hi (then they joked about the term “freak ass Friday”)
DJ: What’s going on, you guys?
Nick: Just chillin'. Trying to wake up.
DJ: C’mon, you guys get up early for stuff.
We do?
DJ: You don’t sleep in.
WHAT?
DJ: C’mon. You have to do shoots and stuff.
Actually, one of us did sleep in the morning, and that was AJ.
DJ: He is so dead. What was he coloring his hair this morning. Is that why.
Whoaaaaaa!
DJ: I’m teasing. I love AJ.
He was up late. (laugh)
DJ: Congratulations on your recent nuptials, Brian.
Brian: Thank you
DJ: You’re very welcome. How do you like being married?
Brian: I love it!
DJ: She’s pretty gorgeous!
Goomba DJ: Yeah, I’ve seen pictures of your wife in People magazine. I don’t blame you for getting married. (laugh)
DJ: I was so happy that your Chihuahuas are back too.
Brian: Yes, thank you.
DJ: That was a true story, yes?
Brian: Yes, they were missing for 5 days. It was pretty scary.
DJ: And a fan stole them?
Goomba DJ: No, Jason Timberlake stole them.
DJ: Justin?
Boys: Jason (laughs)
Goomba DJ: I don’t like them, so….
Brian: (sings) They went Bye, Bye, Bye!
Laughs
DJ: Can I ask you a real question about that? There’s no real, like, thing, is there, going on.
Howie: Thing, what’s a thing?
DJ: You guys, like each other, right?
Brian: Oh stop it. Nick: Oh we love each other, you know.
Howie: We’re cool
Nick: We’re good friends.
Howie: Good, friendly competition.
DJ: You wouldn’t tell me the truth if you don’t.
Nick: Probably not.
Brian: We’re good friends with each other.
DJ: Competition’s healthy.
Howie: That’s right. Good friendly competition.
DJ: Thank you Howie
Brian: Excuse me Howie.
Goomba DJ: Backstreet Boys are better.
Nick: We don’t have enemies.
Brian: Howie, you speak for yourself.
Laughs
DJ: Oh God, boys are worse than girls, I think!
Brian makes cat fight noises in background.
DJ: You can single-handedly, I guess, take the cake for starting the Boy band revolution again.
Brian (unenthusiastically): Well…
DJ: How do you feel about that? Do you hate when people call you Boy bands?
Howie: Yeah
Nick: Yeah, unfortunately.
DJ: Do you? Why?
Brian: Well, just because we started as a vocal group. We call ourselves a vocal group, just like Boyz 2 Men do. (He mentions a few other groups like the Temptations)
DJ: But does it really matter what they call you, as long as they buy your records?
Brian: well, it’s like a stamp though
Howie: It’s like they stereotype you.
Goomba: Michelle, we don’t like it.
DJ: Are you in the group now Goomba?
Goomba: Yeah, I’m thinking about joining the group.
(Laughs)
Goomba: They don’t have any Italians in the group, you know what I mean?
Howie (in a funny accent): The Italian Stallion.
Goomba: You need one Italian, right?
Boys: Yeah!
Goomba: To watch out for your money. Make sure all your bills get paid, right? (laugh)
Nick: Well, Howie does that, so you know. He’s our PR
DJ: You’re the money man?
Howie: I’m the PR.
Boys: Puerto Rican.
Goomba: Now, were you guys listening on the way over? Did you hear us imitating your songs? (sings parodies) (laughs)
DJ: How come you guys chose a slow song for your first release?
Nick: It’s not slow…mid-tempo.
DJ: Slower…people don’t know what that (mid-tempo) is. Did the record company choose the first single?
Boys: No, we did.
Nick: Well, I mean it was a good bridge. It was kinda like the songs QPG, IIWITW. You know It’s a sound that everybody knows. We’ve been out of the mix for like 6 months now, so it’s like, at least 6 months, you know…
Howie: People, I think, a lot of times identify us with more of our mid-tempos, like Nicky said, IWITW was the first one off the last album, the one before that ALAYLM, and the one before that was QPG.
DJ: I thought it was interesting when it first came out. I said, that’s interesting that they chose that for a first single because you expect something like “Everybody”. But you did it that wa y, and you did it your way.
Goomba: Yeah, I love the Burger King stuff.
(Guys singing Have It Your Way in background)
Goomba: I love when they come down from the helicopter into the limo.
Brian: Hey, I haven’t even seen it yet. Goomba: Oh, it’s funny!
DJ: But you remember shooting it, right. Howie: Ooh yeah.
Brian: I remember shooting it, just didn’t see the helicopter. Howie: we did it up in Canada.
Introduces Rachel who has been on the line since midnight holding on to be the first caller to talk to the guys. Nick asks if she’s tired and she says she’s not because she’s so psyched to talk to them.
Rachel: First I want to say that they ARE NOT A BOY BAND.
Guys (relieved and appreciative): Thank you! (applause)
Rachel: They are so much better. They play their own instruments, and they don’t look like chia pets.
Whoa…ohhh…digs…
DJ: Well, not for nothing but I don’t see you guys out with guitars and stuff on stage. Do you play your own instruments?
Howie: They did on our last tour.
Nick: I played the drums. I’ve been playing for 8 years. Kevin played the piano.
DJ: But do you do it on tour.
Howie: Yeah…we did it on the last tour.
Nick: Actually, we’re talking about maybe doing a medley with instruments on this next tour. DJ: Well, that’s why I’m asking.
Then they ask Rachel what her question is, and she asks if there’s any way she can meet them. The DJs say that that’s not a question, because everyone out there wants that. They ask her for another question, mentioning that she had 12 hours to think about it. she says that that was her question. They say could have answered that at midnight for her.
Boys: Hold on, hold on, hold on….
DJ: Hold on and let her get her thoughts together.
Brian: We can make that happen. (Other 2 guys join in and then cut to commercial for a break) Howie makes sure she’s not calling long distance to have been on hold so long and to be put on hold again. The commercial is for Ambesol, and the guys wonder aloud if ambesol makes a bedsore product that they could bring home to AJ.
DJ: (after summarizing Rachel’s story again) Of course, everybody who’s holding on wants to meet you too, but you said you’d do something special for Rachel.
Nick: Because she’s been on the phone so long.
Howie: I don’t know if you know this, but on Monday, we’re going to be premiering our new video on RTL. (The guys correct him…TRL…Nick jokes that it’s too early in the morning for Howie…Howie says you know what I mean. And there’s a TV station in Germany called that…everyone laughs…yeah right!)
Brian: So we’re going to put your name on the list and you can come up and meet us.
She asks if she can bring her sister…Brian jokes to bring her grandma too…DJ tells her to hold and they’ll take care of her.
DJ: Can I just say, personally, on behalf of KTU, that’s really the kindest thing you could ever do, because so many people are like oh well, sorry, we’re busy. But that’s really generous of you guys.
Goomba: Thanks for taking care of our listener. I owe you guys. I’m gonna get you a stripper. (laugh!) I know what you guys like. DJ: Why do you think AJ’s not here. (laugh)
DJ: How do you like the food out there?
Howie: That’s very nice of you guys
Brian: Lobsters, very nice.
Nick: I love seafood.
Howie: Especially in the morning!
Nick: Seaweed on the side.
(laughs)
DJ: Black and Blue is the album. It comes out on November 23.
Guys: the 21st!
DJ: Do you want to talk a little bit about that, considering it’s going to be massive. Tell us about it. What makes it different from anything else that you’ve ever done.
Brian: I think it’s a little bit more diverse, a lot more, excuse me, than any record we’ve done in the past. It’s got such a wide range. You’re going to hear some songs and think “wow, who is that”?
DJ: Really? Like what? Nick mentions the different producers they’ve worked with.
Nick: Babyface (produced) a song that the 5 of us wrote together. We’ve actually written about 5 songs on the album in total. Howie: Yup!
DJ: Do you think this shows another phase or another stage of the Backstreet Boys?
Brian: It’s definitely growing. It’s definitely growing.
Howie: It’s a natural growing up. Brian: It’s inevitable. DJ: It’s really exciting Nick: I mean, it’s really cool
Brian: We still pride ourselves on making good quality music.
DJ: And the video is great. Brian: Yeah. Nick: Let them judge it themselves
Goomba: What does Black and Blue mean? Any significance to that?
Brian: Well, the funny thing is. a couple of weeks ago we were at a photo shoot in Los Angeles. We all happened to be wearing black and we were on a blue background and I just threw the idea out.
DJ: Because you didn’t have a title yet?
Brian: Well, we were racking our brains for like several weeks to try and figure it out and nothing really stuck. And I just mentioned (in a joking voice) Hey guys, we ought to call it Black and Blue. (Laughter.) Howie & Nick: Everyone was like, wow that’s really cool.
Brian: then we found out that the Stones did it in ’75, the year I was born, and I thought Wow! That’s kinda cool! We’d love to have a career like the Stones. There’s nobody like them. I mean why not? Not necessarily comparing ourselves to them, but to try to shoot ourselves towards that goal.
Goomba: I thought it was about a bar fight or something. I got all excited.
Brian: Well, if you’re successful, people in the industry take shots at you, and we’re still here and we’re gonna finish what we’ve started.
DJ: Oh please. Forget about them. Look at you. Look at this. You know, you can’t listen to what people say. People are so quick to judge. Who cares? Seriously. If your records are selling, and you’re happy with what you’re doing with yourself and your life, who cares what people say about you.
Nick: Well, it’s kinda also too, you know, we’re still standing. You know what I’m saying. At the end of the day, we’re still standing. You know? And that’s kind of what it means. Black and Blue. Even though we’re black and blue, we’re still here.
DJ: Phewy on them!
Goomba: You didn’t go down. You couldn’t put me down.
Can you guys stay to take some phone calls. We hardly touched the phones yet.
Caller Alana asked if Nick could say hi to her, then she said how big a fan she was, and wanted to meet them. DJ commented that now everyone I going to ask that. Nick asked if she’d be at TRL. She said she had to work at Palisades Mall at Express, could Nick visit her there. Nick said he might stop in there. LOL..it was cute.
Hi, my name is Kathy. Goomba was making fun of me last week, because I said I was a grandmother of nine, and I love the Backstreet Boys. DJ: that’s alright!
Goomba: I’m shocked at how many older people. You guys got a lot of older fans. I mean you’re not like the other guy bands. I mean you guys go from 8 to 88, your fans.
DJ: this is the first time I’ve ever seen mothers and children alike. When New Kids were out, it was just the kids, and mothers were like, oh geez do I gotta take you to a concert. But now the mothers fight for the tickets themselves.
Nick: I mean we try to, like we were saying about this next album, mix our music up and make a little bit for the young fans, a little bit of the older fans. We get our music played on adult contemporary radio stations and stuff like that. We try to make a conscious effort to make music for everyone.
DJ: That’s so nice of you, Nick.
Kathy: Are they going to put the Millennium tour on video because I didn’t get to go.
Nick: Didn’t BK have something?
Goomba: yeah, I had to buy like 6500 Kids Club meals for my children. I want to thank you guys!
Nick: I mean we just might do that some time. I mean we just got a talk about it. but we’re getting ready to do a new tour.
Goomba: What about the Black and Blue tour.
Brian: Ticket will go on sale, and it will start January 23 in the US.
DJ: You don’t get a break, my God!
Brian (joking): It starts tomorrow. Always ready to work.
Goomba announced that the song of the day was Christina Aguliera’s Genie in a Bottle. He apologized to the guys. Nick said, you couldn’t pull no strings and make it a Backstreet Boys song? Goomba pretended to change the song of the day. Busted!
Jackie called in and asked Nick if he remembered singing to her and holding her hand at Top of the Pops taping. Then she asked for tix and the DJs brushed her off. Then she asked Howie to do her a favor. He said “sure”. She asked him to say hi to her mom Donna because she loves him so much. Then the guys ranked on him.
Next caller: How do you guys feel when you drastically affect a fan’s life?
DJ: A real question. Thank you. A good question.
Nick: How do we feel? How do you feel Brian?
Brian: There’s nothing better, I think in my whole life, than to be on stage and see a fan’s reaction. To see a mother and a father and a son and a daughter, grandparents, people of all ages. Families can be together again, and come to a show and enjoy it together. She them that they got her through the toughest years of her life when she was oversees with the military. Brian asked where she was stationed, and she replied South Korea.
Goomba: Are you guys having a good time. You guys like NY?
Howie: Love it! Brian: YEAH!
Goomba: Now, you will be doing shows in New York, right? Guys: Yeah. Definitely
Goomba: Is it scheduled already, or does it still have to come out.
Howie: They’re in the scheduling process right now.
Nick: We will be ending up in NY in November. We’re doing a 2 day tour. Tell them about the 2 day tour, Howie.
Howie: Yeah, we’re doing for our album launch on the 21st, an around the world tour. Six continents in 2 days.
DJ: What’s wrong with you people?
Howie: I don’t know. Nick: We just want to get out to all of our fans all around the world
DJ: Masochists!
Goomba: We expect you back when the CD comes out.
Howie: NY is our spot here for America. Goomba: Nice!
(After an earlier commercial break, Michelle DJ said that Howie had asked off-air if they could be guest DJ’s the next time next time they were in NY, and Goomba said they could do a take over. They guys were pleased about that)
DJ: That’s when you can be guest DJ’s.
Judy (news reporter): I’m developing a crush.
Goomba: On which one?
Judy: On Nick. You know me.
DJ: Nick is a little too young for you.
Judy: I know but he’s really tall. I love his stature.
DJ: This is how I’m going tow rap it up. Not to step on your bubble, but he is too young.
Judy: I know. But a girl can dream.
DJ: Judy! I’ll talk to you after. He’s 20, Judy!
Judy: Okay..in a year I’ll be back.
Goomba: Michelle, don’t tell her that.
DJ: I like high school boys, but you can’t be with them. Yes, he’s too young. She needs a man. Not that you’re not a man, but you’re very young.
Whoa! Guys act very offended. Goomba really cuts into Michelle for saying that. “Welcome to free-for-all Friday”
Brian: Listen. There’s a revolution going on with older women and younger men.
Judy: In the words of Whitney, he’s all the man I’ll ever need.
DJ: But you know what? I’ve been on the backlash of one of those.
Goomba: Brian’s wife is a little older than you, isn’t she?
Brian: My wife is 6 years older than me.
Judy: So I’m 26.
Squeals of laughter.
**sing** It’s not right, but it’s okay.
DJ: I forgot, she is 26. Okay..this is how we’re going to wrap it up. What are you guys doing in December.
Nick: What are we doing in December, Howie?
Howie: I think we’re…
Nick: We’re gonna be starting practicing for our world tour. And we gonna take a little bit of time off, maybe like a week or something like that.
DJ: I’m gonna beg you guys. I’m prepared to get on my knees if I have to. We would really, really, really, would love for you to be at our special event that we hold every year called “miracle on 34th Street”. And we kind of need the Backstreet Boys to be there.
Goomba: It’s at the Gar den. It’s like the hugest Christmas party.
DJ: I promise to get you drunk
Judy: And I’ll take Nick to dinner
Nick: I’m up for anything.
Judy: You’ll get lucky. I promise not to Burger King.
Goomba: And I promise to get you what you really want
Nick: Thank you.
Nick: When is it?
DJ: It’s in mid-December, December 19th, you can handle it because it gives you enough time to get home to your families for Christmas. Will you do it.
Howie: I’m actually scheduled to do, on the 18th, a Lupus cruise.
DJ: You can do the cruise and we’ll fly you in
Howie: it’s a 6 day cruise from Miami to Key west.
DJ: We’ll fly you in, Howie D
Howie: (hesitates) I can try. We’ll
see.
