Backstreet's New Album

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Oct 28, 2001 Source: Worldpop Submitted By: Sol CarthoruddTK Even though the Backstreet Boys release a Greatest Hits album next week the band insist it's not the end of the road. Backstreet's Kevin Richardson has told MTV that the band recorded five demos for a new album during their recent US tour which ended 19 October in Las Vegas. 'We had a writing studio and we got five demos done while we were on the road,' Richardson said backstage at the Concert for New York on Saturday. 'We're going back in the studio in February to work on the new album.' Richardson said the band wants the new album to be less polished and electronic than past records. 'We want to go more more organic with the production - live drums, live bass, acoustic guitars,' Richardson said. 'One song AJ wrote is called Happy and we definitely want to put that on there. I think now more than ever people want music that lifts them up and makes them happy and makes them forget about their problems.' Richardson disagreed with the theory that pop music had died since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. 'I don't think that this is gonna affect the pop movement at all,' he said. 'Pop has never gone away throughout all the years. Pop has always been around and it always be. It's not an empty kind of music. As long as artists are really singing when they step on that stage then pop will live on.' Comment on this item. Next Item: Backstreet Boys' 'The Hits: Chapter One' Due October 30 Prev Item: Backstreet and Elton duet shelved