Second Spin For Backstreet Boys (CBS This Morning)

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Apr 13, 2099 Source: CBS - Submitted By: Jennifer from CA Click here to watch it in Real Video! If you bought the first album, they want you to buy the second album. Your little sister, too. (CBS) The Backstreet Boys are about to find out if history really does repeat itself, with a new single on the airwaves and a new CD, Millennium, on the way, reports CBS This Morning Co-Anchor Mark McEwen. Can the singing group repeat the success they enjoyed with their first album? Top 40 radio personality Rick Dees says he thinks so; he really liked the new single. "Once you hear it, like, two times, you're singing along with it," says Dees. "That's the key. After maybe the 300th play, I might get tired of it. But right now, I love it!" Last year, the Backstreet Boys' romantic love songs sparked global hysteria among teen-age girls and a successful U.S. concert tour. The members of the Backstreet Boys are Howie Dorough (Howie D.), 25; Kevin Richardson, 26; Nick Carter, 19; Brian Littrell, 24, and A.J. McLean, 21. "We're gonna try not to pressure ourselves to try to compete with the last album," says Dorough. "We feel like it's our best stuff yet," adds Richardson. "We're really proud of it." On a more practical level, Carter says, "We're hoping that everybody who bought those 10 million albums [the first time] are gonna do it again." "And their little sisters," interjects Dorough. The Backstreet Boys also helped write some of the songs on Millennium. "It's an emotional feeling that you would never dream of," says Littrell. "I mean, it's great to have thousands of fans screaming your name and singing all the lyrics to the song. But when they're singing something that came from your heart, it's a different thing." This seemingly overnight success story was almost seven years in the making. Their first single, We've Got It Goin' On, fizzled in the U.S. but sizzled in Europe. And they have their share of detractors. What are some of the worst things they have heard? "From small insults to big ones. I can't say," says McLean. "You're not going to make everybody happy." Adds Carter, "I'll tell you what the insults do. They just make you strive harder, make you work harder to prove them wrong." McLean recalls, "And everybody looked at us, and kind of snickered, 'Yeah, they're a big flash in the pan. Give 'em one year and they'll be gone.' And little did everybody know. We've been around for six, almost seven years, and it feels good to get out there and gain respect, not only for from the industry, but from other artists out there." Comment on this item. Next Item: Let's hear it for the Boys! Prev Item: BSB in Paris