Backstreet and Westlife meet in Sweden

Back - Index - Submissions - - What is RSS? Date: Jul 21, 2000 Source: Expressen (Sweden) Submitted By: Millie for sending this in. Translated (by machine) from Swedish They are competitors on the boyband-scene. But when they are to record new albums, both the Backstreet Boys and Westlife comes to Stockholm. The competition doesn’t stop them from both sharing hotel and studio. The Fight of the Boybands in Sweden Date: 7/20/00 Both Backstreet Boys and Westlife comes to Stockholm to record their albums. They are competitors on the boyband-scene. But when they are to record new albums, both the Backstreet Boys and Westlife comes to Stockholm. The competition doesn’t stop them from both sharing hotel and studio. The reason that both groups come to the Swedish capital when it’s time to record albums, is of course the nowadays world-famous Cheiron-studio on Kungsholmen in central Stockholm. Bands all over the world would give anything to work with the producers and song-writers who work there. The artists should be seen but the guys who stand behind many of the number-ones in the world are keeping a low profile. - We do our job and the artists do their. And they are the ones who should be seen. - Our job is to make a product as good possible, and the bands job is to market it, producer David Kreuger says. Along with Per Magnusson and Jörgen Elofsson, he stands behind several of the songs that have made Irish Westlife the ones that they are today. - Westlife contacted us early so you can say that we have helped forming, Per Magnusson says. The trio have been on Cheiron since –93 and have made music for, among others, Backstreet Boys, Boyzone and Britney Spears. Except for Westlife then. - They are the absolute nicest band to work with, because the guys are so nice and their music-taste is so close to our own, Jörgen Elofsson says. Mutual respect The respect is mutual, which is understood by he fact that Westlife returns before every album, just as the Backstreet Boys. This time coincided the stay, and the band share the hotel and the studio. Two big boybands in Stockholm at the same time is almost too much for the teenage girls who follow them and spend the summerweeks outside the studio. - It’s a pretty special environment here. You go to your work, and outside the door it’s lying young girls who you have to step over, that’s not happening everywhere, Per Magnusson establishes. Comment on this item. Next Item: Victoria Held Court for the Boys Prev Item: Tyke and Litty (Brian's Chihuahuas) are Missing