Here and There #5

    

Casting Crowns new album The Very Next Thing came out September 16, 2016 and it debuts at number one on the christian charts. This is Casting Crowns first album since Mark Hall has been cancer free which was not that long ago. He does talk about the songs and what it was like when he got the news that he had cancer. He talks with billboard about the music he has written and about his cancer. 

 Yet, in time, he found a new message to address with his students and it led to new songs. "We are always looking for what is off in the distance and God has placed you right where you are, to bloom where you are planted, to love the people around you and point to the people around you to the God that you know," he says, encouraging people to just do the very next thing God is calling them to do. "People that won't go to church, people that probably won't go buy a Christian record, they're not going to click on YouTube and watch a bunch of preachers, but they'll sit next to you in class. They'll ride with you to work or they'll sit at your table during your lunch hour and God has planted you there -- not so that you can get a better job one day -- it's so you can know Him and make Him known right where you are. That's what I've been trying to pour into my students and pour into people and remind myself is that [accomplishing] big things for God is really just reaching the person sitting next to you right now."

 The Very Next Thing is the first Casting Crowns record since Hall's battle with cancer. During a routine trip to the doctor to deal with acid reflux, Hall's doctor decided to do some scans and found a tumor on his kidney that turned out to be cancerous. He admits the diagnosis caught him by surprise. He was attending a funeral when he got a text from his doctor asking him to call. "When I read that, it was just that feeling you get when you look up and see the blue lights in your rearview mirror," says Hall, a married father of four, who worried about breaking the news to his kids. "It stopped me. Everything around me stopped and in that very moment all I could think was, 'This is about to happen. This is about to happen to me. I'm the youth pastor. I'm the guy that helps everyone else get through their stuff. I'm the encourager. I don't know how to do this part.'"

To read more click here: Billboard

 

        The latest news for Backstreet Boys is that they will be in vegas in March to July 2017 it will consist of 18 dates. The show will be called Larger Than Life which is a song that is dedicated to their fans from the millennium album. Now if you have ever been to one of their shows you will know that its fantastic but when you see them in vegas it will be even better.

 Backstreet Boys discuss their residency in Vegas with Billboard

      


If you ever wanted to know about their song I want it That away and if it ever made sense to you Backstreet Boys says that it doesn't...hmm never really thought about it until now. I guess it makes sense to me but some a long the way it doesn't. Here is what they had to say about the song.

“Well it’s funny, we actually were OK with the lyrics when we heard it first,” Carter told HuffPost. “And then the president of JIVE records at that time ― I mean he’s a genius ― but he and some of the A&R people wanted to change the lyrics.”
“To make the song make more sense,” Richardson chimed in.
The Backstreet Boys were releasing the album with JIVE and so the label having a problem with the nonsense lyrics could have derailed the single.
“We hired some really well known producers at the time to redo the song,” Carter continued. “So, there was another version of the song out there and then we listened to it back. Then, we as a group voted on it and said, “No.”
The legend ends here. No more speculation into how the band could not realize what they were doing.

 To read more click here: Huffington Post

Backstreet Boys get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

         Today on April 22, 2013 is sure a special day for Backstreet Boys as they get their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There was a live showing of the ceremony that you could have watched online if you weren't in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles today is known as Backstreet Boys day. Next year the guys will release their movie. Later this year they will be releasing their new album. If you did see the ceremony live and want to see it again just click here Backstreet Boys .
    
        Howie and Nick talked with Clevver Music and talked about the album coming out plus the tour. Here is a video of the interview:


 

This comes from Eonline.com:

Here are just some of the things that two of the guys Howie and Brian said.

Meanwhile, Howie Dorough said, "I will one day be able to bring my family here. My kids will be able to bring their kids here and still be able to see the legacy that the Backstreet Boys have carried on for many years," while Brian Littrell joked,"I worked my entire life to never be walked on, but I'm OK with this one."

To read more click here: Eonline


         Backstreet Boys have been around for 20 years. They first joined in 1993. They didn't get their start in America to believe it or not but they went to Germany to get their start. The guys made their first album in 1995 in Germany. They started out by singing in high schools and they started by singing Acapella because people didn't know if they could sing. After people heard that Backstreet Boys sounded good in Germany, America was begging Backstreet Boys to come back. Their biggest single is I Want it That A Way. Their biggest album is Millennium which sold over 1 million records the first week it came out. For the sales of their record Millennium it was in the genus book of world records. All of their albums to date has made it to the top 10 billboard 200 charts. Even though their recent albums(without Kevin Richardson) wasn't that popular in America, Japan still loved them more  than ever. Both Unbreakable and This is Us went platinum in Japan. They are making records and will not stop making music. In 2005 their record Never Gone went platinum in America and around the world. A day before the record was to be released it VH1 aired the Behind the music of Backstreet Boys. These guys have done it all and have seen it all and there is nothing that will stop them from making music.


Have you seen their Harlem Shake video? Take a look at it.



To see more videos by Backstreet Boys just watch them at www.youtube.com/bsbofficial

Here are some of the tweets Backstreet Boys tweeted about today's event!

Did you miss the #BSBWalkOfFame ceremony earlier today? You're in luck!! @wofstargirl has a replay for ya right here: walkoffame.com
— backstreetboys (@backstreetboys) April 22, 2013

You're my shining star 🌟#bsbwalkoffame #bsbgetsahollywoodstar instagram.com/p/Ya6RdHomWw/
— backstreetboys (@backstreetboys) April 22, 2013

In Stone!!!! Thank GOD instagram.com/p/YaxNMgRNd4/
— Brian Littrell (@brian_littrell) April 22, 2013

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Here and There #4

 



         There is so  much news that is out there. Backstreet Boys will have there 20th anniversary and it will be a great one. They will also be releasing a new album this year and then they will also get their name on the Hollywood walk of fame. Backstreet Boys aren't slowing down. There is also news about Backstreet Boys in production for a documentary.

Here is what Ew.com said about it:

“This is an incredible opportunity to make a film no one would expect The Backstreet Boys to make. What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction. This isn’t some 3-D Boy Band puff piece – BSB is getting real and it has been exciting to work with them as they explore their past and start to look towards their futures. They’re grown men in a boy-band. They are wrestling with the big questions in their lives and their careers. And they are just really fascinating guys,” Kijak said in a press release.

To read more click on this link: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/02/11/backstreet-boys-documentary/


This comes from Rollingstones.com:


Kijak, who hopes to complete the documentary by this fall, said members of the band have been enthusiastic about the project. "What drew me to this project is their openness and willingness to push themselves into uncomfortable places, to be vulnerable and honest and to be really trusting of the filmmaking team to steer them in the right direction," he said, promising the project won't just be a "3D boy-band puff piece."

To read more click on this link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/backstreet-boys-give-approval-to-documentary-20130211


Kelly Clarkson won for Best Pop Vocal album at the Grammys. She was also being funny in her acceptance speech. Later in the show she performed. Here is part of what she said:

This comes from MTV.com



"I didn't know I was going to win 'cause I literally, I was so excited to be in a category with Fun. I have been covering you all summer. I'm sorry, I love that song. I think it's so awesome. I love Pink. Everyone — Adele — that I was in a category with. Miguel, I don't know who the hell you are, but we need to sing together. I mean, good god, that was the sexiest damn thing I've ever seen. What? Anyway, thank you so much, friends, family, label, my manager, Narvel [Blackstock, Brandon's father and Kelly's manager], my fiancé, who is sexy tonight. I did not think I was going to win. Thank you!"

To read more click here: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1701724/grammy-awards-kelly-clarkson-speech.jhtml

Backstreet Boys new music video

Here is Backstreet Boys new music video Bigger. It was shot in Japan and I think it was too much of Japan.Tell me what you guys think of their new video.

            

Backstreet Boys This is Us review

                                                  Backstreet Boys This is Us Review

                                              Written by: Kristina Chen

            I give this album and A for their effort and for their promoting the album. I also think this is the best album they have done because they getting more into the public scene like before. If no one else gives them an A then they do not know what they are talking about. My most favorite song from the album is Shattered because it talks about how heart broken someone can really be. Also about how someone can lose love and when it turns out to be something ugly. I have the order of the songs on how I like them. 

1.      Shattered

2.      Straight through my heart

3.      Bye Bye Love

4.      If I knew Then

5.      This is Us

6.      Undone

7.      Bigger

8.      She’s a dream

9.      Masquerade

10.  All of your life(you need Love)

11.  PDA

            These guys have been through a lot and they have given everything to do this album. They have even added some dance moves to their performances and music videos. Two of them Brian Littrell and Howie Dorough are almost forty but they are not letting that stop them. They have as much energy as their other band mates who are almost in their thirty’s. These guys deserve the credit that went into this album. I think that everyone should buy this album because it is one of their best ones and it reminds you of their earlier stuff they did.

Backstreet Boys are every where

The Backstreet Boys have been the the daily ten twice this year. The boys also came out with a new music video for Straight Through My Heart. Here is a video of the guys on the Daily 10.

Backstreet Boys with Rolling Stone

     Backstreet Boys have an article with rollingstone.com from rolling stone magazine. This time the boys are talking about their new album This is Us that will be coming out on October 6th, 2009. Here is a preview of the article: 

     Call them pop’s longest-running, most persistent group. Call them men, not boys. Just don’t call it a comeback. “We almost named the album that,” jokes Nick Carter, one-fourth of the Backstreet Boys, whose seventh studio effort, This Is Us, is slated for release on October 6th. “We’re the Brett Favres of the music industry.” Clearly, he and his bandmates are fed up with the public perception that they’ve taken an extended time out. They’re not ‘NSync, after all. “It does frustrate me,” says Brian Littrell. “Everybody asks, ‘Where have you been? What have you been doing?’ When we’re, like, ‘We’ve been touring the world, and working our butts off!’ ”

OK, so maybe the boy-band racket isn’t what it used to be. There are no million-plus first week sellers in today’s music business, and so many outlets vying for your attention that it’s easy to miss a respectable showing like Backstreet’s 2007 album, Unbreakable. Which is one reason why A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Carter and Littrell are looking back to a proven formula with This Is Us. “The idea was going back to those great R&B ballads as well as dance songs you can shake your butt to,” McLean explains. “And we were fortunate enough to work with some amazing writers and producers who got our concept and everything fit perfectly.”

Check out the Backstreet Boys’ RS photo gallery.

Among the industry heavies to lend a hand: Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Pitbull, Ryan Tedder, Max Martin, RedOne, and beatmaker Jim Johnson. “The production on this record has been pushed a little more,” says McLean. “It’s edgy and current but also shows our love for the pop-R&B that we grew up on.” Carter interjects: “Jodeci, Boys II Men, Shai, New Edition… we had to go back and remember our influences and what taught us in the years when we were developing into a band.” And Littrell adds that if you were to take away all the bells and whistles, the basics of the song with that Backstreet sweet spot is what defines their raison d’etre. “That’s why Michael Jackson was a true artist,” he says, “because you could take away every beat and every layer and just dance to his voice. That vocal instrument is what we’ve always known, and I can honestly say without this sounding egotistical: when we sing collectively, there is a magic.”

To read more from this article just click on this link: Backstreet Boys in Rolling Stone

Backstreet Boys new music video

  Backstreet Boys have made lots of music video that some people in their lifetime. They have a new music video on usmagazine.com and these guys are really heating up the scene. Here is the link on where you can see the video Straight Through My Heart video.

Backstreet Boys biography

Backstreet boys biography
Written by Kristina Chen
The Backstreet Boys are known for selling of 200 million albums just making them the best selling boy band of all time. The Backstreet Boys started with Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, and AJ Mclean. After that Kevin recommended his cousin Brian Littrell to tryout for the group. After that Brian was on a plan to Orlando, Florida. Brian was the last one to join Backstreet Boys. Backstreet Boys started in April of 93. They put out their first single in 97 called We got It Goin on which did not sell much. They went to Europe and recorded their first album called Backstreet Boys and it was released in 96. After that America was begging that the boys be recording at Jive records. Their manager is now Johnny Wright. Their second album was also named Backstreet Boys but was released in 1997 in the US. They also released another international album called Backstreet’s Back that same year.
In 1999 they released their second US album called Millennium. Millennium had reached to number one on the top Billboard 200 charts and stayed there for ten weeks. Their best single from the album was I want It That Away. The album had sold 1,134,000 copies and 500,000 it’s first day. Everyone says that Millennium was the highlight of their career. They had several singles from their album: I want It that Away, Show me the meaning of Being Lonely, Larger Than Life, and The One. Millennium had become the best sold album in 1999 with selling 9,445,732 million copies. Millennium remain on the Billboard top 200 charts for 93 weeks with selling 12 million. This album has made it to be certified, 13 times platinum. At the end of 1991 the guys had made a record contract deal that was 60 million dollars.
In 2000 they had released their third US album called Black and Blue. It sold 1.9 million in it’s first week it was released. This had made the band become the first artist to have two album sold with a million or more in the first week. This album had sold over 24 million world wide. The singles for the album are: Shape of My Heart, The Call, and More Than That.
During the times of 2002 to 2004 the boys had took a hiatus. Their fans were wondering if they would ever be back because so many other bands broke up. This hiatus scared their fans. In 2005 they released their fourth US album called Never Gone which made to number three on the billboard top 200 charts. This album had sold 291,000 copies it’s first week. Just in that same year Brian had released a Christian song called In Christ Alone which made it number one on the Christian Charts in the US. After all of their success so far Never Gone was made platinum in the US. They had four singles for the album: Incomplete, Just Want you to Know, Crawling Back to you, and I Still…
These guys had a lot that was going for them until 2006. In 2006 Kevin Richardson had decided to leave the group to focus on the next chapter in his life. Kevin left in June 2006. Kevin wanted to leave so he could start a family of his own. On October 30, 2007 the guys released their fifth US album without Kevin, calling it Unbreakable. It reached to number 21 on the adult contemporary charts and number 86 on the top 200 billboard charts. Unbreakable opened at number seven on the billboard top 200 charts with selling only 81,000 copies it’s first week. Only two weeks after Unbreakable was released the album dropped out of the top 100. Three years after Kevin left the group the guys will be releasing their sixth album called This is Us in October 6, 2009. This will also be the guys second album without Kevin. Their first single is Straight through My Heart which was released on the radio, on July 27, 2009.

Backstreet Boys are back!

I guess all of you guys just heard right! Backstreet Boys will be releasing their 6th US studio Album that has been confirmed as the title This Is Us. The guys have never been gone since they released unbreakable in 2007. This Is Us will be their second album since Kevin left in June of 2006. Here is a preview of the article from MTV.com:

With the release of their new single "Straight Through My Heart" and the excitement that coursed through the Newsroom when it all happened, it seems that, at least among a few of us MTV News staffers, there is some excitement for the new Backstreet Boys album, This is Us, which is due out on October 6.

For the album, the guys worked with producer RedOne on the single and hooked up with longtime collaborator and pop mastermind Max Martin. They also worked with T-Pain, and Brian Littrell talked to MTV News about working with the rapper (much) earlier this year.

To read more from this article just click on this link: http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/07/28/backstreet-boys/