Backstreet Boys Prep Hits LP, Shoot Video For New Track
Source:MTV News Including video links
Aug 27 2001
With A.J. McLean back in the fold, the Backstreet Boys are preparing
to release a compilation of their greatest hits � but don't even think
about calling it that.
"We were thinking about it," Nick Carter said this weekend during the
group's tour-resuming show in Milwaukee "We're not gonna be calling it 'greatest hits,' because we think it's like, once you put out the
greatest hits, everybody's like, 'That's it, they're gone.' "
Instead, the collection, due October 23, may be titled something like Chapter One, according to fellow BSB member Kevin Richardson.
"We're gonna put out something that means the end of a chapter in our lives and the beginning of another," Richardson said.
The hits collection � BSB's first release since last November's Black & Blue � will also include "Drowning," a previously unheard track from the sessions for that album.
Carter and Richardson described the song's sound as a mix of "Show Me
the Meaning of Being Lonely" and "I Want It That Way," with a bit of
country group Lonestar's "Amazed" thrown in.
"We wanted to put [the song] on the album, but we never got to it," Carter said.
The group has already shot the song's video, which finds the group
performing in front of aquatic-themed backdrops: waterfalls, fountains
and rivers.
Backstreet Boys' next tour stop will be Monday night (August 27) in
Kansas City, Missouri. (Click for photos from Friday's show.) Their tour � delayed while McLean was treated for alcoholism, anxiety and depression � is slated to end October 20, three days before the hits collection's release.
The group is scheduled to present at the MTV Video Music Awards,
which will be broadcast live from New York's Metropolitan Opera House
on September 6