The BSB talk about their new album The Star Online

The Backstreet Boys are back again, this time all grown up. With their new album 'This is Us' releasing soon, the boys...er I mean men say that they're glad that they're calling the shots this time. " For years, it was always the record company that was kind of running the ship," Backstreet Boy AJ McLean tells PopEater. "On this particular record, it was kind of us running our own lives for the very first time."

Having said that, the band members had their own picks of who they would work with on the album instead of being told who they were going to work with. Band member Nick Carter called T-Pain, while the whole band called out to RedOne, Jim Jonsin and others.

When tracks from the album were leaked online, the band were a little unsettled about it at first. "We were a little bit bummed about it, because we were trying to keep this whole record kind of a secret," says McLean. "But it actually turned out to be beneficial. When it first got leaked, we hadn't picked the actual final 12 tracks yet, so it was kind of cool to see what different fans liked. It was surprising what we thought they'd like and then what they really liked."


[Published: 4-Sep-2009]


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