January '97

EXAN: I'm hanging out with the Backstreet Boys--the burning question is, how are you guys dealing with fame? How is all this attention from girls affecting you? Do you like it?

BACKSTREET BOYS: We love it!!

A.J: NO man alive wouldn't love a bunch of girls screaming for him:-)

EXAN: How would you describe your dream girl??

B-ROK: Someone who could treat us normal. That's one quality I like.

KEVIN: Honest

HOWIE D: Someone who has a good head on her shoulders

NICK: A good heart

A.J: And can be themselves around us

B-ROK: Goal-oriented

KEVIN: NIce smile

EXAN: Your fans out there are dying to know what it's like to go out on a date with each of you. Are you guys the smooth type or are you the shy type??

NICK: Depends. We can be either shy or smooth. I think.

A.J: Both at the same time

EXAN: So what's your favorite thing to do on a date??

NICK: I like to go out to the beach. love the beach. Maybe at night time with the moon out and the waves...that's my dream date.

A.J: Proabably whatever the girl would want to do. Movies, candlelight dinner, anything that she would want to do. Just ask her "What do you want to do tonight?" and whatever she says, we do.

KEVIN: Nice dinner, nice conversation, maybe a movie, dancing...

B-ROk: An afternoon picnic in the park. Something like that.

HOWIE: I'd probably cook her dinner. Have a candlelight dinner and then maybe go to the movies or go out dancing. I'd top the evening off going on the beach at night, walking.

EXAN: (to Howie) Are you a good cook??

HOWIE: (laughing) I try.

EXAN: So, when are the Backstreet Boys dolls coming out??

BACKSTREET BOYS: Never!!

NICK: We forbid that!

B-ROK: We're not gonna sell out like that.

KEVIN: We did have a fan in Sweden who made some dolls and that was pretty cool. They made the dolls themselves.That was cool.

EXAN: Sorry girls they won't be available on the market. So, legend has it that three of you met at Universal Studios auditioning there and the other two at Disney world??

NICK: Well three of us met at different places. We met all the time. A.J,Howie and myself. We have know each other for the past four and a half years We've been together for four years. So I mean we used to do alot of auditions for Universal Studios, MGM, Disney World, that's what Orlando is all about. We use to just sing together when we met up and we went from there.

EXAN: You guys are from Orlando, Florida, so my question is why did you choose to release the record first in Canada as opposed to back home??

HOWIE D: Actually it's been released all over the world

KEVIN: Excpet in the United States.

HOWIE D: What happend was the first single came out about a year and a half ago in the States and then over in Europe and it did really well in the States, but it really blew up in Europe. So by popular demand we spent so much time over there that the record company decided that we had to release the album over there so we could still work on th album, for the States. In the States the market is a little different--There's more R&B influence. The album will be coming out this year in the States.

EXAN:(to Howie) Will it be different from the one that is out in Canada?

HOWIE D: A little different. WE're releasing the 2nd album in Canada at the same time, so the States' first album will be a mix of both. So, they're actually behind.

EXAN: How do Canadian girls compare to American girls?

KEVIN: That cute little accent!

EXAN: Eh??

BACKSTREET BOYS: Eh??

KEVIN: Basically we've learned that traveling throughout the world that people are just people, everywhere you go.

EXAN: You're huge in all of Canada now, but for a little while you were Quesbec's little secret. Why do you suppose you hit it big there first?

Kevin: I think some of our music, since we were doing alot of things in France as well, came through that way--through the magazines and stuff and I think that's how it started. And then it just happend.

EXAN: The first show you played was it in Montreal?? I heard 60 000 kids showed up.

HOWIE D: Yeah, our biggest show!!

EXAN: Were you expecting that?

Howie D: Not at all. It's our second time here right now. Canada has given us the biggest shows in all of the world. 60 000 in Montreal, and 65 000 in Toronto at the Skydome. It's just been amazing here!! Canada is the first country we've gone 5 times platinum also, Canada has been really good to us!!

EXAN: Canada loves you!!

BACKSTREET BOYS: We love you too!!

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