Interviews with AJ

A.J. - JoJo

JoJo - Hey, A.J., what's happening, man?

A.J. - Oh, not much, man.

JoJo - Are you in Dallas right now? Where you at?

A.J. - Yeah, I'm in Dallas. I - I am sitting inside Johnny Rocket's. 
I'm just getting ready to get my chili cheese fries.

JoJo - So you're into health food, too, right?

A.J. - Oh, you know man! (Laughing) Chili cheese fries, extra chili,
ranch dressing, and a fried egg.

JoJo - Excellent, brother, excellent.

A.J. - I'm on a brand new diet, you know. It's called "Lots of Carbs."

JoJo - That's always good. A good chili cheese dog; you can't knock 
those things, man, it's a great American past time.

A.J. - Oh, hell no.

JoJo - We gotta give you the official introduction, you guys.Once 
again,from the Backstreet Boys, A.J.

(CHEERING)

JoJo - It is my pleasure to have you on the JoJo On The Radio Show. 
Last time we talked to you, the last one of the Backstreet Boys 
we talked to was Howie,so pass the word on: We said "Hello".

A.J. - I know, I will, man.

JoJo - Lemme see... Grammy's, you guys were in L.A. last with the 
Grammy's. Uh... Did you have fun, brother?

A.J. - We had a wonderful time. And, I mean even though we didn't 
take home any awards, the way I feel about is I could leave happy with my 
head high and so could the rest of us because we had a kick-ass performance.

JoJo- Man, your performance was absolutely... Listen, I mean, I have to 
give it up for you. It was amazing.

A.J. - I mean we had so much help...

(CLAPPING)

A.J. - Thank you, man. And I just want to take, like, five quick seconds to 
give a shout-out to Ricky Minor (?) and to the guys from Take Six because 
they really helped us out a lot.

JoJo - Are you talking about the performance, the uh... You started 
off with the old school songs with "Papa was a rolling stone..."

A.J. - Yes, they - Take Six got with us, two of the guys, Mark & Dave 
from Take Six got with us and arranged all a cappella with our help. It 
was so cool to meet Take Six.

JoJo - Those guys could sing as well, you know.

A.J. - Oh, yes, they can. I grew up listening to them. And then,the whole 
Elton John performance was really fun. Elton is just the best.

JoJo - You know that, I guess I can't recall a time where one group or 
one performer has performed twice in one Grammy's show. Is that 
common or uncommon?

A.J. - No, actually, I believe that was the first time that it was ever 
done with us, from what I was told, unless they're just giving us a 
line, but I don't know, but...

JoJo - I don't recall.

A.J. - They said, I believe, "You were the first group to ever do it twice."

JoJo - Now was that kinda weird to go on stage, to come back,and then 
to kind of warm up for the next time you go out? And...

A.J. - It was, man. I mean, 'cause I had never even heard of "Philadelphia 
Freedom", and I don't know if that makes me, like, retarded or what...

(LAUGHING)

A.J. - I have never even heard about that song until two days before 
we're supposed to do it. And all the guys are telling me, "Oh, A.J. Once 
you hear it, you'll know it," you know, "I'm sure you've heard it." 
I ain't never heard it before!

JoJo - Yeah, I think we can say, "A.J.'s not retarded!"(CLAPPING) 
Not retarded. It's okay. I can't believe you didn't 
know the song two 
days before that.

A.J. - Nope. Everything turned out perfect. I mean, actually,Elton asked 
to come into our dressing room and actually sit down with us and go over 
it. And you know, hear it, hear us, you know, just any of our ideas that we 
had to,like, broaden it, background vocals, or whatnot. And beside 
that with Elton and his two background singers, and we got together with all 
of them and we tried to just arrange it and figured out what it was that 
we were gonna sing,and it turned out great. I actually have a permanent scar 
from Elton's jacket, because... (LAUGHING) He was wearing a jacket by 
Versace and it had,like, these 14 carat gold doled razor blade looking 
things on it, and when I hugged him on stage good-bye, it cut my hand.

JoJo - Are you kidding me?

A.J.  - I am dead serious. And now it's, like, with this scar on the top 
of my hand in between my knuckles that I will never, ever forget Elton 
John because his suit jacket gave me a fricking scar.

JoJo - Good thing that you didn't, like, give him a body hug! I mean, 
my God! You'd be dead!

A.J. - I would have been all sliced up!

JoJo - A.J. killed by Elton John...  News @ 11! (LAUGHING) Last night, 
I took a little survey here with people that wanted to come in and help me 
do the interview, and I got this girl named Vanity from Laguna Miguel who 
has one question to ask you. She put it brilliantly, better than I'll ever 
do in any interview, so Vanity, step to the microphone and ask A.J. the 
question.

(CLAPPING)

JoJo - Look out, A.J. She's good, man.

Vanity - Hi, A.J.

A.J. - How you doing, sweetheart?

Vanity - I'm doing well, and yourself?

A.J. - I'm doing just peachy.

Vanity - Ok, here's my question. Are you ready?

A.J. - I'm ready.

Vanity - Ok. With the recent engagement of Brian and Kevin, do you feel it 
puts pressure on yourself and the remaining members of the group to stay 
single for the fans and the media, or is their engagement a 
reminder to you about having to grow up, settle down, and finding your 
true love?

JoJo - Oh, my God! That's deep.

(APPLAUDING)

A.J. - Wow, that's a good question. Man, I don't know. I mean,you were 
asking some good ones, but that's a damn good question.

JoJo - That's a good one, Vanity.

A.J. - Honestly, Vanity, to be honest with you, I think it is a sign 
of growth because all of us, eventually, have to grow up someday,and that 
means everyone besides Backstreet Boys, and us as a unit and as a family, 
each of us someday have to grow up and move on and have a family, and 
we've talked about it in many interviews in our past, but I'm actually 
really proud for Kevin and Brian and I hope they're very happy with their 
future wives,and hopefully, I'll be doing it myself someday, but not any 
time soon, but,you know, I'm just happy with me and my girlfriend and I'm 
sure Nick is happy with his girlfriend, and Nick's a little young, anyways, 
and so am I.You know, I've got to get my career going and keep on doing what 
I'm doing and I wanna make sure that my girlfriend's happy with her life 
and her career and I just think it's gonna be a shock to everyone at first, 
but if our fans truly love us and truly respect what we do and love us 
as people besides Backstreet Boys,then I think they'll understand that, 
you know what? These guys gotta do something that makes them happy, 
and if they're happy then we're happy.

JoJo - Is Howie the only one that doesn't have a girlfriend? 'Cause 
he's gonna get a lotta babes, now.

(LAUGHING)

A.J. - Howie's gonna have lots of babes, man. Howie's the man. Howie's the 
only one that doesn't have a girlfriend. Howie's, you know, just dating. So 
Howie's gonna be the man for the next couple of years.

JoJo - Oh, right on, right on. This Johnny Suede character you have 
going on.Do you care to touch on that?

A.J. - Uh, yeah, um...

JoJo - By the way, is your chili cheese dog gone yet?

A.J. - Actually, yes, it is, but I do wanna just touch on that before I 
have to go.

JoJo - OK

A.J. - We're actually coming out on the 27th. We have a show in L.A.

JoJo - Now, I was talking to your buddy, you know, Eric Podwell? Your 
buddy Eric?

A.J. - Yeah.

JoJo - I was chatting with him about that. We were out at the club the other 
night. He mentioned some things to me about that, but I promised I wouldn't 
say anything on the radio 'til I got word from you,so...

A.J. - Yup, it's, uh, actually, it's no longer Johnny Suede.It's now called 
Johnny No-Name because apparently there was a guy that did a movie a while 
ago with Brad Pitt called "Johnny Suede".

JoJo - Oh, that's right.

Vanity - I remember that.

A.J. - And, yeah, and he has the right to the name, so I can't use it,unless 
I wanna pay him some un-godly crap. So...

JoJo - So, enough of that huh?

A.J. - So, I'm just gonna go in as Johnny No-Name, but I think everyone will 
catch on. And then, we already had one show back at the Hard Rock in 
Orlando,and it was all for charity. And just like the shows that are coming 
up,it's all for charity. We're going on tour for about a good week, and it's 
all for charity for VH1: Save the Music and/or my diabetes fund that I 
have just recently set up.

JoJo - OK.

A.J. - You will definitely be hearing a lot about it then. But you gotta 
promise me that you're gonna come and see the first show.

JoJo - Dude, actually , you know what? Maybe this should be off-air stuff. 
I was chatting with Eric about coming over there and I think being a part of 
like, you know, getting the tickets going whenever you announce it,whenever 
you decide. And kinda going on and maybe doing any emcee thing you guys 
want me to do, so I'm all over that.

A.J. - Yeah, man! Come on and fricking host it, dude!

Vanity - Can I host?

A.J. - It's gonna be one giant party.

JoJo - Mm-hmm. Dude, I am all over it, brother.

A.J. - Well, sounds good, buddy.

JoJo - Man, it's awesome to talk to you. When you get in town,we'll have 
to hook up and do some grub or whatever. And Vanity, nice job, as well.

Vanity - Thank you.

A.J. - Thank you very much, Vanity

Vanity - Thank you so much. You're such a sweetheart!

JoJo - Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. of the Backstreet Boys!

I can't do this like exactly like a transcript - it was all too fast 
for me! So AJ called - he had clearly just rolled out of bed! The DJ 
said he sounded like Barry White and that the BSB really are men now 
:) AJ said yeah we've grown hair in new places. DJ congratulated him 
on the Grammy nods in 5 of the biggest categories. Asked what their 
favorite to win would be. AJ said they talked about it and they'd most like 
to win Album of the Year if anything. He said it'd be hard going against 
Santana, like last year they had to worry about Lauryn Hill. 

IMPORTANT GRAMMY INFORMATION 

The DJ asked what they would be performing at the Grammy's! AJ said 
they WILL be performing SMTM plus a little medley from groups that have 
inspired them - an acappella medley. He didn't mention Elton John at all! DJ 
asked who had inspired them and he said The Temptations, OJ, Boyz 
II Men. DJ asked how they were exposed to that - AJ said at home by mom 
and dad. Growing up he knew "My Girl" but he never knew who sang it. 

So the DJ said that obviously the big news was that 2 of them were engaged. 
She'd read the stuff on MTV.com and knew that a lot of fans were afraid they'd 
break up. AJ said he thought that's what a lot of fans would think. 

DJ said "Yoko Ono". AJ's comeback was that they are involved with people 
who are nothing but supportive of them. This won't be detrimental and the 
group will hold tight no matter what. AJ said THE BSB WILL LAST :). Funny - 
he said he was also shocked when he heard the news, on the golf course! He 
said Kevin was talking about it for a while and he proposed on Christmas 
and AJ knew about that. Brian had been talking about it. AJ said he would 
be 3rd in line to get married, but it will not happen till a few years- if 
at all. He gushed about his girlfriend a little. Said he liked to spend money 
on himself and that his GF doesn't ask for anything, but he gives her the world. 
DJ said they make like $100,000 a concert and he said yeah. (too cute) 

Next they talked about Millennium and how it has sold like 15 million 
worldwide. AJ said they were worried about the sophomore slump....
They talked about breaking the 1 day sales record. AJ said it was all so 
phenomenal and that the 2nd album had really helped keep the 1st album on 
the charts. DJ asked if they still get giddy about that stuff and celebrate 
- he said oh yeah! AJ said that seeing the beautiful faces of families at 
shows makes it all worth it. He said the next album will be tough. They 
don't need to top Millennium, but it has to be a growth. He said they 
won't be able to top Millennium and the DJ said you never know! He said 
they'd like to top themselves though. 

DJ asked about how they like being made fun of - like the Meaty Cheesy boys 
thing. AJ says he thinks its funny and that really shows them they're 
somebody! DJ asked if it bothers them and he said nah, they can't make everyone 
happy. DJ said it must be hard because everyone is in demand of their time. 
AJ said that he hoped if they're happy, everyone else will be too. 

DJ asked who he liked as a teen. AJ said Paula Abdul, Taylor Dane, Stevie 
Wonder, Brian Mcknight. DJ asked if any of them had any cheesy crushes when 
they were younger. AJ couldn't really think of any cheesy ones but said when 
Howie was younger he liked Jon Secada music. DJ was really pushing to find 
some funny crushes. AJ said he used to have a crush on Alysa Milano and also the 
older sister on Charles in Charge - Nicole Eggert. Said she is now a 
Baywatch babe... DJ said yey we have dirt on you now!!! 

So last but not least, the DJ said well when are you guys coming to Seattle? 
He said they were here last year in Tacoma but he didn't really know of 
any plans. Then he said that actually, after this tour (no idea when) he will 
be back in Seattle, LA and Vegas doing his Johnny Suede show!! LOL. 

That's it!! I sure wish this had been Kev cause AJ talks way too fast 
and I could hardly keep up! 

Transcript of AJ's surprise call to KIIS FM - June 5, 2000 
Source: KIIS FM

JoJo- Wasuup!...Have you seen that comercial, dude? 

A.J. - Dude, I've seen, like, three commercials for that. That is the best 
commercial I've ever seen. 

JoJo-(laughing) OMG, I would be honored if me and you could do a 'Wasuup' 
together bro, are ya ready? 

A.J.- Hey man, I am totally game for it and you know what? If not me, Johnny No 
Name will do it definitely! 

JoJo- Ah here we go bro, JoJo and Johnny No Name with the 'Wasuup', WASSUP! 

A.J.- Wassup, yo! Y'all right? (English accent ;P) 

JoJo-(laughing) Dude, we got, like, some people who wanna say hi to you 
real quick but I got the #5 song on the JoJo's Top Five at Nine, it's 
Joe "I Wanna Know". Have you met Joe before, A.J.? 

A.J.-Yes I have man, he's a really good, close and personal friend of the 
group and not to mention, he's also one of our label mates. 

JoJo- He's doing awesome and you are doing awesome as well and you guys! OMG- 
A.J. from the BSB on 102.7 JoJo on the radio - WASSUP! 

A.J.- WASSUP! 

[After song] 

JoJo- …JoJo's Top Five at Nine, A.J. from the Backstreet Boys, you 
still there, dude? 

A.J.- I'm right here, man. 

JoJo- Has your dog peed on your rug or are you still surviving? 

A.J. - No, she hasn't peed, she's attacking my girlfriend right now. 
Yeah, she's biting at her feet constantly. 

JoJo- And your dog is how old, and how big? 

AJ- She's about a foot long, about 2 lbs. and she is bout five months old, 
she's a little Yorkie, her name's Vegas. I got her for my girlfriend, for my 
girlfriend's 21rst birthday, took my girlfriend to Las Vegas and we both came 
home about a week after that and we decided to get a puppy. And I surprised 
her one day after work, with this little rat, that's running around my house, 
peeing and pooping everywhere 

JoJo- Ever walk through your house and, at night, half asleep, getting something 
to drink and step right in it? 

A.J-Oh dude, I've stepped in more pee than when I was a kid! [JoJo laughing] I'm 
telling you, my feet are like so… I will never have bacteria on my feet the rest
 of my life, thanks to my dog Vegas! 

JoJo- Now does your dog pee on the floor more than Howie does? 

A.J.- Well, I don't know, Howie pees on the floor a lot! 

JoJo-(laughing) Alright bro, A.J. still on the phone, and we're about to 
introduce song #4 "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem. And the #3, 2 and 1 song still 
coming up. A.J. hang on, brother, okay?!?! 

[After song] 

JoJo- JoJo on the radio, and always, always a tough battle for the top two 
spots, certainly for the past couple a years and, man, tonight, it drops to #2, 
"It's Gonna Be Me" by 'N Sync but I have a special guest DJ. And this is kinda 
odd, are you still there A.J.? 

A.J.- I'm right here, dog 

JoJo- Would you do the honors of introducing 'N Sync? Do you guys talk, do you 
talk at all with the guys of 'N Sync or anything like that? 

A.J.- Yeah, actually, actually Chris lives in the same complex as me but I'm not 
gonna tell ya where 'cause I'm gonna screw it up for me and Chris but [JoJo 
laughing] It so funny because you got "It's Got to Be Me" and then ya got 
Backstreet Boys "It's Gotta Be You" or it's "It's Gonna Be You", you know, 
it's very similar but the #2 song is (singing it) "It's Gonna Be Me". 

JoJo -BTW, You and Chris, I could see you and Chris hang out a lot, man. 
He's a funny dude, you're a funny dude, you know what I'm talking about? 

A.J.-Believe me I do 

[After song] 

JoJo- JoJo on the radio, 102.7 KIIS FM, we have him on the telephone, from the 
Backstreet Boys, Mr. A.J.! 

-CHEERING- 

JoJo- Now, A.J. am I paying for this call or are you paying for this call? 

A.J. I think I'm paying for this call! 

JoJo- Aw, I'll send ya bill, my bad bro! 

A.J.-Aw, it's all good. You know what, no, we're gonna make Erick pay the bill. 

JoJo- Erick Podwell, both our close and personal friend. 

Erick- That's not cool 

A.J.-You! No, you're are paying the bill, man! 

Erick- I don't think I could expense that! 

A.J.- It's a right off damnit! 

JoJo-You can expense that, you big ol' manager, you come on you can do it. 

A.J.- Oh it's right off! 

JoJo- Now A.J. what's the news on this. Now we got "The One" coming 
as #1, but, BUT, you have something, like, a special thing you wanna ... 
This could start a new wave throughout the radio industry as far as the 
next single, because as of right now, there's not gonna be another single 
from the Backstreet Boys off this album, right? 

A.J.- Right 

JoJo- So what's your story, what we're you saying a moment ago? 

A.J.- Well, uh, originally I had an idea on the last tour to pick three singles 
for our FANS to pick the single as out last song off the, you know, the 
Millennium album. 

JoJo -Like a multiple choice, kinda deal 

A.J.- Exactly! Well, most of the fans, I'd say about 90% of the fans voted 
for DWYB which is MY personal favorite and we coulda done a KICK-ASS video 
for that BUT, but, Nick Carter, my own, personal brother, called into 
MTV one day and voted for "The One" and it won by one percent! So 

JoJo- Which is a good song too! 

A.J.- No, it's a wonderful song, the video's great. It turned out great. Kevin 
did a great job with the whole editing thing, with the editing company out in 
Los Angeles. He did a great job, it's a great thank you video for all our fans, 
you know, our crew, and our band and our dancers and us, BUT aside from that, 
the other side on the coin is DWYB woulda been a kick butt video, but it wasn't 
picked. SO, I'm hoping that if we do this tonight, for the first time ever we're 
gonna like totally screw up like everything that's been going on [both 
laughing] and start a whole new trend, And make DWYB, hopefully by fans calling 
in, the final, final single, the double encore to the Millennium album. 

JoJo- So, okay, let me get this straight now. Of course "The One" was 
planned on, I guess by the record company as being the last single. You want to, 
you want me tonight, to start it all off, to take off "The One" as the #1 
song and replace it with DWYB. 

A.J.- That's what I'm tellin' ya to do man. 

JoJo- In hopes that something will catch on and will add another single 
release to the Millennium album, right? 

A.J.- I'm hopin' man. I'm gonna be praying tonight! 

JoJo-Alright, okay, tell ya what. Coming up next, me and A.J. are gonna talk 
it over, and we'll see if he still wants to go through with it, double check it 
and triple check it, #1 was voted on as "The One". A.J. him being the fact that 
he's from the Backstreet Boys, that does carry a lot of weight, especially 
since it's the #1 song. We'll think it over and maybe we'll play, DWYB as the 
#1 song tonight? Sound cool A.J.? 

A.J.- Sounds good with me, man! 

JoJo- We're gonna go to like a little meeting here. We'll be right back, 
JoJo's Top Five at Nine coming up next. 

JoJo- JoJo on the radio 102.7 KIIS FM and on the telephone, I think he's 
in his underwear right now from Orlando, A.J. form the Backstreet Boys. Are ya 
still there bro? 

A.J.- I'm right here, man! 

JoJo- Alright, we gotta check with one more person before we switch the 
#1 song from "The One" to DWYB. I figure one of your Backstreet fans will be 
the perfect persons to ask. Are you in agreeance with that? 

A.J.- I am in a 100% agreeance with that. 

JoJo- Is agreeance a word? I think, okay. Yo Ronda are ya there? 

Ronda-Yes I'm here. 

JoJo- Say hi to A.J. of the Backstreet Boys! 

Ronda- Hi A.J.! 

A.J.- How ya doing sweet heart? 

Ronda- OMG I'm the biggest Backstreet Boys fan in the world! I love you guys! 

A.J.- Well, thank you! 

JJ- We have to ask you a question. You heard what the drama is, right? 

Ronda-Uh huh! 

JoJo- The single that was planned on being the final single of Millennium, 
"The One", is of course the #1 song tonight and DWYB, A.J. wants to switch 'em. 

Ronda- I think that's a good idea. I love DWYB cause it's got beat, you can 
dance to it. I love it! 

A.J.- That's the way I feel, girl. 

Ronda- Yeah, I'm a dancer and I wanna dance to it and I love that song. 

A.J.- Well thank you, so do I! 

Ronda- Yeah [giggles] 

A.J.- That's my favorite song off the album, though. 

JoJo- That's your favorite song off the album. DWYB is the one you like. 

Ronda- Me? 

JoJo- Yeah, well A.J. and you 

A.J.- Yeah! 

Ronda- Oh, yeah! 

JoJo- Right on. Alright, well, Ronda, say bye to A.J. Any question you wanna 
ask him real quick? 

Ronda- Ummm, yeah! I wanna ask him when are they gonna come back around on 
tour? 

A.J.- Uh, well, we're actually getting ready to do back in the studio next 
month and record the brand new album and we'll probably be on tour, probably 
sometime in the beginning 2001. 

Ronda- Okay, thank you! Tell all the Backstreet Boys I said hi and I love 'em! 

A.J.- I promise you, I will definitely do that! 

Ronda- I love you, thank you! 

A.J.- Okay, I love you sweet heart, good night! 

JoJo-Alright now A.J. now what's the deal now, suppose this takes off and you 
start shootin' a new video. Let's just look at best case scenario. The song 
flies, what's gonna happen? 

A.J.- Best case scenario that if the song flies and it blows up, cling, cling, 
I'm hopin' it does. If it blows up, and we shoot a brand new video, which 
will be the official, final single off of Millennium. Uhh, there's only one 
stipulation. There's only one big brick wall I see constricting us from recording 
a brand new video. 

JoJo- What's the stipulation, Mr. A.J.? 

A.J.- We need a cameo appearance from a multi-multi sex god, superstar. 

JoJo-[laughing] 

A.J.- I was thinking, like, maybe, Brad Pitt, 

JoJo- Naah! 

A.J.- Or Howard Stern, 

JoJo- Naah! 

A.J.- Or wait, maybe, MAYBE we could get, like, Justin Timberlake from 'N Sync 
to be in it! 

JoJo- I, I have a good idea. 

A.J.-What? 

JoJo-[coughing] 

A.J.- Wait! I have a, WAIT, I have the best idea! 

JoJo- Starts with J, then O. 

A.J.- How 'bout we get YOU to be the cameo in the video? 

JoJo- If the video is shot … 

A.J.- If the video is shot, you will be our cameo. BUT you will have to be 
wearing the same outfits that we wear in the entire video, and you have to 
dance with us. 

JoJo- I'll need a little rehearsal but I can work that out, yeah! 

A.J.- Hey man, if you got rhythm, dog, it's all good, man! 

JoJo- I got a little rhythm, bro. I'm down with that. I can handle that! 

A.J.- OH wait, wait, wait! There is ONE more stipulation. 

JoJo- OMG, okay, what else could it be? 

A.J.- You gotta cut that fro you got, man. The whole curly thing has gotta 
go. You can do that, right? 

JoJo- Ohhh, okay I'm in the video! 

A.J.- Okay! [laughing] 

J.J.- Now I want everyone to remember this. I hope people recorded this 
'cause I recorded it, A.J., and I'm gonna be knocking on the door when the 
video's being shot, like, 'A.J. I'm here for my cameo, man!' 

A.J.- I'm telling you man, I promise you, on behalf of Backstreet Boys, you will 
be in the video. 

JoJo- Alright man, I'm down with that, man! Okay, now DWYB, we're gonna switch 
'em. It was "The One" but according to you, it needs to be switched tonight. 

A.J.- It needs to be the PROPER #1 song! 

JoJo- Now why is it your favorite? What's up with DWYB? 

A.J.- DWYB is so edgy. It's like the angry but yet the poppy, happy, crazy 
song that Backstreet Boys had done. It's a great song and it's the only song 
that I honestly can actually bob my head to and I play it continuously in my 
car until my ears bleed! It is to me the epitome of the edge of the whole 
Backstreet Boys vibe. It's a great song, man. It really is! 

JoJo- Well, tell ya what let's pop it on now #1 tonight, JoJo's Top 
Five at Nine. Backstreet Boys, BSB, who knows possibly the real final single 
off Millennium, DWYB! 

A.J.- Hell yeah! 

[Song] I think songs played on the radio sound cooler for some reason! 

A.J.- From the BSB, aka Johnny No Name! 

JoJo- Last day I saw you in person was over at the No Name show and how'd 
the whole tour end up? 

A.J.- It was awesome, dude. We sold out every show, it was a great response. 
We raised so much money for the "Save the Music Fund". It was an incredible turnout. 
It's been a great thing, man and you know what, the rest of my Boys have been 
very supportive. Actually Howie is right now working on a whole solo thing right 
now himself. 

JoJo- No kidding! 

A.J- Doing a whole Latin thing, you know. Kinda like a Ricky Martin meets Marc 
Anthony meets Santana kinda vibe. 

JoJo- He, like, followed you on tour and did a couple of pieces with you, here 
and there. Do you plan on poppin' on Howie's record and doing some things 
with him? 

A.J.- Matter of fact, he has his very first show down here in Orlando, Florida 
on the 25th of June at, uh, Universal Studios City Walk at a club called The 
Groove and I am gonna be there and kinda pay my respects and to help 
him do, we're probably gonna do "Maria, Maria" by Carlos Santana. So I'm 
gonna, you know, surprise, he kinda thinks I'm gonna show up but he don't know 
the truth. 

JoJo- I hope, like, he's not listening. He not in L.A. is he? 

A.J.- No, he is actually in New York working on a couple a new records 
for the new BSB project. 

JoJo- BYT, what is up with that? I know you guys have to be poppin' into a 
studio comin' up soon or are you already there? 

A.J.- We, uh, well, we just got back from the Bahamas. We took our very first 
group trip. Uh, the five of us have never actually written anything 
together before and the five of us took a trip down to the Bahamas, it was a 
kind of a vacation/work. We were down there in Nassau for about, ohh geez, 
about 12 days. We got about nine songs done. About seven of which were 
written by all five of us and the other ones we're songs that a couple of 
us had already written, so we got a lot of work done. Uh, Kevin is actually 
getting ready for a wedding. I'm just kinda messin' around back at the, uh, 
crib. I'm actually calling you from my house! 

JoJo- So you are in Orlando? 

A.J.- I am in Orlando. My girl just got back from work and I'm just sitting 
here, walking around my , uh, my kitchen. I'm lounging in my draws! 

JoJo-[laughing] 

A.J.- And I'm sitting here chillin' in my Speedo!