Perfect 10 98.7 FM radio station's DJ, Glen Ong,
caught up with the Kevin Richardson, of the Backstreet Boys, in Plymouth,
UK recently.
Glen Ong: We caught the broadcast live of the MTV
Europe music awards, and you guys walked away with the most popular video?
Did you guys expect that?
Kevin: I mean, we....we....I mean, actually, we knew we had a lot of fans in Europe. The crowd there was really surprised because our music in Europe is a little more popular than in the UK. So the groups was up against Oasis, and Jamaroquai, and Boyzone and Spice Girls. They are a big UK act. And it was MTV Europe. So um.....I think that everyone in the audience which was from the UK was a little surprised as well. Because right now, we are just now starting touring the UK and our music is beginning to take off here. I think we were a shock to the audience. But we were definitely thrilled to pick up that award. And er....yeah, so it was incredible. My heart was pounding out of my chest.
GO: Were you guys nervous when you walked up on stage?
Kevin: Actually, when we walked up on stage.....it was just like, that wasn't.....that....that was the easy part. The hard part was sitting there while they reading the nominations, the nominees. Which you know, were like Oasis and everyone else. So that was the nervous part. I was sitting there and 'WOW! We were nominated for an MTV award!', you know, my heart was pounding out of my chest.
GO: OK, I'm gonna surprise you. I don't know whether you guys know this - but you guys have already gone Double-Platinum over here, in Singapore?
Kevin (in a totally surprised tone):What??!?!?
GO: Double Platinum.
Kevin: Wow!
GO: Yeah.
Kevin: No, I didn't know that. I knew that.....they told us that the record was just selling really well, but they didn't give us any numbers and they didn't tell us. That's incredible! Oh, wow! That's .... Oh great! We can't come...... Oh, some of the guys are standing with me.
Brian: Double Platinum in Singapore!!
Kevin: OK, cool! That's awesome! We can't wait to come back and put up a big show for you guys there.
GO: Yeah, we are all waiting for you to come down to Singapore but I guess, now that you are so busy, we'll have to wait for a long time.
Kevin: Well, hopefully, we hope to make it sometime next spring. We are trying to work something out. Actually we had a meeting with our manager last night, and we'd very much like to get over that way again as soon as possible.
GO: Have you started work on the second album?
Kevin: Definitely, and we are almost finished with it. We did some tracks with PM Dawn, um....Babyface, um.....we've got a lot of the big-hitters come in so far as producers and writers, we've also got some of our own songs on the second album as well.
Kevin: We'd like to thank everyone in Singapore, for all their love and support. Thank you *so much* for making our album Double Platinum. That's incredible. We are really excited about that. We can't wait to come back and bring our band put up a big, nice, proper show for all you guys over in Singapore. Thanks a lot and we'll see you soon. Peace.
