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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Video of Donnie's Birthday is HERE
CLICK CLICK CLICK!
Note From Heidi - As sad as I feel for Donnie, Kim and their kids - I do know that there is so much love out there to support him and I hope they will all be happier in the long run.
A New Kid on the Block is officially gonna be hangin' tough by himself for a while, because his wife has filed for the big D. And we got footage of the dude celebrating this weekend at Jet Nightclub in Las Vegas. Donnie Wahlberg's wife of nine years, Kim Fey, filed for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court. They have two kids, ages 7 and 15.
She cites irreconcilable differences. She is asking for custody, giving him visitation. She also wants spousal support.
The couple separated last January."
Note From Heidi - As sad as I feel for Donnie, Kim and their kids - I do know that there is so much love out there to support him and I hope they will all be happier in the long run.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
What Donnie did on his "39th" Birthday...
Well...looks like Donnie, Danny and Joe went out partying to Vegas for Donnie's "39th" Birthday...
http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/17/donnie-wahlberg-involved-in-kids-play/
There are pics of the event...let's just say it doesn't look like he was suffering for female attention at all...
http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/17/donnie-wahlberg-involved-in-kids-play/
There are pics of the event...let's just say it doesn't look like he was suffering for female attention at all...
Thursday, August 14, 2008
NKOTB on THE VIEW
TUES., SEPT., 2 – “The View” returns live for Season 12; performance from New Kids on the Block.
NKOTB WalMart Soundcheck airs tomorrow (Aug 15/08) at www.walmart.com
It's on the US website, as Canadian WalMarts don't have Soundcheck.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
WOOT!
Reps for New Kids on the Block reveal that NKOTB will star in a VH-1 Special this September.
“NKOTB are also gearing up for an exclusive 90-minute live event, “New Kids on the Block: A Behind The Music Special Event” premiering on VH1, September 28 at 8PM (ET/PT). In a first-of-its-kind production, the special will celebrate the history of the New Kids On The Block while also documenting what inspired their 2008 reunion in their own words. Interspersed throughout the special will be live reports from Boston, counting down until VH1 airs a live broadcast of the first three songs from the world renowned group’s sold out concert at the TD Banknorth Garden in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.”
New Kids’ tour runs September 18th in Toronto and ends this November.
Their album The Block drops September 2.
“In addition to “Single” with R&B superstar Ne-Yo, other collaborations include “Grown Man” (with The Pussycat Dolls and uber-producer Teddy Riley), “Put It on My Tab” (with the ubiquitous Akon), “Big Girl Now” (with NY dance-pop diva Lady GaGa) and the much-buzzed about “Full Service” (with fellow supergroup New Edition).”
Can’t wait!
“NKOTB are also gearing up for an exclusive 90-minute live event, “New Kids on the Block: A Behind The Music Special Event” premiering on VH1, September 28 at 8PM (ET/PT). In a first-of-its-kind production, the special will celebrate the history of the New Kids On The Block while also documenting what inspired their 2008 reunion in their own words. Interspersed throughout the special will be live reports from Boston, counting down until VH1 airs a live broadcast of the first three songs from the world renowned group’s sold out concert at the TD Banknorth Garden in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.”
New Kids’ tour runs September 18th in Toronto and ends this November.
Their album The Block drops September 2.
“In addition to “Single” with R&B superstar Ne-Yo, other collaborations include “Grown Man” (with The Pussycat Dolls and uber-producer Teddy Riley), “Put It on My Tab” (with the ubiquitous Akon), “Big Girl Now” (with NY dance-pop diva Lady GaGa) and the much-buzzed about “Full Service” (with fellow supergroup New Edition).”
Can’t wait!
NK's in UK Magazine -- HEAT!!!
Saw this article on http://www.nkotbfans.com/, and had to post it here...HEAT Magazine Article. It is a REAL article...and some new facts...
NKOTB to be Upcoming Guests on VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown
Mark those calendars again...
Saturday, September 27 on VH1
NKOTB will be the Guests on VH1 Top 20 Countdown
The Block (Deluxe Version) Pre-Order available on i-Tunes
i-Tunes now has the deluxe version of The Block available for pre-order for $12.99. These are the songs plus bonuses...
- Click, Click, Click
- Single
- Big Girl Now (feat. Lady GaGa)
- Summertime
- 2 in the Morning
- Grown Man (feat. The Pussycat Dolls)
- Dirty Dancing
- Sexify My Love
- Twisted
- Full Service (feat. New Edition)
- Lights, Camera, Action
- Put It On My Tab (feat. Akon)
- Stare at You
- One Song
- Don't Cry
- Officially Over
- Looking Like Danger
- Close to You (iTunes Bonus Exclusive Track)
- Summertime [Pre-Order Only]
- Digital Booklet-The Block
Monday, August 11, 2008
Mark Your Calendars!!!
Just searched for NKOTB on VH1, and they have a "Rock On TV" section...so mark your calendars for the upcoming stuff on the guys:
- Thursday, August 21 on ETV
The E! True Hollywood Story: New Kids On The Block
About: The E! True Hollywood Story: (#213) New Kids On The BlockTwo hour episode gives viewers a backstage pass into the lives of the five young men from Boston - Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, Joey McIntyre, and brothers Jonathan and Jordan Knight - who, as the "boy band" New Kids On The Block ignited a coast to coast teen frenzy from 1989 to 1992. The lads in New Kids on the Block had much to contend with as they grew up in the fast lane. The group's sound swept the nation in the late '80s, and the boys created pandemonium wherever they went. With screaming girls chasing them by the thousands, there was no place for the band members to hide. Millions of dollars poured in as the teen idols dominated the charts. Then the music stopped. Now, find out what's happened to these teenage heartthrobs in the years since. Joey McIntyre, Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood all appear in this E! True Hollywood Story, which delivers some shocking inside info on the boy band that once ruled the world. Other interviews include singer Tiffany and former band manager Dick Scott. - Saturday, August 30 and Sunday, August 31 on ETV
New Kids On The Block: Together Again
About: New Kids on the Block: Together AgainThe boys are back, and so are their fans! In an exclusive interview, The New Kids on the Block reveal why they went their separate ways and why they decided to come together again.
NOTE: This is under the heading "Series", so maybe there is more than one episode??? - Monday, September 1 on NBC
Today Show: NKOTB w/ Ne Yo
About: Today: 2008/09/01The Toyota Concert Series on "Today" presents New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo.
Now, I don't get ETV...so someone better burn me a DVD and send it my way...wink wink hint hint!!!
New Blog from Donnie :)
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Donnie and Danny’s earthquake adventure!
Hey all!!!!
Quick thing-
I’ve been in LA for a while… Been in a few earthquakes.
The one last week hit while we were in rehearsal…
And I realized after it hit….
That I need a camera phone with video…
See I’m used to earthquakes….
Danny Wood, however, is not used to them.
If you all could see Danny running to a doorway when that sucker hit…
Man I wish I had a camera!!!
Funny s*#@!!!!!!!
Sorry Danny…
I’d have you in my corner in most any dangerous situation in life…
I guess an earthquake is not one of them.
Though I have to admit….
My first earthquake….
I didn’t run for a doorway….
I ran outside the front door!!!
Good times.
Much Love,
Donnie W
Donnie and Danny’s earthquake adventure!
Hey all!!!!
Quick thing-
I’ve been in LA for a while… Been in a few earthquakes.
The one last week hit while we were in rehearsal…
And I realized after it hit….
That I need a camera phone with video…
See I’m used to earthquakes….
Danny Wood, however, is not used to them.
If you all could see Danny running to a doorway when that sucker hit…
Man I wish I had a camera!!!
Funny s*#@!!!!!!!
Sorry Danny…
I’d have you in my corner in most any dangerous situation in life…
I guess an earthquake is not one of them.
Though I have to admit….
My first earthquake….
I didn’t run for a doorway….
I ran outside the front door!!!
Good times.
Much Love,
Donnie W
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Almost forgot to post this for you!
THE BLOCK - OFFICIAL TRACK LISTING!
The Block - Standard Version (Digital & Physical)
1. Click Click Click
2. Single (with Ne-Yo)
3. Big Girl Now (featuring Lady Gaga)
4. Summertime
5. 2 In The Morning
6. Grown Man (featuring Pussycat Dolls and Teddy Riley)
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Sexify My Love
9. Twisted
10. Full Service (featuring New Edition)
11. Lights, Camera, Action
12. Put It on My Tab (featuring Akon)
13. Stare at You
The Block - Standard Version (Digital & Physical)
1. Click Click Click
2. Single (with Ne-Yo)
3. Big Girl Now (featuring Lady Gaga)
4. Summertime
5. 2 In The Morning
6. Grown Man (featuring Pussycat Dolls and Teddy Riley)
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Sexify My Love
9. Twisted
10. Full Service (featuring New Edition)
11. Lights, Camera, Action
12. Put It on My Tab (featuring Akon)
13. Stare at You
New Kids - British Article
REMEMBER 1989 when Madonna topped the singles charts with Like A Prayer, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade was a box-office smash, Liverpool beat Everton 3–2 in the FA Cup Final and the Berlin Wall came down?
Well for pre-pubescent girls, the year meant only one thing: the arrival of New Kids On The Block (cue hysterical screaming).
Brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, and Danny Wood — five buff guys from Boston who had the Right Stuff with their shiny white teeth, falsetto vocals, street fashion and slinky dance moves.
Fast forward 19 years and SFTW are in Burbank, California, 12 miles outside West Hollywood, at a rehearsal studio where the five are gearing up for their forthcoming world tour and release of their comeback album, titled, well what else but The Block.
The New Kids are all now fathers in their mid to late thirties but still have their boyish good looks and blinding smiles.
Crush
Toned and fit, they arrive full of smiles, kisses and hugs apart from Jon, who is clearly in pain after a visit to his chiropractor.
One female journalist with me is giddy with excitement about meeting her old idols and arrives clutching an old NKOTB tour programme from yesteryear. I’m told other interviewers have brought old pillows, records and photos from the height of the New Kids hysteria to be signed.
However, not the right age to have a crush on them the first time around, I arrive empty handed. Keen to let the PR know that I won’t be fainting when I meet the band, I remind her for the third time I was never a fan. I am just curious to see what all the fuss is about.
And there has been a BIG fuss about their comeback.
Two weeks after announcing their first US arena tour in almost 15 years, additional shows were added, with tickets selling at a rate of 6,000 a day.
Their first New York date sold out in just six minutes, Toronto in four minutes and a string of home town gigs in Boston in under ten minutes. “Our shows will be nostalgia sprinkled with a joyous newness,” Donnie tells me.
“I would not be here if everyone didn’t agree to do the new album. No way.
“I was on a movie set working with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, things were going great.”
Like his younger brother Mark, Donnie ventured into acting after NKOTB finally split in 1994 as well as continuing to work as a producer.
He’s acted in films including The Sixth Sense and Ransom and TV series Band of Brothers. Attempts to reunite NKOTB were made long before comebacks became the new trend.
In 1999, MTV tried to get them back for the VMAs but Jonathan declined while in 2004, Joey, Danny and Donnie refused to reform for VH1’s Bands Reunited.
Jordan, who had solo success after the band split, explains: “It worked this time for all of us because it wasn’t a TV show or a fast-talking promoter trying to put us together. It was five guys, ready to do it, talking together from the ground up.”
Joey, who has starred in hit Broadway shows, adds: “We accomplished a lot as a pop group and we take pride in what we did. That’s why if we were going to do this again it had to be in a way we’d all be proud of.”
“It’s about respect,” adds Donnie. “We can go out and try to earn the respect of the world but at the end of the day we have to be able to respect ourselves.
“When we walk away from this, this time we’re going to be in our forties. There’ll be no comeback after that. We won’t be able to regret anything but be able to feel good about reforming and make an album we feel really good about.”
NKOTB saw collaborators queuing up to work with them. Akon, New Edition, Timbaland, The Pussycat Dolls and Ne-Yo all feature on The Block (but not Michael Jackson or Madonna as was rumoured). These famous friends have contributed to the reformed NKOTB’s fresher urban pop style. Tracks worth a mention include Summertime, with its breezy feel-good vibe, Sexify My Love — which is pure Justin Timberlake — and Single, which is full of attitude.
Storm
But the album’s best track is Click, Click, Click, a laid-back dreamy ballad penned by unknown singer–songwriter Nazeree.
Donnie explains: “That track really was the perfect storm. I was in such a bad place last summer as my marriage was breaking up and I heard that song and it inspired me. It felt perfect and gave me the incentive to go in another direction.
“Acting is great but I had a lot of energy and emotion going through me and music is a more rapid response than acting. It’s the song that got us back together.”
NKOTB were a massive phenomenon and set the scene for bands like Backstreet Boys, Take That, Boyzone and *NSYNC.
NKOTB sold more than 70million albums, won countless awards and at one point earned more than Madonna and Michael Jackson through tickets and merchandise which included NKOTB dolls, T-shirts, lunchboxes and even fluffy slippers.
“Aaah the pink fluffy slippers,” laughs Joey. “They were a little much. Did we wear them? Are you kidding?!”
The boys admit that the stratospheric level of fame they achieved had its downsides.
Danny, who stayed working in music and starred on reality TV after the split, reveals: “I remember the very first time we had thousands of fans show up to see us in Fresno, California. We are all still amazed by that. The fans were on the roof tops, everywhere, just to catch a glimpse.
“We were on the biggest tour of our career but the flip side to that was I was the most unhappy that I had been within the group.
“Everything that was happening, the whole machine, the merchandising, got out of control.
“We were so young and we didn’t know how to reel that all in. We did eventually and of course now we have everything under control but it was not fun like the other tours. The tours after that were more fun.”
Crazy
Donnie adds: “Yep, we had fans everywhere, outside our houses and it got a little crazy at times but sometimes when you feel like a bag of sh*t, you’d walk outside and they’d say hi and it would really fill your soul.”
So who do the band see as their fans today?
Jon, who also runs a successful real estate company, says: “It’s funny, I just got a text from one of my tenants and she said her four-year old and her friend heard us on the radio and both said they loved the song. So I guess we have fans new and old, the original ones plus those too young the first time who are discovering us for the first time.”
“I have this analogy about our shows before and after,” says Donnie. “For our old concerts they were like women who we had sex with like rabbits. Now our shows are women who we make love to.
It’s a controlled energy but there’s nothing that dancewise is challenging, everyone’s in great shape, everyone’s stayed healthy and it’s all looking good.”
There are no egos on show today from the New Kids and although I was never someone who screamed at the mere mention of their name, as they leave the studio for a quick game of basketball, I’m happy to have met the down-to-earth, friendly bunch.
New Blog from Donnie!!!
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
A word from Donnie
Hey All,
This blog is mostly to the LA/West Coast fans but, since a lot of you are so CRAAAAAAAZZZZZYYYYYY and are coming to many shows around the country, I figured I better write this to all of you….
The LA Clippers have asked us to switch out our second Staples show to The Nokia Theater across the street. Same date. Same night. Same time. Pretty much the same amount of seats. Same parking structures. So no big deal…. Right?
Or is it…..?
Now being Celtics fans we are not in the business of helping out other NBA teams… But since the Cetlics won the Championship… We do feel a bit of pity for the rest of the NBA.
That said…. we have agreed to let them have the date.
The negative…..?
Can’t see any.
The positive….?
The Nokia Theater is a much more intimate venue for us to play in for the final stop on our US part of the tour. This and will give us a chance to finish in an environment that is much closer to all of you!!!!!!
In fact… It is more FACE TIME friendly!!!!!
And you know how I feel about face time!!!!!!!!
Either way….
Nobody can stop the party that is gonna reign down on LA on Thanksgiving eve… no matter if we gotta play in a high school gym!!!
It is gonna be OUR night TOGETHER!!!
Judging from all of your comments….
I am not gonna get any sleep on this tour….
And guess what….
I don’t want any sleep!!!!
I’m coming for you!!!!
Much Love-
Donnie W
NKOTB Wild Days Article from London's Daily Star
NEW Kids On The Block have spoken for the first time about wild moments outside the boyband glare.
But the all-singing and dancing outfit say their families kept the teen idols on the straight and narrow.
Joey McIntyre, 35, told me: “We all went through bumpy times in our own ways. Sure, we are going to make mistakes, but luckily our close families were there to make sure we didn’t fall too hard.
“We all had to figure out our lives after the craziness of New Kids ended.
“I didn’t go to college so I didn’t have that party time, but I definitely had party time where I was going out and passing out on my front lawn a couple of times.
“Boston is a very small town so you can’t get a big head as they keep you down.
“Sometimes it is frustrating because if you wear the wrong colour shirt then you are a freak, but the good thing is that they keep you grounded.”
Joey credits bandmates Jordan, 37, and Jon Knight, 38, Danny Wood, 38, and Donnie Wahlberg, 39, for keeping each other sane.
As they gear up to release comeback single Summertime next month and launch a world tour, they all seem to have their heads screwed on.
Joey continued: “Many of our friends are like: ‘How did you guys not manage to get into drugs?’
“That would never cross our minds.”
With new album The Block featuring collaborations with Ne-Yo, 25, and Pussycat Dolls, NKOTB are set to return to the top of the charts.
Joey said: “Ne-Yo is one of the most sought-after songwriters, so we were really pleased he wanted to be on the track as an artist too.
“The PCD track is a Teddy Riley song and has some great vocals. It has a really cool vibe.”
I can reveal that Robyn, 29, and Natasha Bedingfield, 26, will support the band in the US.
Joey grinned: “Natasha’s album was my last purchase and I absolutely love it.”
British girl power.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Mark August 15 on your Calendars -- NKOTB & Walmart!!
Check out this site... http://soundcheck.walmart.com/comingsoon.html to see an announcement by Walmart for an August 15 viewing of a soundcheck with NKOTB for Summertime. After viewing the photos, looks like this was done the "day before" the July 26th event with fans for the album release party...
Enjoy the photos...these are just a few of the ones posted on the above link...
Monday, August 4, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
NKOTB - Canadian Facebook Group!
Join us here! Lets all share our stories - sightings, pictures and excitement for the Reunion Tour!
CLICK
Friday, August 1, 2008
Cover of the Album!!!
The New Kids on the Block are preparing to release their new album, and PEOPLE.com has an exclusive first look at the cover.
The band will release The Block on Sept. 2 – and the guys have previewed two singles from the disc. The first, "Summertime," debuted in June – the perfect synth-pop, summer anthem.
Earlier this week, the NKOTB unveiled their second single, appropriately called "Single," which features guest vocals by Ne-Yo. Also on the CD: guest spots from New Edition (they collaborate on "Full Service") and the Pussycat Dolls, who appear on "Grown Man."
– Brian Orloff
New Blog from Donnie
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Donnie talks music
Hey All….
What’s good?!?!?!
I wanna talk music for a second…
Summertime was a special song from us to you….
Thank you for embracing it with such love.
It means the world to us.
THAT SAID….
Summertime was only an invitation…
An invitation to all of you…
An invitation to the party…
THE PARTY THAT STARTS NOW!!!!
Our new “SINGLE” featuring NE-YO is coming to radio as you read this!
If you haven’t heard it…. WATCH OUT!!!!
If you haven’t heard it… FIND IT!!!
Turn your radios ON!!!!
Get on the web!!!!
It’s time to raise the bar.
And guess what….
This is only the begining!!!
Our album is done!
Complete!!!
Ready for all of your ears!!!!
We are so proud of it!
We want to make you all proud too!!!
I hope you are ready for it….
I hope the world is ready for it…
SEPTEMBER 2ND IT IS ON!!!!!
Much Love As Always-
Donnie W
PS- No MJ or Madonna duets…. Sorry.
However… I am sure that you will agree that NE-YO, AKON, NEW EDITION, PUSSY CAT DOLLS, POLOW DA DON, and LADY GAGA (who killed on So You Think You Can Dance Last Night) will be more than adequate!!!!
HA!!!!!! HA!!!!!!
GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited for you all….
We are gonna party like never before!
Love Ya!!!!!
Donnie Blog - August 1, 2008!!!
from nkotb.com...
y'all, i'm not lying when i say i'm CRYING right now!!! this post has hit me in such a strong way. i have such a feeling of overwhelmed happiness that i cannot explain....i CAN'T WAIT to meet the guys (especially donnie...for a reason i cannot explain....)..
I'M READY!!!!!
xoxoxoxox
desi
Hey All….
What’s good?!?!?!
I wanna talk music for a second…
Summertime was a special song from us to you….
Thank you for embracing it with such love.
It means the world to us.
THAT SAID….
Summertime was only an invitation…
An invitation to all of you…
An invitation to the party…
THE PARTY THAT STARTS NOW!!!!
Our new “SINGLE” featuring NE-YO is coming to radio as you read this!
If you haven’t heard it…. WATCH OUT!!!!
If you haven’t heard it… FIND IT!!!
Turn your radios ON!!!!
Get on the web!!!!
It’s time to raise the bar.
And guess what….
This is only the begining!!!
Our album is done!
Complete!!!
Ready for all of your ears!!!!
We are so proud of it!
We want to make you all proud too!!!
I hope you are ready for it….
I hope the world is ready for it…
SEPTEMBER 2ND IT IS ON!!!!!
Much Love As Always-
Donnie W
PS- No MJ or Madonna duets…. Sorry.
However… I am sure that you will agree that NE-YO, AKON, NEW EDITION, PUSSY CAT DOLLS, POLOW DA DON, and LADY GAGA (who killed on So You Think You Can Dance Last Night) will be more than adequate!!!!
HA!!!!!! HA!!!!!!
GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited for you all….
We are gonna party like never before!
y'all, i'm not lying when i say i'm CRYING right now!!! this post has hit me in such a strong way. i have such a feeling of overwhelmed happiness that i cannot explain....i CAN'T WAIT to meet the guys (especially donnie...for a reason i cannot explain....)..
I'M READY!!!!!
xoxoxoxox
desi
Hey All….
What’s good?!?!?!
I wanna talk music for a second…
Summertime was a special song from us to you….
Thank you for embracing it with such love.
It means the world to us.
THAT SAID….
Summertime was only an invitation…
An invitation to all of you…
An invitation to the party…
THE PARTY THAT STARTS NOW!!!!
Our new “SINGLE” featuring NE-YO is coming to radio as you read this!
If you haven’t heard it…. WATCH OUT!!!!
If you haven’t heard it… FIND IT!!!
Turn your radios ON!!!!
Get on the web!!!!
It’s time to raise the bar.
And guess what….
This is only the begining!!!
Our album is done!
Complete!!!
Ready for all of your ears!!!!
We are so proud of it!
We want to make you all proud too!!!
I hope you are ready for it….
I hope the world is ready for it…
SEPTEMBER 2ND IT IS ON!!!!!
Much Love As Always-
Donnie W
PS- No MJ or Madonna duets…. Sorry.
However… I am sure that you will agree that NE-YO, AKON, NEW EDITION, PUSSY CAT DOLLS, POLOW DA DON, and LADY GAGA (who killed on So You Think You Can Dance Last Night) will be more than adequate!!!!
HA!!!!!! HA!!!!!!
GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited for you all….
We are gonna party like never before!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
NEW SINGLE by NKOTB
As reported on People website today...
FIRST LISTEN: NKOTB and Ne-Yo Team Up on a New Song
New Kids on the Block and R&B star and producer Ne-Yo have recorded a new song together – and People.com has the first listen of the track. The song, titled "Single," will be available on iTunes Aug. 12, and also appears on NKOTB's upcoming album The Block, due out Sept. 2. Listen to the Song Here:
Click here for the chance to listen to "Single"
It's not the first time the boy band has teamed up with another artist for their upcoming CD. They recorded "Full Service" with New Edition, and collaborated with the Pussycat Dolls on "Grown Man."
Mrs Callahan...Joey Mac Live
This song always made me teary-eyed when I played this CD but this performance is the first I've seen of it. (and hey - he's wearing a kilt!) ;)
OMG Donnie is SO in my Jordan Sandwich now!
CHEck this out!!!! This is from July 26th - in LA the CD Preview Party
CLICK CLICK CLICK LIVE!
PART TWO
CLICK CLICK CLICK
AND MORE
CLICK CLICK
Little Click - Summertime
Donnie's Butt! Woot!
CLICK CLICK CLICK LIVE!
PART TWO
CLICK CLICK CLICK
AND MORE
CLICK CLICK
Little Click - Summertime
Donnie's Butt! Woot!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
danny's soft side showing through!
here is danny calling his children....shows a totally different side and shows what the guys are giving up to please all of us...i can't imagine how hard it was for them to be away from their babies! but we love them for doing it and hope they realize we appreciate it more than we can express :)
People.com exclusive reunion interview..
i'm intriged by the "yet to be released classic" that is to be performed at the show!!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Article from Vancouver Courier - July 18/08...We love Jon & Danny too :)
Kudos & Kvetches
Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008
An open letter to Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block
Dear Jonathan and Danny,
We saw your new video yesterday. Congratulations. "Summertime" is the perfect vehicle to mount your band's long awaited comeback. It's breezy and happy and features lots of women in bikinis bumping and grinding with your band mates at what looks like a pretty happening beach party outfitted by Club Monaco. That store sure makes breezy clothes great for those times when women in bikinis rub up against you. The thing is, we hardly saw either of you in the video. We were stoked when the video starts and Donnie receives a text message saying "It's on," and then he hops in a helicopter. Then Joey gets the same text message while standing shirtless on his yacht. At least we think it's his yacht. Wait a second, of course it is! But Danny, when you get the message, you're shown running through the woods... exercising. We realize it's meant to imply that you are one fit dude with toned biceps and that it takes a lot of work to be a hard-body like yourself, but we thought it was a bit of a snub. Are they trying to say you can't you afford your own yacht or helicopter? We're sure the cross trainers you're wearing are top of the line--you wouldn't settle for anything less--but come on, you deserve better than that.
And Jonathan, we were more than a little dismayed to see Donnie, Joey and Jordan hogging all the singing duties. Jordan's your brother, for goodness sake. Couldn't he have thrown you a bone. Instead, you get to sing the lyric "...and all the good times we had, baby" from the 1:12 mark to the 1:14 mark of the song. That's two seconds, which is somehow shorter than your part in "Step by Step," where you get to sing "Don't you know that the time is right." You were so good in that song. Why couldn't you have sung something like that?
Sadly, Danny, you don't fare much better. Right after Jonathan's anemic bit, you get to sing "It's been a few years, and I can't deny" from 1:15 to 1:16 of the song. One second of singing. You can't buy very many cross trainers if you're getting paid by the word.
But probably the biggest insult is the appalling lack of face time both of you get in the video. While scantily clad women--are there any other kind?--frolic on the sand and press their glistening mounds of flesh against your band mates, both of you are barely even there. Granted, Jonathan, you did go into real estate after New Kids on the Block first broke up and Danny your post-NKOTB music career was nothing to write home about, but you guys are getting treated like second-class citizens in your own band. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the end of the video when you all dress in white and perform your dance routine that's a not-so-subtle nod to your dance routines of the past. Where are you guys? Are you those shadowy figures in the background, because the only faces we're seeing is Joey, Jordan and Donnie. Sure, Jonathan you're known as the shy one and Danny you're the muscular one, but that doesn't mean you're less than the others. You're New Kids on the Block, not New Kids on the Block and A Couple of their Buddies who Nobody Really Likes. Show some respect for yourselves and, most importantly, hang tough.
Sincerely,
Kudos and Kvetches.
Vancouver Courier
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008
An open letter to Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block
Dear Jonathan and Danny,
We saw your new video yesterday. Congratulations. "Summertime" is the perfect vehicle to mount your band's long awaited comeback. It's breezy and happy and features lots of women in bikinis bumping and grinding with your band mates at what looks like a pretty happening beach party outfitted by Club Monaco. That store sure makes breezy clothes great for those times when women in bikinis rub up against you. The thing is, we hardly saw either of you in the video. We were stoked when the video starts and Donnie receives a text message saying "It's on," and then he hops in a helicopter. Then Joey gets the same text message while standing shirtless on his yacht. At least we think it's his yacht. Wait a second, of course it is! But Danny, when you get the message, you're shown running through the woods... exercising. We realize it's meant to imply that you are one fit dude with toned biceps and that it takes a lot of work to be a hard-body like yourself, but we thought it was a bit of a snub. Are they trying to say you can't you afford your own yacht or helicopter? We're sure the cross trainers you're wearing are top of the line--you wouldn't settle for anything less--but come on, you deserve better than that.
And Jonathan, we were more than a little dismayed to see Donnie, Joey and Jordan hogging all the singing duties. Jordan's your brother, for goodness sake. Couldn't he have thrown you a bone. Instead, you get to sing the lyric "...and all the good times we had, baby" from the 1:12 mark to the 1:14 mark of the song. That's two seconds, which is somehow shorter than your part in "Step by Step," where you get to sing "Don't you know that the time is right." You were so good in that song. Why couldn't you have sung something like that?
Sadly, Danny, you don't fare much better. Right after Jonathan's anemic bit, you get to sing "It's been a few years, and I can't deny" from 1:15 to 1:16 of the song. One second of singing. You can't buy very many cross trainers if you're getting paid by the word.
But probably the biggest insult is the appalling lack of face time both of you get in the video. While scantily clad women--are there any other kind?--frolic on the sand and press their glistening mounds of flesh against your band mates, both of you are barely even there. Granted, Jonathan, you did go into real estate after New Kids on the Block first broke up and Danny your post-NKOTB music career was nothing to write home about, but you guys are getting treated like second-class citizens in your own band. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the end of the video when you all dress in white and perform your dance routine that's a not-so-subtle nod to your dance routines of the past. Where are you guys? Are you those shadowy figures in the background, because the only faces we're seeing is Joey, Jordan and Donnie. Sure, Jonathan you're known as the shy one and Danny you're the muscular one, but that doesn't mean you're less than the others. You're New Kids on the Block, not New Kids on the Block and A Couple of their Buddies who Nobody Really Likes. Show some respect for yourselves and, most importantly, hang tough.
Sincerely,
Kudos and Kvetches.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
last one for tonight!
i can't get enough!!!!!!!!! (and i must agree - ONCE IN LOVE, ALWAYS IN LOVE!!!!)
another interview..
ok i'm done apologizing for posting stuff. i'mma just post. this is me. love me or boot me!! xoxoxoxox
Kiss Concert - Boston - May 2008
check it out!!! (this is quite amazing....they all look so happy and get so hyper the last part!)...again, if this was posted before, forgive me, but i don't think it had been, unless it was one of the videos that didn't work??.....i read a comment by a fan, who said we should enjoy every SECOND of this, as this may be the last reunion. that hit home. i want time to fly but then again, i don't, because once it is over.....i will be devastated. i have so many hopes & dreams in life, and it seems that they are now all stemming down to meeting these guys who have played a huge role in my life for many, many years....girls, let's ride this out and have the time of our LIVES!!!!
2 new blogs!
on nkotb.com...one from joe & the other from donnie, both checking in from rehersal...*swoon*...check 'em out!
FROM DONNIE:
Whats Good All??
Hope all is well.
Gotta say….
Our album is coming out great!!!
(At least in my humble opinion…….)
On a side note…
While I enjoy any hype for our album….
And while I also (sometimes) enjoy the audacity of people writing blatantly fabricated “news” articles…
We are NOT recording with Michael Jackson and/or Madonna.
We never claimed to be either.
Good fun reading about though!
Sorry to let ya down…. Or not.
Anyway….
Can’t wait til you all hear who we did do some collabo’s with!!!!
Ha!
GET READY….. WE’RE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Much Love-
Donnie W
PS- WE ARE COMING! YA HEARD ME?
(hell yes, heard loud & clear...come to me, baby!!! LOL)
FROM JOEY:
(not sure how to get the pic up??!?)
Yo!
A little somethin’ somethin’ from rehearsals. Things are slowly
speeding up ( I think that’s an oxymoron).
Excited about meeting the fans who are flying in to see a sneak peek
rehearsal. We think it’ll be good for us. Make us stay on point
I think we are gonna have a lot of laughs!!
I’m sure the rest of the guys will fill you in on all the shananigans.
Gotta get back to practice!
Xoxox
-jm
FROM DONNIE:
Whats Good All??
Hope all is well.
Gotta say….
Our album is coming out great!!!
(At least in my humble opinion…….)
On a side note…
While I enjoy any hype for our album….
And while I also (sometimes) enjoy the audacity of people writing blatantly fabricated “news” articles…
We are NOT recording with Michael Jackson and/or Madonna.
We never claimed to be either.
Good fun reading about though!
Sorry to let ya down…. Or not.
Anyway….
Can’t wait til you all hear who we did do some collabo’s with!!!!
Ha!
GET READY….. WE’RE COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Much Love-
Donnie W
PS- WE ARE COMING! YA HEARD ME?
(hell yes, heard loud & clear...come to me, baby!!! LOL)
FROM JOEY:
(not sure how to get the pic up??!?)
Yo!
A little somethin’ somethin’ from rehearsals. Things are slowly
speeding up ( I think that’s an oxymoron).
Excited about meeting the fans who are flying in to see a sneak peek
rehearsal. We think it’ll be good for us. Make us stay on point
I think we are gonna have a lot of laughs!!
I’m sure the rest of the guys will fill you in on all the shananigans.
Gotta get back to practice!
Xoxox
-jm
NK on E! (May 5, 2008)
once again, i came across a gem. i am especially intrigued by the fact that donnie said their shows on the tour will be THREE HOURS! (much to jon's dismay!).....now wouldn't THAT be AMAZING?!? *sigh*.....even that isn't enough time....
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
donnie & dannie interview with faz.net
Donnie and Danny did an interview with FAZ.net. The original is in German, so here is the rough English translation (it's pretty horrible...but i am quite intrigued with the part about the song that was to be the first single....that wasn't!...can't wait for the album!!!!)
„The people do not ask nevertheless also different group for their names!” New Kids on the block in the evening sun
14. July 2008 you were the mother of all Boybands, which bestbezahlten entertainers of the world, her have eighty million plates drawn up. Now they are around the forty: Fourteen years after the separation is those new Kids on the block back. In the interview Donnie and Danny explain, why.
In order to be honest, when I heard that there is a comeback that new Kids on the block, thought I, sound tragically.
Donnie Wahlberg: Why?
Well, you are any more new one, you are no more Kids….
Beach Boys are also no more Boys.
After fourteen years: What drives adults of men to demonstrate again too choreographies rehearsed fifth next to each other?
For me personally was it like that I had new Kids a mad career after the dissolution that. And for a few different one of the boys is valid also. I worked with some the best producers and actors of the world, I am a respected actor, I would not like to work, as if I indicate, but around your question to answer… why we again together are? I found a plate, with which we fell in love. I found the music, I liked her, I wanted her to sing….
How do you find to music?
I turned straight with Robert de Niro and Al Pacino in New York, and I had visited our old music attorney, so only, in order to say hello. And it gave me a CD, a demo Tape of a Canadian Singer Songwriter, and it announced, hör's you times, I hab's even not yet belonged. And it affected me immediately. Such a beautiful song.
The single „summer time “?
No, the song is called „Click Click Click “.
So far one was allowed to hear only the single.
I played the song Jordan, and he agreed to go through if I became the admission financiers. And Joe and Danny and John agreed also. And then it made for so much fun that we took up thereafter still another song. And then I decided that I a whole album before financiers, and we to have then a half year worked to. We alone. I organized and financed Fotoshootings, the flights, everything. It was a large risk.
Did you think briefly to change your names?
No. We are, who we are. We are not new, and we are not Kids, but which soll's? Green Day are not green also. That is only one name. And it is a name, which people recognize. And I do not want to criticize you, but the people ask nevertheless also different group not for their names. The people ask us whether we through-brought our whole money that we do not make again music… however why ask that anybody Rolling Stones? The people do not ask adults of group for it….
Rolling Stones play instruments. Rolling Stones do not dance rehearsed choreographies.
They play instruments? And which has with something to do? I wrote Nummer-1-Platten, I have Nummer-1-Platten produced….
Danny Wood: From where do you want to know that we do not play instruments?
, You do not play notion?
Yes, I play guitar.
As said, so far is only the first single well-known, and since you do not play an instrument.
Wahlberg: I do not understand, what to it be so important should to play an instrument. Frank Sinatra did not play an instrument, and it is one of the largest singer legends of all times. That I do not want to compare us with Frank Sinatra… I am even an instrument. I am an entertainer. I write song, I produce song, I hits wrote, I produced hits, sing I hits….
Did you have new Kids on the block after the dissolution that never the desire to make somewhat completely different one? To perhaps still study? They were so young, when your group dissolved, you were all beginning, center twenty.
Wood: Yes, but we made nevertheless completely different things. I have four children. A girl, I adopted one of them, in Russia. Them were eleven months old and eleven Pound weighed. I mean, the life consist nevertheless of more than music or that new Kids.
I ask, because I want to really understand it: Doesn't it feel like a step back to continue where you stopped before fourteen years?
That became it, if we would make it for the wrong reasons. So it is a step forward. If you hear the whole album, you will understand that.
Thus this mark goes around the music.
Absolutely. Otherwise we would not make it. It is like in former times, but with a much higher musical quality.
So far I know only the video to the first single. And there, you excuse, are nevertheless everything completely exactly like in former times. There they dance with naked torsos at the beach, it are pretty girls, you are brown, muskulös… and the music, now.
Wahlberg: Actually another song should have become the first single, a song, in which I process the failure of my marriage. But it did not seem correct for the group to acknowledge thereby. There it concerns my personal life, not around the group as a whole. „Summer time “was stop a good song for the summer, in order to be honest. One will only see with the next two Singles, where we stand today.
That will be interesting, because you were as it were the prototype for all the Boybands, which came to you, Take That, N Sync, Backstreet Boys… now could you the prototype for into the years Boybands come become. Does one say Menband?
Wahlberg: I can say the following: One never knows, how it goes correctly. One can only try to give its best. There are many people, which see the video of „summer time “and to say, okay, those are honestly. And others see it saying and, those make still the same Pop. And if we had made a darker album, it would have given people, which would have found the dumb. We can make it quite for not all. I would have uncoupled lunatically gladly another single than first.
I meant something else. They are now actually the opposite of what one introduces oneself under a Boyband. They are married or divorced, have children. Is expected by Boybands that they work, as if would be free it. They should be projection surfaces. One said certainly nevertheless in former times, you to you should your private life secret keep.
No, one does not have. See, in America gave it only Backstreet Boys and N Sync, here in Europe gave it much more Boybands. Therefore one thinks here, there would not be a formula, a blueprint that one would say to those, like her to give oneself would have… with us was that like that. Nobody said us at that time, how we have to be, because nobody knew, what one should have said us. Do they understand?
Wood: For us there was no blueprint, we was the blueprint. In each regard. The record company did not react to our success, it had a plan.
And which for a success: eighty million sold plates!
Wahlberg: That was rather coincidence. The marketing plan of the record company was wrong. The record company wanted us over the urban-radio stations marked out. Their plan was that we were white boys, who sounded like black boys - we should all fools, and which would like black public us, before it would find out that we would be white. The functioned not. The plan went inclined. And then a Popradiostation played us, and the reaction was upsetting. And in such a way the record company that it had to change the course, noticed it marketed us then as Pop, and all fell themselves like the vultures on us. Later Boybands was formed after us. There it was called, lets it us exactly the same make, we needs a cool one, a shy one, a good one, a strong one and so on. I should be probably with us the strong one. But I was simply only, who I was.
1990 was you the bestbezahlten entertainers of the world, you was times unbelievably famous. Which is more difficult to bear: If constantly fans besiege the house, or if no more fans besiege the house?
All part of the life, it is belonged to. Some people drink much, if they are young, make much party. If they stop thereby, is missing to them somewhat. One can ask oneself: what better, is a life with parties or one without? Keins of both is the correct answer. In the life it concerns other things.
But it must be nevertheless difficult to come down from the summit of the fame again. You played their last route 1994 in much smaller resounding than before. Everything totally all the same?
That will differently answer from that group to everyone. With me was it like that: I accepted. Clearly there are moments, there feels one as in a roller coaster. One evenly still was in the highest high, and then it goes down, and the wave of the energy is away, and you are suddenly alone and think, and now? Then one must remember that it did not concern fame. One must find then something else, with which one can go itself a roller coaster ride. Whether now as a plumber is, as a father, to find as actors… something new which binds one again in such a way, that is the challenge.
If you make photos now again as group, pose, dance - doesn't feel like a terrible Déjà vu?
Sometimes. But we stand there over it.
Did you have to adapt your dance style to your age, so that it does not work in a silly way? Or will you again exactly the same dance on the stage like in former times?
We are today better.
In dancing?
We are better. We are all in super form. None became fat.
They are today in better form than with beginning twenty?
Wood: I.
Wahlberg: Look at its muscles!
Wood: I am before three years the Miami marathon coagulated, I am a marathon as I still with that new Kids was run never. I am today better in form. We know today very exactly, what we do, in addition, know, how this juvenile energy is to be controlled. We are today all ripe.
Do you have to smoke all stopped, drinking like the remainder of the world?
Wood: I drank never much.
Thus were you never a wild juvenile Boygroup?
Wahlberg: We had our moments, oh. But it is never gotten out of control. We had luck.
Wasn't one of you once arrested, because he set a hotel carpet in fire?
Wahlberg: I. But I set no carpet in fire.
Wood: It squirted with the fire extinguisher. It should become a caper. There I was. There was no fire.
Wahlberg: There so much fire was in the area, as is in this area here straight fires, and one threatened me to put me for twenty years into the prison. It was complete horse muck. That was a sad time.
Was that the only arrest?
Oh, which I know.
Okay, we speak over something else. Is correct, what in the Internet to read actual you becomes with Michael Jackson into the studio to go?
Michael Jackson?
They would have met, it are said it last week.
No. I should it on 4 July in read Vegas to meet, but did not come off, and it would have had also nothing do with our plate. One of our producers works with it, and I made any joke over it on our press conference. It is to be seen merry, be said now like one again everything can or not, and it goes around. I read, we with Madonna would also work.
Yes, and with Timbaland.
Timbaland is correct.
How much do you have to pay to Timbaland, so that it works with you?
Wood: We do not know yet.
Wahlberg: I know it, but I do not say it to you.
What has to happen, so that you rate the comeback as success?
Wood: That already happened.
Wahlberg: The US route is already nearly sells off, it is unbelievable. We made a great plate, found we a record company, which wanted this plate. All further one is a gift. Let me the still following say, simply because of the direction, into which this interview went: The prices for our concert maps are as low as possible. We do not want to use anybody, we want at nobody to enrich itself. One often used us. We were successful, we much money made, as had hits, but - one acted often not in our interest. We want to now make that differently: We want to make something, which is exactly the same in our interest as in that of the public. So. Thank you.
Interview Johanna Adorján
The single „summer time “is published in August with universal, the album then in September.
„The people do not ask nevertheless also different group for their names!” New Kids on the block in the evening sun
14. July 2008 you were the mother of all Boybands, which bestbezahlten entertainers of the world, her have eighty million plates drawn up. Now they are around the forty: Fourteen years after the separation is those new Kids on the block back. In the interview Donnie and Danny explain, why.
In order to be honest, when I heard that there is a comeback that new Kids on the block, thought I, sound tragically.
Donnie Wahlberg: Why?
Well, you are any more new one, you are no more Kids….
Beach Boys are also no more Boys.
After fourteen years: What drives adults of men to demonstrate again too choreographies rehearsed fifth next to each other?
For me personally was it like that I had new Kids a mad career after the dissolution that. And for a few different one of the boys is valid also. I worked with some the best producers and actors of the world, I am a respected actor, I would not like to work, as if I indicate, but around your question to answer… why we again together are? I found a plate, with which we fell in love. I found the music, I liked her, I wanted her to sing….
How do you find to music?
I turned straight with Robert de Niro and Al Pacino in New York, and I had visited our old music attorney, so only, in order to say hello. And it gave me a CD, a demo Tape of a Canadian Singer Songwriter, and it announced, hör's you times, I hab's even not yet belonged. And it affected me immediately. Such a beautiful song.
The single „summer time “?
No, the song is called „Click Click Click “.
So far one was allowed to hear only the single.
I played the song Jordan, and he agreed to go through if I became the admission financiers. And Joe and Danny and John agreed also. And then it made for so much fun that we took up thereafter still another song. And then I decided that I a whole album before financiers, and we to have then a half year worked to. We alone. I organized and financed Fotoshootings, the flights, everything. It was a large risk.
Did you think briefly to change your names?
No. We are, who we are. We are not new, and we are not Kids, but which soll's? Green Day are not green also. That is only one name. And it is a name, which people recognize. And I do not want to criticize you, but the people ask nevertheless also different group not for their names. The people ask us whether we through-brought our whole money that we do not make again music… however why ask that anybody Rolling Stones? The people do not ask adults of group for it….
Rolling Stones play instruments. Rolling Stones do not dance rehearsed choreographies.
They play instruments? And which has with something to do? I wrote Nummer-1-Platten, I have Nummer-1-Platten produced….
Danny Wood: From where do you want to know that we do not play instruments?
, You do not play notion?
Yes, I play guitar.
As said, so far is only the first single well-known, and since you do not play an instrument.
Wahlberg: I do not understand, what to it be so important should to play an instrument. Frank Sinatra did not play an instrument, and it is one of the largest singer legends of all times. That I do not want to compare us with Frank Sinatra… I am even an instrument. I am an entertainer. I write song, I produce song, I hits wrote, I produced hits, sing I hits….
Did you have new Kids on the block after the dissolution that never the desire to make somewhat completely different one? To perhaps still study? They were so young, when your group dissolved, you were all beginning, center twenty.
Wood: Yes, but we made nevertheless completely different things. I have four children. A girl, I adopted one of them, in Russia. Them were eleven months old and eleven Pound weighed. I mean, the life consist nevertheless of more than music or that new Kids.
I ask, because I want to really understand it: Doesn't it feel like a step back to continue where you stopped before fourteen years?
That became it, if we would make it for the wrong reasons. So it is a step forward. If you hear the whole album, you will understand that.
Thus this mark goes around the music.
Absolutely. Otherwise we would not make it. It is like in former times, but with a much higher musical quality.
So far I know only the video to the first single. And there, you excuse, are nevertheless everything completely exactly like in former times. There they dance with naked torsos at the beach, it are pretty girls, you are brown, muskulös… and the music, now.
Wahlberg: Actually another song should have become the first single, a song, in which I process the failure of my marriage. But it did not seem correct for the group to acknowledge thereby. There it concerns my personal life, not around the group as a whole. „Summer time “was stop a good song for the summer, in order to be honest. One will only see with the next two Singles, where we stand today.
That will be interesting, because you were as it were the prototype for all the Boybands, which came to you, Take That, N Sync, Backstreet Boys… now could you the prototype for into the years Boybands come become. Does one say Menband?
Wahlberg: I can say the following: One never knows, how it goes correctly. One can only try to give its best. There are many people, which see the video of „summer time “and to say, okay, those are honestly. And others see it saying and, those make still the same Pop. And if we had made a darker album, it would have given people, which would have found the dumb. We can make it quite for not all. I would have uncoupled lunatically gladly another single than first.
I meant something else. They are now actually the opposite of what one introduces oneself under a Boyband. They are married or divorced, have children. Is expected by Boybands that they work, as if would be free it. They should be projection surfaces. One said certainly nevertheless in former times, you to you should your private life secret keep.
No, one does not have. See, in America gave it only Backstreet Boys and N Sync, here in Europe gave it much more Boybands. Therefore one thinks here, there would not be a formula, a blueprint that one would say to those, like her to give oneself would have… with us was that like that. Nobody said us at that time, how we have to be, because nobody knew, what one should have said us. Do they understand?
Wood: For us there was no blueprint, we was the blueprint. In each regard. The record company did not react to our success, it had a plan.
And which for a success: eighty million sold plates!
Wahlberg: That was rather coincidence. The marketing plan of the record company was wrong. The record company wanted us over the urban-radio stations marked out. Their plan was that we were white boys, who sounded like black boys - we should all fools, and which would like black public us, before it would find out that we would be white. The functioned not. The plan went inclined. And then a Popradiostation played us, and the reaction was upsetting. And in such a way the record company that it had to change the course, noticed it marketed us then as Pop, and all fell themselves like the vultures on us. Later Boybands was formed after us. There it was called, lets it us exactly the same make, we needs a cool one, a shy one, a good one, a strong one and so on. I should be probably with us the strong one. But I was simply only, who I was.
1990 was you the bestbezahlten entertainers of the world, you was times unbelievably famous. Which is more difficult to bear: If constantly fans besiege the house, or if no more fans besiege the house?
All part of the life, it is belonged to. Some people drink much, if they are young, make much party. If they stop thereby, is missing to them somewhat. One can ask oneself: what better, is a life with parties or one without? Keins of both is the correct answer. In the life it concerns other things.
But it must be nevertheless difficult to come down from the summit of the fame again. You played their last route 1994 in much smaller resounding than before. Everything totally all the same?
That will differently answer from that group to everyone. With me was it like that: I accepted. Clearly there are moments, there feels one as in a roller coaster. One evenly still was in the highest high, and then it goes down, and the wave of the energy is away, and you are suddenly alone and think, and now? Then one must remember that it did not concern fame. One must find then something else, with which one can go itself a roller coaster ride. Whether now as a plumber is, as a father, to find as actors… something new which binds one again in such a way, that is the challenge.
If you make photos now again as group, pose, dance - doesn't feel like a terrible Déjà vu?
Sometimes. But we stand there over it.
Did you have to adapt your dance style to your age, so that it does not work in a silly way? Or will you again exactly the same dance on the stage like in former times?
We are today better.
In dancing?
We are better. We are all in super form. None became fat.
They are today in better form than with beginning twenty?
Wood: I.
Wahlberg: Look at its muscles!
Wood: I am before three years the Miami marathon coagulated, I am a marathon as I still with that new Kids was run never. I am today better in form. We know today very exactly, what we do, in addition, know, how this juvenile energy is to be controlled. We are today all ripe.
Do you have to smoke all stopped, drinking like the remainder of the world?
Wood: I drank never much.
Thus were you never a wild juvenile Boygroup?
Wahlberg: We had our moments, oh. But it is never gotten out of control. We had luck.
Wasn't one of you once arrested, because he set a hotel carpet in fire?
Wahlberg: I. But I set no carpet in fire.
Wood: It squirted with the fire extinguisher. It should become a caper. There I was. There was no fire.
Wahlberg: There so much fire was in the area, as is in this area here straight fires, and one threatened me to put me for twenty years into the prison. It was complete horse muck. That was a sad time.
Was that the only arrest?
Oh, which I know.
Okay, we speak over something else. Is correct, what in the Internet to read actual you becomes with Michael Jackson into the studio to go?
Michael Jackson?
They would have met, it are said it last week.
No. I should it on 4 July in read Vegas to meet, but did not come off, and it would have had also nothing do with our plate. One of our producers works with it, and I made any joke over it on our press conference. It is to be seen merry, be said now like one again everything can or not, and it goes around. I read, we with Madonna would also work.
Yes, and with Timbaland.
Timbaland is correct.
How much do you have to pay to Timbaland, so that it works with you?
Wood: We do not know yet.
Wahlberg: I know it, but I do not say it to you.
What has to happen, so that you rate the comeback as success?
Wood: That already happened.
Wahlberg: The US route is already nearly sells off, it is unbelievable. We made a great plate, found we a record company, which wanted this plate. All further one is a gift. Let me the still following say, simply because of the direction, into which this interview went: The prices for our concert maps are as low as possible. We do not want to use anybody, we want at nobody to enrich itself. One often used us. We were successful, we much money made, as had hits, but - one acted often not in our interest. We want to now make that differently: We want to make something, which is exactly the same in our interest as in that of the public. So. Thank you.
Interview Johanna Adorján
The single „summer time “is published in August with universal, the album then in September.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
for old times' sake!! The Right Combination!
i am in a donnie mood lately and came across this old video...tell me how YOU felt when this came out...i remember (even tho i was not into donnie all that much back in the day) that i was seiko and he was singing to me....i remember thinking he had a softer side that he didn't show all that much and it showed so well in this video...i love the lil wink he gives at 2:09....*drool*...i will openly admit however, that....it's donnie NOW that gets me all worked up in a way i can't explain!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Statistical Info -- I still think 400,000 hits in one week is good...
Saw this article...found it interesting...and thing the amount of hits they had in one week is still awesome!!!
NKOTB a litmus test for whether aging fans use YouTube or not
The cycle of music has found its way back to its 80s roots with the "comeback" of Aquanet-era boy band New Kids on the Block. Gone, however, are the days of cassette mixes and recording songs off the radio; thrust into the world of YouTube and Muxtape, the 'Kids are trying to catch up with the band's new oh-so-relevant website, complete with soon-to-be-launched "NKTV" and mobile ringtones. With the recently released song, "Summertime" flooding Yahoo Video and YouTube, how are our former tween heartthrobs faring online?
Since "Summertime" became the "Featured Artist" on Yahoo, the music video has managed to wrangle the curiosity of older fans with about 14,000 views. The YouTube numbers fare much better, pulling in about 400,000 views after a week online.
But compared with current Tiger Beat poster boys The Jonas Brothers — who have their own YouTube channel, natch — the oldsters are being dusted by Internet savvy 12 year olds who don't even know what NKOTB stands for. "When You Look Me in the Eyes" by The Jonas Brothers was released in January 2008 and has reached 17.7 million views since its release; that's an average of 840,000 views per week, about twice what NKOTB has seen since releasing their new song.
With the death of print being foretold by teenagers, the online generation gap is widening. With YouTube's views down, it might make sense for the site to reach out to older viewers in order to expand even further. If the generation that fell in love with Jordan's heavenly falsetto doesn't step in soon, we're all doomed to an existence with ZipIt's Fred and his annoying legion of fans.
NKOTB a litmus test for whether aging fans use YouTube or not
The cycle of music has found its way back to its 80s roots with the "comeback" of Aquanet-era boy band New Kids on the Block. Gone, however, are the days of cassette mixes and recording songs off the radio; thrust into the world of YouTube and Muxtape, the 'Kids are trying to catch up with the band's new oh-so-relevant website, complete with soon-to-be-launched "NKTV" and mobile ringtones. With the recently released song, "Summertime" flooding Yahoo Video and YouTube, how are our former tween heartthrobs faring online?
Since "Summertime" became the "Featured Artist" on Yahoo, the music video has managed to wrangle the curiosity of older fans with about 14,000 views. The YouTube numbers fare much better, pulling in about 400,000 views after a week online.
But compared with current Tiger Beat poster boys The Jonas Brothers — who have their own YouTube channel, natch — the oldsters are being dusted by Internet savvy 12 year olds who don't even know what NKOTB stands for. "When You Look Me in the Eyes" by The Jonas Brothers was released in January 2008 and has reached 17.7 million views since its release; that's an average of 840,000 views per week, about twice what NKOTB has seen since releasing their new song.
With the death of print being foretold by teenagers, the online generation gap is widening. With YouTube's views down, it might make sense for the site to reach out to older viewers in order to expand even further. If the generation that fell in love with Jordan's heavenly falsetto doesn't step in soon, we're all doomed to an existence with ZipIt's Fred and his annoying legion of fans.
NKOTB @ MVA in Los Angeles????
Wondering if this is a no brainer...the MVA's just happen to be September 7th, the same week of the album release (heard September 2 & September 8)...and they are in Los Angeles...I bet they do show up!!!
Here's an old article found...that suggests the same...
MTV VMA's Head Back To Los Angeles
By Kelly West: 2008-06-23 21:46:10
MTV is bringing the VMA’s back to Los Angeles this year and what’s more, fans will have a say in who gets nominated. Last year’s Video Music Awards took place in Las Vegas and in previous years it’s been in New York and Miami. Not since 1998 has the awards show taken place in Los Angeles.
According to MTV’s website, the show will take place at Paramount Pictures Studios, using soundstages, rooftops and city streets. Of the location, MTV Networks Music Group president Van Toffler said, “With Paramount Pictures as the ideal setting, the glamour and musical heritage of L.A. are sure to be catalysts for creating explosive pop-culture moments that the VMAs are known for.”
The 25th annual VMA’s will air live on MTV at 9:00 p.m. on September 7th. Few details about the actual ceremony have been revealed yet but they should be announced over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, it looks like MTV will be allowing fans to pick the nominees (or at least, some of them). It says on MTV’s site, “This year's event will mark a first in VMA lore: The channel will be turning to its audience, asking them to executive-produce the big show. MTV will give fans a chance to decide this year's nominees, helping to create an awards show with the music they love (details on this will be coming soon!).” I’ll be honest here: I’m so out of touch with “today’s music” (unless you count American Idol) that the fans deciding the nominations will probably have little effect on the VMA’s for me as a viewer. As for “explosive pop-culture moments,” I’m wondering if they’re going for the good kind of explosive or the bad. For example, I’m thinking a live performance by NKOTB (I heard they’re back together) could fall under either category, right? So far there are no clues as to who is set to perform though. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what MTV announces in the coming weeks.
Here's an old article found...that suggests the same...
MTV VMA's Head Back To Los Angeles
By Kelly West: 2008-06-23 21:46:10
MTV is bringing the VMA’s back to Los Angeles this year and what’s more, fans will have a say in who gets nominated. Last year’s Video Music Awards took place in Las Vegas and in previous years it’s been in New York and Miami. Not since 1998 has the awards show taken place in Los Angeles.
According to MTV’s website, the show will take place at Paramount Pictures Studios, using soundstages, rooftops and city streets. Of the location, MTV Networks Music Group president Van Toffler said, “With Paramount Pictures as the ideal setting, the glamour and musical heritage of L.A. are sure to be catalysts for creating explosive pop-culture moments that the VMAs are known for.”
The 25th annual VMA’s will air live on MTV at 9:00 p.m. on September 7th. Few details about the actual ceremony have been revealed yet but they should be announced over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, it looks like MTV will be allowing fans to pick the nominees (or at least, some of them). It says on MTV’s site, “This year's event will mark a first in VMA lore: The channel will be turning to its audience, asking them to executive-produce the big show. MTV will give fans a chance to decide this year's nominees, helping to create an awards show with the music they love (details on this will be coming soon!).” I’ll be honest here: I’m so out of touch with “today’s music” (unless you count American Idol) that the fans deciding the nominations will probably have little effect on the VMA’s for me as a viewer. As for “explosive pop-culture moments,” I’m wondering if they’re going for the good kind of explosive or the bad. For example, I’m thinking a live performance by NKOTB (I heard they’re back together) could fall under either category, right? So far there are no clues as to who is set to perform though. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what MTV announces in the coming weeks.
Friday, July 18, 2008
MuchMusic Countdown For the week beginning: Jul 17, 2008
1. Lil' Wayne f. Static - Lollipop
2. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
3. Girlicious - Like Me
4. Metro Station - Shake It
5. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
6. Coldplay - Violet Hill
7. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
8. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
9. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
10. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
11. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
12. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
13. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
14. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
15. Flo Rida - In The Ayer f. will.i.am
16. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
17. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
18. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
19. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
20. Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
21. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
22. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
23. Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
24. Usher - Moving Mountains
25. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
26. Kreesha Turner - Don't Call Me Baby
27. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things
28. Usher - Love In This Club f. Young Jeezy
29. Rihanna - Take A Bow
30. Black Lungs - Hold Fast (Sink or Swim)
2. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
3. Girlicious - Like Me
4. Metro Station - Shake It
5. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
6. Coldplay - Violet Hill
7. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
8. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
9. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
10. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
11. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
12. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
13. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
14. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
15. Flo Rida - In The Ayer f. will.i.am
16. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
17. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
18. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
19. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
20. Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
21. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
22. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
23. Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
24. Usher - Moving Mountains
25. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
26. Kreesha Turner - Don't Call Me Baby
27. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things
28. Usher - Love In This Club f. Young Jeezy
29. Rihanna - Take A Bow
30. Black Lungs - Hold Fast (Sink or Swim)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
What are your thoughts on the new album cover???
As you may well know, you are able to pre-order the new release through amazon.com. And I noticed today that there is an actual album cover now...with the album title of "The Block"...what are your thoughts of it???
I am not too crazy about the "red and black" feel...and even though I LOVE my Jonathan...why a moustache???
New Blog From Danny (The Puff McCloud himself)
July 17th, 2008
Danny and Germany!
Hi everyone,
We are back from Germany and it was amazing. Through out this experience I never know what to expect. The German fans are more than ready for THE BLOCK just like everyone here and in Canada. The support was unbelievable and it was awesome. Every where we went people where there to support us. We are looking forward to the European tour next year.
I want to rundown our week for you so maybe you will get an idea of what it was like.
We arrived Monday July 7th to Germany. We took the day to recuperate from jet lag, see the movie set, and have a fitting for our crazy medieval outfits.
Tuesday we filmed, as ourselves in medieval times, with the amazing German director/actor Til Schweiger. It was a fun day aside from the black soot we all inhaled during the filming. After we finished we where blowing out black boogers. There where flames being blown thru the air through out our performance. It was a pleasure working with Til and we look forward to the release of the movie in December.
Wednesday was the big international press conference. It was amazing to see over 200 European journalists in the room. I always feel like we are just those 5 guys from Boston and how did we end up here. It was a very humbling experience. The rest of the day was spent doing tons of European press and we didn’t finish until nighttime.
Thursday and Friday NKOTB was split into 2 groups so we could cover more ground. We went to Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Kiel, Hannover, Magdeburg and then all got back together in Berlin. We visited radio stations, TV stations, did print interviews and Internet outlets. It was great and felt really good to be so productive.
I need to personally thank Sven Kilthau-Lander, Jurgen Grebner, and the whole Universal Records staff for the amazing job they did in Germany. We are looking forward to all our future endeavors in Europe.
We are back in L.A. for tour rehearsals. September 18th is coming soon and we are so excited.
Love Danny
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Hey Joey!
Joey posted a new blog Monday:
“Alle funf!!!!”
Means “all 5″ in German.
That’s all I can say in German so far.
We had a blast… a lot of work but having our fans show up
everywhere we go made it a lot easier.
The schnitzel was on point. And we couldn’t believe how tall
everyone was- men and women. Damn! I felt like Ryan Seacrest over there.
So its back to rehearsal and putting together the greatest show on earth
by the “5 hardest working kids in show business”.
Let’s get this!
xoxo
-jm
Note To Joey: Its not just in Germany where they are tall - just you wait until Vicki, Heidi and Shauna meet up with you on the 18th! Ba ha ha ha! ;)
“Alle funf!!!!”
Means “all 5″ in German.
That’s all I can say in German so far.
We had a blast… a lot of work but having our fans show up
everywhere we go made it a lot easier.
The schnitzel was on point. And we couldn’t believe how tall
everyone was- men and women. Damn! I felt like Ryan Seacrest over there.
So its back to rehearsal and putting together the greatest show on earth
by the “5 hardest working kids in show business”.
Let’s get this!
xoxo
-jm
Note To Joey: Its not just in Germany where they are tall - just you wait until Vicki, Heidi and Shauna meet up with you on the 18th! Ba ha ha ha! ;)
Tour Itinerary 2008 - updated
September 2008
18-19 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre (Im there!)
20 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre
21 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Center
23 - East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
24 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
26 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
27 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel & Casino Event Center
28 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
30 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
October 2008
2 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
3 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
4 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
8 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
9 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena
10 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
11 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
13 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
14 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Arena
16 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
17 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
18 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Arena
19 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
21 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
22 - Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
24 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
25 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
27 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
29 - Atlanta, GA - The Arena at Gwinnett Center
30 - Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
November 2008
1 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center
2 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
5 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum
6 - Providence, RI - Dunkin' Donuts Center
7 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel & Casino Event Center
8 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
10 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
11 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
12 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
14 - Broomfield, CO - Broomfield Event Center
15 - West Valley City, UT - The E Center
18 - Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place (Im There)
19 - Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome (Im There)
21 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place (Im There)
22 - Seattle, WA - Tacoma Dome
23 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
25 - San Diego, CA - Cox Arena
26 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
18-19 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre (Im there!)
20 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre
21 - Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Center
23 - East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
24 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
26 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
27 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel & Casino Event Center
28 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
30 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
October 2008
2 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
3 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
4 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
8 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
9 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena
10 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
11 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
13 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
14 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Arena
16 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
17 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
18 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Arena
19 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
21 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
22 - Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center
24 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
25 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
27 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
29 - Atlanta, GA - The Arena at Gwinnett Center
30 - Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
November 2008
1 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center
2 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
5 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum
6 - Providence, RI - Dunkin' Donuts Center
7 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel & Casino Event Center
8 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
10 - St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
11 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
12 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
14 - Broomfield, CO - Broomfield Event Center
15 - West Valley City, UT - The E Center
18 - Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place (Im There)
19 - Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome (Im There)
21 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place (Im There)
22 - Seattle, WA - Tacoma Dome
23 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
25 - San Diego, CA - Cox Arena
26 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
Sunday, July 13, 2008
New Kids on the Block will be in the UK in January 2009, and the rest of Europe after that.
Besides, "Click Click Click" here are the titles of some of their new songs that they played at the press conference this morning: "Two in The Morning" "Single" and "Dirty Dancing" (I think this song will also be featured in the Til Schweiger movie).
So, here is the unoffical track list (so far) of the upcoming album:
"Click Click Click"
"Summertime"
"You Got My Heart"
"Full Service" (feat. New Edition)
"Looking Like Danger"
"Big Boy/Big Girl" (featuring Lady GaGa)
"Sexify My Love"
"Two in The Morning"
"Single"
"Dirty Dancing"
"Close to you" (Not sure this is the exact title)
"I'll Stay" (Not sure this is the exact title)
Besides, "Click Click Click" here are the titles of some of their new songs that they played at the press conference this morning: "Two in The Morning" "Single" and "Dirty Dancing" (I think this song will also be featured in the Til Schweiger movie).
So, here is the unoffical track list (so far) of the upcoming album:
"Click Click Click"
"Summertime"
"You Got My Heart"
"Full Service" (feat. New Edition)
"Looking Like Danger"
"Big Boy/Big Girl" (featuring Lady GaGa)
"Sexify My Love"
"Two in The Morning"
"Single"
"Dirty Dancing"
"Close to you" (Not sure this is the exact title)
"I'll Stay" (Not sure this is the exact title)
Friday, July 11, 2008
Rumours!?
Apparently Joe is saying that the Michael Jackson thing is just a rumour...darn it that would have been so cool! I wonder if the Madonna thing will turn out to be false then...?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
This could be HEAVEN!!!!
Not content with having Michael
The band - who had hits in the late 80s with Hangin' Tough and You Got It (The Right Stuff) - are all set to work with Timbaland next week and hope the superproducer will pull some strings to get the Queen of Pop on board for their album, out in September.
NKOTB's Joey McIntyre revealed: "It's so exciting.
We loved what Timbaland did with Madonna's 4 Minutes and can't wait to see what he has in store for us."
Jordan Knight added: "I know he's putting in a good word for us to have Madonna on the album. It's looking good.Fingers crossed!"
MJ & NKOTB!!!
Fallen pop star Michael Jackson is reportedly set to get his beleaguered career back on track by linking up with boyband New Kids On The Block.
The Billie Jean hitmaker held a series of top secret talks about the collaboration with the band's stars at his home in Nevada last week.
New Kids singer Donny Wahlberg revealed, "It's very exciting. It's one big party and everyone wants to join us."
New Kids, who have sold 80 million records with hits including Hanging Tough and Right Stuff, are just some of the artists collaborating with the former king of pop as he attempts to revive his career following his acquittal three years ago of child abuse charges.
The 49-year-old was due to release his much anticipated album this year to coincide with his 50th birthday.
But a source said, "He has been in the studio for months. He wants to create an amazing album and won't release anything until he is totally satisfied.
"He's a musical genius and record bosses want to leave him to develop his magic. It will be down to him when it is released."
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Access Hollywood - Summertime Video...
forgive me if this was posted before (i haven't seen it on here???)...i HAD to post it as i just saw it. joe is so cute "summertime is just summertime"....*drool*
Donnie's Latest Blog...
Hey All-
Here in Germany!
Fans are awesome!
Weather is cold!
Album almost done!
Tour approaching fast!
Second “SINGLE” not far away!!
(But keep pushing Summertime at your favorite stations til then).
We shot a cameo in a movie by Til Scweiger, who is a huge star here, and it was really funny!
I hope you get to see it someday. Til is the biggest and best of Germany and he is a hell of a nice guy to do this with us!
Oh yeah- if you doubt my word…
Ask the fans here in Germany! They can’t get rid of me! In fact, they can’t get rid of any of us!!!
Good times!
Much Love,
=donnie w
Article from the UK - July 9/08
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK are back.
And if that’s not unbelievable enough they have kept the name — though JORDAN, JOEY, DONNIE, DANNY and JON are not kids anymore
The old men yesterday announced they will kick off the European leg of their comeback world tour in London next January.
They are working on an as yet untitled album but it’s a way off being finished. Fingers crossed.
After hearing recordings of some of their new material I’m not convinced they’ve got The Right Stuff.
Two In The Morning is slushy R&B. Click Click Click is catchy and I reckon the guys have missed a trick by not making it the first single.
Instead they’ve chosen Summertime which has a safe, er, summery vibe.
They’re releasing the track in September.
Last time I looked, that was autumn.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
New Kids & New Edition Record Together!
This is from people.com....wow....i can't wait to hear their new stuff!!!!
Just when you thought the New Kids on the Block reunion couldn't get any sweeter, word comes that the guys are recording a song with another favorite boy band: New Edition.
"Donnie Wahlberg had this idea for a few months, since New Kids had the idea of getting back together really," says producer Nadir "RedOne" Khawat, who worked on the song. "Donnie's been looking for that one track for all of them and I think we found it."
Last week, just days after New Edition took home the Golden Note Award at the 21st annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul awards in Beverly Hills, the group (minus Bobby Brown) went into an L.A. studio to record with the New Kids. The ensemble track, titled "Full Service," will appear on NKOTB's not-yet-titled upcoming album.
The song was written by Wahlberg, Khawat, and New York disco diva Lady GaGa. "It sounds very universal and melodic and has both sides in it: The R&B, which is New Edition and the pop side for New Kids," says Khawat. "It's very uplifting. Right away you start feeling good and every part feels natural to each one of the guys."
So what was it like being with all of them in the studio? "It went really smoothly," says Khawat, adding that they munched on sushi in the studio and the guys prayed together before recording. "There were no egos or attitudes. It felt like they'd been friends forever."
In a recent chat with PEOPLE, New Edition frontman Tresvant addressed the rumors that the two bands have been feuding for years. "The thing people were going back and forth with was we'd been doing what we were doing for the longest [but] we couldn't get cartoons and things that the white guys were getting. It was like, 'wow,' " he said. "But the guys themselves, we have mad love."
Just when you thought the New Kids on the Block reunion couldn't get any sweeter, word comes that the guys are recording a song with another favorite boy band: New Edition.
"Donnie Wahlberg had this idea for a few months, since New Kids had the idea of getting back together really," says producer Nadir "RedOne" Khawat, who worked on the song. "Donnie's been looking for that one track for all of them and I think we found it."
Last week, just days after New Edition took home the Golden Note Award at the 21st annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul awards in Beverly Hills, the group (minus Bobby Brown) went into an L.A. studio to record with the New Kids. The ensemble track, titled "Full Service," will appear on NKOTB's not-yet-titled upcoming album.
The song was written by Wahlberg, Khawat, and New York disco diva Lady GaGa. "It sounds very universal and melodic and has both sides in it: The R&B, which is New Edition and the pop side for New Kids," says Khawat. "It's very uplifting. Right away you start feeling good and every part feels natural to each one of the guys."
So what was it like being with all of them in the studio? "It went really smoothly," says Khawat, adding that they munched on sushi in the studio and the guys prayed together before recording. "There were no egos or attitudes. It felt like they'd been friends forever."
In a recent chat with PEOPLE, New Edition frontman Tresvant addressed the rumors that the two bands have been feuding for years. "The thing people were going back and forth with was we'd been doing what we were doing for the longest [but] we couldn't get cartoons and things that the white guys were getting. It was like, 'wow,' " he said. "But the guys themselves, we have mad love."
Sunday, June 29, 2008
From Joey Mac's Site
(Look at Joey's son! SO CUTE!!! AHHHHH!)
Joey wrote:
I'm gonna take a wild guess that if you are coming to this site, you've probably heard the news about "The Block." This here is official. Nice to finally let the cats out the bag. Last Friday was a trip to say the least - In one rain soaked moment, we were instantly reminded of the very special connection we have with our fans. As I think you can tell, we are having a good time; otherwise we wouldn't be doing it.
Behind the scenes, there's alot going on- music mostly, finishing up the album, photo shoots, putting the live band together, choreography of course, picking a first single and talking about a video. All important things that sometimes get five different opinions. But usually after a couple of black eyes and loose teeth, we work it out.
Needless to say, I'm excited to see it all roll out. And if we're excited, I trust you guys are too. Its been cool to bump into people wherever I go, who share their stories and tell me they can't wait for the tour and to hear the new music. Timing is everything and it sure feels right. I think we- meaning you and us- are at a place where we can really enjoy this.
Let's soak it up. - jm
Win a chance to go to the CD Preview Party in LA!!!
Found this...a chance to see the guys at their CD Preview Party in Los Angeles, it is hosted by Kiss 108 in Boston...let's see if a Canadian can win...
Kiss 108 Contest Link
Kiss 108 Contest Link
Friday, June 27, 2008
UPDATE -- # 18 MuchMusic Countdown for June 27, 2008
1. Usher - Love In This Club f. Young Jeezy
2. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
3. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
4. Lil' Wayne f. Static - Lollipop
5. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
6. Girlicious - Like Me
7. Rihanna - Take A Bow
8. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
9. Metro Station - Shake It
10. Ray J. - Sexy Can I f. Yung Berg
11. Coldplay - Violet Hill
12. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
13. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
14. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
15. Kanye West - Homecoming f. Chris Martin
16. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
17. Hedley - Never Too Late
18. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
19. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
20. Madonna - 4 Minutes f. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
21. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
22. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
23. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
24. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
25. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
26. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
27. Flo Rida - In The Ayer f. will.i.am
28. Usher - Moving Mountains
29. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
30. Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
2. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
3. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
4. Lil' Wayne f. Static - Lollipop
5. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
6. Girlicious - Like Me
7. Rihanna - Take A Bow
8. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
9. Metro Station - Shake It
10. Ray J. - Sexy Can I f. Yung Berg
11. Coldplay - Violet Hill
12. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
13. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
14. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
15. Kanye West - Homecoming f. Chris Martin
16. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
17. Hedley - Never Too Late
18. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
19. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
20. Madonna - 4 Minutes f. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
21. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
22. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
23. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
24. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
25. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
26. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
27. Flo Rida - In The Ayer f. will.i.am
28. Usher - Moving Mountains
29. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
30. Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
Thursday, June 26, 2008
NKOTB "Summertime" Ringtones from MM
When I preview, I see it, but not when published??? Click anywhere within here when you see the pointed index finger to open up the ringtone options...
MuchMusic Countdown For the week beginning: Jun 26, 2008
1. Rihanna - Take A Bow
2. Usher - Love In This Club f. Young Jeezy
3. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
4. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
5. Lil' Wayne f. Static - Lollipop
6. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
7. Girlicious - Like Me
8. Hedley - Never Too Late
9. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
10. Ray J. - Sexy Can I f. Yung Berg
11. Metro Station - Shake It
12. Kanye West - Homecoming f. Chris Martin
13. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
14. Coldplay - Violet Hill
15. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
16. Madonna - 4 Minutes f. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
17. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
18. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
19. Flo Rida f. Timbaland - Elevator
20. Jordin Sparks - No Air f. Chris Brown
21. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
22. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
23. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
24. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
25. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
26. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
27. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
28. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
29. Britney Spears - Break The Ice
30. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
BTW...Summertime is #1 on VH1!!!!
2. Usher - Love In This Club f. Young Jeezy
3. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
4. Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous f. Akon
5. Lil' Wayne f. Static - Lollipop
6. Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie
7. Girlicious - Like Me
8. Hedley - Never Too Late
9. Sam Roberts - Them Kids
10. Ray J. - Sexy Can I f. Yung Berg
11. Metro Station - Shake It
12. Kanye West - Homecoming f. Chris Martin
13. Theory Of A Deadman - So Happy
14. Coldplay - Violet Hill
15. Mariah Carey - Bye Bye
16. Madonna - 4 Minutes f. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
17. Jesse McCartney - Leavin’
18. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again f. Rihanna
19. Flo Rida f. Timbaland - Elevator
20. Jordin Sparks - No Air f. Chris Brown
21. Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest
22. Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
23. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
24. New Kids On The Block - Summertime
25. The Trews - Paranoid Freak
26. Madonna - Give IT 2 Me
27. Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
28. Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
29. Britney Spears - Break The Ice
30. Jordin Sparks - One Step At A Time
BTW...Summertime is #1 on VH1!!!!
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