MTV Holland Transcript

Tooske : Hi welcome, and thank you for talking to us. I just told them what a lovely way to start an interview than have the artist go ‘oh you smell so nice.’

Nick : She does … you got something on .. what you call it .. Poison ??

T : Yeah it’s Poison but we can’t do advertising so we gotta leave it to that or we will get fined and everything.

N : Yeah okay.

T : So you’re going solo, you’re STILL a Backstreet Boy, there will still be a bsb album but you are doing your solo project now. Who was the very first person that you allowed to listen to the very first track you recorded by youself? That must have been a scary moment …

N : I can’t ... I don’t even remember …. I think it was … god who was it … you mean like outside the studio or something?

T : Yeah like .. it’s finished what do you think?

N : Probably my mom or somebody .. I forgot. I played it for so many people.

T : *laughing* You were so excited?!

N : I was like listen listen listen … but I was nervous first time I played it ofcourse but I was happy with it, it was a good track.

T : What was the first track you recorded ?

N : The 1st track I recorded was Shout written by Teddy Riley. It was actually supposed to be on a MJ album but Michael didn’t do it, I guess probably because it is really kind of a hard rock song type of … but it was more an experimental song so we din’t know if it’s going to be on the album or not.

T : The whole thing was pretty much an experiment right?

N : Yeah from the beginning it was, it was. The intension was not to go in and do an album, it wasn’t that in the beginning. What it was … I just wanted to go in and, and …. Cause I had a deal with Jive since I was 18 and I just wanted to go in and see if I had it …. And I called them up one day after we got off the Japanese tour and everydoby wa shaving down time … so I asked can I get in and record a couple of songs and see what happens? And so I did and I recorded that song and I had also some writing sessions with Josh and Brian from KNS and I wrote like 8 songs with them and what really kicked in was when we wrote the song called DIHTCFY … and I came one morning and had this chorus and I sang it to them and then we wrote the song and that started floating around the studio building and people really liked it and I was like omg I can really do it!!

T : So there is this one song IJWTYH. Are you the type of guy that would actually say I Just Wanna Take You Home?

N : *laughing* No.

T : Hey you know …. who knows!!

N : *laughing* I don’t know … I can’t answer that question.

T : Okay how would you feel if a girl maybe it happened, it must have happened to you … if a girl goes ‘Hey I just wanna take you home.’

N : Depends on if we’re just gonna watch a movie.

T : It may start with that...

N : That’s all I’m gonna do …. Watch a movie …. Sleepless in Seattle.

T : Alright so…

N : Yeah if my mom and dad were home maybe I’ll take her home.

T : Really?

N : Yeah and that’s about it … I’ll let het go home in a couple of hours or after the movie.

T : Okay so the song is more about … fantasies?

N : Yeah … but the song was actually written by Max, Max Martin and it was a really cool song because …. Maybe some people know maybe they don’t but Max used to be in a rockband when he was younger, he was the lead singer, so he’s always been wanting to try to do some rock stuff and I’ve always been a big rock fan.

T : And this other song …Confession .. or what’s it called?

N : My Confession?

T : Yeah and you talk about an obsession is that anything that happens to you if you like somebody? Do you become just totally obsessed?

N : Yeah like I said a lot of songs that I do have to mean something, they actually have to really really really mean something that’s going on in my life or that’s touching home for me if not than there’s no need for me to do it. That song was really weird, because in general when I write songs I listen to the music and then I write what ever comes out what ever that might be. And that song in particular it was like, you know how rappers do like a freestyle type of thing? I just went in and I would just sing what ever came of the top of my head I just started spitting it out on the verses and that’s how the verses came out on that song … and we kept the verses. They weren’t even written on paper, the verses of that song.

T : Right so it’s somewhere in you?

N : Yeah definitely in me … every song I wrote or co-wrote on it’s something that I’ve either gone through or experienced or really really wanna experience.

T : There is this new generation of musicians coming. There’s your little brother, Britney’s sister, Beyonce’s sister … I mean they’re all just starting out .. now I wondered did you feel some what a little kid doing this whole new thing for you?

N : Yeah definitely cause being with the guys and everything .. there is some stuff you can’t do all the time because you’re in a group and you have to do what everybody want collectively … and you know, so there were things I really wanted to do that I wanted to get out and now have been able to do …. I’m 22 that’s pretty young but yeah I kinda feel like new and everything.

T : Your song may help somebody else but the process you had to go through to make that song may have totally screwed you up.

N : Well .. no not nessecarily … you know … it takes a weird person to be in the music business …. because the things you think of and the difference of reality of you know somebody elses life …. So to create a song into … yeah it’s a process it can, it can mess with your head sometimes.

T : I there any song on your album that may have made it on a bsb album?

N : Yeah there are a lot of songs that could have definitely been on … actually I have written 35 songs in the last six months so there are definitely some songs that could possible be on a bsb album.

T : So maybe one will eventually end up an a bsb album?

N : Yeah .. maybe … that would be nice.

T : So .. uhm … we’re almost done but .. do you watch tv?

N : Sometimes.

T : You have time to watch tv? Because I’ve been intreged by this programma called American Idols. You know that show?

N : Yeah I saw it a couple of times.

T : Talking about crazy people and crazy things …. I was jst wondering what your opinion was about these kids, they sing a song like 4 times and then maybe they’ll be a superstar in like 3 weeks from tomorrow …. Without any training or any type of getting ready, any type of process.

N : Personally I think it doesn’t matter when you start very early or later in life, what you do or how you get there. If you want to be in the music business you’re gonna have to go through ups and downs and things like that are definitely gonna change your life. Looking at the situation … if you have the gift, if you are blesses to do it than you are gonna get there some way or another.

T : Any words of advice?

N : One thing you gotta prepare yourself for are the trials and tribulations to come being in the music business, cause it’s not just cakework. You gotta be definitely prepared for things to come.

Thanks to Backstreet Sister.