EXAN: I�m hanging out with the Backstreet Boys -- the burning question is, how are you guys dealing with fame? How is all this attention from girls affecting you? Do you like it?
BACKSTREET BOYS: We love it!
A.J.: No man alive wouldn�t love a bunch of girls screaming at him.
EXAN: How would you describe your dream girl?
B-ROCK: Someone who could treat us normal, that�s one quality I like.
KEVIN: Honest.
HOWIE D.: Someone who has a good head on her shoulders.
NICK : A good heart.
A.J.: And can be themselves around us.
B-ROCK: Goal-oriented.
KEVIN: Nice smile.
EXAN: Your fans out there are dying to know what it�s like to go out on a date with each of you. Are you guys the smooth type or are you the shy type?
NICK: Depends, we can be either shy or smooth, I think.
A.J.: Both at the same time.
EXAN: So what�s your favorite thing to do on a date?
NICK: I like to go out to the beach. I love the beach. Maybe at night time with the
moon out and the waves...that�s my dream date.
A.J.: Probably whatever the girl would want to do. Movies, candlelight dinner,
anything that she would want to do. Just ask her "what do you want to do tonight?"
and whatever she says, we do.
KEVIN: Nice dinner, nice conversation, maybe a movie, dancing.
B-ROCK: An afternoon picnic in the park. Something like that.
HOWIE: I�d probably cook her dinner. Have a candlelight dinner and then maybe
go to the movies or go out dancing. I�d top the evening off with going on the beach
at night, walking.
EXAN (to Howie D.): Are you a good cook?
HOWIE D.: (laughing) I try.
EXAN: So when are the Backstreet Boys dolls coming out?
BACKSTREET BOYS: Never!
NICK: We forbid that.
B-ROCK: We�re not gonna sell out like that.
KEVIN: We did have (a fan) in Sweden who made some dolls and that was pretty
cool. They made (the dolls) themselves. That was cool.
EXAN: Sorry girls they won�t be available on the market. So legend has it that three of you met at Universal Studios auditioning there and the other two at Disney World?
NICK: Well three of us met...at different places. We met all the time, A.J., Howie and myself. *Nick smiles here because he pointed to AJ when he said Howie and pointed to Howie when he said AJ!!* We have known each other for the past four and half years. We�ve been together for four years. So I mean we used to do a lot of auditions for Universal Studios, MGM, Disney World, that�s what Orlando is all about. We use to just sing together when we met up and it when on from there.
EXAN: You guys are from Orlando, Florida so my question is why did you choose to release the record first in Canada as opposed to back home?
HOWIE D.: Actually it�s been released all over the world.
KEVIN: Except in the United States
HOWIE D.: What happened was the first single came out about a year and a half
ago in the States and then over in Europe and it did really well in the States, but it
really blew up in Europe. So by popular demand we spent so much time over there
that the record company decided they had to release the album over there so we
could still work on the album for the States. In the States the market is a little bit
different -- there�s more R & B influence. The album will be coming out this year
in the States.
EXAN (talking to Howie): And it will be different from the one that is out in Canada.
HOWIE D.: A little different. Different producers (like) Babyface - we have a couple songs from PM Dawn - it�s a little bit more R & B oriented in the States.
EXAN: How do Canadian girls compare to American girls?
KEVIN: That cute little accent!
EXAN: Eh?
BACKSTREET BOYS: Eh?!
KEVIN: Basically we�ve learned that traveling throughout the world that people are
just people, everywhere you go.
EXAN: You�re huge in all of Canada now, but for a little while you were Quebec�s little secret. Why do you suppose you hit it big there first?
KEVIN: I think some of our music, since we were doing a lot of things in France as well, came through that way -- through the magazines and stuff and I think that�s how it started. And then it just happened.
EXAN: The first show you played was it in Montreal? I heard 60 000 kids showed up.
HOWIE D.: Yeah, our biggest show.
EXAN (talking to Howie): Were you expecting that?
HOWIE D.: Not at all. It�s our second time here, it�s the biggest show we headlined all over the world and it�s just been amazing. (Canada) is the first country we�ve gone five times platinum also. So Canada has been really good to us.
EXAN: Canada loves you.
BACKSTREET BOYS: We love you too!