May 16, 2024 • 31 mins
New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) are BACK with a new album, Still Kids, out this Friday!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are so excited about this moment. We've been waiting
for this moment for several years now. Gentlemen have just
walked into the room. I see Donnie, I see Jonathan,
I see Jordan, I see Joey, I see Danny. New Kids.
Was like, it's like remember.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
In the magic mirror, right right, the magic mirror, I see,
I see, I see, I see in a very important
era in so many people's lives that we continue to
celebrate today, and you continue to continue to get out
there and hang out with the fans of New KOs
block the Blockheads.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Let's dig into that. Welcome to Z one hundred where
I met you back in the nineteen nineties. But back
then it was different because you guys were injected with
this incredible crazy ego blasted we're superstar kids, and I
had the babies of all five of you still might
still might. And you guys were having you're having fart
(00:55):
contest in the corner.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Of that sound like an episode of Our Car too.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, well you were. You were your farting in my studio.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Were lighting them on fire. We used to do that
on that Well guess.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
What I think I think I introduced that by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That was you well on fire. Guess what the interview
is young and we have a lighter.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Welcome guys, it's so great to have you here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And what's what's wonderful about new Kids on the Block.
It's not only one big ball of energy. It's five
interesting guys that have five interesting lives. It's ten balls
ten well, I don't know, it depends on if interview.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, so I guess it's eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's now eleven balls. So welcome to the show. We've
had things to celebrate. Of course, the album Still Kids
is coming out tomorrow, I do believe, and of course Kids,
we got to play that in a second. But also
I have another song that people haven't heard being released tomorrow.
We're waiting for legal to say we can push the
play button.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You could do it, of course. All right, let's break
the lot.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, let's break crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You're taking over for Good Morning America tomorrow, I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be early, early, going
to be early. This is late compared to Good Morning America.
I think we have to be there tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You all look fresh. Having new Kids on the Block
visit your show is not an easy task because there
were so many moving parts. Because you you have things
to do, You've you've got schedules. I'm looking at your schedule. Guys.
When to the next cruise. I'm gonna go on the
next New Kids cruise.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You should go on the next thirteen of them so far,
twelve real ones and one virtual one because of some
virus a.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Few years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
How do you do a virtual cruise?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
We just oh god, all got your back.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, and then we zoomed each other.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, and then invited a thousand or two thousand or
ten thousand fans and to watch it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It was fun actually, and of course your fans, as
you know, are I don't want to use the word
rabbit because that's a little negative. They're just very enthusiastic.
So if you're on a ship, which you know, not
a lot of exits, when you're in the middle of
the ocean, you're there, Yeah, gets no getting big.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a big I mean, we we go,
we give them the time of their lives. We just
try to give back and they're you know, it's a
big deal. But it's non stop and we're not you know,
hiding in a cabin the whole time. It's like we're
in a mosh pit the whole time, basically.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Floating mashpite fantastic, phenomenal these cruises, though, I mean twelve,
that's a lot. I mean, are there any more scheduled?
Or is that a thing that you put on hold
for a while?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Not scheduled, But I would predict that one will happen again.
You know, in your green room there's a big cruise,
our Spriing cruise line than the one we typically use.
But some of us were getting excited looking at that
little scale model of a cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Shill free. We can move you up to our cruise
and whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Maybe we can move you over to ours. We have
agents for these things. Let's talk about it. What it's
like getting back into the studio with each other. I
know that Donnie, you you helped. You were part of
writing the writing process, right with anyone else. I probably
got the ship to use a pun a recent pun started.
(04:24):
I got the ball rolling to use another pun a
few minutes ago. My love, this is the second time
we've talked about ball.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Uh No.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I started writing the writing process a little while ago
and we started recording, and you know, it's always a
process and you know, discovering what we want to talk about,
what we want to say, the music that feels right
for us. And I think we got a few songs done,
and then Joey came and got really inspired and really
kind of got us across the finish line with the
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album and bringing a bunch of new songs and new
energy after I sort of got it started. So it
just and everybody was game on recording and recording at
all hours of the night. I think joe held John
hostage in a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, but it was we were all in. We were
all in to do this our We haven't really done
a new album in gosh over eleven years. Yeah, So
this was something that I think was important for the fans,
and as it turned out, by the time we finished,
we realized it was also very important for us. We
really bonded in a new way. It took a lot
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of effort to pull this off with all our busy
schedules and stuff, and to have done it and to
feel so good about it and so proud of it.
We can't wait for the fans to hear it, we're
very excited about.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let me use Jonathan as an example. So you're we
see you doing your show, uh farmhouse fixer, fix Fix Fixer,
and I need you, by the way, it's falling down.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I need you to build it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But we see you living in this bucolic world where
you know, your busy day, a great relationship with great
friends that you work with to redo these amazing historical
homes and things like that. I can imagine you were
the last one going, oh god, I don't John of
this is to go to a city that has over
(06:15):
ten people in it. Welcome to New York. I mean,
let's use your example. I mean we were you a
holdout coming back into the studio to do this or
were you ready to go? You know, I'm always ready.
I have a really good.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Balance, so you know, I get to do my thing
and then get to jump back in with these guys.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So best of both worlds, right, What about you, Danny?
Was it like okay, and I've been waiting for your call,
waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was waiting.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I was ready to go, and it was especially it
was a lot of fun, especially two guys in the
group writing for all of us, so it was easy
to sing the songs, it was easy to relate to
what they wrote. So to me, this was the most
fun I've had since we've been back together recording.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
There you go about you, Jordan, what are you thinking?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I I you know, I love music like everybody else,
and it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's fun to do new music. That's the thing. Like
when we go on tour, we sing all of our
hits all the time, you know, every every tour. That's
what the fans want.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
But for us, it's like great and fun for us
to do new music. And for our hardcore fans, they
want to see new music, new routines, and it's just
it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It's fun creating music. That's why we started doing this.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So there you go. I think.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I think when you go ahead, no, I I just
the dynamic of you know, like.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Getting a little emotional actually good no.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
But the you know, saying yes, you know, it's like
saying damn sorry. It's early saying yes to each other.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like Donnie says.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yes first and deals with whatever, and I know Jordan's
said yes from the get go, like when Donnie was
working out and when you have Jordan Knight showing up
in laying down vocals like you know, it's just like
that energy and you get to trade off with each
other and and people showing up and Danny always being
there and John like like you say, coming off the
farm and going yeah, let's let's do it. You know
(08:19):
what I mean, And it's it can be. It's a
real process. It's it even though you've known everybody, but
there's no greater Wow people, then your your your boys,
you know, showing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Up five said yes, sorry it was it was no, no, no,
you know no. I think I think that's a very
that's a very important part of the story. Important part
of the story because the history you have with each other,
the good, the bad, and of course it was what
it was. It was like sitting in an electric chair,
being a new kid on the block, performer back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And now you're like, am I gonna say yes to this?
Let me think for a for a second.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And then when you do say yes, I must assume
there's a thin line between excitement and all what the
f am I doing? Here we go? But you did it,
you did it. What we're gonna say, I.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Was just gonna ask. Now I feel bad asking because
he's crying around being that you guys have been doing
this for so long and you have been singing these
songs a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is there one song that you all go, yeah, we're
just not gonna do that one anymore, or we would
rather not do that one anymore. Sure, everyone has one.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
There's a certain We always say there's a certain member
that doesn't like to sing a certain song.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But but you know.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, is it is just but see it's it's it's
a little bit of a trick question because I personally
don't really get that excited if I hear the right stuff.
Come on, you know, if I'm at a basketball game
or somewhere in public and they know him there, they
of course they're gonna play it. And it's like, all right,
(09:58):
still my favorites, Donnie, But in concert, in concert with
our fans, there's not really a better moment than performing
the right stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Well, let me do, let me do, Let Donnie, which
song does Jonathan hat doing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm trying to I'm trying to figure out which one
he likes doing it? He likes the women he's off stage,
John dream, all.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right, I want to take you. I want to take
you guys back to that first moment you were all
in the studio together to uh to start working on
Still Kids, all right, that very first moment when you're
about to like I guess you're warming up or doing
whatever vocalists do, but you're about to have to get
to work on an album. Was it a little scary,
a little frightening.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That this is a trick question.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We were never all in the same studio into making
a record in you know, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four.
I think so there was all always a little bit
I mean, Frank to go back to, you know, John
and I expect the fans to make me a statue
because I wrote I wrote a song for John and
they you know, he is beloved, so the fact that
(11:13):
he has this soulo it's called better Days on the
on the album, and I felt like I was trying
to romance the guy.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And we did it in a hotel room.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We were recorded in a hotel room, and like you know,
there was lots of those moments. I think the moment
you're speaking to are those moments of like, how are
we going to do this? You know, how are we
going to make this call. How are you gonna like, say, hey,
how about sing this part? Sing this part? What do
you think of this song? Because it is all subjective,
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you know, and and the tough part is to say,
I don't think so that's not me. How about this?
You know what I mean, It's that kind of thing.
I don't know if that answers your question.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It does.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's still yeah, there's still vulnerability, and there's still you know,
it's still art in some ways. When we're writing songs
and putting answerts together and doing this stuff, we still
have to we want to get everybody on the same page.
And it's hard to get five human beings on the
same page with such different lives. So, as Joey was
saying earlier, I think kind of and I experienced it myself,
(12:14):
is when you're presenting ideas and stuff to people who've
been doing it this long and been in the industry
this long, you know, it's like, damn, I hope they
like it. And even though it's our bandmates, you want
their respect in many ways more than anybody else's. You know,
if some other artist turns down a song I write, well,
I didn't really expect them to like it in the
(12:36):
first place, but with your own bandmates, you really want
them to be excited and enthused because if they're not,
you know, it's like you also got to live with
them and the song was on the record, and every
time it plays you.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh, yeah, he didn't like that song. I got it
on behind his back. You know, it's like you don't
want that. You really hope that everyone's in that same
energy space. And I think at the end of the day,
we usually are mindful in respect of each other enough
after all these years to know when to push, when
to pull back, and what it will take to get
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everyone to sort of be happy and enthusday, that level.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Of importance has been heightened absolutely. What do you think, Gandhi?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Okay, so I've been looking at the text messages and
everybody wants to talk to you guys like, oh, I
want to talk to Dannie. I want to talk to Danny,
which reminds me when I was little. To this day,
we now still have a nine hundred block on our
phone because you guys used to have a phone number
that you could call and allegedly leave you a message,
and you guys would call us back.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We have a new one free free this.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Time, because my parents had like a four hundred dollars
bill from my sister and no one ever called back.
So I was just thinking, you know, maybe you could
bring on that.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Our new ones free.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So what we do is we pull out our phones
whenever we're doing something fun like I'm doing. Hey, everyone,
welcome to the new Free New Kids hotline. We're hair
at the Elvis Durant show and yeah, everyone say hi,
it's just a phone message, and uh, it's all.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's free.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We're not getting any money, so you won't be getting
a check, but if you want one.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We'll talk after that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way, what is it?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What one eight eight six zero New Complete Team one
eight six zero New Kids one eight six zero.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
If you called, you know the number. So it's okay
six zero one eight six zero New Kids. Yeah, but
it's free.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's free, and you hear messages from us all the
time and it's very eighties but we love it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Good Bye everyone.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Col I think Pink famously got grounded actually for spending
so much money on that nine hundred number.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
So did Pria Gandhi.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Sorry, p I tried, so I know you're leaving after
this interview, Donnie to go do some work with Blue Bloods.
I think you're doing some some promotional today. But yeah,
but Blue Bloods is actually shooting at Lee's tavern, Staten
Island today. I was supposed to go there for lunch
today to have my clam pie, and they shut it down.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I was.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I rarely eat clam pie.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Unless it's at least but not today. Well, you know
because when we when we buy out a restaurant or
a pub or a tavern or whatever to film, we
actually typically get them to still cook for us.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Wanted to go have a clampie, I could call Blue
Bloods and tell them you are coming by to have
a pie. So you don't cry, I can try. Oh sigh,
what's that?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I thought maybe we can even name it after you
Elvis's Clampie.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That video was done years ago. But thanks for asking.
I appreciate it. Let's talk about your schedule now. I
know you guys are flying out to Los Angeles this weekend.
You'll be at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank doing a
special that's going to play back on Tuesday. Yeah, I
mean so, I mean, you guys are hitting the road
running here, and but you all have these very well established,
(16:17):
established lives going on. Are you ready for another round
of this with a tour that starting this summer. I mean,
it's it's gonna be a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, it is a pregnant pause.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, New Kids is the foundation. You know, none of
these other things exist without New Kids. We could dream
that one day we could be on television shows, and
I'm sure John could would still have learned how to
build a house. But to the level that we get
to do all these things, none of this exists without
New Kids. New Kids is the gift that keeps on giving.
(16:54):
And our fans are the greatest fans ever and they
still have our back after all the years and are
growing in numbers. I mean, it's just spectacular. There's new
generations of fans.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And now the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Parents of our fans are coming. They're no longer mad
about the nine hundred line. They're like, we love blue
Bloods too, kid. You know, it's expanded so much. But
New Kids is the source for all all the great
things that have happened in our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I must make an assumption here, and I know it's
I already know the answer. You know, we've been doing
the show, it's you one hundred for twenty seven years.
So when you go out on the road and you
meet people and they come up to you and they
are in tears, right, they're in tears, they're shaking because
you were such an important part of their history. And
then they say, you know, I was a huge fan
(17:44):
of yours, and now my daughter lives to listen to you,
and now my granddaughter listens to You're like, correct, yeah,
thank you, Thank goodness. That must is their validity in there.
But leaving your legacy, guys, I mean, I know I'd
love to hear what you have to think about.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's cool like.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
In the past few years we've seen more, you know,
more of the fans, sons and daughters and cousins and
nieces and nephews and stuff like that come to the show,
and it's kind of like, I'm always kind of like.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You're into us, like yeah, us like that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
But then it's like it's such a compliment, you know,
And then I think back of like when I used
to like bands that my older sisters liked, you know,
like they would like play the music on the record
and then I'd get into them, you know, when I
was really young.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
So I look at it like that.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
It's like, it's so cool that they're getting into like
an older group or older generation of music, and it
just kind of speaks to what we've done over the years,
put our heart and soul into it and hopefully made
really good art and songs and came up with good performances,
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and they're into it.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There was an energy New Kids was more than just
the music and the performances. There was an energy energy
there and on the radio end of it, we saw it,
we felt it, and yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
That too, and a lot of people say, like, you know,
you guys, you guys are just fun.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You know, we like the energy. It feels good to
like watch you guys.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
So that's that's the thing also that I feel is
probably an appeal absolutely.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I think if I can add to it's we don't
get to decide our legacy, you know, we just we're
living out our dreams. Really, I mean, this is stuff
we dreamed of as kids, to be in a band
and to have success and be on the radio and
do an interview, you know, and all the other countless
things that have happened in our careers. But you know,
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other people will decide what our legacy is when it's
when it's all said and done. But for us, if
we can just know that we we had a magical
ride together, we stuck together, we respected the bond that
we have it most importantly, gave back to our fans
and brought happiness to as many people as we could.
That's that's I think. What I know I personally take
(20:07):
away from it every day. It's if every time a
tour ends, if I know, like we put it all
out there and gave everything we had to give back
to the fans who have given us so much, then
that's that's all that really matters. You know. The rest
is for other people to to figure out later in
a in a book.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Kind of wonder, like what artists new artists are we
playing today that we'll be doing this that many years later,
ye like? And who's to say what the magic dust
was that made it made it happen that your journey
today brought you here today after.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All these years.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know so many things, Yes, how can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Can?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Five teenagers cramming into a car driving down from Boston.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Going to New York and literally pounding the pavement.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Literally like we we got into the Apollo by bumping
into the guy who booked the place on the street.
Because Maurice, Maurice Starr just had that energy, you know
what I mean, you have you know, there's so many lights,
bolts of lightning, you know what I mean, starting with
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Maurice Starr and Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean that right there was enough.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
To you know, change the world, you know what I mean.
So you got to hustle. Our parents. I think about
our parents, you know, our generation of parents, you know
that generation.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
They worked hard, They scrapped things together, they you know,
up by your bootstraps, you know what I mean, Get up,
go be somebody, all those things. You know, it's like
it's a million things that come together, and I think,
you know, we just we keep feeling like we have
to show up, you know, to pay back and see
what else is you know around the corner as well.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Hitting that payment. Would you ever want to go back
to that day ever again? Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, yes, yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no, definitely, definitely, yes, Yeah, those.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Are those are wild days. Man.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Walking into Times Square for the first time and in
nineteen eighty five, Right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It's a lot more fun walking into a New York
radio station and having a few people welcome you in
instead of a few people saying, who.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
The hell are you? Get the hell out of here.
It's definitely more fun.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But what makes it special now is when Joey just
telling these stories, when we remember, you know, if we
don't forget that struggle and those tough times and what
it took to get here. You know, I I rarely
walk into a place that I used to not be
able to get into without going, Wow, I'm blessed? You
know how lucky am I? I mean, that's that's what
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it's it's about. Is you got to remember the journey.
And you know, you said we were like and I
know you didn't mean in a bad way, but like
five superstar kids when you first met usine like yeah,
And fortunately, after all these years, we remember the journey
and we respect the journey, and it makes us grateful
to be here. You're still on the Journey's still on
(23:06):
the journey. All right, let's talk about the album, all right,
So Still Kids is out tomorrow. It's an album of
songs that do what what are these songs, I mean,
make you feel good?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Okay, make you feel a lot. Is there a filter
that each song needed to go through in order to
make it on this album?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think it's kind of I mean a little I
mean a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But well, I would say there wasn't a filter, like
we sat down and said that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I think we were.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We were writing and singing and recording from a space
of feeling.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a lot of love and heart and you know,
in some ways it's a nostalgic album. In other ways
it's a reflective album. In other ways it's a it's
a very contemporary album. It's it has a lot of layers,
but it's very cohesive and I my experience to the
couple of fans I sneak previated too. It's an emotional rollercoaster,
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but all very it has a symmetry, if that's the
right word.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I think I think you know lyrically too.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know, we get to have all the feelds on
the music, but lyrically we get to you know, speak
to you know, our generation and the life we've lived,
and also have fun at the same time and then
have one of the you know, our first single was Kids,
but we we gave like a free download on New
Kids on the block day of a song Jordan sing's
(24:32):
love like This, which is it's it's absolutely classic, you
know what I mean. It's it's Jordan and I doing
his thing and the fields are just instant. It's just
like bam, you know. And we have those moments along
the way in the album, but we also stretch and
grow because that's the stuff that gets you excited, you
know what I mean, to try and stretch and yeah,
(24:53):
it was it was fun. I mean again, Donnie, you know,
kicked it off and you know when I had stepped
in with my buddy Sean who who wrote a bunch
of songs with me for the album. You know, it
was just fitting into that vibe, you know what I mean,
and making something cohesive.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But that spoke to our very long history.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What about you, John, this album, anything in particular that
sticks out for you while listening to this album? Have
you heard the album?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Are you a secret block? Are you are?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Maybe I'll get to it. John's like, I'll get to
it one day.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
No, I have heard it. I did when it was done.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I'll show you a picture from from a text from John,
just just to prove it. But he of of you
texted me the other day of him listening to a
song called come Back, and he was like, I love
love love you know what I mean. That is a
big high praise from John. Okay from his pickup truck
on his phone, your friend. You know he's steeling it
(26:03):
if he's gonna stop and take.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
A picture, So yeah, he's We all have our favorites.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What about you, Dan, Danny and he foughts about this album.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
I just thought it was great that, you know, two
guys in the group were writing in two separate places,
but then the songs coexist on the album and sound
like either one of them could have wrote each other songs.
So they were interesting. Yeah, they were writing and everything
just works together. And it was great when Joe came
with his songs because it kind of was like more energy.
(26:34):
And then Donnie wrote a few more that brought more energy.
So for me, it was watching that and being a
part of it was great.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And finally, Jordan, what do you think this album? Not
a fan?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No?
Speaker 7 (26:45):
No, you know it's funny like you know, like we're
older now, I guess, you know. But like you see
a lot of times you see, like I've seen it,
older bands or bands have been out for thirty years,
they'll come up with an album and it's like, I
don't know, they hired the latest producer, and it's kind
(27:07):
of like, it's not it doesn't feel right, you know.
And this album is not like that. It's not like
us trying. It's not us trying to be something. It's
like it found the beautiful medium of like sounding very
contemporary but sounding very us.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Like.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
The lyrics are grown lyrics, like stuff that we go through.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
It's not like trying to cater to young kids. But
young kids will still like it because it has a
contemporary sound.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
All right, well we have I have Okay, we could
play kids right now, which is everyone's heard Kids, But
Magic is the song that has not been released yet.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'd rather get through you get all the inside scoops,
so you might as well do whatever you want. At
this point, He's gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Donnie, are we breaking any laws here? If you say yes,
it makes it more fun.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You're certified your status in blockhood lore forever, right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And is that what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh your questions? You're playing of a song. Yeah, you're
You're locked in forever, you know.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Obviously it's a tie into our tour this summer, the
Magic Summer Tour. And so the first two tracks on
the album are Magic one and the next one is
Summer Love.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
So you got the Magic Summer Love.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Just a little inside, okay, sort of like a you know,
like a swifty thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
There's we have Easter eggs too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Absolutely, you do. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna We're gonna play Kids and Magine. I'm gonna play
them both at the same time.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm gonna play Magic first? Guys, I cannot thank you
enough for spending time with us today. What an honor
to have you in our house, to be here, and
thanks for not lighting your farts on fire. Even the
part of me screetly wished you would one text and
then we'll let you go. I'm a retired NYPD detective.
One of my favorite memories is working in uniform Thanksgiving
(29:00):
Day parade. Joey was on a float. You look down
and waved. Of course he was my favorite. I was
screaming and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Jumping up and down, completely forgetting I was working in uniform.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The audience was laughing. One of my best memories of
being on the New York City Police.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Department that was two thousand and one is ish.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I think, yeah, I know you guys are busy before
we play your music. I have a question. We have
this thing every year called the iHeartRadio Music Festival to
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I don't answer now because I know you gotta look
at your count. We've never been invited to that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You're now invited. I'm officially on a hope and they
can fire me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Fine, I'm worth more fire than higher and let me go.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
iHeart Gods. I would like to officially invite you. I
want you to look at your calendars, have the managers
talk to the managers, you know all that bez and
let's see if we can get you out in Vegas
for the the incredible, most incredible two days of music
in Las Vegas with the art we do music. Quest.
We don't answer that's incredible, but if you could entry.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yes, We're not answering this weekend No No September.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
In September.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
September is it is it? Is it a steak or
chicken thing or a fish or beating a chicken box?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
No, no, Robert chickens.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You're septem None of us are answering, but we're all smiling,
and you have a camera to prove it all.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Go And if we could get John off the farm for.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The crops are down by September, you're down, this would
be available.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm just holding it out there, holding it out there.
Let me give it to you. Good still kids. The
album is out tomorrow. You've heard.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Kids.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
We're gonna play it up for you in a second.
But Magic is the song that's released tomorrow. We're gonna
play it for you now because what the hell? Because
new Kids on the box.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Some do you find the matter
We are so excited about this moment. We've been waiting
for this moment for several years now. Gentlemen have just
walked into the room. I see Donnie, I see Jonathan,
I see Jordan, I see Joey, I see Danny. New Kids.
Was like, it's like remember.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
In the magic mirror, right right, the magic mirror, I see,
I see, I see, I see in a very important
era in so many people's lives that we continue to
celebrate today, and you continue to continue to get out
there and hang out with the fans of New KOs
block the Blockheads.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Let's dig into that. Welcome to Z one hundred where
I met you back in the nineteen nineties. But back
then it was different because you guys were injected with
this incredible crazy ego blasted we're superstar kids, and I
had the babies of all five of you still might
still might. And you guys were having you're having fart
(00:55):
contest in the corner.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Of that sound like an episode of Our Car too.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, well you were. You were your farting in my studio.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Were lighting them on fire. We used to do that
on that Well guess.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
What I think I think I introduced that by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That was you well on fire. Guess what the interview
is young and we have a lighter.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Welcome guys, it's so great to have you here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And what's what's wonderful about new Kids on the Block.
It's not only one big ball of energy. It's five
interesting guys that have five interesting lives. It's ten balls
ten well, I don't know, it depends on if interview.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, so I guess it's eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's now eleven balls. So welcome to the show. We've
had things to celebrate. Of course, the album Still Kids
is coming out tomorrow, I do believe, and of course Kids,
we got to play that in a second. But also
I have another song that people haven't heard being released tomorrow.
We're waiting for legal to say we can push the
play button.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You could do it, of course. All right, let's break
the lot.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, let's break crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You're taking over for Good Morning America tomorrow, I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be early, early, going
to be early. This is late compared to Good Morning America.
I think we have to be there tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You all look fresh. Having new Kids on the Block
visit your show is not an easy task because there
were so many moving parts. Because you you have things
to do, You've you've got schedules. I'm looking at your schedule. Guys.
When to the next cruise. I'm gonna go on the
next New Kids cruise.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
You should go on the next thirteen of them so far,
twelve real ones and one virtual one because of some
virus a.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Few years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
How do you do a virtual cruise?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
We just oh god, all got your back.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, yeah, and then we zoomed each other.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, and then invited a thousand or two thousand or
ten thousand fans and to watch it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It was fun actually, and of course your fans, as
you know, are I don't want to use the word
rabbit because that's a little negative. They're just very enthusiastic.
So if you're on a ship, which you know, not
a lot of exits, when you're in the middle of
the ocean, you're there, Yeah, gets no getting big.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a big I mean, we we go,
we give them the time of their lives. We just
try to give back and they're you know, it's a
big deal. But it's non stop and we're not you know,
hiding in a cabin the whole time. It's like we're
in a mosh pit the whole time, basically.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Floating mashpite fantastic, phenomenal these cruises, though, I mean twelve,
that's a lot. I mean, are there any more scheduled?
Or is that a thing that you put on hold
for a while?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Not scheduled, But I would predict that one will happen again.
You know, in your green room there's a big cruise,
our Spriing cruise line than the one we typically use.
But some of us were getting excited looking at that
little scale model of a cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Shill free. We can move you up to our cruise
and whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Maybe we can move you over to ours. We have
agents for these things. Let's talk about it. What it's
like getting back into the studio with each other. I
know that Donnie, you you helped. You were part of
writing the writing process, right with anyone else. I probably
got the ship to use a pun a recent pun started.
(04:24):
I got the ball rolling to use another pun a
few minutes ago. My love, this is the second time
we've talked about ball.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Uh No.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I started writing the writing process a little while ago
and we started recording, and you know, it's always a
process and you know, discovering what we want to talk about,
what we want to say, the music that feels right
for us. And I think we got a few songs done,
and then Joey came and got really inspired and really
kind of got us across the finish line with the
(04:52):
album and bringing a bunch of new songs and new
energy after I sort of got it started. So it
just and everybody was game on recording and recording at
all hours of the night. I think joe held John
hostage in a hotel room.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, but it was we were all in. We were
all in to do this our We haven't really done
a new album in gosh over eleven years. Yeah, So
this was something that I think was important for the fans,
and as it turned out, by the time we finished,
we realized it was also very important for us. We
really bonded in a new way. It took a lot
(05:31):
of effort to pull this off with all our busy
schedules and stuff, and to have done it and to
feel so good about it and so proud of it.
We can't wait for the fans to hear it, we're
very excited about.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let me use Jonathan as an example. So you're we
see you doing your show, uh farmhouse fixer, fix Fix Fixer,
and I need you, by the way, it's falling down.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I need you to build it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But we see you living in this bucolic world where
you know, your busy day, a great relationship with great
friends that you work with to redo these amazing historical
homes and things like that. I can imagine you were
the last one going, oh god, I don't John of
this is to go to a city that has over
(06:15):
ten people in it. Welcome to New York. I mean,
let's use your example. I mean we were you a
holdout coming back into the studio to do this or
were you ready to go? You know, I'm always ready.
I have a really good.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Balance, so you know, I get to do my thing
and then get to jump back in with these guys.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So best of both worlds, right, What about you, Danny?
Was it like okay, and I've been waiting for your call,
waiting by the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I was waiting.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
I was ready to go, and it was especially it
was a lot of fun, especially two guys in the
group writing for all of us, so it was easy
to sing the songs, it was easy to relate to
what they wrote. So to me, this was the most
fun I've had since we've been back together recording.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
There you go about you, Jordan, what are you thinking?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I I you know, I love music like everybody else,
and it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's fun to do new music. That's the thing. Like
when we go on tour, we sing all of our
hits all the time, you know, every every tour. That's
what the fans want.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
But for us, it's like great and fun for us
to do new music. And for our hardcore fans, they
want to see new music, new routines, and it's just
it's fun.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It's fun creating music. That's why we started doing this.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
So there you go. I think.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I think when you go ahead, no, I I just
the dynamic of you know, like.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Getting a little emotional actually good no.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
But the you know, saying yes, you know, it's like
saying damn sorry. It's early saying yes to each other.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like Donnie says.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yes first and deals with whatever, and I know Jordan's
said yes from the get go, like when Donnie was
working out and when you have Jordan Knight showing up
in laying down vocals like you know, it's just like
that energy and you get to trade off with each
other and and people showing up and Danny always being
there and John like like you say, coming off the
farm and going yeah, let's let's do it. You know
(08:19):
what I mean, And it's it can be. It's a
real process. It's it even though you've known everybody, but
there's no greater Wow people, then your your your boys,
you know, showing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Up five said yes, sorry it was it was no, no, no,
you know no. I think I think that's a very
that's a very important part of the story. Important part
of the story because the history you have with each other,
the good, the bad, and of course it was what
it was. It was like sitting in an electric chair,
being a new kid on the block, performer back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And now you're like, am I gonna say yes to this?
Let me think for a for a second.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And then when you do say yes, I must assume
there's a thin line between excitement and all what the
f am I doing? Here we go? But you did it,
you did it. What we're gonna say, I.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Was just gonna ask. Now I feel bad asking because
he's crying around being that you guys have been doing
this for so long and you have been singing these
songs a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is there one song that you all go, yeah, we're
just not gonna do that one anymore, or we would
rather not do that one anymore. Sure, everyone has one.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
There's a certain We always say there's a certain member
that doesn't like to sing a certain song.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
But but you know.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, is it is just but see it's it's it's
a little bit of a trick question because I personally
don't really get that excited if I hear the right stuff.
Come on, you know, if I'm at a basketball game
or somewhere in public and they know him there, they
of course they're gonna play it. And it's like, all right,
(09:58):
still my favorites, Donnie, But in concert, in concert with
our fans, there's not really a better moment than performing
the right stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Well, let me do, let me do, Let Donnie, which
song does Jonathan hat doing.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm trying to I'm trying to figure out which one
he likes doing it? He likes the women he's off stage,
John dream, all.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right, I want to take you. I want to take
you guys back to that first moment you were all
in the studio together to uh to start working on
Still Kids, all right, that very first moment when you're
about to like I guess you're warming up or doing
whatever vocalists do, but you're about to have to get
to work on an album. Was it a little scary,
a little frightening.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That this is a trick question.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We were never all in the same studio into making
a record in you know, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four.
I think so there was all always a little bit
I mean, Frank to go back to, you know, John
and I expect the fans to make me a statue
because I wrote I wrote a song for John and
they you know, he is beloved, so the fact that
(11:13):
he has this soulo it's called better Days on the
on the album, and I felt like I was trying
to romance the guy.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And we did it in a hotel room.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We were recorded in a hotel room, and like you know,
there was lots of those moments. I think the moment
you're speaking to are those moments of like, how are
we going to do this? You know, how are we
going to make this call. How are you gonna like, say, hey,
how about sing this part? Sing this part? What do
you think of this song? Because it is all subjective,
(11:42):
you know, and and the tough part is to say,
I don't think so that's not me. How about this?
You know what I mean, It's that kind of thing.
I don't know if that answers your question.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It does.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
There's still yeah, there's still vulnerability, and there's still you know,
it's still art in some ways. When we're writing songs
and putting answerts together and doing this stuff, we still
have to we want to get everybody on the same page.
And it's hard to get five human beings on the
same page with such different lives. So, as Joey was
saying earlier, I think kind of and I experienced it myself,
(12:14):
is when you're presenting ideas and stuff to people who've
been doing it this long and been in the industry
this long, you know, it's like, damn, I hope they
like it. And even though it's our bandmates, you want
their respect in many ways more than anybody else's. You know,
if some other artist turns down a song I write, well,
I didn't really expect them to like it in the
(12:36):
first place, but with your own bandmates, you really want
them to be excited and enthused because if they're not,
you know, it's like you also got to live with
them and the song was on the record, and every
time it plays you.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Look at it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Oh, yeah, he didn't like that song. I got it
on behind his back. You know, it's like you don't
want that. You really hope that everyone's in that same
energy space. And I think at the end of the day,
we usually are mindful in respect of each other enough
after all these years to know when to push, when
to pull back, and what it will take to get
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everyone to sort of be happy and enthusday, that level.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Of importance has been heightened absolutely. What do you think, Gandhi?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
Okay, so I've been looking at the text messages and
everybody wants to talk to you guys like, oh, I
want to talk to Dannie. I want to talk to Danny,
which reminds me when I was little. To this day,
we now still have a nine hundred block on our
phone because you guys used to have a phone number
that you could call and allegedly leave you a message,
and you guys would call us back.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We have a new one free free this.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Time, because my parents had like a four hundred dollars
bill from my sister and no one ever called back.
So I was just thinking, you know, maybe you could
bring on that.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Our new ones free.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So what we do is we pull out our phones
whenever we're doing something fun like I'm doing. Hey, everyone,
welcome to the new Free New Kids hotline. We're hair
at the Elvis Durant show and yeah, everyone say hi,
it's just a phone message, and uh, it's all.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's free.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We're not getting any money, so you won't be getting
a check, but if you want one.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We'll talk after that.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way, what is it?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What one eight eight six zero New Complete Team one
eight six zero New Kids one eight six zero.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
If you called, you know the number. So it's okay
six zero one eight six zero New Kids. Yeah, but
it's free.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It's free, and you hear messages from us all the
time and it's very eighties but we love it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Good Bye everyone.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Col I think Pink famously got grounded actually for spending
so much money on that nine hundred number.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
So did Pria Gandhi.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Sorry, p I tried, so I know you're leaving after
this interview, Donnie to go do some work with Blue Bloods.
I think you're doing some some promotional today. But yeah,
but Blue Bloods is actually shooting at Lee's tavern, Staten
Island today. I was supposed to go there for lunch
today to have my clam pie, and they shut it down.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I was.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I rarely eat clam pie.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Unless it's at least but not today. Well, you know
because when we when we buy out a restaurant or
a pub or a tavern or whatever to film, we
actually typically get them to still cook for us.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So if you.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Wanted to go have a clampie, I could call Blue
Bloods and tell them you are coming by to have
a pie. So you don't cry, I can try. Oh sigh,
what's that?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I thought maybe we can even name it after you
Elvis's Clampie.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That video was done years ago. But thanks for asking.
I appreciate it. Let's talk about your schedule now. I
know you guys are flying out to Los Angeles this weekend.
You'll be at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank doing a
special that's going to play back on Tuesday. Yeah, I
mean so, I mean, you guys are hitting the road
running here, and but you all have these very well established,
(16:17):
established lives going on. Are you ready for another round
of this with a tour that starting this summer. I mean,
it's it's gonna be a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, it is a pregnant pause.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No, New Kids is the foundation. You know, none of
these other things exist without New Kids. We could dream
that one day we could be on television shows, and
I'm sure John could would still have learned how to
build a house. But to the level that we get
to do all these things, none of this exists without
New Kids. New Kids is the gift that keeps on giving.
(16:54):
And our fans are the greatest fans ever and they
still have our back after all the years and are
growing in numbers. I mean, it's just spectacular. There's new
generations of fans.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And now the.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Parents of our fans are coming. They're no longer mad
about the nine hundred line. They're like, we love blue
Bloods too, kid. You know, it's expanded so much. But
New Kids is the source for all all the great
things that have happened in our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I must make an assumption here, and I know it's
I already know the answer. You know, we've been doing
the show, it's you one hundred for twenty seven years.
So when you go out on the road and you
meet people and they come up to you and they
are in tears, right, they're in tears, they're shaking because
you were such an important part of their history. And
then they say, you know, I was a huge fan
(17:44):
of yours, and now my daughter lives to listen to you,
and now my granddaughter listens to You're like, correct, yeah,
thank you, Thank goodness. That must is their validity in there.
But leaving your legacy, guys, I mean, I know I'd
love to hear what you have to think about.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's cool like.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
In the past few years we've seen more, you know,
more of the fans, sons and daughters and cousins and
nieces and nephews and stuff like that come to the show,
and it's kind of like, I'm always kind of like.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
You're into us, like yeah, us like that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
But then it's like it's such a compliment, you know,
And then I think back of like when I used
to like bands that my older sisters liked, you know,
like they would like play the music on the record
and then I'd get into them, you know, when I
was really young.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
So I look at it like that.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
It's like, it's so cool that they're getting into like
an older group or older generation of music, and it
just kind of speaks to what we've done over the years,
put our heart and soul into it and hopefully made
really good art and songs and came up with good performances,
(18:58):
and they're into it.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
There was an energy New Kids was more than just
the music and the performances. There was an energy energy
there and on the radio end of it, we saw it,
we felt it, and yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
That too, and a lot of people say, like, you know,
you guys, you guys are just fun.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You know, we like the energy. It feels good to
like watch you guys.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
So that's that's the thing also that I feel is
probably an appeal absolutely.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I think if I can add to it's we don't
get to decide our legacy, you know, we just we're
living out our dreams. Really, I mean, this is stuff
we dreamed of as kids, to be in a band
and to have success and be on the radio and
do an interview, you know, and all the other countless
things that have happened in our careers. But you know,
(19:45):
other people will decide what our legacy is when it's
when it's all said and done. But for us, if
we can just know that we we had a magical
ride together, we stuck together, we respected the bond that
we have it most importantly, gave back to our fans
and brought happiness to as many people as we could.
That's that's I think. What I know I personally take
(20:07):
away from it every day. It's if every time a
tour ends, if I know, like we put it all
out there and gave everything we had to give back
to the fans who have given us so much, then
that's that's all that really matters. You know. The rest
is for other people to to figure out later in
a in a book.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Kind of wonder, like what artists new artists are we
playing today that we'll be doing this that many years later,
ye like? And who's to say what the magic dust
was that made it made it happen that your journey
today brought you here today after.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All these years.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know so many things, Yes, how can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Can?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Five teenagers cramming into a car driving down from Boston.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Going to New York and literally pounding the pavement.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Literally like we we got into the Apollo by bumping
into the guy who booked the place on the street.
Because Maurice, Maurice Starr just had that energy, you know
what I mean, you have you know, there's so many lights,
bolts of lightning, you know what I mean, starting with
(21:16):
Maurice Starr and Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean that right there was enough.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
To you know, change the world, you know what I mean.
So you got to hustle. Our parents. I think about
our parents, you know, our generation of parents, you know
that generation.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
They worked hard, They scrapped things together, they you know,
up by your bootstraps, you know what I mean, Get up,
go be somebody, all those things. You know, it's like
it's a million things that come together, and I think,
you know, we just we keep feeling like we have
to show up, you know, to pay back and see
what else is you know around the corner as well.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Hitting that payment. Would you ever want to go back
to that day ever again? Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, yes, yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no, definitely, definitely, yes, Yeah, those.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Are those are wild days. Man.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Walking into Times Square for the first time and in
nineteen eighty five, Right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It's a lot more fun walking into a New York
radio station and having a few people welcome you in
instead of a few people saying, who.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
The hell are you? Get the hell out of here.
It's definitely more fun.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But what makes it special now is when Joey just
telling these stories, when we remember, you know, if we
don't forget that struggle and those tough times and what
it took to get here. You know, I I rarely
walk into a place that I used to not be
able to get into without going, Wow, I'm blessed? You
know how lucky am I? I mean, that's that's what
(22:45):
it's it's about. Is you got to remember the journey.
And you know, you said we were like and I
know you didn't mean in a bad way, but like
five superstar kids when you first met usine like yeah,
And fortunately, after all these years, we remember the journey
and we respect the journey, and it makes us grateful
to be here. You're still on the Journey's still on
(23:06):
the journey. All right, let's talk about the album, all right,
So Still Kids is out tomorrow. It's an album of
songs that do what what are these songs, I mean,
make you feel good?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Okay, make you feel a lot. Is there a filter
that each song needed to go through in order to
make it on this album?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I think it's kind of I mean a little I
mean a little bit.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
But well, I would say there wasn't a filter, like
we sat down and said that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I think we were.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We were writing and singing and recording from a space
of feeling.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's a lot of love and heart and you know,
in some ways it's a nostalgic album. In other ways
it's a reflective album. In other ways it's a it's
a very contemporary album. It's it has a lot of layers,
but it's very cohesive and I my experience to the
couple of fans I sneak previated too. It's an emotional rollercoaster,
(24:02):
but all very it has a symmetry, if that's the
right word.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I think I think you know lyrically too.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
You know, we get to have all the feelds on
the music, but lyrically we get to you know, speak
to you know, our generation and the life we've lived,
and also have fun at the same time and then
have one of the you know, our first single was Kids,
but we we gave like a free download on New
Kids on the block day of a song Jordan sing's
(24:32):
love like This, which is it's it's absolutely classic, you
know what I mean. It's it's Jordan and I doing
his thing and the fields are just instant. It's just
like bam, you know. And we have those moments along
the way in the album, but we also stretch and
grow because that's the stuff that gets you excited, you
know what I mean, to try and stretch and yeah,
(24:53):
it was it was fun. I mean again, Donnie, you know,
kicked it off and you know when I had stepped
in with my buddy Sean who who wrote a bunch
of songs with me for the album. You know, it
was just fitting into that vibe, you know what I mean,
and making something cohesive.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But that spoke to our very long history.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
What about you, John, this album, anything in particular that
sticks out for you while listening to this album? Have
you heard the album?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Are you a secret block? Are you are?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Maybe I'll get to it. John's like, I'll get to
it one day.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
No, I have heard it. I did when it was done.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I'll show you a picture from from a text from John,
just just to prove it. But he of of you
texted me the other day of him listening to a
song called come Back, and he was like, I love
love love you know what I mean. That is a
big high praise from John. Okay from his pickup truck
on his phone, your friend. You know he's steeling it
(26:03):
if he's gonna stop and take.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
A picture, So yeah, he's We all have our favorites.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What about you, Dan, Danny and he foughts about this album.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
I just thought it was great that, you know, two
guys in the group were writing in two separate places,
but then the songs coexist on the album and sound
like either one of them could have wrote each other songs.
So they were interesting. Yeah, they were writing and everything
just works together. And it was great when Joe came
with his songs because it kind of was like more energy.
(26:34):
And then Donnie wrote a few more that brought more energy.
So for me, it was watching that and being a
part of it was great.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And finally, Jordan, what do you think this album? Not
a fan?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No?
Speaker 7 (26:45):
No, you know it's funny like you know, like we're
older now, I guess, you know. But like you see
a lot of times you see, like I've seen it,
older bands or bands have been out for thirty years,
they'll come up with an album and it's like, I
don't know, they hired the latest producer, and it's kind
(27:07):
of like, it's not it doesn't feel right, you know.
And this album is not like that. It's not like
us trying. It's not us trying to be something. It's
like it found the beautiful medium of like sounding very
contemporary but sounding very us.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Like.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
The lyrics are grown lyrics, like stuff that we go through.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
It's not like trying to cater to young kids. But
young kids will still like it because it has a
contemporary sound.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
All right, well we have I have Okay, we could
play kids right now, which is everyone's heard Kids, But
Magic is the song that has not been released yet.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'd rather get through you get all the inside scoops,
so you might as well do whatever you want. At
this point, He's gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Donnie, are we breaking any laws here? If you say yes,
it makes it more fun.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You're certified your status in blockhood lore forever, right.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And is that what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Oh your questions? You're playing of a song. Yeah, you're
You're locked in forever, you know.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Obviously it's a tie into our tour this summer, the
Magic Summer Tour. And so the first two tracks on
the album are Magic one and the next one is
Summer Love.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
So you got the Magic Summer Love.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Just a little inside, okay, sort of like a you know,
like a swifty thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
There's we have Easter eggs too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Absolutely, you do. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna We're gonna play Kids and Magine. I'm gonna play
them both at the same time.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm gonna play Magic first? Guys, I cannot thank you
enough for spending time with us today. What an honor
to have you in our house, to be here, and
thanks for not lighting your farts on fire. Even the
part of me screetly wished you would one text and
then we'll let you go. I'm a retired NYPD detective.
One of my favorite memories is working in uniform Thanksgiving
(29:00):
Day parade. Joey was on a float. You look down
and waved. Of course he was my favorite. I was
screaming and.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Jumping up and down, completely forgetting I was working in uniform.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
The audience was laughing. One of my best memories of
being on the New York City Police.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Department that was two thousand and one is ish.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I think, yeah, I know you guys are busy before
we play your music. I have a question. We have
this thing every year called the iHeartRadio Music Festival to
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I don't answer now because I know you gotta look
at your count. We've never been invited to that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
You're now invited. I'm officially on a hope and they
can fire me.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Fine, I'm worth more fire than higher and let me go.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
iHeart Gods. I would like to officially invite you. I
want you to look at your calendars, have the managers
talk to the managers, you know all that bez and
let's see if we can get you out in Vegas
for the the incredible, most incredible two days of music
in Las Vegas with the art we do music. Quest.
We don't answer that's incredible, but if you could entry.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yes, We're not answering this weekend No No September.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
In September.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
September is it is it? Is it a steak or
chicken thing or a fish or beating a chicken box?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
No, no, Robert chickens.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You're septem None of us are answering, but we're all smiling,
and you have a camera to prove it all.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Go And if we could get John off the farm for.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The crops are down by September, you're down, this would
be available.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm just holding it out there, holding it out there.
Let me give it to you. Good still kids. The
album is out tomorrow. You've heard.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Kids.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
We're gonna play it up for you in a second.
But Magic is the song that's released tomorrow. We're gonna
play it for you now because what the hell? Because
new Kids on the box.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Some do you find the matter
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