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 in the magic mirror,
right right in the magic mirror, I see, I see,
(00:22):
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 2 (00:34):
Yeah, they love.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
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. That's like an episode of our cartoon.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, well you were.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You were your farting in my studio, were lighting them
on fire. We used to do that on that. Well
guess what I think, I think I introduced that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
By the way, that was you well on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Guess what the interview is young and we have a
lighter Welcome guys, it's so great to have you here.
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. Well,
(01:34):
I don't know, it depends on if interview. Well, I
didn't hear about my surgery, so I guess it's eleven.
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.
(01:56):
We're waiting for legal to say we can push the
play button. You can, ye, of course. All right, let's
break the lot. Yeah, let's break crazy. You're taking over
for Good Morning America tomorrow, I believe, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's going to be early early, It's going to be early.
This is late compared to Good Morning America. I think
we have to be there tonight tomorrow. You all look
(02:20):
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 scheduled. I'm looking at your schedule, guys. When
is the next cruise? I'm gonna go on the next
New Kids cruise? You should go on the next.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Thirteen of them so far, twelve real ones and one
virtual one because of some virus a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How do you do a virtual cruise?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We just oh, we all got back yeah, yeah, and
then we zoomed each other. 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 4 (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 mash pit. Yeh offentastic 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 5 (03:42):
Not scheduled, But I would predict that one will happen again.
You know, in your green room, there's a big cruise
that's our spring 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 crew line.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Whenever you're ready, maybe we can move you over to ours.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I probably got the ship to use a pun a
recent pun started. 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 3 (04:30):
That's right, uh, No.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
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
(04:52):
the 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, recording at
all hours of the night. I think joe held John
hostage in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Room to sing a song. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (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 Fixer, fixer,
and I need you, by the way, it's falling down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
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, in 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 tell
of this 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 were you were you
a holdout coming back into the studio to do this
or were you ready to go?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You know, I'm always ready.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I have a really good.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Balance, so you know, I get to do my thing
and then get to jump back in with these guys.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
So that's the both.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Worlds, right. What about you, Danny? Was it like okay,
and I've been waiting for your call, but eaiting by
the phone. I was waiting.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (06:59):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What about you, Jordan, what are you thinking?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
I I you know, I love music like everybody else,
and it's fun. It's fun to do new music.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's the thing.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Like when we go on tour, we sing all of
our hits all the time, you know, every every tour.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That's what the fans want.
Speaker 8 (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. It's fun creating music. That's why we started
doing this.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think. I think when you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Go ahead, no, I I just the dynamic of you know, like.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Getting a little emotional actually good no. But the.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know, saying yes, you know, it's like saying damn sorry.
It's early saying yes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
To each other. You know what I'm saying, Like Donnie
says yes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
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 what
(08:19):
I mean, And it's it can be. It's a real process.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's it even though you've known everybody, but there's no greater. Wow,
the complement. Then your your your boys, you know, showing
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,
(08:44):
the good, the bad, and of course it was what
it was. It was like sitting in an electric chair
being a new kill on the block performer back in
the day. And now you're like, am I gonna say
yes to this? Let me think for a for a second,
and then when you do say yes, I must assume
there's a thin line between excitement and all what the
(09:05):
f am I doing? We go? But you did it?
You did it? What were we gonna say? I was
just gonna ask.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Sure, everyone has one.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
There's a certain We always say there's a certain member
that doesn't like to sing a certain song.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But but you know, okay, what is it?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Is it just but to 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 I'm there, they
of course they're gonna play it, and it's like, all.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Right, still my favorites.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Well, 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 an electrify, Donnie,
which song does Jonathan hat do it? I'm trying to
I'm trying to figure out which one he likes doing.
He likes the wom when he's off stage, John.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Dream all right, I want to take you.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
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 that this is
(10:50):
a trick question. We were never all in.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The same studio to making a record in you know,
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. I think so there
was always a little bit, I mean, frankly 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 he has this soulo it's called
(11:14):
better Days on the on the album, and I felt
like I was trying to romance the guy. And we
did it in a hotel room. We recorded 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
(11:36):
you gonna like say, hey, how about sing this part?
Sing this part?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What do you think of this song?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Because it is all subjective, you know, and and the
tough part is to say, I don't think, so that's
not me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
How about this? You know what I mean, it's that
kind of thing. I don't know if that answers your question.
It does.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
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 concerts 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 life. 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 look at it. 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
(12:59):
mindful in respect to a little of each other enough
after all these years to know when to push, when
to pull back, and what it will take to get
everyone to sort of be happy and enthusday.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Level of importance has been heightened absolutely. What do you think, Gandhi?
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Okay, So I've been looking at the text messages and
everybody wants to talk to these guys like, oh, I
want to talk to Donnie. 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 5 (13:33):
We have a new one free, oh free this time.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
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.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Could bring on that our new ones free. 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 3 (14:04):
It's free.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We're not getting any money, so you won't be getting
a check, but if you want one, we'll talk after.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's number, by the way, what is it? What?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
One eight eight six zero New Kids Complete Team one
eight six zero New Kids one eight six zero. If
you called, you know the number, So it's okay six
zero one eight six zero New Kids. Yeah, but it's free.
It's free, and you hear messages from us all the
time and it's very eighties but we love it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Good Bye everyone.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think Pink famously got grounded actually for spending so
much money on that nine hundred number.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
So did Pria Gandhi, sorry listening, I tried.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So I know. Uh, 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 an in Staten
Island today. I was supposed to go there for lunch
today to have my clam pie, and they shut it down.
(15:07):
I was. I rarely eat clam pie.
Speaker 5 (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 3 (15:29):
So if you wanted to.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Go have a clampie, I could call Blue Blood's and
tell them you are coming by to have a pie,
so you don't cry.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I can try.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh sigh, what's that? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I thought maybe we can even name it after you
Elvis's Clampie.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
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,
(16:18):
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. Yeah, he
is a pregnant pause.
Speaker 5 (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, there's none of this exists
without new kids. New kids is the gift that keeps
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on giving. And our fans are the greatest fans ever
and they still have our back after all these years
and are growing in numbers. I mean, it's just spectacular.
There's new generations of fans, and now the 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
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the source for all all the great things that have
happened in our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I must make an assumption here, and I know 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,
(17:43):
I was a huge fan of yours, and now my
daughter lives to listen to you, and now my granddaughter
listens to You're like, yeah, thank you, Thank goodness. That
must is there validity in there. But leaving your legacy, guys,
I mean, I know I'd love to hear what you
have to think. It's cool like.
Speaker 8 (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
you're into us, like yeah, us, like that kind of thing.
But then it's like it's such a compliment, you know.
And then I think back of like when I used
(18:24):
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. So I look at it like that.
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,
(18:48):
put our heart and soul into it and hopefully made
really good art songs and came up with good performances,
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.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
And yeah that too, and a lot of people say, like,
you know, you guys, you guys are just fun. You know,
we like the energy. It feels good to.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Like watch you guys.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
So that's that's the thing. Also that I feel is
probably an.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Appeal absolutely, 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
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you know, 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, and most important, we 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
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personally take 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've 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. Yeah, 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 all these years. You know so
many things. Yes, how can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Can five teenagers cramming into a car driving down from
Boston going to New York and literally pounding the pavement
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
(21:10):
what I mean, you have You know, there's so many lights,
bolts of lightning, you know what I mean, starting with
Maurice Starr and Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean that right there was enough to you know,
change the world, you know what I mean. So you
gotta hustle. Our parents.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I think about our parents, you know, our generation of parents,
you know that generation.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
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
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?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, really, yes, yeah, yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no, no, definitely, definitely, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Those are those are wild days. Man.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We're talking to Times Square for the first time and
in nineteen eighty five, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
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 the hell are you?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's definitely more fun.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But what makes it special now is when Joey just
telling those 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 it's
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it's about. Is you got to remember the journey.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And you know, you.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Said we were like and I know you didn't mean
in a bad way, but like five superstar kids when
you first met icine, 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. That's absolute, still on the journey. All right,
let's talk about the album. All right, So Still Kids
(23:11):
is out tomorrow. It's an album of songs that do
what what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Are these songs?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
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? I think it's kind of
I mean a little, I mean a little.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Bit, but well, I would say there wasn't a filter,
Like we sat down and said that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think we were.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We were writing and singing and recording from a space
of feeling.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (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 previeated too. It's in a
emotional rollercoaster, but all very it has a symmetry, if
(24:05):
that's the right word. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think I think you know, lyrically too.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, we get to have all the fields 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,
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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 1 (25:08):
But that spoke to our very long history. 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 4 (25:22):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Are you a secret block? Are you a secret?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Maybe I'll get to it. John's like, I'll get to
it one day.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No, I have heard it. I did it when it
was done.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He was like, I love love love you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
That is a.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Big high praise from John. Okay from his.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Pickup truck on his phone. You know he's stealing it
if he's gonna stop and take a picture. So yeah,
he's We all have our favorites.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
What about you? Dan? Danny and he thought about this album.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
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 weren't 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. And finally, Jordan, what do
you think this album?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Not a fan?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No, 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 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 of like,
(27:08):
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 Like. The lyrics are grown lyrics, like
stuff that we go through. It's not like trying to
(27:33):
cater to young kids.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
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.
I'd rather get through.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
You get all the inside scoops, so you might as
well do whatever you want at this.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Point, he's gonna do it anyway, Donnie, are we breaking
any laws here? If you say yes, it makes it
more fun.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
You're sort of find your status in blockhood lore forever
right now?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Is that what I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Oh your questions? You're playing of a song? Yeah, you're
You're locked in forever, you know.
Speaker 4 (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 1 (28:19):
So you got the Magic Summer Love.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Just a little inside, okay, sort of like a you know,
like a swifty thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
There's we have Easter eggs too. Yeah, absolutely, you do. Okay,
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna We're gonna play
Kids and Magice. I'm gonna play them both at the
same time. What do you think 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,
(28:50):
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 Day parade. Joey was on a float you
look down and waved. Of course, he was my favorite.
I was screaming and jumping up and down, completely forgetting
I was working in uniform. The audience was laughing at
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one of my best memories of being on the New
York City Police Department. That was two thousand and one.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
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. I don't answer now because I know you
gotta look at your count. We've never been invited to that.
You're now invited. What I'm officially on a hope and
(29:42):
they can fire me. Fine, I'm worth more fire than
higher and let me go. 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 be as it, and let's see if we
can get you out in Vegas for the incredible, most
incredible two days of music in Las Vegas with the
(30:03):
art we do music questo.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
We don't answer.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's incredible, but if you could entry.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yes, we're not answering this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
No, no, September in September.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
September is it? Is it?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Is it a steak or chicken thing or a fish
or beating.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The chicken box?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
No, no, Robert chickens, you're septem None of us are answering,
but we're all smiling.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
If you and you have a camera to prove it.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
All go And if we could get John off the
farm for the crops are down by September, you're down.
This should be available. I'm just out there. Let me
give it to you. Good still kids. The album is
out tomorrow. You've heard kids. 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
(30:52):
because what the hell, because New Kids on the
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Don that
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 in the magic mirror,
right right in the magic mirror, I see, I see,
(00:22):
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 2 (00:34):
Yeah, they love.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
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. That's like an episode of our cartoon.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, well you were.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You were your farting in my studio, were lighting them
on fire. We used to do that on that. Well
guess what I think, I think I introduced that.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
By the way, that was you well on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Guess what the interview is young and we have a
lighter Welcome guys, it's so great to have you here.
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. Well,
(01:34):
I don't know, it depends on if interview. Well, I
didn't hear about my surgery, so I guess it's eleven.
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.
(01:56):
We're waiting for legal to say we can push the
play button. You can, ye, of course. All right, let's
break the lot. Yeah, let's break crazy. You're taking over
for Good Morning America tomorrow, I believe, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's going to be early early, It's going to be early.
This is late compared to Good Morning America. I think
we have to be there tonight tomorrow. You all look
(02:20):
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 scheduled. I'm looking at your schedule, guys. When
is the next cruise? I'm gonna go on the next
New Kids cruise? You should go on the next.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Thirteen of them so far, twelve real ones and one
virtual one because of some virus a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How do you do a virtual cruise?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We just oh, we all got back yeah, yeah, and
then we zoomed each other. 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 4 (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 mash pit. Yeh offentastic 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 5 (03:42):
Not scheduled, But I would predict that one will happen again.
You know, in your green room, there's a big cruise
that's our spring 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 crew line.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Whenever you're ready, maybe we can move you over to ours.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
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.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I probably got the ship to use a pun a
recent pun started. 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 3 (04:30):
That's right, uh, No.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
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
(04:52):
the 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, recording at
all hours of the night. I think joe held John
hostage in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Room to sing a song. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (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 Fixer, fixer,
and I need you, by the way, it's falling down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
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, in 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 tell
of this 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 were you were you
a holdout coming back into the studio to do this
or were you ready to go?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
You know, I'm always ready.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
I have a really good.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Balance, so you know, I get to do my thing
and then get to jump back in with these guys.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
So that's the both.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Worlds, right. What about you, Danny? Was it like okay,
and I've been waiting for your call, but eaiting by
the phone. I was waiting.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (06:59):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What about you, Jordan, what are you thinking?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
I I you know, I love music like everybody else,
and it's fun. It's fun to do new music.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's the thing.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Like when we go on tour, we sing all of
our hits all the time, you know, every every tour.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
That's what the fans want.
Speaker 8 (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. It's fun creating music. That's why we started
doing this.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I think. I think when you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Go ahead, no, I I just the dynamic of you know, like.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Getting a little emotional actually good no. But the.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know, saying yes, you know, it's like saying damn sorry.
It's early saying yes.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
To each other. You know what I'm saying, Like Donnie
says yes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
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 what
(08:19):
I mean, And it's it can be. It's a real process.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It's it even though you've known everybody, but there's no greater. Wow,
the complement. Then your your your boys, you know, showing
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,
(08:44):
the good, the bad, and of course it was what
it was. It was like sitting in an electric chair
being a new kill on the block performer back in
the day. And now you're like, am I gonna say
yes to this? Let me think for a for a second,
and then when you do say yes, I must assume
there's a thin line between excitement and all what the
(09:05):
f am I doing? We go? But you did it?
You did it? What were we gonna say? I was
just gonna ask.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Sure, everyone has one.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
There's a certain We always say there's a certain member
that doesn't like to sing a certain song.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But but you know, okay, what is it?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Is it just but to 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 I'm there, they
of course they're gonna play it, and it's like, all.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Right, still my favorites.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Well, 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 an electrify, Donnie,
which song does Jonathan hat do it? I'm trying to
I'm trying to figure out which one he likes doing.
He likes the wom when he's off stage, John.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Dream all right, I want to take you.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
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 that this is
(10:50):
a trick question. We were never all in.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The same studio to making a record in you know,
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. I think so there
was always a little bit, I mean, frankly 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 he has this soulo it's called
(11:14):
better Days on the on the album, and I felt
like I was trying to romance the guy. And we
did it in a hotel room. We recorded 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
(11:36):
you gonna like say, hey, how about sing this part?
Sing this part?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What do you think of this song?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Because it is all subjective, you know, and and the
tough part is to say, I don't think, so that's
not me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
How about this? You know what I mean, it's that
kind of thing. I don't know if that answers your question.
It does.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
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 concerts 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 life. 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 look at it. 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
(12:59):
mindful in respect to a little of each other enough
after all these years to know when to push, when
to pull back, and what it will take to get
everyone to sort of be happy and enthusday.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Level of importance has been heightened absolutely. What do you think, Gandhi?
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Okay, So I've been looking at the text messages and
everybody wants to talk to these guys like, oh, I
want to talk to Donnie. 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 5 (13:33):
We have a new one free, oh free this time.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
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.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Could bring on that our new ones free. 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 3 (14:04):
It's free.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
We're not getting any money, so you won't be getting
a check, but if you want one, we'll talk after.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's number, by the way, what is it? What?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
One eight eight six zero New Kids Complete Team one
eight six zero New Kids one eight six zero. If
you called, you know the number, So it's okay six
zero one eight six zero New Kids. Yeah, but it's free.
It's free, and you hear messages from us all the
time and it's very eighties but we love it.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Good Bye everyone.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's so cool.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think Pink famously got grounded actually for spending so
much money on that nine hundred number.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
So did Pria Gandhi, sorry listening, I tried.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So I know. Uh, 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 an in Staten
Island today. I was supposed to go there for lunch
today to have my clam pie, and they shut it down.
(15:07):
I was. I rarely eat clam pie.
Speaker 5 (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 3 (15:29):
So if you wanted to.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Go have a clampie, I could call Blue Blood's and
tell them you are coming by to have a pie,
so you don't cry.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I can try.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh sigh, what's that? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I thought maybe we can even name it after you
Elvis's Clampie.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
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,
(16:18):
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. Yeah, he
is a pregnant pause.
Speaker 5 (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, there's none of this exists
without new kids. New kids is the gift that keeps
(16:53):
on giving. And our fans are the greatest fans ever
and they still have our back after all these years
and are growing in numbers. I mean, it's just spectacular.
There's new generations of fans, and now the 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
(17:18):
the source for all all the great things that have
happened in our lives.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I must make an assumption here, and I know 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,
(17:43):
I was a huge fan of yours, and now my
daughter lives to listen to you, and now my granddaughter
listens to You're like, yeah, thank you, Thank goodness. That
must is there validity in there. But leaving your legacy, guys,
I mean, I know I'd love to hear what you
have to think. It's cool like.
Speaker 8 (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
you're into us, like yeah, us, like that kind of thing.
But then it's like it's such a compliment, you know.
And then I think back of like when I used
(18:24):
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. So I look at it like that.
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,
(18:48):
put our heart and soul into it and hopefully made
really good art songs and came up with good performances,
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.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
And yeah that too, and a lot of people say, like,
you know, you guys, you guys are just fun. You know,
we like the energy. It feels good to.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Like watch you guys.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
So that's that's the thing. Also that I feel is
probably an.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Appeal absolutely, 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
(19:45):
you know, 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, and most important, we 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
(20:07):
personally take 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've 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. Yeah, 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 all these years. You know so
many things. Yes, how can you explain it?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Can five teenagers cramming into a car driving down from
Boston going to New York and literally pounding the pavement
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
(21:10):
what I mean, you have You know, there's so many lights,
bolts of lightning, you know what I mean, starting with
Maurice Starr and Donnie Wahlberg.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean that right there was enough to you know,
change the world, you know what I mean. So you
gotta hustle. Our parents.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I think about our parents, you know, our generation of parents,
you know that generation.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
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
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?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, really, yes, yeah, yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no, no, definitely, definitely, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Those are those are wild days. Man.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We're talking to Times Square for the first time and
in nineteen eighty five, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
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 the hell are you?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's definitely more fun.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
But what makes it special now is when Joey just
telling those 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 it's
(22:46):
it's about. Is you got to remember the journey.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And you know, you.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Said we were like and I know you didn't mean
in a bad way, but like five superstar kids when
you first met icine, 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. That's absolute, still on the journey. All right,
let's talk about the album. All right, So Still Kids
(23:11):
is out tomorrow. It's an album of songs that do
what what.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Are these songs?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
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? I think it's kind of
I mean a little, I mean a little.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Bit, but well, I would say there wasn't a filter,
Like we sat down and said that doesn't feel right.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I think we were.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We were writing and singing and recording from a space
of feeling.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 5 (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 previeated too. It's in a
emotional rollercoaster, but all very it has a symmetry, if
(24:05):
that's the right word. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I think I think you know, lyrically too.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, we get to have all the fields 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 1 (25:08):
But that spoke to our very long history. 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 4 (25:22):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Are you a secret block? Are you a secret?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Maybe I'll get to it. John's like, I'll get to
it one day.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
No, I have heard it. I did it when it
was done.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
He was like, I love love love you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
That is a.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Big high praise from John. Okay from his.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Pickup truck on his phone. You know he's stealing it
if he's gonna stop and take a picture. So yeah,
he's We all have our favorites.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
What about you? Dan? Danny and he thought about this album.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
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 weren't 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. And finally, Jordan, what do
you think this album?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Not a fan?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
No, 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 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 of like,
(27:08):
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 Like. The lyrics are grown lyrics, like
stuff that we go through. It's not like trying to
(27:33):
cater to young kids.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
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.
I'd rather get through.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
You get all the inside scoops, so you might as
well do whatever you want at this.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Point, he's gonna do it anyway, Donnie, are we breaking
any laws here? If you say yes, it makes it
more fun.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
You're sort of find your status in blockhood lore forever
right now?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Is that what I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Oh your questions? You're playing of a song? Yeah, you're
You're locked in forever, you know.
Speaker 4 (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 1 (28:19):
So you got the Magic Summer Love.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Just a little inside, okay, sort of like a you know,
like a swifty thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
There's we have Easter eggs too. Yeah, absolutely, you do. Okay,
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna We're gonna play
Kids and Magice. I'm gonna play them both at the
same time. What do you think 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,
(28:50):
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 Day parade. Joey was on a float you
look down and waved. Of course, he was my favorite.
I was screaming and jumping up and down, completely forgetting
I was working in uniform. The audience was laughing at
(29:12):
one of my best memories of being on the New
York City Police Department. That was two thousand and one.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
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. I don't answer now because I know you
gotta look at your count. We've never been invited to that.
You're now invited. What I'm officially on a hope and
(29:42):
they can fire me. Fine, I'm worth more fire than
higher and let me go. 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 be as it, and let's see if we
can get you out in Vegas for the incredible, most
incredible two days of music in Las Vegas with the
(30:03):
art we do music questo.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
We don't answer.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
That's incredible, but if you could entry.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yes, we're not answering this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
No, no, September in September.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
September is it? Is it?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Is it a steak or chicken thing or a fish
or beating.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The chicken box?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
No, no, Robert chickens, you're septem None of us are answering,
but we're all smiling.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
If you and you have a camera to prove it.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
All go And if we could get John off the
farm for the crops are down by September, you're down.
This should be available. I'm just out there. Let me
give it to you. Good still kids. The album is
out tomorrow. You've heard kids. 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
(30:52):
because what the hell, because New Kids on the
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Don that
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