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Backstreet Boys Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean are continuing to work on their first solo projects even as the group has started work on its sixth studio album



Dorough tells Billboard.com that "A.J.'s about done" with his album, while Dorough is "probably close to halfway there." He's been working with Jon Secada and George Noriega (Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez) on an album Dorough says will explore the Latin roots of his mother's family, which hails from Puerto Rico.

"I've always embraced the Latin rhythms, the Latin sounds, just the music itself," says Dorough, who even flirted with joining Menudo when he was younger. "It's just such a feel-good music, and I've always looked up to people like Jon Secada, Ricky Martin, Enrique (Iglesias), who have done a good crossover."

Dorough describes his album as "kind of Latin-ish, English, Spanglish. It's just a mixture of my American roots in pop music meets my Latin roots. It's gonna be a good, kind of eclectic mixture."

Release dates for both his and McLean's albums are up in the air, however. "Obviously Backstreet's always gonna be number one," Dorough says. "It's a matter of timing, when we feel each of us wants our record to come out so that we're not competing with each other or taking time away that we could be working ... as a group."

The group, in fact, has already started working on its follow-up to last year's "Unbreakable," recording some new material while on tour in Europe. Dorough says the quartet plans to hit the studio after its tour of North America, which starts Tuesday in St. John's, Newfoundland, and wraps on Sept. 6 in Seattle.

"We're looking at getting back into the studio quite quickly," says Dorough, adding that Backstreet Boys may work again with Swedish producer/writer Max Martin, who worked with the group on "I Want it That Way," "Shape of My Heart," "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" and other hits.

"We want to hopefully have something ready to go or at least be heavily into it by the end of the year and have something out towards the beginning of next year," Dorough says.

source Littrell News

新好男孩已著手新碟工作

新好男孩成員Howie Dorough和AJ McLean目前正在繼續製作他們的第一張個人專輯，並且已經和成員們一起製作他們出道以來的第六張專輯。（美國本土只發行了五張專輯）

在與Billboard.com的採訪中，Howie透露道，AJ的專輯已經基本完成了，而他自己的也差不多完成近一半了。

談到與Jon Secada和George Noriega（兩位都是Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez等歌手的主要製作人）一起製作的個人專輯，Howie將之定義為“發掘出母親家族遺傳給他的來源與波多黎各的拉丁血統”。

“我一直都很喜歡拉丁樂的節奏和（表演的）方式，當然也包括音樂本身，”Howie說到，在他小的時候，他甚至還考慮過加入Menudo(一支拉丁樂歷史上最受歡迎的組合)，“拉丁樂聽上去感覺特別的好，而且我一直很尊敬像瓊西卡達，瑞奇馬汀，恩裏克這一類的人物。”

Howie將自己的專輯定義為一張融合拉丁語，英語以及西班牙語為一體的專輯，“將我身體內美國流行樂的細胞與拉丁血統融合到了一起，這會是個不錯的結合。”

至於他和AJ的個人專輯的發行日期仍懸而未決，“但是無論如何新好的專輯永遠都是擺在第一位的，對於我們自己的個人專輯只是時機的問題罷了，我們什麼時候覺得應該發行了自然就會發行，這樣的話我們就不會佔用組合工作的時間，也不至於像是在互相競爭。”

事實上，新好男孩已經開始著手製作他們繼Unbreakable之後的下一張專輯，在他們進行歐洲巡演的時候就有錄製一些歌曲。Howie說組合計畫在結束北美的巡演後就會重返錄音室製作專輯。

“我們希望能儘快的回到錄音室”，Howie又補充說到新好男孩這次可能會再次與瑞典製作人Max Martin合作，他曾經為新好男孩製作了像"I Want it That Way," "Shape of My Heart," "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"等等的金曲。

“我們儘快能儘快的為專輯開始做準備，至少年底前要確定方向，到明年年初能有東西出來”，Howie說到。