Rochelle @ Miscellaneous [+ 1]
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Th@nks To Carla Ferrara
Sunday, February 28, 2010
BRIAN LITTRELL: Will Be Start Recording His Second Album
@Chris_Tine17 Yes Mam, he will start recording this April! The second album will be awesome!
Source: Leighanne Littrell @ Twitter
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Rochelle @ Makeup Photoshoot [+ 3]
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Th@nks To Lisa Boyle
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Leighanne Littrell Chirped:
Baylee got to listen to KiKo's heart!:
Baylee got to listen to KiKo's heart!:
The Littrell Family @ Twitter [+ 1]
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Source: Leighanne Littrell @ Twitter
THIS IS US TOUR: Backstreet Boys Still Got It Goin’ On [AJ Confirmed Will Be Getting Married This May]
Like the few times they’ve visited and performed in the Philippines, the Backstreet Boys, the phenomenal pop boys band of the mid-90’s, had always something new to offer their Filipino fans.With their “This Is Us” concert last Feb. 27 at the Araneta Coliseum, the boys showcased their updated music—a crossbreed of the classic Backstreet Boys sound given modern inputs from the world’s renown international producers and writers!
The “This Is Us” concert in Manila last Saturday, a downsized version of their original production – a smaller set, only a few female dancers and a DJ replacing their band, is part of their global tour for their latest album of the same title. “This Is Us” is their third album since coming back to the recording scene with “Never Gone” in 2005 and 2007’s “Unbreakable.” It is also their second album as a quartet—Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Nick Carter (Kevin Richardson left in 2006). With the current tour, Backstreet Boys hopes to share with their millions of fans how their music evolved through time while maintaining the distinct Backstreet Boys sound that catapulted them to fame at the same time reminding people of their humble beginnings.
As the group once described in one of their interviews, helming “This Is Us,” the album brought them out of their “comfort zones” as they worked with different producers including those who were instrumental in making them popular worldwide like Max Martin “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” “I Want It That Way,” and “Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely”). They were also proud “getting more personal” with the songwriters and producers they collaborated with in “This Is Us.”
Some cuts in “This Is Us” are also the result of working with modern day hitmakers like RedOne and Jim Jonsin. Prominent names in the music industry like T-Pain, Claude Kelly and even Pitbull have contributed to making “This Is Us” an album that houses the modern sound of Backstreet Boys!
And their album, since they worked on it during their “Unbreakable” concert tour, was envisioned to expose to the world their undying and always evolving creativity in music. As they have said in an interview, they simply want to top their past album and “raise the bar!”
So what did they mean with “raising the bar?” “I think we did it more for us. Raising the bar as far as our previous records. The ‘Unbreakable’ album was kind of getting back to the sound that our fans knew us for, pop, R&B, ballads and dance pop. It was never done with a bit of leftfield. It was more organic, it was more rock and nothing that we’re used to as Backstreet Boys… so with this album it is going back to the basic and it’s kind of setting the bar for us to go from here, to continue doing more albums and being ourselves. We try to always better ourselves. We keep on setting higher and higher goals,” explained A.J. McLean during an interview Saturday afternoon at the EDSA Shangri-La before their show at the Araneta Coliseum.
As for their reason and drive to continuously create new albums, A.J. with Howie Dorough during the interview session pointed out that it is not about the money anymore. “The music industry has changed so much and if we’re doing it for the money, we won’t be doing so good right now. Thank God we had successes in the past that we’re able to be comfortable enough that we don’t have to do it right now for the money. Don’t get me wrong, it is always great to make money especially for something you worked hard at. We now have the luxury to do now because we want to do it for ourselves and our amazing fans around the world,” exclaimed Howie.
“It is all about the music for us. We wouldn’t have the fans we have right now or the tours if we didn’t have great music,” added AJ.
So will their next album or songs be more experimental with their direction of creating new music for themselves? “I think in each of our albums, we tried to experiment. I think our biggest experiment was with the ‘Never Gone’ album since we took a time off. It was more of a pop rock. As music changes you have to evolve with it and we can’t exactly make the same music 15 years ago. Even though, believe it or not, that ‘This Is Now’ is more back to basic with simple melodies and more of the harmonies but obviously modernized,” described Howie.
“This Is Us” is composed of 11 cuts – “Straight Through My Heart,” “Bigger,” “Bye Bye Love,” “All of Your Life (You Need Love),” “If I Knew Then,” “This Is Us,” “PDA,” “Masquerade,” “She’s A Dream,” “Shattered” and “Undone.”
Backstreet Boys’ “This Is Us” aptly paints a picture of who they are now – evolved and matured with an insatiable creative hunger with their music! “We love to make music together. We don’t hold anybody back and we always keep the line of communication open and we stay passionate about it,” remarked A.J.
“We like what we do. We enjoy being with each other and we’re also competitors and we want to be on top. We strive to always be the best,” commented Howie on their longevity in the music business.
(With only a few more years before the Backstreet Boys reaches their 20th year as a group, AJ and Howie revealed the possibility of a “big show” to celebrate it or even another album. AJ will also be getting married this May.)
AARON CARTER: In Sabrina, The Teenage Witch ... March 4th
TIME: 2:00pm
SHOW: Sabrina the Teenage Witch Season 5 Episode 17: Beach Blanket Bizarro
CHANNEL: ABC Family
Saturday, February 27, 2010
THIS IS US TOUR: US/Canada Dates... Coming Soon
@KevinWho i know everyone is looking forward to US/Canada dates. I promise they r coming- hopefully end of next wk. Hold June + July!
Source: JSo Twitter
Source: JSo Twitter
BRIAN LITTRELL: Please Pray For The People In Chile
Please pray for the people in Chile. Also watch the news and keep informed of the Tsunami.Chirp! Please be safe.
Source: Brian Littrell Twitter
Source: Brian Littrell Twitter
THE BACKSTREETBOYS: Win An Award For STMH
STMH won the Best International Song of the Year in Japan
source: http://www.golddisc.jp/award/24/
Credits: Tony @ LD
source: http://www.golddisc.jp/award/24/
Credits: Tony @ LD
Our Backstreet Friends From Chile Need Our Prayers & Support
SANTIAGO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A huge magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 122 people, knocking down homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami that rolled menacingly across the Pacific.
TV Chile reported that a 15-storey building collapsed in the hardest-hit city of Concepcion, where buildings caught fire, major highway bridges collapsed and cracks opened up in the streets. Cars turned upside down lay scattered across one damaged bridge.
Residents huddled in streets full of rubble of masonry and glass from destroyed homes. Many were terrified by powerful aftershocks and desperately trying to call friends and family.
Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera said 122 people had been killed and the death toll could climb higher.
Tsunami warnings were posted around the Pacific, including the U.S. state of Hawaii, Japan and Russia.
Telephone and power lines were down in much of central Chile, making it difficult to assess the full extent of the damage close to the epicenter.
Chile is the world's No. 1 copper producer, and the quake halted operations at two major mines.
"Never in my life have I experienced a quake like this, it's like the end of the world," one man told local television from the city of Temuco, where the quake damaged homes and forced staff to evacuate the regional hospital.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck 70 miles (115 km) northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles (35 km) at 3:34 a.m. (0634 GMT).
The capital Santiago, about 200 miles (320 km) north of the epicenter, was also badly hit. The international airport was closed for at least 24 hours as the quake destroyed passenger walkways and shook glass out of doors and windows.
Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, suspended operations at its El Teniente and Andina mines, but reported no major damage and said it expected the mines to be up and running in the "coming hours."
Production was halted at the Los Bronces and El Soldado copper mines, owned by Anglo American Plc (AAL.L), but Chile's biggest copper mine, Escondida, was operating normally.
Chile produces about 34 percent of world supply of copper, which is used in electronics, cars and refrigerators.
TSUNAMI
President Michelle Bachelet said a huge wave hit the Juan Fernandez islands. Radio stations reported serious damage on the archipelago, where Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in the 18th Century inspiring the novel Robinson Crusoe.
Bachelet, who flew over the worst-affected area, said residents were also being evacuated from coastal areas of Chile's remote Easter Island, a popular tourist destination in the Pacific famous for its towering Moai stone statues.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a Pacific-wide tsunami warning for countries in Latin America, and as far away as the U.S. state of Hawaii as well as Japan, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia and the South Pacific. French Polynesia was also put on alert.
"Chile probably got the brunt force of the tsunami already. So probably the worst has already happened in Chile," said Victor Sardina, geophysicist at the warning center.
"The tsunami was pretty big too. We reported some places around 8 feet. And it's quite possible it would be higher in other areas," he added.
An earthquake of magnitude 8 or over can cause "tremendous damage," the USGS says. The Jan. 12 quake that devastated Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was measured as magnitude 7.0.
Bachelet urged people to stay calm and to remain at home to avoid road accidents. "With a quake of this size we undoubtedly can't rule out more deaths and probably injuries," she said.
FLAMES, LOOTING
Local television showed a building in flames in Concepcion, one of Chile's largest cities with around 670,000 inhabitants. Some residents looted pharmacies and a collapsed grains silo, hauling off bags of wheat, television images showed.
Broken glass and chunks of concrete and brick were strewn across roads and several strong aftershocks rattled jittery residents in the hours after the initial quake.
In the moments after the quake, people streamed onto the streets of the Chilean capital hugging each other and crying.
"My house is completely destroyed, everything fell over ... it has been totally destroyed. Me and wife huddled in a corner and after hours they rescued us," said one elderly man in central Santiago.
There were blackouts in parts of Santiago. Emergency officials said buildings in the historic quarters of two southern cities had been badly damaged and local radio said three hospitals had partially collapsed.
In 1960, Chile was hit by the world's biggest earthquake since records dating back to 1900. The 9.5 magnitude quake devastated the south-central city of Valdivia, killing 1,655 people and sending a tsunami which battered Easter Island 2,300 miles (3,700 km) off Chile's Pacific seaboard and continued as far as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.
Saturday's quake shook buildings as far away as Argentina's Andean provinces of Mendoza and San Juan. A series of strong aftershocks rocked Chile's coastal region from Valdivia in the south to Valparaiso, about 500 miles (800 km) to the north.
The United Nations and the White House said they were closely monitoring the situation in Chile and the potential threat of tsunamis in the Pacific.
A State Department official said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was being kept apprised of the situation in Chile, which she is due to visit on Tuesday on a Latin American tour. (Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu in Washington, Helen Popper, Kevin Gray and Guido Nejamkis in Buenos Aires; Editing by Kieran Murray)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSNLDE61Q02O20100227?type=marketsNews
