Image courtesy of Facebook.com/NewKidsontheBlock (via ABC News Radio)
New Kids on the Block
have a new "package" for their fans. Following the announcement of their summer Package Tour, featuring
Boyz II Men
and
98 Degrees
, the group is releasing
10,
their first album of new material in five years, on Tuesday.
While NKOTB has so many hits that they could take to the road without any fresh material, group member
Danny Wood
says they held some "town meetings" with their fans, and the fans demanded a new album.
"That's the first thing they wanted was new music," Danny tells ABC
News Radio. "And we had been feeling like, 'It's gonna be five years
[since] the last record,' and if we're gonna continue to do it, you want
it to stay fresh."
He adds, "We were all kind of jonesing to get back in the studio. The
fans wanted it and we put it together really, really fast."
Because the project was turned around so quickly, the group members
themselves didn't do much writing for the project; instead, Danny says
their criteria for finding songs was to "get back to a more pop [sound],
like our roots, like the
Hangin' Tough
album and
Step by Step
album: just more really good, well-written pop songs."
As for why the album is called
10
-- since it's not NKOTB's tenth album -- well, that's a technicality.
"It is our tenth U.S. release," Danny explains, including all their
studio albums, plus "the remix album we had back in the day, the first
greatest hits that was released, then we released another greatest
[hits]." He notes, "We're not saying it's our tenth album 'cause it's
not. It's our tenth release in the U.S."
So, when fans head out to see New Kids on the Package Tour, will they
be hearing a good chunk of the new album? Maybe, says Danny.
"It's all very tentative," he tells ABC News Radio. "We have a few
that we're thinking about but we're not gonna overdo it because there
are so many other songs that people wanna hear. But we're gonna give
people enough of the new album so they're happy with that, too."
Before The Package Tour kicks off at the end of May, NKOTB will be
hanging with their fans in more intimate surroundings: on their annual
fan cruise
, which gets underway May 18 in Miami and travels to Nassau and Half
Moon Cay on the Carnival Victory. Danny and band mate
Donnie Wahlberg
have teamed up to raffle off a cruise package for one lucky fan and a
guest, with all proceeds going to the Komen Foundation for breast cancer
research. Visit the group's
website
to bid.
"I lost my mother in 1999 to breast cancer and we're almost past the million dollar mark with the proceeds we've raised over the past five years," he tells ABC News Radio. "So, it's a very personal thing for me."
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