Backstreet Boys

A.J.Mc Lean: “When I was about six, I started in the acting career, doing theatre and commercials and extra work and stuff like that and they turned around to my favor, and about two and a half years ago we got this group together, and I got to use a gift that God gave me and now I’ve been using it ever since.”
Nick Carter: “Hi I’m Nick and I’m the youngest member of the group. I’m

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fifteen. I’m originally from Jamestown, New York. It’s just upstate it’s not like the big part, the big city. Then I moved to Tampa, Florida which right now where I resign.”
Others: “Resign? Resign? Retire in Tampa? Reside?”
Nick Carter: “Reside, yeah that’s it. Oh man, I always mess up. I’m sorry.”
Howard Dorough: “The first time I remember really wanting to start and sing is when I was around six years old. And I think the very first print I ever did was the Wizard of Oz. I was actually one of the lollipop little guys. So ever since then I realized from that point on I wanted to do like a singing and acting career.”
Kevin Richardson: Music’s always been a big part of our family. We started in church just singing hymns. I always loved to sing them. It’s just something that came easily.
Brian Littrell : I would have to say I was around three or four when I just started like singing along with things then taking it seriously probably about five or six. I was standing up in front of audiences at churches and singing in front of three thousand people and be like this tall or so. It was a lot of fun. It was just a gift and I enjoyed it. We recorded our first single. We’ve Got It Going on actually in Stockholm, Sweden. That was an experience for us. It was written for us by Dennis Pop who wrote and produced for Ace of Base. He wrote “The Sign” and “All That She Wants”. So he’s had some pretty like success wise like universal success, I guess you could say because Ace of Base is pretty big in the States as well as Europe. That was an experience for us because it was kind of like we didn’t have the opportunity for him to come to us, so we had to go to him and it turned out to be you know “We’ve got it going on” and it has our name in it –“Jam on because Back Street’s got it.”

resign v. 辞职，这里尼克用错了词。
lollipop n. 棒棒糖，这里指的是一种儿童演出，表演者都化装成棒棒糖。
hymn  n. 赞美诗，圣歌
universal adj.绝对的；多方面的。

后街男孩
A．J．麦卡林：我六岁开始从事演艺，演过戏，拍过广告和剧集等等，后来就喜欢上了这一行。大约两年半前我们集合在一起，自那以后我就用上了上帝赐予我的演艺天赋。
尼克•卡特：嗨，我是尼克，合唱组中年龄最小的成员。我十五岁，最初来自纽约的詹姆斯敦。它位于纽约北部，是个不大的地方、城市。后来我搬到了佛罗里达的坦帕，我就在那里辞职……
其他人：辞职？辞职？天啊，在坦帕退休？还是定居？
尼克•卡特：唔，是定居。天啊。我总是糊里糊涂的。抱歉。
霍华德•多洛：我记得很清楚，第一次想唱歌大约是六岁。第一次唱的歌是《绿野仙踪》。我当时还跳过小孩子们跳的棒棒糖舞，后来我由此意识到我想从事演艺、唱歌。
凯文•理查森：音乐占据了我们家生活的大部分时间。起初我们在教堂唱圣歌，我总是很爱唱歌，就这样唱起来了。
布莱恩•李特里尔：我得说我唱歌是从三、四岁时开始的，五、六岁时就把它当一回事。我站在教堂前面对着三千观众唱歌，那时才有这么高。挺有意思的，这是一种天赋,我喜欢这天赋。我们实际上是在瑞典的斯德歌尔摩录制发行第一张单曲专集《We’ve Got It Going On》。那对我们来说是一次重要的经历。给我们写歌的是“爱斯基地”的制作人丹尼斯•坡普。他写过“The Sign”和“All That She Wants”。他的很多作品都非常成功。我想你可以说是他使“爱斯基地”在美国及欧洲取得了非凡的成绩。对我们而言那次经历相当重要，因为以前我们没有机会与他接触，所以我们主动去找他。结果你已经知道了，我们录制了《We’ve got it going on》，我们的名字也打出来了——“摇摆吧，因为后街男孩来了。”

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