2013 - Max Martin Working With Backstreet Boys!

[DSonthebeat]

Is there anyone else who ever heard about that Max Martin price? It seem to me Kevin was ironic, seems a too high price for our time, maybe 10years ago...

[Khan9898]

Khan, would you please upload your photo again? the link doesn't work and I'd love to see the pic, thanks

Ahhh how can I post it? Can i message it to you somehow?

[Khan9898]

Is there anyone else who ever heard about that Max Martin price? It seem to me Kevin was ironic, seems a too high price for our time, maybe 10years ago...

Brian said it and if anything he charges more now than back in the day when he was splitting $ with 8 other guys.

[turnaround]

You could upload the pic at http://www.tinypic.com for example and post the link to it here

[DSonthebeat]

Hope you're right Khan, because all I here from the industry is that people is now working at much lower fees than the past, including producers and mixing/mastering engineers... I know the big names of sound engineering like CLA or Maserati now do a lot of seminaries to do some extra money (you know, you pay 3000 a week to learn some tip in some esotic studio in Europe or US).

[Khan9898]

The Neptunes (Pharrell) back in 04/05 were charging anywhere between a quarter million to have a million a track.

[Khan9898]

http://i39.tinypic.com/5lcftx.jpg

I was on stage during the acoustic set, I wasn't supposed to take pictures or anything but I sneaked in a few before security shined a flash light in my face lol we were probably on stage for 10 mins or so.

[Rebecca]

Great photo Khan!

[Marian]

Khan, I saw your post on the backstreet boys soundcheck as well...I think this raising money idea is awesome, but we would definitely try to find a way to contact their management or groundctrl to get the facts of how much money it would be. Anyway, I was just curious...who owns the songs right now, the label or the producers? Who would have to agree to sell the songs so that we could raise money to help the boys buy them..cause they can't be bought if whoever owns them right now isn't willing to sell them. I hope we can accomplish something...I know the boys will agree with it if it's well organized and thought.

Ps: I'm kinda curious about how you know all these things about DIrty Little Secrets and their unreleased songs...maybe Brian was right and you are a reporter? Lol...jk

[Marian]

Khan, I saw your post on the backstreet boys soundcheck as well...I think this raising money idea is awesome, but we would definitely try to find a way to contact their management or groundctrl to get the facts of how much money it would be. Anyway, I was just curious...who owns the songs right now, the label or the producers? Who would have to agree to sell the songs so that we could raise money to help the boys buy them..cause they can't be bought if whoever owns them right now isn't willing to sell them. I hope we can accomplish something...I know the boys will agree with it if it's well organized and thought.

Ps: I'm kinda curious about how you know all these things about DIrty Little Secrets and their unreleased songs...maybe Brian was right and you are a reporter? Lol...jk

This is my review of meeting them and asking some cool Max/Rami, and other music related questions. I posted this on TheDarkSide forum as well.

I went to the Long Island show last night at the Nikon Theatre in Jones Beach. We were told to arrive by no later than 3:15 to pick up our tickets will call. There were a couple lines, one for Jesse's VIP, and one for BSB's VIP. Live Nation's VIP was supposedly later that afternoon but no one had any idea where to go and what line to initially stand on until about after 4.

Once inside the venue, all the VIP's were split based on the level you purchased. My line being platinum, we were the shortest as well as the first group to go in and stand right by the stage. After 15 minutes Kevin was the first to come out, then AJ, Howie, Brian, and Nick. They first sang Madeline on the back stage away from us cause they were playing instruments, I believe 10,000 promises was also done back there. AJ was the first to come up near us and say the rest of the guys were lazy i forget if they sang QPG or not but they were positioning themselves for Permanent Stain.

Then came the QA portion of the soundcheck. One fan asked why we don't get more than 12 songs and they said it came down to royalties and $$. Kevin mentioned them having a couple projects in the near future and to have an eye out, one of them being a acapella album. Brian was right above me and I asked how expensive is Max and he started thinking and I said half a million, he responded $250,000. Then I asked if Rami was cheaper and he said yeah but he's all big all of a sudden with 1D.

I forget the rest of the questions but right when Justin and AJ were about to end the QA Kevin pointed to me and said this dude's had his hand raised, thanks Kevin! I asked about why they went into the genre of music they did for Dirty Little Secrets and Kevin was like what? And then i started naming Jermaine Dupre, Billy Mann, Billy Steinberg, and he was like ohhhh that album. He said they wanted to go back to how they sounded on the first album and they also worked with Soulshock and Karlin as well as The Underdogs. They all wanted the music to be released but the label thought it was too urban and scrapped it. I then asked how they went from that recording process to recording 70's/80 covers to rnb to what actually Never Gone became. The covers were tests and not actually meant to have a whole album worth of them. Nick said Kevin hated Rumors, Best Of My Love was a great song.

Brian was like are you a reporter and everyone laughed and Kevin was like he knows his stuff. After that it was time for pictures, Platinum was last to go. 1 girl infront of me wanted to take a pic of her friend and the security guard was like nope can't do that and was blocking her and Kevin was like can you guys fucking relax please its a picture. The guy was a tall jacked white dude with a hat on, I didn't see him backstage after that at all.

The guy infront of me got hugs but I think cause of my size Brian, Kevin, Nick, and AJ all gave me slaps (bro slaps). I asked them if it was possible for fans to donate money the same way they did for Nick's movie for the guys to help get back unreleased music. Kevin said you can find those songs on Youtube but I was like nah nah I'm talking about Dirty Little Secret songs, The Rain  (Brian, Kevin, Nick, and Max song), Say The Word (Kevin acknowledged it), and the Jazzy Pha song (Nick smirked). I quickly went in for a pic and AJ was like that's a fucking awesome idea and someone something about fans not asking about it. I said why wait until the label releases it if we have the money. Right before I left I put my hand on Howie's shoulder and said to call Rami on the next album and AJ/Nick both said yup and looked at Howie with a funny stare.

The green room was a tent where you can hang out until the concert started, absolutely nothing special in it. Pauly D started around 7:15 and went until about 8. His set was really good, I'd def go see him in a one off appearance. When Jesse came on it was like most of the people at the venue was there for him, the crowd went nuts. He killed his performance, he can really sing and deserves to be played on radio too.

BSB came on around 9 with The Call, seeing them live was awesome. I'd have to say Brian's voice both at the souncheck and at the concert was better than usual. Sometimes he was just terrific and sometimes I was scratching my head. During Breathe all the Platinum's went backstage to get ready for the acoustic set. I sat right at the edge of the risers, infront of the entire crowd which was really cool. After that the concert went on and they killed it with In A World Like This, IWITW, Everybody, and LTL.

I'd love to meet them again but I'm not sure if I would do it for $600, hopefully they do smaller venues which means less expensive meet and greets.

[B Steady]

Meanwhile the album sold 270k ww. That's not too bad.

[turnaround]

Will there even be a second single??

[Joshua]

Will there even be a second single??

I was wondering this myself just yesterday. I think they'll pull together one more single, do a cheap video and leave it at that. Poor BSB.

[Khan9898]

Not Max related, but Herbie Crichlow posted on FB today that he woke up to a email from Nick Carter, he seemed happy. Not sure if it was friendly reasons, documentary, or future music collaborations.

[B Steady]

It's awesome anyway they're still in touch

btw really had to laugh at this comment:
"I was about to say, did he tell you to finally quit playing games with his heart?"



PS: isn't nick carter your man crush lolll