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"New
Kids on The Block are back on the block after fifteen years. Jonathan
Knight is now 39, Donnie Wahlberg 38, Joey McIntyre 35, Danny Wood 38
and Jordan Knight is 37. And you? Are you ready for the
NKOTB Reunion
(click to see the timeline)?".
NKOTB Click Click Click Lyrics (keep
on reading for the story behind this song)
Whispers: Come on baby
You know you want to
Oooohhhhohhhh
I am patient
.... waiting on you to get dressed girl yeah
I'm gonna sit here
While you put your face on
Playing with your make-up oh
Damn you look so good it hurts me
The desire of your body is perfect ooooh yeah
I don't deserve you girl
And I'm like "Stop stop
let me take a mental shot of this moment" yeah
Ohh Baby drop drop everything you're
doing right now and just hold it
click click click
pose for me pose for me
come on and pose for me pose for me
My camera loves you
ah fashion
The story
behind NKOTB "Click Click Click"
The brand new New Kids album was really sparked when
Wahlberg was in New York for a costume fitting for the upcoming film
Righteous Kill that finds him living out another life-long dream by
acting in a film alongside two of his greatest heroes, Robert DeNiro and
Al Pacino as well as 50 Cent. Finding himself around the block, Wahlberg
visited the office of his longtime music lawyer who handed him a demo
tape of a young singer-songwriter name Nazeree. Since the days of New
Kids — and his time producing hits in the early Nineties for his brother
Mark as Markey Mark and The Funky Bunch – Wahlberg has been handed a
mountain of demos in his time and he took the offering with absolutely
no expectations.
Putting the CD on while driving a few days later, Wahlberg heard two
songs that spoke to him powerfully. “I got in the car in Boston on my
birthday and I popped it in,” he recalls. “ The first song was called
..Click, Click, Click’ and from the minute it started, it just grabbed
me. I kept waiting for this kid to falter, but he never did. Not only
that – I immediately recognized that Joey McIntryre is going to love
this record, Jordan Knight is going to love this record and I love this
record. The music speaks to all of our sensibilities, but they’re all
totally different. It was hip-hop and honest enough for me. It was
soulful enough for Jordan and pop and unselfish enough for Joe. It just
had it all. I spent the next few hours driving up to girls at red lights
and playing them the song. They said, ..Is that your song? I said ..Not
yet.’”
After years of blocking any reunion, Wahlberg was suddenly energized and
drove to Jordan Knight’s house that night and played him the songs, “I
told him. ..Jordan, this could be the moment right here.’ Jordan heard
..Click, Click, Click’ and he loved it. Then I emailed them to Joe and
the same reaction — and more importantly his wife cried. So I pulled out
my checkbook and we started going.”
What had started was more like a mission than a comeback.
“See what I discovered is that the self-respect I have as an actor was
hard to have in music,” Wahlberg explains. “Parts of what we went
through were kind of prefabricated – though the whole New Kids machine
only started once we got the ball rolling. It was grass roots before
that. Maurice Starr was the guy behind our success, but we were in it
from day one. So over the years, I’ve often thought I’d like to
experience the group with that feeling of self-respect — instead of just
the fame and hysteria, so it’s not about just getting something back,
but about really doing something.”
In the months that followed, Wahlberg and the other Kids would
collaborate closely with Nazaree, who turned out to be a New Kids fan
since childhood, as well as other gifted producers and writers including
Bryan-Michael Cox, Emanuel Kiriakou, RedOne and Fernando on an new album
that blends the melodic soul of vintage New Kids with a decidedly
contemporary, hip hop feel.
“Donnie was right,” McIntyre explains. “The new music we’re making
reignited this whole thing so it’s not just cashing in on pure nostalgia
for the old days.”
Of the group’s demise back in the mid-Nineties, McIntyre explains, “We
were just fried. What happened to us in the span of a couple years was
mind-blowing, and no one really knew what it was. We were learning as it
went. A lot of groups today know the mold and plan accordingly. We
didn’t start out with the idea that in two years we’d be playing
stadiums. So by the end of our touring obligations in like 1992, we just
want to go home. We had moved on and then music had totally moved on.
Grunge happened. Rock and roll came back. We never slammed the door shut
– we just sort of walked away. And at that point, we weren’t exactly
going to hold a press conference because no one really cared.”
“It’s the thing about being in a boy band,” Wahlberg says. “In some ways
we were much more in control than people could ever imagine back then.
But in some ways, you can’t control anything.”
In the studio today, all five seem to be getting along and contributing
something to the whole.
“I think the thing with us is that we always hung onto the fact that we
were buddies first,” Joey McIntyre explains. “This wasn’t a cattle call
or a reality show. The point is this wasn’t a business first. It’s
wasn’t even a business second. This was a business last. And in the end,
we stayed friends and didn’t judge each other two much, which could get
frustrating. But the pay off for that is that almost 20 years later, we
can get together, hang out and have fun. It’s different now, it’s a
little more planned out and professional, but we’re still a bunch of
guys who love doing this and want every show to be our best.”
Now that the five Kids are standing together and planning to hit the
road with a new show, simply reviving the old hits isn’t enough. “No, I
want this to be redemption — but not for us,” Wahlberg explains. “I want
it to be redemption for the fans. I want them to feel entertained, to
feel treated to something special. And I want them to be so satisfied by
what they get that they’ll realize they weren’t crazy all those years
ago — that they put their heart into the right place back then and that
it was worth the wait to come back again.”
Make no mistake; the New Kids intend to play all the familiar hits –
along with some brand new ones too. “Our old songs aren’t necessarily
standards — they were pretty sweet — but it’s going to be fun in a live
show. People come to hear that music, so we’re going to sing it with
basically the same sound. We’re not doing a reggae version of our three
biggest hits because when I see that, it pisses me off. Even I’m like
..Spare me.’ We have something like ten top ten hits, which is amazing.
So if we do those and five new songs, we’ll have a hell of a show. We
will give the people what they want to hear.
So what will a New Kids On The Block concert look like in 2008?
“ We’re still young, we’re still hot,” McIntryre answers with a laugh.
“Our fans are between 25 and 35 now because they were really young then.
They’re still very attractive — and very legal. So it’s going to be a
girls night out. I know my wife’s going to be there every step of the
way, but it’s still going to be fun.”
Yes, the wait has been a long one, but it won’t be much longer now.
“The snowball is getting pretty big,” McIntrye adds as he and his four
old friends get back to work. “And it’s heading down the mountain now.”
(credits:
NKOTB MySpace page)
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