A.J. In Rock Magazine - Grudzień 2009

Exclusive Interview with AJ: On Day I Will Start A Family, But Seen From my   schedule right now. It’s impossible. Before dawn of the interview day (Oct.2nd), AJ who had finished his part in   the MV of Bigger first, was really tired and yawned with his eyes turning red.   On the table beside him laid his breakfast that was sent by the room service.   But it was a feast that he only can taste after the interview. Before then,   all that AJ can do was staring at the muffin and eggs before him. When the   interview was done, AJ finally got the chance to eat his breakfast with   bacons. He’s really a kind person, he was always so kind.

Why you guys wanted to shoot Bigger’s MV in Japan? What’s the relationship   between the MV and Japan?

We are walking along the streets in Tokyo, and many big electric billboards   comes into view. From the flash light to the buildings, it feels like a comic   world. First, this song is a song about love, the content of this MV is mainly   about love. We are tired of always shooting those love story MV. So we decide   to shoot a special and exciting MV. Plus, this is our first music video that   we shoot outside US.

Ah, really? It’s really an honor to all the Japanese fan!

No, it should be our honor. We shot it yesterday. While we were enjoying   the shooting, it’s really a hard job, too. This is because; Japan has really   strict rules about shooting, which we have to obey. So there are a lot places   that we want to shoot but can’t.

As for?

Nick wanted to shoot in a videogame center, just when he rush into it, the   staff came out following him and say there doesn’t allow shoot. Haha, that’s   really funny. But, besides this all the shooting stuff goes pretty well, this   content will become those very cool scenes in the MV. We really shot many   beautiful scenes. We want to give everyone as much as possible surprise, so I   can tell you the details. All in all, it a really great MV

It’s whose I idea about shooting the MV in Japan?

This idea just came out when we were talking, so it’s our idea. We were   planning to shoot the video in LA a week before the tour. But that week we   need to do some dancing rehearsal and some preparation of the tour. So it’s   not so possible for us to shoot the video in that week. But these days when we   were in Japan, we just have a day that we don’t have to work, so we suggest to   shoot the MV in Tokyo. And we have also got the approval of our company, so we   just shot it.

Recently, you guys are really creative in shooting MV. The MV of Straight Through My Hearts is also using the most popular theme in US—science fiction.

As for the MV of Straight Through My Hearts, the lyric goes well with science   fiction theme. So we took the challenge. Personally, I think it’s pretty   successful. It combined with the most popular sexy factor, it’s really a   magnificent MV.

Recently BSB is very united. What role you are playing in this group?

I think everyone’s role in this group is different. Talking about my basic   function, it should be put the most popular factor into this group and not   losing our creativity. As for the other member, as for the economic, plan or   shooting we all have our advantages, Nick and I had learnt a lot about   economic from Howie and Brian. This is the so said overcome our own   shortcomings by learning from each other's strong points.

BTW, what about your private life? You have been dry out for a long time?

Yes. I have been dried out for 8 years. But, I will drink a little   occasionally, Sometime I will drink so beer with my friend. I try to drink   when there is some ladies, this can avoid me for drink too much to get crazy,   I will lose face that way. In a word, I want live a normal life. So I try to   balance my real life and the illusory life of being a Backstreet Boys. Sure,   we are our real self when we are Backstreet Boys, but in a world like this we   feel like we are illusion. We travel around the word, we perform in the stage   of the world, this is just like a dream. A dream that come true.

You gonna release your solo album.

Yes, I just finish recording. Although it took so long a time, yet it finally finished. I can finally draw a breath. I’m wondering if it can come out at the   end of October or the beginning of November?