BACKSTREET BOYS PODCAST!! (AJ McLean, TRL, BIG SURPRISE!)
Lightweights Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
AJ McLean of the BACKSTREET BOYS joins Lightweights Podcast hosted by Joe Vulpis. We chat about selling a million albums week after week, the formation of TRL, MTV, the formation of the band, what life is like off stage amongst the five of them, and selling over 130 MILLION albums! Insanity. So stoked to share the mic with this legend, hope you guys enjoy :)
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| 0:00.0 | Today's guest is a legend selling over 130 million records worldwide making him one of the number one musical selling artists |
| 0:07.8 | Two albums certified diamond a jay maklean of the backstreet Boys. What's up, man? |
| 0:12.6 | Thank you so much for coming by. |
| 0:13.6 | Dude, thanks for the invite, bro. |
| 0:15.5 | The magic of social media. |
| 0:17.0 | How have you see my DM? |
| 0:18.7 | I mean, so I go through, I mean, I get a lot of DMs all the time and I was just kind of siphoning through and I'll be honest it's mainly girls so when I see a guy I'm like, oh, okay, I'm like, okay, who is this guy? |
| 0:35.5 | And then I opened up your page and I was like, oh cool. And I saw some of the guests that you had on and |
| 0:41.8 | I was like, all right, and that you had on and I was like all right and then you had |
| 0:44.6 | put out the offer to come on your show and I was like I got I got time why not this |
| 0:50.1 | would be fun hell yeah and then I watched a lot of the other episodes and I just love the whole vibe, dude. |
| 0:55.0 | It's just a really cool, it's a great show, congrats, man. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.3 | Cool. |
| 1:01.3 | I love getting right into it, so. |
| 1:01.8 | Dive. |
| 1:02.4 | How did you process selling a million copies in your first week at 20 years old in the backstreet boys? |
| 1:07.0 | I think I'm still processing. That was a different time, you know, like, although it's been done again with the Taylor Swifts of the world, M&M, you know, Adele. There are artists that that still do it today, but it's few and far between. I think Bieber did it also but it's you know in that time |
| 1:37.6 | Your sophomore album was your was was that was your most crucial album, |
| 1:43.0 | self-titled Backstreet Boys, did great, |
| 1:46.6 | you know, but fortunately for us, |
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