INTERVIEWS • NICKY
Galaxie Magazine (Malaysia) - DECEMBER 2007
Talk about "old" boybands that refuse to give up.
Westlife returns with their latest studio album, Back Home, and a dignified
Nicky Byrne tells us that the Irish fab four are survivors.
How special is your new album as compared to your last
one?
This is going to be a comeback album for Westlife, the real follow-up to our
best record, World Of Our Own. It has the kind of music that we've always wanted
to do -- a good combination of slow and fast numbers.
But as usual, you're doing covers...
Not as many as we used to, We put our feet down this time around. We've told
our record company that we only want to cover songs that we really like and
that are meaningful to us.
With all the new pop acts, how do you plan to survive
the stiff competition?
There will always be people who like simple pop music, people who don't like
complicated music. They just want to turn on the radio and hear something catchy,
with nice melodies and good harmonies. Westlife is designed to cater to those
people and we're happy with it.
Honestly, how long do you guys think you can go on?
Who knows? We love what we do and we'll stop when we don't enjoy it anymore.
Besides, how many good new pop acts do we have today? I mean I grew up listening
to good pop acts like Take That, Mariah Carey and Wet, Wet, Wet who have lasted
till today. How many of our new talents can be like them? Today's pop music
is just about who's the biggest pop star in the world at the moment.
What do you say to critics who consider you over the
hill?
There are cynical people out there who don't want Wetslife to continue. Well,
I agree that when we did the swing album (Allow Us To Be Frank), we took a dip
and we seemed to be on our way out. But we bounced back with You Raise Me Up
(The single from their following album Face To Face) and became the biggest
selling pop act in the UK. So as far as the four of us in Westlife are concerned,
and our millions of fans out there who have been supporting us all these years,
we don't give a s*** about what these people think.
Interview by NOORSILA ABD MAJID
Credit/Source: Thanks 'WLduetzy' for typing
it up / Galaxy Magazine
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