So rare. I watched this for the first time back in 2014. They all had so much awareness and were not afraid to vocalise their views. Love that! I was totally expecting them to be over-polished, robotic answers (the typical thing you get from big boybands) but they were always authentic and true to themselves which I love about them.
Thanks for posting, Donnie was always great at giving us real NKOTB fans the strength and ability to stand up to those nay- sayers out there. It wasn't easy growing up being a New Kid fan. But here in 2011 I am STILL proud to support them. And I am still going to bat for them. I love them...loud and proud!!
I loved New Kids through my mom when I was in my pre-teens (around 10/11) and of course I watched this back in the day for the music and the pretty faces - watching this @ 16, they were amazing, and I have so much respect for them as people. Most definitely not just a cheesy pop band.
I have been a New Kids fan for 10 years now and I love them. They are awesome. All of them are adorable but both Jordan and Joey are fine in this interview 😍❤
Wow in retrospect how much jealousy? Hinting Jordan was feminine. Yes he was totally in tune with his feminine side. He was a beautiful young sensitive man who was supremely famous.
I'm glad he didn't try to conform to make others happy or to "fit in". His unique quality is his falsetto and he's always been so amazing to watch on stage.
I always come back to watch these videos because I can't get oer Jordan's perfection... and that sexy voice... the way he licked his lips all the time also, like.............gosh.
I love these guys, I had found out when I was reading the information In the cassette tape I found out that my cousin played the guitar for them on the very first album 1984, 1986 I saw his name on the paper inside the cassette
Yah, still going strong in 2012! Put up with that all you negative numb nuts. Tell them Jon! The Knights always had good thick hair. If Arsenio ever comes back on TV(which I think he will), he needs to have these guys on again! I would fly down to LA to stand in line just for the show!
How...when...who...why... would someone say that Jordan had a sex change ?? really??? I didn't even know about that (nonsense) topic...I'm totally lost and disgusted ..I mean... WTF
@starshine977 Exactly! People don't realize that the bubble gum image they had was so far from the truth of their real upbringing. They were from the inner city and were more hood than suburban.
There were certain people he was really comfortable with. A couple of years later is when he was really affected by all the fame. I love that he has overcome so much of that in the past 15 years. He’s thriving now.
So true! That’s why I love NKOTB, I totally didn’t realise how open minded they were until I watched loads of interviews from back then & I’ve never seen that in any popular boyband since then tbh.
Never Knew The Knights Had a Black Brother. I Knew They Had Black In Them (Being Sarcastic Fools) B/c They Got Soul and NKOTB Can Dance Their Asses Off...But I See They REALLY Got Black In Their Family. LOL...Adopted I'm Sure Of Course...Or Is He?
Thriller26 Chris is one of the Foster kids their parents took care of. They loved him so they adopted him. He's very close to Jon and Jordan. He went to school with Donnie.
Yeah Chris was slightly older than Jon (I think) and Jordan and he was good friends with Donnie back then. They also have black/mixed race cousins. They grew up in a diverse environment which is rare but also amazing as it really shows in how they all interact with people.
I'm forever a blockhead (i know sounds weird, but that's what us fans were called). I loved the aersino hall show, especiall with nkotb 😉. This show is a classic & can't capture that magic. I remember being 9 10 yrs old & i had to stay up & see the aersino hall show & thinking how cool that show was 🙂❤️. Also, I'd love to see nkotb do a superbowl half time show that we can actually see the performance on tv 🙂❤️.
I can understand if a person just don't like their kind of music maybe George Straight or maybe Metallica, but it doesn't make it right to spread rumors and degrade someone just because you don't like the music, just open your mind or don't listen, do your own thing! but it's not right to dog another person or group just because of jealousy or whatever I'm proud for anybody's success even if I don't like that kind of music, for example I don't like Metallica music or Alice Cooper, well that's my problem
Hangin Tough was just too big an album. Then from there the Kids merchandising exploded and they were everywhere, to the point the music seemed to take a back seat to everything else. That’s when the hate started and the kids realized they needed a more mature sound and started breaking away from Maurice Starr. I always wondered where it could have gone if they weren’t burned out and after the remix album had a follow up album in the vain of the songs they were working on with Narada Michael Walden and Walter Afansieff, the producers behind If You Go Away and Keep On Smilin’. Back in retrospect it’s obvious they recorded a lot of songs with them… some of which were on the Face The Music album… Ever Since You Walked Into My Life, I’ll Still Be Loving You. Those songs were a natural next step for the group and their fans versus the songs they released with Face the Music. I think that step was just too far removed from what they had done before.
So... listen to Donnie here.... Then youtube this and listen to him there: New Kids On The Block on GMA! 1989 lol I can't help but notice the difference.
Amanie tingle that's kind of rude to say. Chris is around still. He's a great guy. Jon and Jordan love him so much. You actually can see him with them on tour a bit.
He’s not “coloured” omg 🙄 he’s black (I mean brown technically but that’s what people say so…). I assume he’s still alive, why wouldn’t he be? I mean Jordan/Jon don’t talk too much about their personal lives these days but yeah.
@@TriciaS1986 I haven’t seen him around them in recent years tbh. He used to be hang with them a lot back in the 90s. His son, Jon/Jordan’s nephew appears to be in touch with them though so perhaps the question of whether or not he’s still alive is a valid question. I don’t agree with the ‘coloured’ part though. He’s black (brown actually) but not coloured…
Looking back, it would've been better if they never addressed their haters. Just leave it alone. It started to turn into them singing about being dissed. It was a sign of the beginning of the end. Now, fastforward nearly 30 years later and they're going strong, but I think they took a harder hit than need be. They simply came out at a bad time. NSYNC and BSB came out at a more receptive time.
I think it got to the point where it was affecting their careers. I think the media was spreading that rumor around so they really had no choice but to address it. I kind of wish they were able to have full control of the whole thing because Face the music was a really good album and proved that they weren't Maurice's "puppets" and they had talent. NKOTB definitely came out at a bad time. I bet if they came out now, they would have the popularity of one direction, for example.
You are absolutely correct. So many artists have things said about them, but the artists ignore the haters (who lose interest), and keep it going with the people that support them. Media training (which the group lacked) may have a reason to do with that, but also realizing that haters are irrelevant if you don't fuel them. Them continuing on to address the haters is why they declined a lot quicker than they would have. People weren't even talking about their music anymore (they stopped playing it after a while), and when you did hear about/see them, it was about them being defensive, and focusing on negativity. They became successful due to their positive images/messages, but continued focusing on the negativity for 3 years straight. They felt like growth was being defensive, hard, and edgy, but missed the other ways to show growth without addressing their haters. Whatever issues they had, they should have talked about it with their teams, support systems, and a therapist. Their haters were fueled, and their audience continued to be alienated with their antics. Don't let people who don't like you see you sweat/pressed/bothered. "Games" and the AMA performance was a defensive move focused on negativity that alienated their fans, and caused their haters to go at them harder. The song didn't even chart because radio people were turned off. They spent the entire promotional period of the remix album talking about their haters. They spent too much time talking about the ludicrous lipsyncing rumors, long after people stopped giving a crap. They used "Face The Music" to fuel a more negative, defensive appearance to seem intimidating, and also to talk about the haters. "Dirty Dawg" was clearly another attempt to prove to people that they were "hard" (and was an "F U" song), and all of the interviews during that period were defensive, unwelcoming, unenthusiastic, and negative. None of this showed genuine growth, but the fact that they focused on their haters (and were pressed) instead of focusing on their fans. Addressing their haters started a bad snowball effect, and they would have been a lot better off by not addressing them at all.
@@lolayaiii5056 Yeah it's crazy how much resistance they got. Some radio stations deliberately stopped playing their music to try so that they wouldn't top the charts. I'm guessing the music business was evolving and a lot of people in the industry felt threatened by it at the time.
Oh, my God. This interview is just hilarious. Pearls of Wisdom from NKOTB. Love some of the comments/statements... “People who ‘boo’ NKOTB are just ignorant because they don’t take the time to learn what NKOTB is all about.” (Oh, dear God. They were a put-together boy band. Such good advice, makes me wish I had learned more about what The Backstreet Boys were all about). “Other musical acts who don’t respect us, that’s fine. We’re gonna do what we wanna do, and you do what you wanna do.” (Existential philosophy at its finest. Plotinus would be ecstatic). “If you ‘boo’ us, that just makes wanna move further up to the top.” (Well then, might I suggest writing more “Funky, Funky Xmas” type ballads?).
He was adopted before Jon and Jordan were born. I wonder where he is now. His son is still in touch with the Knight family but never really see Chris at all in the family pics
I LOVE MY MAN DONNIE EGGHEAD WAHLBERG JR RIGHT THERE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LEAVE MY BABY DONNIE EGGHEAD WAHLBERG JR ALONE because I am in love with him since I was 13 years old and I want him back with me not with you girls right now
Donnie has always been an eloquent speaker
I give LOTS of props to Donnie. It's amazing how young and how educated he was at this time of his life. Very rare do you see this.
So rare. I watched this for the first time back in 2014. They all had so much awareness and were not afraid to vocalise their views. Love that! I was totally expecting them to be over-polished, robotic answers (the typical thing you get from big boybands) but they were always authentic and true to themselves which I love about them.
I remember this. Arsenio did a pretty good job in this interview. I liked how these guys expressed themselves. Joe looks gorgeous
Thanks for posting, Donnie was always great at giving us real NKOTB fans the strength and ability to stand up to those nay- sayers out there. It wasn't easy growing up being a New Kid fan. But here in 2011 I am STILL proud to support them. And I am still going to bat for them. I love them...loud and proud!!
sweet Jonathan!!!
Hard hitting interview. So much you could tell upset Jordan and Joey.
Jordan Knight. Done . Nothing else to say.
John has such a lovely way of talking...spunky and hot but meaningful too
I loved New Kids through my mom when I was in my pre-teens (around 10/11) and of course I watched this back in the day for the music and the pretty faces - watching this @ 16, they were amazing, and I have so much respect for them as people. Most definitely not just a cheesy pop band.
Donnie and Jordan are so real love it
Powerful interview.. man... love this.. I miss how night shows used to be so laid back, political and fun. Thanks for uploading this.
I have been a New Kids fan for 10 years now and I love them. They are awesome. All of them are adorable but both Jordan and Joey are fine in this interview 😍❤
definitely, they might have been a boy band but they look like they could kick some ass if you stepped to them the wrong way lol
Hell yeah...people forget they're kids from the streets of Boston first
Samantha Perez well they did say “Don’t cross our path cause your gonna get stomped” so no one should ever try to cross them.
Wow in retrospect how much jealousy? Hinting Jordan was feminine. Yes he was totally in tune with his feminine side. He was a beautiful young sensitive man who was supremely famous.
I think that's part of what made us women love him so much!!! He was in touch with his feminine side, but he was definitely a man as well!!!😋💕
Yes! way before his time. Love Jordan.
I'm glad he didn't try to conform to make others happy or to "fit in". His unique quality is his falsetto and he's always been so amazing to watch on stage.
It was great that even Jonathan was speaking his mind.
Jon shining through with some real wisdoms in this interview. Love him! 💜
i agree with donnie wahlberg , him saying that people have a closed mind to nkotb.
Jordan was right. I can remember SO many school aged girls in love with these guys. The boys HATED them for it.
Agreed. That's all it was.
This is such a great interview. Thanks!
I always come back to watch these videos because I can't get oer Jordan's perfection... and that sexy voice... the way he licked his lips all the time also, like.............gosh.
haahaa hes my fav love when he does that with his lips lol
@@MICHAELMYERS37 Right? I didn't realize when I commented this, but it still soes it and I LOVE it, lol. He's gorgeous 😍
his lips mmm
Does Jordan have a retainer/braces here or is my mind playing tricks on me? If so that's super adorable!
meghan wilkins He had braces for quite some time back then, love it ❤
Yes he did have a retainer, but I loved his teeth even then, but he wanted it so that's ok
I think he had clear braces
Still Loving Them
It's kind of ironic how Jordan was rumored to be gay because of his perfect hair and clothes, but in actuality it was his brother Jon who was gay.
it was because of his high notes
I love these guys, I had found out when I was reading the information In the cassette tape I found out that my cousin played the guitar for them on the very first album 1984, 1986 I saw his name on the paper inside the cassette
Thats how we see how shallow some people are! They call Michael Jackson gay too cause of his high notes but many defends him differently!
Jordan ❤️ siempre Jordan 🤩
Yah, still going strong in 2012! Put up with that all you negative numb nuts. Tell them Jon!
The Knights always had good thick hair. If Arsenio ever comes back on TV(which I think he will), he needs to have these guys on again! I would fly down to LA to stand in line just for the show!
They still do have good thick hair.
haha, joeys rings!
How...when...who...why... would someone say that Jordan had a sex change ?? really??? I didn't even know about that (nonsense) topic...I'm totally lost and disgusted ..I mean... WTF
Yeah, that’s so degrading. I’m glad they didn’t have to go through all of that alone. 😢
@starshine977
Exactly! People don't realize that the bubble gum image they had was so far from the truth of their real upbringing. They were from the inner city and were more hood than suburban.
I find it odd how vocal Jon was here im used to him being very shy.
RIGHT
Fed up with the BS so he was vocal about it😂😂😂
There were certain people he was really comfortable with. A couple of years later is when he was really affected by all the fame. I love that he has overcome so much of that in the past 15 years. He’s thriving now.
haha Joey shushing the screaming fans
Gorgeous JK❤️
People worry about race way too much people are people
So true! That’s why I love NKOTB, I totally didn’t realise how open minded they were until I watched loads of interviews from back then & I’ve never seen that in any popular boyband since then tbh.
Never Knew The Knights Had a Black Brother. I Knew They Had Black In Them (Being Sarcastic Fools) B/c They Got Soul and NKOTB Can Dance Their Asses Off...But I See They REALLY Got Black In Their Family. LOL...Adopted I'm Sure Of Course...Or Is He?
uhhh they don't have black in them their brother is adopted dumb ass
Thriller26 Chris is one of the Foster kids their parents took care of. They loved him so they adopted him. He's very close to Jon and Jordan. He went to school with Donnie.
Oh okay, good to know. THnx. ;)
lol great Image and great entertainment
Yeah Chris was slightly older than Jon (I think) and Jordan and he was good friends with Donnie back then. They also have black/mixed race cousins. They grew up in a diverse environment which is rare but also amazing as it really shows in how they all interact with people.
Jordan Knight
I'm forever a blockhead (i know sounds weird, but that's what us fans were called). I loved the aersino hall show, especiall with nkotb 😉. This show is a classic & can't capture that magic. I remember being 9 10 yrs old & i had to stay up & see the aersino hall show & thinking how cool that show was 🙂❤️. Also, I'd love to see nkotb do a superbowl half time show that we can actually see the performance on tv 🙂❤️.
I fuflilled my childhiod dream with these guys!!how many can say that!!!
I can
I guess only us Melissa's can lol
lol Donnie doesn't like liver XD
조이맥킨타이어~조던나이트 둘이너무좋아~♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Poor Danny. “Oh, my God. I think Danny is so hot,” said no girl ever.
Danny is fine as hell they are all beautiful but it's just that Donnie is my favorite
No, I new many girls back I the day who were Danny girls!!!
@@jediwalker2010 yeah tell them 😁😍
i’ve been a danny’s girl since i was 4... he’s fine lookin as hell
Mc hammer was a good host that day
6:26 Joey😍
Love em
I can understand if a person just don't like their kind of music maybe George Straight or maybe Metallica, but it doesn't make it right to spread rumors and degrade someone just because you don't like the music, just open your mind or don't listen, do your own thing! but it's not right to dog another person or group just because of jealousy or whatever I'm proud for anybody's success even if I don't like that kind of music, for example I don't like Metallica music or Alice Cooper, well that's my problem
Hangin Tough was just too big an album. Then from there the Kids merchandising exploded and they were everywhere, to the point the music seemed to take a back seat to everything else. That’s when the hate started and the kids realized they needed a more mature sound and started breaking away from Maurice Starr. I always wondered where it could have gone if they weren’t burned out and after the remix album had a follow up album in the vain of the songs they were working on with Narada Michael Walden and Walter Afansieff, the producers behind If You Go Away and Keep On Smilin’. Back in retrospect it’s obvious they recorded a lot of songs with them… some of which were on the Face The Music album… Ever Since You Walked Into My Life, I’ll Still Be Loving You. Those songs were a natural next step for the group and their fans versus the songs they released with Face the Music. I think that step was just too far removed from what they had done before.
So... listen to Donnie here....
Then youtube this and listen to him there: New Kids On The Block on GMA! 1989
lol I can't help but notice the difference.
whoo! jordan and john have a colored american brother i wounder if their brother is still alive.
Amanie tingle that's kind of rude to say. Chris is around still. He's a great guy. Jon and Jordan love him so much. You actually can see him with them on tour a bit.
Amanie tingle What color is he?lol
Amanie tingle all people are colored
He’s not “coloured” omg 🙄 he’s black (I mean brown technically but that’s what people say so…). I assume he’s still alive, why wouldn’t he be? I mean Jordan/Jon don’t talk too much about their personal lives these days but yeah.
@@TriciaS1986 I haven’t seen him around them in recent years tbh. He used to be hang with them a lot back in the 90s. His son, Jon/Jordan’s nephew appears to be in touch with them though so perhaps the question of whether or not he’s still alive is a valid question. I don’t agree with the ‘coloured’ part though. He’s black (brown actually) but not coloured…
They were my life but one thing jon talks bout bad aniexty but he willing to talk n stuff ..idk
I have horrible anxiety, but if I am passionate about something I lose the anxiety and go full force I think that’s what happened here.
Marky Mark shoulda came back 2 da group!
i was just gonna say that :)
Looking back, it would've been better if they never addressed their haters. Just leave it alone. It started to turn into them singing about being dissed. It was a sign of the beginning of the end. Now, fastforward nearly 30 years later and they're going strong, but I think they took a harder hit than need be. They simply came out at a bad time. NSYNC and BSB came out at a more receptive time.
I think it got to the point where it was affecting their careers. I think the media was spreading that rumor around so they really had no choice but to address it. I kind of wish they were able to have full control of the whole thing because Face the music was a really good album and proved that they weren't Maurice's "puppets" and they had talent. NKOTB definitely came out at a bad time. I bet if they came out now, they would have the popularity of one direction, for example.
You are absolutely correct. So many artists have things said about them, but the artists ignore the haters (who lose interest), and keep it going with the people that support them. Media training (which the group lacked) may have a reason to do with that, but also realizing that haters are irrelevant if you don't fuel them.
Them continuing on to address the haters is why they declined a lot quicker than they would have. People weren't even talking about their music anymore (they stopped playing it after a while), and when you did hear about/see them, it was about them being defensive, and focusing on negativity. They became successful due to their positive images/messages, but continued focusing on the negativity for 3 years straight. They felt like growth was being defensive, hard, and edgy, but missed the other ways to show growth without addressing their haters.
Whatever issues they had, they should have talked about it with their teams, support systems, and a therapist. Their haters were fueled, and their audience continued to be alienated with their antics. Don't let people who don't like you see you sweat/pressed/bothered.
"Games" and the AMA performance was a defensive move focused on negativity that alienated their fans, and caused their haters to go at them harder. The song didn't even chart because radio people were turned off. They spent the entire promotional period of the remix album talking about their haters. They spent too much time talking about the ludicrous lipsyncing rumors, long after people stopped giving a crap. They used "Face The Music" to fuel a more negative, defensive appearance to seem intimidating, and also to talk about the haters. "Dirty Dawg" was clearly another attempt to prove to people that they were "hard" (and was an "F U" song), and all of the interviews during that period were defensive, unwelcoming, unenthusiastic, and negative. None of this showed genuine growth, but the fact that they focused on their haters (and were pressed) instead of focusing on their fans.
Addressing their haters started a bad snowball effect, and they would have been a lot better off by not addressing them at all.
@@lolayaiii5056 Yeah it's crazy how much resistance they got. Some radio stations deliberately stopped playing their music to try so that they wouldn't top the charts. I'm guessing the music business was evolving and a lot of people in the industry felt threatened by it at the time.
@@soggyfroggy9318 Yeah, maybe other artists were jealous of them. Who knows really? Only people inside the industry would know.
Oh, my God. This interview is just hilarious. Pearls of Wisdom from NKOTB. Love some of the comments/statements...
“People who ‘boo’ NKOTB are just ignorant because they don’t take the time to learn what NKOTB is all about.” (Oh, dear God. They were a put-together boy band. Such good advice, makes me wish I had learned more about what The Backstreet Boys were all about).
“Other musical acts who don’t respect us, that’s fine. We’re gonna do what we wanna do, and you do what you wanna do.” (Existential philosophy at its finest. Plotinus would be ecstatic).
“If you ‘boo’ us, that just makes wanna move further up to the top.” (Well then, might I suggest writing more “Funky, Funky Xmas” type ballads?).
Christopher was one of Marlene's foster kids wasn't he?
He was adopted before Jon and Jordan were born. I wonder where he is now. His son is still in touch with the Knight family but never really see Chris at all in the family pics
@@soggyfroggy9318 Yeah I hope that Chris isn't in any trouble personally.
@@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue tbf I don’t often see their
other brother David very often either. So hope they are both still doing ok.
Danny Wood ain't bad back than but damn he didn't age well, dude looks like a character from dusk till dawn
I LOVE MY MAN DONNIE EGGHEAD WAHLBERG JR RIGHT THERE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LEAVE MY BABY DONNIE EGGHEAD WAHLBERG JR ALONE because I am in love with him since I was 13 years old and I want him back with me not with you girls right now
Dude all you are is a really good boy band that's it and arsenal hall show was overrated that's why he not on air no more