Nick Carter is again along with his first solo album in a decade — and followers are listening.
Carter has been a pop icon for greater than 30 years. As a member of the boy band Backstreet Boys—one of many best-selling vocal teams of all time—he helped outline an period of pop music, and the group is gearing up for a residency on the Sphere Las Vegas.
After almost a decade away from solo work, he’s returned with a full-length album, Love Life Tragedy, which debuted within the prime 10 on the U.S. albums chart upon its launch.
In an unique interview with PopCrush Nights host Donny Meacham, Carter opens up concerning the private that means behind the album’s title.
Nick Carter on ‘Love Life Tragedy’: The Album That Let Him Grieve at Final (EXCLUSIVE)
“Properly, it is attention-grabbing as a result of I had a distinct title for the album years in the past. It was known as the Who I Am album, which was additionally going to be the “Who I Am” tour. I used to be writing music, and I used to be like, okay, I am considering before everything, who am I when it got here to music? As I stored writing songs, I could not commit to 1 fashion of songs,” he tells PopCrush.
After recording almost 30 songs—solely 16 of which made the ultimate lower—Carter finally landed on the title Love Life Tragedy.
“Oh, I type of like that loads,” he says. “That may embody all the pieces that I used to be doing.”
When requested if the brand new album gave him the area to lastly grieve the lack of his brother, Aaron Carter, and sisters, Leslie and Bobbie Jean Carter, he responds with a heartfelt and resounding sure.
“Completely. At any time when I used to be in ache and I used to be hurting from one thing that was occurring in my life these previous three years that I would been writing music, I’d go into the studio and I’d simply let all of it out, and inform it in a method that was generally oblique and generally direct,” he says.
“The studio was my protected area to grieve,” Carter tells Meacham, reflecting on the emotional weight of recording “Hurts to Love You.”
He remembers having a breakdown throughout the recording session, prompting the producer to step in and assist him course of his feelings earlier than he may end the music.
Take heed to Nick Carter’s “Hurts to Love You”:
Within the Paramount+ documentary The Carters: Hurts To Love You, the Backstreet Boys member and his sister, Angel Carter Conrad—Aaron’s twin, and his solely remaining sibling—mirrored on the singer’s tragic dying.
He admitted that he had been so busy that he hadn’t had an opportunity to grieve his siblings’ deaths.
Aaron died in November 2022 on the age of 34, and their sister Bobbie Jean handed away in December 2023 at 41. His sister Leslie additionally died in 2012.
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