- Title: USA: ORIGINAL BOY BAND "HANSON" RELEASE THEIR ALBUM "THIS TIME AROUND"
- Date: 20th June 2000
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZAC SAYING "When it comes down to it, I don't think there's anything we could have done about it. We toured in (19)98, whihch is what delayed the record and I think it really ended up being a better thing. Obviously, if we would have planned it, we wouldn't have waited this long, but I think it
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: "Hanson", the original boy band that set off the youth pop explosion that brought the world the likes of Britney Spears and N'Sync, have finally released their sophmore album "This Time Around".
After their 1997 debut album "Middle of Nowhere" and hit single "MMMBop" racked up sales in excess of 8 million worldwide and earned them 3 Grammy nominations, including the Record of the Year, a slightly more mature and visibly 3 years older "Hanson" are back in the pop charts.
Banking on the success their freshman effort brought them, the three brothers (Isaac, Taylor and Zac) were afforded the opportunity to expand musically, collaborate with some big names in the music industry and the result is "This Time Around".
"People have definitely said more mature, more rock, more this," said Isaac in a recent Reuters interview with the group.
"I think the biggest difference is it's more mature - it's the voice thing. It's not quite as young," said Taylor, "You don't immediately go 'they're really young,' you just go 'okay they're kind of young.' I think that's probably the biggest thing about the maturity of it and being more mature than the last record ..."
Another difference is the apparent emergence of Taylor as the definitive point man for the group, a role none of the boys would acknowledge on camera.
"The three of us combined is really what makes "Hanson"
what it really is.," said eldest sibling Isaac.
"The three of us left to our own devices it would be different. It would be a lot different and I think it relieves a lot of the pressure between the three of us because we can really let one guy take more questions on one day if one of us is more exhausted or brain-fried."
Taylor follows suit, "and that's part of what makes being a band work is because you have three guys who can all play a different role and make it work."
Regardless of the individual roles in the group, the collective sound has definitely changed and the youngest brother Zac says three years on the road had much to do with that.
"We toured in '98, which is what delayed the record and I think it really ended up being a better thing," said Zac.
"Obviously, if we would have planned it, we wouldn't have waited this long, but I think it ended up being a good thing waiting and letting the music come out that did and because of the tour I think it changed the songs we wrote and affected the band a little bit."
The jury's still out on "This Time Around", but "Hanson"
isn't mired down in the pressures of a seemingly impossible eight-times-platinum repeat.
"Well, I think we're always optimistic," said Isaac, "You have to be. You can't let other people kind of determine your mindset. I thnk you're always very optimistic. I mean, we never would have expected the success that the last record had and we're all excited about the future of this."
Zac may put it best, "basically, what it all comes down to is we're really enjoying ourselves. We're getting to do something that we love to do as a job. What else can you say? We're having fun." - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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