Have yourself a very New Kids Christmas this year with the youngest New Kids On The Block’s newest holiday offering. Joey McIntyre (I always have hard time calling a 38-year-old guy “Joey”) has released “Come Home for Christmas,” his new CD of Christmas standards. From “Jingle Bells” and “Winter Wonderland,” to “O Holy Night” and “O Come All Ye Faithful,” Joe’s CD is a great mix of both secular and religious Christmas songs we all know and love. My favorite is a collaboration with fellow New Kid Jordan Knight on “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy,” the classic duet made famous by Bing Crosby and David Bowie back in 1977. For longtime New Kids fans like me, it’s the closest thing we’ve gotten to a full NKOTB Christmas recording since the group’s 1989 release “Merry, Merry Christmas.”Donnie is trying to get Blue Bloods actress Sami Gayle 5000 Twitter followers. Here is a photo Donnie showing her how to use Twitter:
Looking for a new take on some of the most loved Christmas songs of all-time? Then let Joe “Come Home” to your iPod or CD player this December!
Looking more and more like we'll have a holiday get together this Friday Dec 9 in Los Angeles... Working on the details. Cool??
New Kids On The Block star Joey Mcintyre has teamed up with his big sister to record a track on his new holiday album.
The singer used to perform with his sibling, Carol, when he was a kid and she was the first person he asked to join him in the studio while recording festive tunes for Come Home For Christmas.
The McIntyres, who share the same New Year's Eve birthday 10 years apart, collaborated on festive standard Do You Hear What I Hear?
The pop star says, "It was very special to sing with my sister. I would not have been where I am in my career without her first holding my hand and leading me on stage. It made performing a very safe and natural experience. And now the stage is home to me.
"I have to say we sound great together on Do You Hear What I Hear?"
By the day it gets more and more exciting. This is a really big production, there's going to be amazing talent on the stage and I think it's going to be a real big hit, I really do.
On the contestants: We're sequestered! We have armed guards right now actually. And if I even look the wrong way I may get electrocuted... no, we haven't seen any of the talent yet. I've heard that they've really picked some of the brightest and best unknown artists in Canada. You know they went out and really picked the cream of the crop and got some great talent.
On each other (the judges): This is a reunion! From 10 years ago... my manager used to manage Deborah and I used to see her all the time. I worked with Ron at Interscope. He was helping me develop some songs at that label for a solo project so it's really funny that we have reunited like this.
On the eventual winner: My hope is that they take full advantage of the exposure that they're going to get on the show. From the feedback that they get from us and from the feedback that they get from fans. They have a really great chance to develop their own fanbase, whether they win or not and the show is encouraging them and actually making them get involved in the social media aspect of everything. They really all have a great chance of developing their own fanbase.
On Canadian music he wants to hear: Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill album comes to mind. I would like to see someone do something with that. Again, I don't know the material they're doing, I don't even know the artists. When this show goes live that's when I know what the heck's going on. I'm just looking forward to seeing the actual artists do their thing.
On why YOU should watch: I think it's a nice twist on a kind of well known concept of musical groups competing in a reality show because they're singing songs that everybody knows and they're making it their own. Another great thing is that it's not going to be all groups from the same genre. There's country, there's hip hop, there's rock. They're all from a different genre so it's not going to be mundane and boring. It's going to be very exciting.
