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Donnie Wahlberg Says NKOTB’s New Album, ‘Still Kids,’ Is Actually Their Most Mature · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: It is official. New Kids on the Block will be
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  Speaker 2: ending an eleven year drought with their first album of
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  Speaker 2: original material since twenty thirteen. It's simply called Still Kids,
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  Speaker 2: but ironically the project pulls them sonically in another direction.
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  Speaker 2: Donny Wahlberg says in his statement, it's actually the most
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  Speaker 2: mature album we've ever made. Yeah, it's the most fun
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  Speaker 2: and most comfortable album we've ever made as well. This album,
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  Speaker 2: more than any other, is bringing the New Kids and
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  Speaker 2: the fans full circle. It's about hope and possibilities and
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  Speaker 2: being ourselves. Donnie actually co wrote seven of the fourteen
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  Speaker 2: tracks on the project, and Joey McIntyre, who co wrote
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  Speaker 2: another six ads. It says a lot about any band
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  Speaker 2: to make a record that has energy and passion and
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  Speaker 2: lightness and fun in depth. After almost forty years together,
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  Speaker 2: Still Kids New Kids on the Block album May seventeenth,
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  Speaker 2: and its lead single Kids is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood