AJ from The Backstreet Boys chats to I Like Music

I have been through so much in my own head, that it has been very therapeutic to make the record that I have made. Initially, when I went in to make this record, I only planned on writing one or two songs, two at the most, and then doing the usual album routine where you get named producers to write songs for you and it is just "Here is a song, sing it!" But it just kind of happened that I ended up co-writing every single song on my record and they all turned out amazing to me and to the producers.

It was a chance for me to dump all my crap that I have had holding up in my head or my heart. Whether it is about past relationships or things that bother me. There is a very specific song called 'Sincerely Your's' which I wrote about my father and the relationship that I really don't have with my father and never really have had. It was very therapeutic for me and the producer that I worked with Dan. I really didn't know a lot about Dan's personal life and in writing the song both him and I had a crying session because he has got issues with his father as well. It was an amazing situation to be in that room and the vocal that I cut for that track is going to stay the demo version. We are not going to re-sing it, we are not going to do any vocal fixing, it is going to stay exactly the way it is. I cut it in about two takes. There was so much emotion behind it. I could never sing it again like I sang it that day. It is just such an amazing vibe and when I hear it and I tell people, that is my second take, they are like "I can tell". There are parts in the vocal where I crack a little bit because I was actually crying when I was recording it. It is a really difficult song to sing.
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