JOEY MCINTYRE GETS LEAN AND MEAN IN

“I started getting pissed off and getting mad at people who were saying ‘You’re not relevant anymore’ and ‘The music business is changing.’ I had to knock them down one by one and make music loud enough and strong enough to drown them all out.”

His boyish charm and smooth voice have endeared him to millions of fans across the globe, but in a new interview with Corduroy Magazine, former teen heartthrob Joey McIntyre reveals a surprisingly different side of himself, sharing about his recent record label battles and thoughts about quitting the music industry altogether.

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When you’ve been selling out stadiums and topping music charts around the world since the age of 13, what is there left to accomplish? Joey McIntyre, it seems, just wants to go to school.

“I’d like to go to college and study world history or languages,” says McIntyre, best known as the youngest member of New Kids on the Block. “I want to take time to learn.”

But first, there’s some unfinished musical business to attend to, namely a new solo record – his fifth – that finds the singer, now all grown up at 37, taking a more introspective look at his career. This time, he’s also taking a more beat-driven route, with songs that whiz and bounce with Red Bull-esque energy and lyrics that find the smooth-voiced singer — dare we say — a little bit angry.

“I started getting pissed off and getting mad at people who were saying ‘You’re not relevant anymore’ and ‘The business is changing,’” he says, explaining his moment of rare aggression. “I had to knock them down one by one and make music loud enough and strong enough to drown them all out.”

As for what the future holds, McIntyre is optimistic if not, guarded. “I always think I’m fucking done [and that] I’ll never do it again,” he says when pressed about leaving music behind to focus on new projects. “I’ve learned to go with the flow and not be too attached to the outcome.”

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Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and Joey McIntyre will appear in the final two performances of the True Colors Cabaret series at Feinstein’s at the Loews Regency on February 22 at 8pm and 10:30pm. The series benefits True Colors Fund and Broadway Impact.

Foster won a Tony Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie, and received Tony nominations for her starring roles in Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, and most recently, Shrek The Musical. She is scheduled to appear at the New York City Center Sondheim Birthday Celebration on April 26 and will be performing at the Café Carlyle June 15-26.

McIntyre, a one-time member of New Kids on the Block, has appeared on Broadway as Fiyero in Wicked and starred Off-Broadway and in regional theater as Jonathan in tick, tick… BOOM! He was also seen in the Reprise! production of Babes in Arms, and he played Matt in the film version of The Fantasticks.

For further information, visit: www.feinsteinsattheregency.com.

Source: TheaterMania.com

Make way for another new kid on the block: Joey McIntyre has added a second boy to his brood.

Wife Barrett delivered son Rhys Edward McIntyre at 9 p.m. Sunday in Los Angeles, the singer’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. “He and his mom are both rock stars,” McIntyre, 36, Tweeted on Monday.

Rhys weighed in at 7 lbs., 10 oz.

McIntyre and Barrett, who announced the pregnancy in July, are already parents to elder son Griffin Thomas, 2.

Will the family continue to grow? “I think we have a deal to keep going until we have a girl,” laughs McIntyre. “That’s what my wife says.”

Here We Go Again, McIntyre’s latest solo work, is now available on iTunes. On Sunday, the singer will join the New Kids on the Block for a holiday concert in their Boston hometown.

Joey McIntyre’s got a secret not even his blood relatives know.

The New Kids On The Block singer and wife Barrett are gearing up for the birth of their second son later this month, but they are keeping the name they’ve chosen private. Talk about infanticipating!

“We haven’t told anybody,” Joe, whose solo album Here We Go Again is digitally available now, tells me. “My sisters are mad at me. Some people go ‘yeah, her name’s gonna be blah-blah-blah.’ I think people are afraid of the reaction, good or bad. If you say a name, you’re very sensitive about the name, so you don’t want people to have that reaction and go [disparagingly] ‘mmmm’ whereas once the baby’s born, people are a little more inviting of that name.”

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