Hello Nick!
Whazzzup!

Here he is! How are you?
(Ludicrous Dick Van Dyke-style approximation of English accent) ‘Hello!’ (Chuckles at length)

Do people actually still say ‘whazzzup’?
I don’t know, but I still say it. I need to get a little more current, huh?

Perhaps it’s good to bring these phrases back, because bands have revivals. Perhaps it makes perfect sense for catchphrases from the late 90s to make comebacks.
What do people say instead, though? If not ‘whazzzup’? That’s the question.

‘Hello’. But that prompted you to say it back in an English accent, taking the piss. It’s impossible to win.
‘HAHLOW’.
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Call them bubblegum. Call them a boy band. Call them, well seeing as how they’re much older than any Jonas, Backstreet Men. It doesn’t matter to Nick Carter so long as people keep listening to their unapologetic dance pop music and buying their records. “Words can’t describe the way I feel,” the Backstreet Boy said of his band’s forthcoming new album “This Is Us” – out Oct. 6. “Everything just fit like a glove.” The band’s seventh studio album is vintage Backstreet: infectious dance tracks (like first single “Straight Through My Heart”) to killer ballads but with a twist. The producers and writers on the album include T-Pain, Max Martin, RedOne, and Soulshock. Impressive, and Carter knows it. I spoke with him late last month about the record, and how he and bandmates (Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell and AJ McLean) have managed to stick together no matter how many times they’ve been thrown under a bus (especially Carter).
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Call them pop’s longest-running, most persistent group. Call them men, not boys. Just don’t call it a comeback. “We almost named the album that,” jokes Nick Carter, one-fourth of the Backstreet Boys, whose seventh studio effort, This Is Us, is slated for release on October 6th. “We’re the Brett Favres of the music industry.” Clearly, he and his bandmates are fed up with the public perception that they’ve taken an extended time out. They’re not ‘NSync, after all. “It does frustrate me,” says Brian Littrell. “Everybody asks, ‘Where have you been? What have you been doing?’ When we’re, like, ‘We’ve been touring the world, and working our butts off!’ ”
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