{"id":528411,"date":"2010-04-15T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100699"},"modified":"2010-04-15T07:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:52:37","slug":"the-backstreet-boys-want-to-help-lady-gaga-balance-her-checkbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528411","title":{"rendered":"The Backstreet Boys Want To Help Lady Gaga Balance Her Checkbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/backstreet-boys.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"backstreet-boys.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Backstreet Boys know a thing or two about depleted finances. That&#8217;s why the &#8217;90s boy band wants to mentor singing sensation Lady Gaga on the business of budgeting her millions so she doesn&#8217;t make the same mistakes they did when they first made it big. <span id=\"more-100699\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The boy band was touring in New Zealand at the same time as the &#8220;Paparazzi&#8221; singer when they learned that the star often uses her personal cash to finance the elaborate sets and head-turning costumes that have become her calling card.<\/p>\n<p>Bad move, says BSB.<\/p>\n<p>The Boys struggled with budgeting their dough early in their career but are now more business savvy &#8212; they&#8217;d like to use what they&#8217;ve learned to keep Gaga from becoming another cashpoor casuality of the pop industry a decade from now.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Our production manager was talking to her production manager and we found out that she had, like, three 747s (private planes) flying around with her. I just wanted to tell her that she needs to make, like, a dime or maybe 20 cents after the tour is over with &#8211; because when you overbudget yourself, you get home and you&#8217;re like, &#8216;Yeah, the tour was great, but I&#8217;m broke!&#8217;&#8221;<\/em> says Brian Littrell.<\/p>\n<p>Bandmate Nick Carter agrees, chiming in with:<em> &#8220;We had to learn ourselves, the hard way&#8230; The only people we could trust was ourselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Backstreet Boys know a thing or two about depleted finances. That&#8217;s why the &#8217;90s boy band wants to mentor singing sensation Lady Gaga on the business of budgeting her millions so she doesn&#8217;t make the same mistakes they did when they first made it big. The boy band was touring in New Zealand at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}