AJ McLean & Wife Rochelle React To Controversy Over The Singer’s Raunchy New ‘Smoke’ Video & Reveal How His Daughters Responded
18.07.2022 - 20:57
/ etcanada.com
Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean and his wife Rochelle are proudly standing by the musician’s provocative music video for his new single “Smoke.”
The 44-year-old year musician released the new song, from his upcoming solo album Sex and Bodies, on Friday. However, after premiering the risqué video on Variety a day earlier, fans had mixed reactions, with some questioning whether Rochelle had given her approval. Directed by Rene Elizondo, the visuals were inspired by Robert Palmer and George Michael and show AJ dancing with partially-nude models.
“I played the video for my wife and she said, ‘This sh**is sexy,’” AJ said, speaking to us during a day off from the Backstreet Boys’ DNA World Tour in Indianapolis.
“Granted, that’s my wife and she’s biased, but she’s also very honest with me. She would tell me, ‘Babe, this is not gonna work. This is too much,’ if she thought that was the case. She thinks it’s incredible.”
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While many fans praised the video and loved the “Prince vibes”, others voiced dismay that AJ had shown it to his daughters, Ava, nine, and Lyric, five. “Why in the world would anyone be ok showing their young daughters this video?!” wrote one social media user.
“I played it for my daughters and they were just like, ‘There’s a lot of butt!’” the ATCK musician told us. “That’s all they said. But they understand that it was done tastefully. The female body, to me, is beautiful and this wasn’t done exploitatively.”
“When the models came in, the production assistant said, ‘I have an awkward question. The girls want to know if they have to be naked or do anything sexual with you,’ and I was like, ‘Dear God, no. This is not a