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We did The Howard Stern Show; we did the Jenny Jones Show, all that TV stuff around LA and radio," DeLane said.</div> <div>      DeLane says that compared to German crowds, US music fans know how to party.</div> <div>      "I think they're much easier to move and it's like they appreciate what people do more. They know how to party easier I guess, that's what we notice," DeLane said.</div> <div>      Firstlove was in for another surprise when they were scheduled to appear on Howard Stern's radio show, a show the band had never heard of before.</div> <div>      "We told everybody, 'we're going on the Howard Stern Show' and they looked at us and said 'you guys are crazy, are you sure you want to go?'" DeLane said.</div> <div>      Appearing with Mr. Stern reminded DeLane of another difference between the US and Germany: sex. </div> <div>      DeLane says that Germans are raised more open-mindedly to the subject and that the American perspective was a surprise to the German boy band.</div> <div>      "In the states it's like 'oh my god they're talking about sex' a lot of the time. And it's funny because you can wear a gun at the age of 16 and actually kill somebody, but you won't see any boobs on TV. Very contradicting to us. We even have naked people in butter commercials in Germany," DeLane said.</div> <div>      Aside from a little culture shock, firstlove does enjoy the U.S. weather, especially the California sun, the women and the American mentality. </div> <div>      "The people are friendlier over here," DeLane said.</div> <div>      And in America there's a great appreciation for boy bands. </div> <div>      When asked if firstlove feels in competition with the Backstreet Boys and N Sync, DeLane says he "hopes so." </div> <div>       "We are competition. They are...the biggest right now; pretty soon we're going to make it. But right now they're still out there and that's definitely competition to see how far we can go and how far we can get," DeLane said.</div> <div>      "You know this comparison of us, we're four guys making music, pop music, and people compare us to them. I guess that's okay cause we make pop music, we're young, and that makes us a boy band, so people compare us.</div> <div>      "But we are not comparing ourselves to them. We're  not saying we're like this, and they're like that. We leave it up to the people, to the fans, if they want to compare us," DeLane explained.</div> <div>      Delane says some fans refer to them as "the German Backstreet Boys" or the "German N Sync."</div> <div>      "There was this girl...and she came up to us and said 'I've been a fan of the BSB for six years now and I just saw your show, I'm going to rip all my posters off and put yours up," DeLane said of an incident after a June concert at L.A.'s Universal City walk.</div> <div>      Fans can judge for themselves.</div> <div>      The firstlove album was released in May, and their current single, Freaky is on radio rotation. </div> <div>      The album was produced by six different producers with firstlove also writing and producing itself. </div> <div>      "We used so many different producers because we didn't want to make the album sound alike... so we tried to put something in there for everybody," DeLane said. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>