

"Trashin' the Camp": Speaking of Tarzan, the boys joined Collins' for this track on the Disney film's soundtrack. So, in honor of 20 years of No Strings Attached, we present our countdown of the 20 best NSYNC songs ever released.ġ5. You know, questions like, Who's better: NSYNC or Backstreet Boys? and Who's better: JT or JC? While those two queries could be argued endlessly with no one ever reaching a consensus, there's one thing we feel comfortable to unequivocally proclaim. With the 20th anniversary of the landmark album in mind, it got us thinking about some of the debates that used to rage around the band. We were too busy losing our s-t to hits like "Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me" and "This I Promise You." None of us knew at the time that, in just two short years, Justin Timberlake would go his own way and become a global superstar in his own right, leaving his pals JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone behind. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 2.4 million, a record that wouldn't be topped until Adele releases 25 some 15 years later, the album was, without a doubt, them at the pinnacle of their power. The second studio album from the seminal boy band, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Saturday, March 21, catapulted them into global superstars upon its release. Related.It's hard to overstate just how big a deal NSYNC's No Strings Attached was. “The work ethic I got from *NSYNC, I cherish,” Bass told Cagle. Bass has written a New York Times bestselling autobiography, invested in a West Hollywood bar and formed a music management company. *NSYNC went on an indefinite hiatus in 2002 and reunites only for landmark occasions. Moments like performing with Aerosmith at the Super Bowl halftime show, my favorite band.”īass also hailed his bandmates - Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone and JC Chasez - who made for “a great family unit” and kept him grounded. I mean, obviously it changed my life, led me to so many things I wanted to do in life. “And you had some of the best experiences ever.

“To do that with those guys, it was incredible,” Bass said Wednesday. Still, Bass recalled his time as a young superstar fondly. He said in “The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story” that the $10,000 payment “didn’t even touch minimum wage.” He couldn’t even afford his apartment during a time when *NSYNC reigned as “the biggest band in the world,” he told ABC’s “20/20” in 2019. He died in prison of cardiac arrest about a third into his sentence.īass previously recalled getting his first check from Pearlman after two years of touring and album promotion. Pearlman, the boy band mastermind behind *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, was sued by members of both bands and was sentenced in 2008 to 25 years imprisonment in a $300 million Ponzi scheme. I mean, he really took the majority of all our stuff.” I made way more money after *NSYNC than I did during *NSYNC. “The worst thing is people thinking that we were rich, ’cause we were not,” he told Cagle. The former boy band member said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Jess Cagle Show,” that *NSYNC opened doors and left him with lifelong memories, but now-late manager Lou Pearlman essentially robbed the band members blind. Lance Bass remembers *NSYNC making him famous - but “not rich.”
