In 2001, it also earned a Grammy nomination for best pop vocal album.īelow, JC Chasez speaks to Billboardabout the stories behind the songs he helped curate, the legacy that No Strings Attached leaves behind, and what he really thinks about the boy band’s eyebrow-raising tour outfits. It made history as the first album to sell over 2 million copies within its first week of release (a record later broken by Adele with 2015’s 25), and birthed three top five singles (“Bye Bye Bye,” “It’s Gonna Be Me” - which topped the Hot 100 for two weeks - and “This I Promise You”). That experimentation led to immediate success. We recorded songs that we don’t love and ones that we do, and that’s just a part of the experimental process.” “We always had our opinions about our music and tried to be open-minded. “From a business standpoint, this is exactly when we became far more involved and took control,” Chasez tells Billboard, as *NSYNC had to delay the album’s original fall 1999 release due to a messy legal battle with former manager Lou Pearlman. He stretched his talents to co-write and co-produce four songs, with assistance from songwriter Veit Renn and production duo Riprock ‘n’ Alex G: “Space Cowboy (Yippie-Yi-Yay)” featuring Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes,” “Digital Get Down,” “Bringin’ da Noise,” and the title track. Helping to lead the charge was JC Chasez who, along with fellow *NSYNC lead vocalist Justin Timberlake, earned his first official album credits on No Strings Attached. The end result? Millennial interpretations of New Jack Swing, and staccato rap-adjacent flows that were previously made mainstream by Destiny’s Child and TLC. The album (which turned 20 on March 21) saw the quintet transitioning from the thumping, Swedish synth-heavy jock jams of 1998’s self-titled album to exploring their urban influences. *NSYNC was one of the sonic spaceship’s main navigators, thanks to the group’s sophomore album, No Strings Attached. #DIRTY POP NSYNC ALBUM FULL#reminds the crowd at #NSYNC's Walk of Fame ceremony: "Tomorrow, it's gonna be MAY" 2K’s apocalyptic frenzy signaled a shift where pop singers became more defiant in taking risks with digitized sounds - from Aaliyah going full futuristic acid-rap fusion on “Try Again” to Britney Spearsturbo driving her dance-pop into outer space with “Oops!… I Did It Again.” Almost 20 years removed from the boy band’s peak craze and well into the general meme-ification of pop culture, Chasez says what we’re all thinking: There are fans flying in from all over the world to come to this thing.”Īside from JC Chasez’s 40th birthday party this year, this is the first time that *NSYNC have reunited since the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. DeGeneres paid homage to the band that “rocketed to fame and stole the hearts of teenage girls everywhere, and some curious boys.” *NSYNC member Lance Bass took the time to acknowledge the past silence around his sexual orientation, “I had a secret…But so many nights onstage, I’d see young gay fans singing their hearts out, and I wanted to let them know that ‘I was you.'”īass told Us Weekly that they’re releasing a clothesline together, “We talk daily…it’s taken us a year to come up with this capsule collection and we’re going to release it at the pop-up on Monday.” The pop-up is called the “Dirty Pop-up Shop,” playing off their song “Dirty Pop.” Bass continued, “We wanted to give the fans something special. Daly sported black nail polish, recalling what he wore 20 years ago on TRL when he first introduced *NSYNC. The spirit spread to Hollywood Boulevard today where ’90s teen pop icons *NSYNC were given a plaque on the Walk of Fame.Ĭarson Daly and Ellen DeGeneres spoke at the celebration. If there’s season to air your ’90s pop nostalgia, this is it. The weather is too nice to justify spending your days indoors listening to sadcore. Springtime has a tendency to bring out the poptimist in all of us.
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