Damn, I remember coming home from school, turning on TRL, and watching their videos fight it out for the top spot.
This thread should already be on its 50th page if created in the 90s
Nsync was cooler. If in school you asked dudes to pick (and if kids weren't calling em gay) then Nsync would win. They had the hip-hop link and vibed with a lot of what made hip-hop really popular around that era.
It's funny you say that about Joey Fatone. He was on The Masked Singer last season and a common thing was that his character was someone they knew but they didn't know from where. Nicole Scherzinger even toured with the guy and didn't know it was Joey until he took his mask off.I prefer slow jams as a general rule, and BSB was much better in that regard, so that's where my vote goes. And as someone mentioned earlier, BSB used all 5 guys. *NSYNC just used Chasez and Timberlake with occasional splashes of Kirkpatrick (even though Chris was a better singer than JT). I couldn't even tell you what Joey Fatone or Lance Bass's voices sounded like.
If you've ever tucked a weird zip polo into your cargo pants, you know the right answer
All I'm gonna say is I'm going to go with Backstreet Boys because this video was the shit back in the day:
Nsync was cooler. If in school you asked dudes to pick (and if kids weren't calling em gay) then Nsync would win. They had the hip-hop link and vibed with a lot of what made hip-hop really popular around that era.
BSB weren't bad but they just weren't cool in the same way Nsync was.
Exact opposite experience for me.Nsync was cooler. If in school you asked dudes to pick (and if kids weren't calling em gay) then Nsync would win. They had the hip-hop link and vibed with a lot of what made hip-hop really popular around that era.
BSB weren't bad but they just weren't cool in the same way Nsync was.
My experience was the complete opposite. Backstreet was the "cool" one and NYSNC was seen as being for actual girls. (Elementary school was very sophisticated.)
Yeah my school definitely didn't think that. Back then no one cared about who sung better, just who was more poppin and seemed cooler. Nsync took themselves less seriously which fit in well with us teenagers while BSB felt more mature, it was similar to why a lot of us liked Ludacris back then with how he was just outrageous. You then add in their style and flashiness it fit better with a lot of the current acts at the time. That was emphasized when Celebrity hit and they really hit more of the r&b/hip-hop realm.
but Nsync had talent.
BSB and it's not even remotely close.
I don't think I know a single N Sync song that isn't Bye Bye Bye.
This is strange.
You don't know "Pop," "Tearing Up My Heart," It's Gonna Be Me?"
LolI was enjoying serious musicians like Limp Bizkit at the time.