We played around with a little techno in the late ’90s and it was never good. We were just playing around with different styles and songs we thought would be cool. We were an acapella group so the only sound we knew we loved was Boyz II Men or Az Yet. Lance: Ah there’s so many contenders! When you first start out as a new band, especially when you’re teenagers, you don’t know what your sound is yet. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick reminisced with Vulture about their halcyon days making dirty pop, picking the best and worst and most and least of *NSYNC. Frontloaded with their signature hit “Bye Bye Bye” and the meme-inspiring “It’s Gonna Be Me,” the fivesome created memorable videos, choreography, and outfits to match the bombast of the songs. It heralded their split from their disgraced former manager Lou Pearlman, and with its forward-thinking mix of funk, R&B, and electronic-pop, secured their standing as one of the biggest boybands to ever exist. They shifted 2.4 million copies of the album in its first week of sales alone ( a record only since topped by Adele, 15 years later) and surpassed any other album released in the year 2000. On its cover Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Lance Bass appeared as five puppets on strings, but at the time, the group was at the peak of its cultural control. Twenty years ago this month, *NSYNC released their history-making second album No Strings Attached. Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick reminisce about their halcyon days making dirty pop.
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