{"id":288133,"date":"2020-02-12T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1122372"},"modified":"2020-02-12T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:39:00","slug":"the-backstreet-boys-weigh-in-on-justin-timberlake-not-reuniting-with-nsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-backstreet-boys-weigh-in-on-justin-timberlake-not-reuniting-with-nsync\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backstreet Boys Weigh in on Justin Timberlake Not Reuniting With NSYNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018330\/rs_1024x759-180430125740-1024-nsync-043018.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Nsync, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake\" alt=\"Nsync, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Matt Baron\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.276909722222\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.855902777778\">\n<p>Has&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_timberlake\">Justin Timberlake<\/a><\/strong>said bye, bye, bye to working with&nbsp;<strong>NSYNC&nbsp;<\/strong>again?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly seven years since all five members of the beloved &#8217;90s boy band took the stage all together. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/452242\/n-sync-justin-timberlake-reunite-at-2013-mtv-vmas-celebrities-react\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they performed as a group<\/a> at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in honor of Timberlake, the five stars&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/931139\/a-spice-girl-hookup-n-sync-shares-90s-secrets-in-never-have-i-ever-with-ellen-degeneres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popped up on<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ellen_degeneres\">Ellen DeGeneres<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; daytime talk show and&nbsp;last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/930941\/n-sync-tears-up-hollywood-s-heart-with-epic-walk-of-fame-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came together publicly<\/a> for their Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony in 2018, though their public get-togethers have been sparse in the years between and since. In 2016,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lance_bass\">Lance Bass<\/a><\/strong> explained that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/757144\/lance-bass-totally-understands-why-he-wasn-t-invited-to-justin-timberlake-s-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they had not been invited<\/a> to his 2012 wedding to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jessica_biel\">Jessica Biel<\/a><\/strong> because he wanted to avoid the spectacle of an NSYNC reunion, though they did attend his engagement party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/1032624\/nsync-reunites-to-join-ariana-grande-onstage-at-coachella-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surprised fans at Coachella<\/a> in 2019 by joining&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong> onstage, Timberlake<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1032826\/why-justin-timberlake-missed-nsync-s-coachella-performance-with-ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> had to miss it<\/a> as a result of his world tour at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think about Justin seeming kind of not into doing anything with the NSYNC guys,&#8221; host&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/andy_cohen\">Andy Cohen<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;asked the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/backstreet_boys\">Backstreet Boys<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em>. The fellow &#8217;90s group has continued to make music and tour together since their debut album in 1996.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"67.156480505796\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28.022128556375\">\n<p>&#8220;If you guys were in NSYNC, how would you feel about what&#8217;s going on there because they seem to want to tour,&#8221; Cohen added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a loaded question,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_carter\">Nick Carter<\/a><\/strong> said with a laugh. While the group last toured together in 2002, Timberlake has never publicly rejected the idea of touring with them again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously it would be massive if they all were together,&#8221;<strong> Kevin Richardson&nbsp;<\/strong>said. &#8220;I think he has things as far as acting career and things that he wants to do, but he&#8217;s accomplished pretty much everything you can as a solo artist, so I think someday it&#8217;s gonna happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carter pointed out that they had toured with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/new_kids_on_the_block\">New Kids On The Block<\/a><\/strong> without Kevin and welcomed the idea of touring with the four other NSYNC members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, as <strong>Brian<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Littrell<\/strong>&nbsp;acknowledged,&nbsp;these are the challenges that can come with being in a group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a 17-year-old son and I encourage him to go solo so because I know being in a group is tough,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>But, there&#8217;s also a lot of love\u2014between them and their fellow boy banders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing with us and NSYNC\u2014we were brothers. We were just on different teams. It was healthy competition,&#8221; Richardson explained. He added, &#8220;It was all love between us individually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122372\/the-backstreet-boys-weigh-in-on-justin-timberlake-not-reuniting-with-nsync?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Baron\/REX\/Shutterstock Has&nbsp;Justin Timberlakesaid bye, bye, bye to working with&nbsp;NSYNC&nbsp;again? It&#8217;s been nearly seven years since all five members of the beloved &#8217;90s boy band took the stage all together. Since they performed as a group at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in honor of Timberlake, the five stars&nbsp;popped up on Ellen DeGeneres&#8216; daytime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 12:29:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}