BACKSTREET BOYS VS. *NSYNC (with NPR's Aisha Harris)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 148 minutes
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In a SUPERSIZED episode of Pop Pantheon, critic, writer and NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast host Aisha Harris returns to unpack the astonishing symmetry of two of the biggest boy bands in history, Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. Aisha and Louie track their strikingly similar origins, their first brushes with success in Europe and their explosions stateside, which helped solidify the teen pop boom of the turn of the century. They then dig into their self-titled debuts, from Backstreet’s blockbuster 1996 effort to *NSYNC’s launch the next year, their short-lived runs as commercial supernovas with Millennium (1999) and No Strings Attached (2000), their diverging sounds and ambitions, final hits, intertwined legacies and finally, Aisha and Louie rank Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC in the Official Pop Pantheon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.2 | This is your host, DJ Louis the 14th. |
| 0:19.3 | And big announcement, our live show, |
| 0:22.1 | Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, and the millennial diva conundrum is happening a week from Monday, |
| 0:26.7 | September 30th at Dynasty Typewriter in LA, and in honor of Katie's 14-4-3, which drops |
| 0:32.2 | tonight over the weekend, starting at midnight, tickets for the show will be discounted to $14.30. |
| 0:39.8 | Get it? |
| 0:40.3 | $1.43. $14.30. |
| 0:42.1 | So for this weekend and this weekend only, you can grab your tickets at that discounted price at potpanpod.com or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:51.0 | I am so excited to listen to this album and even more excited to |
| 0:55.4 | get to break this whole debacle down with Molly Mary O'Brien, Molly Lambert, Michael Wood, |
| 1:02.4 | and Jailani, Turner Williams at Dynasty Typewriter on September 30th. So get your tickets and get |
| 1:07.8 | them while they're cheap while you can. I can't wait to see everybody. Obviously, usual stuff. Don't forget to rate review and subscribe to Pop Pantheon wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. We're on social media at Pop Pantheon Pod. I'm at DJ L-O-U-I-E-X-I-V on Twitter and Instagram. merch like our niche legend dadhat is at Poppantheon. And our Patreon channel, Pop Pantheon, all access, |
| 1:27.9 | where we do weekly bonus episodes of the show, is available at patreon.com slash Poppantheon. In the last |
| 1:34.9 | week alone, we've broken down the VMAs from last week and done a new music, the speed round. So you |
| 1:40.6 | don't want to miss all the amazing stuff that's happening on Pop Panty on All Access. |
| 1:45.3 | Again, link to join is in the show notes of this episode or audio only directly in the Apple Podcasts app. |
| 1:51.1 | Our dance party, main pop girls, is happening on October 4th at Parkside Lounge in the East Village in New York City. |
| 1:58.3 | Tickets are available in the show notes of this episode. |
| 2:00.0 | I'll be DJing all your faves all night long, Charlie, Sabrina, Chapel, Rihanna, Tanish, |
| 2:06.0 | Mariah, Maria, Billy Elish, Beyonce. You know the drill. It's going to be so fun. So grab your tickets |
| 2:11.1 | for that. And of course, gorgeous, gorgeous, my queer pop party is happening in Los Angeles on |
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