Las Vegas engagements, joint music, movies — Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter and *NSYNC’s Joey Fatone and Lance Bass are touting “endless” possibilities following their sold out debut performance as “Back-Sync” at the Grove in Los Angeles on Friday night.
The pop stars united for Bingo Under the Stars, an evening celebrating Pride and benefitting the Trevor Project and L.A. Pride.
“This has been a long time coming,” McLean told PvNew during rehearsals. “Everybody’s wanted us to do something together and now we get to come together for an amazing cause.”
“It’s interesting to have the four of us knuckleheads do something together, which you’ve never seen before,” added Fatone. “BSB fans are very loyal, so we’re going, ‘We get it – certain people liked one band or the other back in the day, but now it’s okay to like both.’”
Given the intense rivalry between fans during the boy band pandemonium around the turn of the millennium, Carter joked he could never have imagined such a collaboration at the time. “Twenty years ago? Hell no!” laughed Carter. “I’m kidding, because I still don’t understand why we didn’t get an opportunity to do more things together, but we learned that it was managers and stuff happening behind-the-scenes that prevented it. Better late than never, right?”
As for how Back-Sync brings the musicians different joy to their own bands, Carter said collaborating with *NSYNC after 28 years as a Backstreet Boy was refreshing. “The dynamics are different when you mix-and-match different groups,” said Carter, who previously formed Nick & Knight with New Kids on the Block’s Jordan Knight. “It’s exciting and fun because it brings out a whole other personality that you wouldn’t necessarily do in your own group.”
“It just fits,” added McLean. “Not that that the five of us [Backstreet Boys] don’t work because we obviously do, but it’s a different feeling. It’s like when you’ve been in the same relationship for a long time, take a break, meet somebody new and it’s fresh and exciting!”
Lil sneak peak of #backsync
