*NSYNC set the web ablaze after they reunited on the VMAs on Sept. 12 to current the very best pop award to Taylor Swift, and sparked bigger rumors of recent music, touring and extra, a lot to the delight of followers. However fellow boybanders 98 Levels, who’re making a comeback of their very own, had been a little lower than thrilled at having the competitors.
Talking with Andy Cohen for the host’s SiriusXM reside present on Tuesday (Sept. 19), the group — which consists of members Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons and Justin Jeffre — shared their emotions about *NSYNC’s return to the scene. Cohen puzzled “how irritated” 98 Levels felt when the “I Need You Again” singers appeared to make their return.
“Stole the thunder,” Nick jokingly replied, with Jeffre including, “It’s a boy band universe.”
Drew then gave a severe response, saying that *NSYNC’s return can solely profit your complete boyband style in the long term. “When one succeeds, all of us succeed. As a result of we’re all sort of like us, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, we’re all clumped into the identical, into the identical sort of pile there. So, if one’s elevated, it elevates everyone,” he stated.
Nick added, “However I imply, joyful for these guys personally too, as a result of we clearly know them properly at this level. And excited for the truth that they’re hopefully gonna do that — they’ve held up for a very long time, so [have it] be an enormous second. Yeah. Fingers crossed.”
98 Levels is at the moment on its 25-year anniversary tour, which can see the boyband making stops will make stops in Florida, New York and Pennsylvania and extra earlier than concluding with a present at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in San Diego on Oct. 8.
Watch 98 Levels discuss *NSYNC’s return — in addition to their very own — within the video beneath.
