Somewhere, the past versions of everyone who loved Nick Lachey in the ’90s are losing their minds, because 98 Degrees is hitting the road! That’s right folks, you heard it here first (maybe): Lachey’s band has joined nostalgic forces with O-Town, Dream, and Ryan Cabrera, and the whole gang is traveling the country on a summer-long tour.
The best part? They’re calling it the My2K tour.
One more time: They’re calling it the My2k tour.
This name is brilliant because it’s a mashup of the ownership fans felt for these bands, relics of the early aughts, and of the early aughts themselves. My 2k. My 2000. And, to boot, it’s a play on Y2K, that thing where everyone thought that, upon entering a new millennium, our computers would spontaneously combust due to some glitchy bug having to do with dates and times. It seemed highly likely, as the year 2000 approached, that we would all have to retreat to bunkers, subsist off the cans of Spam we had carefully stockpiled, and live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland until aliens rescued us or something.
But back to the tour. Because, if you can believe it, it gets even better: The tagline is “I know what you’re doing this summer,” which is a play on the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, which came out in 1997.
True to form, the bands appear to be sticking with the looks that made them famous in the first place. Here are the members of 98 Degrees rocking camouflage-print bottoms (which I think — nay, Ihope — are cargo pants) and vests without shirts on underneath on the opening night of MY2K in Park City, KS.
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