tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79896235195452608892024-02-28T18:42:28.721-05:00Still Lovin 98°Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.comBlogger4659125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-50779217041994494072022-04-27T23:54:00.000-04:002022-04-27T23:54:00.801-04:00Drew Lachey for HGTV on 13WHAM News This Morning<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bol_qSjs8Ww" width="320" youtube-src-id="bol_qSjs8Ww"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-52310254854884682572022-04-27T20:03:00.000-04:002022-04-27T20:03:24.954-04:00Wendy Williams Show - Nick & Vanessa Lachey - Trust Issues<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ryv1tSmRveE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ryv1tSmRveE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-42158066895818653502022-04-27T19:38:00.003-04:002022-04-27T19:39:13.187-04:00‘The Ultimatum’ Reunion: Nick and Vanessa Lachey Stopped Going Through Each Other’s Phones After....<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><i><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ultimatum-reunion-nick-vanessa-lachey-stopped-through-phones-after-therapist.html/">SOURCE</a></i></b></p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_0" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">Nick and Vanessa Lachey probably didn’t expect a hosting gig on <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/netflix/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">Netflix</a> to be a place they’d air their real-life marriage issues. But that’s exactly what’s happened on <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Ultimatum</em>. </p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_1" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">After the success Nick and Vanessa had helping cast members <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/nick-vanessa-lachey-perfect-couple-netflixs-dating-shows.html/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">find romances</a> on <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Love Is Blind</em>, they joined Netflix again for hosting duties on a <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/love-is-blind-nick-lachey-believes-he-vanessa-lachey-would-have-chosen-each-other-show.html/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">second reality TV series</a>. This time, couples aren’t trying to find one another. Instead, they’re deciding whether the love they already have is enough to get engaged.</p><p class="p-count-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">The Lacheys <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-cast-ranked-best-absolute-worst.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">guide the cast</a> through the ups, downs, and steamy dramas. They also give some private glimpses into their own relationship.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A0mPYhPFAu0" width="320" youtube-src-id="A0mPYhPFAu0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_6" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><p class="p-count-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Ultimatum</em> brings together a group of couples who all face the same problem: One half of the couple is ready to get married, and their partner is … not. The ultimatum that’s been issued is to get married or break up.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_7" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: start;"><p class="p-count-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">Adding a serious wrinkle to the experiment is the fact that the couples on the show will spend time living with <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-april-wishes-show-flirting-another-man.html/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">another potential partner</a> from the cast. The premise: They may get the opportunity to see that someone else is a better fit for their happily ever after. </p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_6" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Ultimatum</em> brings together a group of couples who all face the same problem: One half of the couple is ready to get married, and their partner is … not. The ultimatum that’s been issued is to get married or break up.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_7" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">Adding a serious wrinkle to the experiment is the fact that the couples on the show will spend time living with <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-april-wishes-show-flirting-another-man.html/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">another potential partner</a> from the cast. The premise: They may get the opportunity to see that someone else is a better fit for their happily ever after. </p><p class="p-count-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">The show’s first season wrapped in mid-April, bringing plenty of the promised drama as well as some unhappy participants who feel their <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-lauren-maliciously-twisted-relationship.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">portrayal onscreen was manipulated</a>. It’s also generated tons of buzz among viewers.</p><p class="p-count-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"></p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_10" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_9" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2;"><h2 id="h-april-went-through-jake-s-phone-and-sparked-a-confession-from-nick-and-vanessa-lachey" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: Muli, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 800; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">April went through Jake’s phone and sparked a confession from Nick and Vanessa Lachey</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7KiFL8e6rH9cpueY2TGV14RfEm0GE-8V7-jUKj6lY3jR2HHeGdkgE-_5mm3iwLBTp56RuU8l_12pzlIM-7yQUXNadHmJiVUpBwmkdhl5U4zvym7HYh8-naQhftMBJD1QMxB8HKd4DKDF3-olA0xxWMyPZprgA714Lcbjj19rP82buC8Hah7kBsrs/s1200/Vanessa-Lachey-Nick-Lachey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1200" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7KiFL8e6rH9cpueY2TGV14RfEm0GE-8V7-jUKj6lY3jR2HHeGdkgE-_5mm3iwLBTp56RuU8l_12pzlIM-7yQUXNadHmJiVUpBwmkdhl5U4zvym7HYh8-naQhftMBJD1QMxB8HKd4DKDF3-olA0xxWMyPZprgA714Lcbjj19rP82buC8Hah7kBsrs/w640-h448/Vanessa-Lachey-Nick-Lachey.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: start;">The show’s first season focuses heavily on the relationship between </span><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-jake-says-april-dragged-him-on-the-show-for-fame.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; font-size: 20px; text-align: start; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">participants Jake Cunningham and April Melohn</a><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: start;">. After dating for two years, April pulled Jake onto the series with an ultimatum to propose. But things did not go as planned.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span>As a Netflix </span><a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-ultimatum-season-1-cast-instagram" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; position: relative; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank">article</a><span> </span><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-everything-know-season-1-couples-drama.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">introducing the couples</a><span> put it, “Just one year after leaving the military, Jake wants to travel and become financially stable before he proposes to girlfriend April. But April, who wants a family as soon as possible.” The experiment did not push him to propose. Instead, Jake ended up getting cozy with fellow participant Rae Williams. April and Jake decided to go their separate ways at the series’ end.</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_12" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: start;"><p class="p-count-8" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">ong the way, however, there was a scene where April went through Jake’s phone while he sleptt. Playing the part of good co-hosts, the Lacheys brought up this violation of privacy at the reunion. Vanessa started the convo by saying, “You went through Jake’s phone when he was sleeping. I’ve got mixed feelings about that. There was a time in my life when I did it.” </p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2961307_node_13" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-align: start;"><p class="p-count-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">Nick and Vanessa bantered back and forth, joking about how they cracked one another’s passwords before Vanessa got real about therapy: “Honestly, I remember we went to a therapist and she was like, ‘If ya’ll are going through each other’s phones then you shouldn’t be together.'” Ultimately, Vanessa agreed with the therapist. They broke the habit for the sake of their marriage. </p></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-12515954245776740592022-04-27T17:58:00.001-04:002022-04-27T17:58:55.627-04:00Canadian Country Star Brett Kissel Makes Sweet Harmonies Alongside 98 Degrees on New Single 'Ain't the Same'<p><b><i><a href="https://people.com/country/brett-kissel-makes-sweet-harmonies-alongside-98-degrees/"> SOURCE</a></i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SnKtb62ts4hCHZMiLkRzTz1HfVelr3yBYofnzzl_4qpqxMZBAE1oEsgKLrMuz_qQvFKqkSrHmB-45iJkuMhMZyhvD9oPA7iw4620VA7K6pfU2sCu9Ztq_5YwulAZm4fGV6qZQ2PKIQL8uyWP--ZmSnSgO_njfZ_fpiKGn4sL7uvcMzTmgPU2fNUf/s2000/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1636" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SnKtb62ts4hCHZMiLkRzTz1HfVelr3yBYofnzzl_4qpqxMZBAE1oEsgKLrMuz_qQvFKqkSrHmB-45iJkuMhMZyhvD9oPA7iw4620VA7K6pfU2sCu9Ztq_5YwulAZm4fGV6qZQ2PKIQL8uyWP--ZmSnSgO_njfZ_fpiKGn4sL7uvcMzTmgPU2fNUf/w524-h640/image.jpg" width="524" /></a></div><p></p><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: Lora, serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">On a red carpet at an award show in Toronto, <a aria-describedby="external-disclaimer" class="external-link" href="https://www.instagram.com/brettkissel/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;" target="_blank" title="(opens new window)">Brett Kissel</a> met 98 Degrees, and they shared a dressing room. And that was where their story could have ended.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: Lora, serif; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"It was sort of like, 'How are you guys doing?' and then we moved on," explains Kissel, 31, during an interview with PEOPLE. "They introduced me on stage that night too, but that was about it."</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: Lora, serif; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">But as fate would have it, the country singer from Canada and the pop group from the States would ultimately find themselves in a room together as they collaborated on Kissel's new single "Ain't the Same."</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: Lora, serif; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"It was the quickest collab that has ever happened in my entire life," laughs Kissel, who has made quite the career for himself in Canada with 15 top 10 radio singles, 4 No. 1 songs, and a slew of gold and platinum plaques. "Within three days of talking to them about this song, they had their vocals on it."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5bOz4p4s0os" width="320" youtube-src-id="5bOz4p4s0os"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">Certainly, the collaboration was a bit of a no-brainer for the men, as both Kissel and the members of 98 Degrees — Jeff Timmons, brothers <a href="https://people.com/tag/nick-lachey/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">Nick</a> and Drew Lachey and Justin Jeffre — find themselves making their way into the country genre here in the States.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"You look at the demographics of 98 Degrees fans who have followed their band since the beginning, and you will find that those fans today are country fans," says Kissel of the continuing appeal of 98 Degrees, who are currently celebrating their 25th anniversary year since they formed. "So, we actually share a lot of the same fans. And if you strip down some of their biggest hits, they are in fact country songs."</p></div><div class="div-sm-inContent" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">The men of 98 Degrees couldn't agree more.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"People have been pushing for 98 Degrees to do country for quite some time," explains Timmons, 48. "For us, it's always about the song and if the song will allow us to showcase our harmonies and abilities and such. So, to us, it just felt like it was the right time and the right song and the right person to do the song with."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7AAQjT_iljUA151-r_lbPtg8jTmB7zKf_KkKaSTED4Oy04xifrimQDL6N8wWc3iTkaJmw3-WqQmFe-WgIvPNjJV5O4sb-vPGsgvjHIzi_CaWwS9KCFidW4EmuTxPUFPhGxa6OfoUP8hfL660nQHtk7SJnOy-1QznMRNTrCmZG6Si8Y2jpVwAWlAPJ/s2000/image%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7AAQjT_iljUA151-r_lbPtg8jTmB7zKf_KkKaSTED4Oy04xifrimQDL6N8wWc3iTkaJmw3-WqQmFe-WgIvPNjJV5O4sb-vPGsgvjHIzi_CaWwS9KCFidW4EmuTxPUFPhGxa6OfoUP8hfL660nQHtk7SJnOy-1QznMRNTrCmZG6Si8Y2jpVwAWlAPJ/w640-h426/image%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"What separates a country song from a pop song is the production," adds Drew Lachey, 45. "You take a certain keyboard sound out and you put a slide guitar in there and now it's a country song. I'm simplifying it, but I think there is a lot of room in that middle area where you can kind of go back and forth between different genres that are appealing to you."</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">The song itself is about that age-old topic: everything one experiences in life is better when you are doing it alongside someone you love.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"It's sort of like if you don't have sun, the beach kind of sucks," Kissel chuckles of the song that he co-wrote alongside Karen Kosowski and Tim Nichols. "Within about an hour and a half, we had this song done from start to finish. Then we decided that we were going to go celebrate and have a cocktail."</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">And yes, the cocktails were also flowing during the video shoot, as Kissel and 98 Degrees reunited to not only have some fun and create music, but bond over their shared love for their respective families.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"When you put my family, especially my little kids on camera, you never know what you're going to get!" says Kissel, whose wife Cecilia was pregnant with their fourth child during the filming of the music video, which is set for release in May. "Actually, we all talked about our families when we were together, about how we all really love what we've been able to accomplish in their careers, but we still obviously love spending time with family and friends. We were really connected over that both as men and as parents."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kvfMxWt18_5ITQpTVQmf-6_9AKzsW0cDKvffKoojAWzSZbCdBiHV0dJnubFgkxCB8F7obDNYea3HcykwjAoHfXVnH8h4Mhrv7jE3neVsIKsybIRGxsUlUUT4nO6KXo0QYo3YUr6nYRZ6bc-o17waZrXJuEA5TfZXGpJoZG6cVqzkX-gmLS2GgPkl/s2000/image%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8kvfMxWt18_5ITQpTVQmf-6_9AKzsW0cDKvffKoojAWzSZbCdBiHV0dJnubFgkxCB8F7obDNYea3HcykwjAoHfXVnH8h4Mhrv7jE3neVsIKsybIRGxsUlUUT4nO6KXo0QYo3YUr6nYRZ6bc-o17waZrXJuEA5TfZXGpJoZG6cVqzkX-gmLS2GgPkl/w640-h426/image%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"I played 'Ain't the Same' for my wife and immediately she was like, 'Do whatever you got to do to convince the guys to get on this one," remembers Timmons. "And fortunately for me, it didn't take much convincing. But yeah, my wife was instrumental in pushing me forward with this one."</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">Everything about this collaboration seemed to go smoothly, except for one thing.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">"A tree almost killed Nick," Kissel recalls of the near-miss caught on a special behind-the-scenes video premiering on PEOPLE. "I'm not embellishing that. That's 100% true story — if Nick didn't duck, he would have fallen two stories. This bus we were on had no business going down some of those streets, but the director wanted more scenery and palm trees," he says with a laugh. "We got the shot and Nick survived!"</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;"><br /></p></div></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;"><br /></p></div></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;"><br /></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;"><br /></p></div></div><p><br /><b><br /></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-28699265341542053242022-04-27T17:12:00.003-04:002022-04-27T17:13:49.650-04:00Country Singer Brett Kissel Talks Collaborating With 98 Degrees on ‘Ain’t The Same’ [Exclusive]<p><b><i><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/country-singer-brett-kissel-98-degrees-aint-the-same-exclusive.html/"> SOURCE</a></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face=""PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c3044; font-size: 20px;">Brett Kissel is a romantic at heart. The </span><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/country/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">country</a><span face=""PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c3044; font-size: 20px;"> singer, who refers to his wife as </span><span face=""PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c3044; font-size: 20px;">“so kind, so beautiful,” really does feel life ain’t the same when she’s not around. So was born his recent collaboration with </span><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/nick-lacheys-deep-regret-from-his-time-in-98-degrees.html/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">98 Degrees</a><span face=""PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c3044; font-size: 20px;">. The JUNO Award and Canadian Country Music Association winner sat down with Showbiz Cheat Sheet to discuss the single, “Ain’t The Same,” and what it was like working with the </span><span face=""PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c3044; font-size: 20px;">pop and R&B vocal group.</span></p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_2" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h2 id="h-how-brett-kissel-came-to-collaborate-with-98-degrees-on-ain-t-the-same" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Muli, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;">How Brett Kissel came to collaborate with 98 Degrees on ‘Ain’t The Same’</h2></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_3" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">According to Kissel, “Ain’t The Same” was a quick song to write. It came easy to him and co-writers Karen Kosowski and Tim Nichols.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_4" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_5" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“We really just talked about all the great things in life that are maybe even better when you’ve got the person that you love beside you, and how if you take that person away from you, it really ain’t the same,” he tells Showbiz. “And that instantly became our title. And we didn’t spend much time on the song because it fell out. Sometimes you can write days for a great song, sometimes it’ll take you all day and hours and hours. This one, I think we wrote it in two hours and went and had a few cocktails and an early lunch.”</p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_7" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">Around the time that Kissel, Kosowski, and Nichols wrote “Ain’t The Same,” there were “rumblings in the industry that said” 98 Degrees was interested in making a country record. Kissel’s manager presented the song to the group and they loved it.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_8" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“When that country record idea kind of fell to the wayside, Nick Lachey and Jeff Timmons reached back out to my manager and said, ‘We still love the song, but do you think Brett would actually like to do it with us?'” explains Kissel.</p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_11" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-6" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">The “Ain’t The Same” music video is slated to come out in May.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_12" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-7" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“It wasn’t until the music video that we really got a chance to hang out in LA,” says Kissel. “And these guys are, obviously extremely famous — there were paparazzi, cameras, and fans waiting outside the studio to see and catch a glimpse of Nick Lachey and the band. But they’re the nicest guys.”</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_13" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">The country singer calls 98 Degrees “the four nicest guys I’ve maybe ever met in this business.”</p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_14" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-9" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">I’m just grateful they said yes to doing this collab and that they added their tender, sweet, silky, beautiful vocals to make this song ever better,” he says.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_15" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-10" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">As for what the video will entail, Kissel says it’ll show 98 Degrees showing him around Los Angeles, California.</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_16" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-11" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“And all while I’m seeing the great sights of LA, The Hollywood Sign and going on a double decker bus, all that great stuff, I’m FaceTiming my beautiful wife and my kids and saying like, ‘It’s really great that I’m here, but it really ain’t the same without them,'” he says. “And then we do a concert at the end of the video where we’ve got a sold out show at one of the great theaters in LA and my wife and kids end up surprising me at the show. So catching that footage is really special.”</p></div><div class="native-wrapper has-ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 24px; min-height: 175px; position: relative; width: 770px;"><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_17" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Muli, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: center;">Brett Kissel on Nick Lachey’s ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘The Ultimatum’</h2></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_18" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-12" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“Nick Lachey is probably counting his money as he sees that it’s the number one show on Netflix in America,” Kissel says of his collaborator’s Netflix projects. “I’m really proud of his success and they really are very unique shows.</p><p class="p-count-12" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">At the time of our interview, Kissel had watched both seasons of “<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/love-is-blind-season-3-reportedly-coming-in-2022.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">Love is Blind</a>” and was making his way through “<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-ultimatum-everything-know-season-1-couples-drama.html/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0073c0; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;">The Ultimatum</a>” with his wife of 10 years</p><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_21" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="p-count-14" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">The country singer is “happily married.” But was there ever a time he would have gone on a show like “Love is Blind” or “The Ultimatum”?</p></div><div class="ng-binding ng-scope" id="2972116_node_22" in-view-options="{generateDirection: true, generateParts: true, offset: [300, 0, 0, 0], throttle: post.throttle}" in-view="post.setActiveNode($index, $inview, post.postId+'_node_'+$index, $inviewInfo)" ng-bind-html="tag" ng-repeat="tag in post.articleArray track by $index" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="p-count-15" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;">“Nope, not a chance, no,” he says without hesitation. “… I’m not handsome enough and number two — I’m just a country boy who likes to drive tractors and go fish and hunt deer and chase cows. I’m not an LA type.”</p><p class="p-count-15" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hdxpY5bQduM"><br /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hdxpY5bQduM"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hdxpY5bQduM" width="320" youtube-src-id="hdxpY5bQduM"></iframe></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hdxpY5bQduM" style="font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></a></div><p style="color: #2c3044; font-family: "PT Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-42508099510101476062021-10-25T00:13:00.003-04:002021-10-25T00:13:52.484-04:00Nick Lachey Talks Celebrating 10 Year Wedding Anniversary With Vanessa Lachey In Hawaii As 98 Degrees Makes Sizzling Summer Comeback<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://etcanada.com/news/800390/nick-lachey-talks-celebrating-10-year-wedding-anniversary-with-vanessa-lachey-in-hawaii-as-98-degrees-makes-sizzling-summer-comeback/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HJDTBefLT1BDk4iNVvP_moxekqB1Mpck9n6zdElM9kiVn8RJJ-5hd1DOAVfRzqFGXm2AkCVOMsTYONV3hqDtOl5EzTdPSXawTWoR538uDQp8wDcbRcK2-Ui8Y-8C_kK2gk4cPzJ1Wro/s720/GettyImages-1204249923-e1626110018294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HJDTBefLT1BDk4iNVvP_moxekqB1Mpck9n6zdElM9kiVn8RJJ-5hd1DOAVfRzqFGXm2AkCVOMsTYONV3hqDtOl5EzTdPSXawTWoR538uDQp8wDcbRcK2-Ui8Y-8C_kK2gk4cPzJ1Wro/s320/GettyImages-1204249923-e1626110018294.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Nick Lachey reveals the secret to 10 years in a happy Hollywood marriage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In his case, it helps having surpassed his silver anniversary in another key relationship – with his band 98 Degrees.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The Masked Singer” winner is preparing to celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary with actress Vanessa Lachey and noted the parallels between married life and band dynamics during an exclusive interview with ET Canada.</p><div class="fsk_splitbox_2631_onscreen" id="fsk_splitbox_2631_onscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><div class=" fsk_splitbox_2631" id="fsk_splitbox_2631" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 603px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" mozallowfullscreen="" name="fsk_frame_splitbox" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 603px;" title="3rd party embed" webkitallowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Nick, 47, and Vanessa, 40, tied the knot during a stunning ceremony at Sir Richard Branson’s private Necker Island in the Caribbean on July 15, 2011. Ten years later, they will mark their anniversary in another romantic island paradise, thanks to Vanessa’s new role on the <a href="https://www.globaltv.com/shows/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 117, 223, 0.2); box-sizing: inherit; color: #0075df; cursor: pointer; font-family: sequel-sans-bold, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“NCIS” spin-off airing on Global TV this fall, “NCIS: Hawai’i”</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“My wife just got a job in Hawaii, so we’re going to celebrate there,” Nick shared, sitting down with bandmates Jeff Timmons, Justin Jeffre and Drew Lachey to chat with us at Los Angeles’ Le Parc Suite Hotel.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“You can’t be quitters,” he added, about how he and Vanessa maintain a strong relationship. “It’s just like a [musical] group – you’re going to have tough days, but you’ve got to be committed, invested and communicate, so that’s what we do.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Nick, who has three children with Vanessa, noted that everyone’s different and it’s important for couples to find what works for them. “We certainly don’t know the ins and outs of a happy [marriage] – we just do what works for us,” explained Nick, who started dating Vanessa after she starred in the music video for his 2006 solo single, “What’s Left of Me.” “Everybody’s different and for us we’ve learned how to communicate well and have a lot of pride in what we’ve built as a couple and as a family. We protect and cherish that.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Cherishing family time is exactly what Nick has enjoyed since the coronavirus pandemic enforced more time at home after 26 years with 98 Degrees.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The time with the kids is so special,” says the dad to Camden, eight, Brooklyn, six, and Phoenix, four. “The pandemic taught us to appreciate what we have. You don’t truly appreciate something until it’s gone, then you realize, ‘Wow, we took that for granted.’”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Nick’s brother Drew has also relished the pandemic’s “silver lining” of more time at home. Drew has two children – 15-year-old daughter Isabella and 11-year-old son Hudson – with his wife of 20 years, Lea.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The best thing has been the time with family,” says Drew, who also keeps busy with “#DrewItYourself” DIY endeavours, which he chronicles on Instagram. “We were still touring and spending time away from home, so I missed my daughter’s plays and dance recitals and my son’s gymnastics meets. This year, even though those things weren’t happening, we had uninterrupted time to discover [our children] and spend time with them.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Drew, 44, adds that the pandemic gave him greater appreciation for the role Lea plays keeping home life ticking along while he’s traveling with 98 Degrees.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“You definitely have a new perspective when the kids aren’t at school and you’re homeschooling and trying to figure out the virtual thing!” he says. “The past year either made people’s relationships stronger or broke people, so I feel fortunate it made my relationship stronger.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Extended periods at home also allowed the musicians to pursue interests they previously had little time for. Drew learned guitar, while Nick sharpened his booze knowledge.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“I learned a lot about bourbon,” Nick jokes. “And, about red wine.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“He learned he can’t tell the difference between a good bourbon and a bad bourbon,” quips Drew.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">For father-of-five Jeff, the extra time allowed him to delve into business ventures and acting projects. Having previously starred in Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter’s boy bander-filled 2016 movie “Dead 7”, Jeff has wrapped portraying a pastor in romantic comedy “Baking Up Love,” releasing via Pure Flix on 1 September. He’s now preparing to shoot a Christmas movie.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“I’ve been spoiled in the past because we could be with our families during the week and go be pop stars in weekends,” says Jeff, 48, who’s been married to wife Amanda for 10 years. “But the last year gave me the opportunity to hang with my family more – although they might say it was enough before! – and get into other things I never had time to explore.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Of course, like everyone, the singers faced difficult moments throughout 2020, with Justin, 48, struggling with extended periods at home following more than two decades of frequent travelling.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“There wasn’t much anyone could do – you couldn’t spend time with friends and family, go see shows or travel,” he says. “Normally, if I knew I was going to have time off, I would’ve planned a bunch of stuff, but we just couldn’t.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Which is why Justin and his bandmates were thrilled to reunite in Las Vegas to record their first new non-holiday music in eight years. The foursome, who released their album 2.0 in 2013, followed by Christmas record <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Let It Snow</em> in 2017, safely formed a “bubble” at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, recording in lavish suites which hosted late Elvis Presley during his Las Vegas residency days.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The new songs include summer banger “Where Do You Wanna Go,” which drops on July 9 and will be followed by a music video later in the month. The group also remixed old favourites like “The Hardest Thing” for an upcoming remix EP, Summer of 98.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The releases are part of the group’s 98 Days of Summer campaign, which features new photos, music and footage being rolled out daily, including fun throwbacks from the band’s early days. It was an era during which they were frequently compared to other boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, but the group felt different to their peers and feel any rivalry between the acts was generated by fans.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As for whether Nick and Drew felt any brotherly rivalry, Drew cracks: “I think he just knows I’m better than him.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“We got to do a lot of cool things with the band, so the fact I got to share those experiences with my brother, who’s my best friend – you couldn’t have scripted it better,” offers Nick on a more heartfelt note.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“We’ve always been really close,” agrees Drew. “And these two chucklebutts became like brothers too, so it wasn’t like it was just me, Nick and these two other weirdos. The four of us became brothers, so the same nonsense and competitiveness I feel with Nick – whether it’s playing basketball or beating him at</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Madden – we felt between all of us.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Don’t feel bad,” adds Jeff. “I lost to [Nick’s] son in Madden, so badly I was getting angry!”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As well as new music, the band will perform at the Great New York State Fair on 21 August and are scheduling further concerts. Nick, who was unveiled as the musician behind the piglet costume when he won The Masked Singer in May, says that after being forced off the road by COVID-19, he has new appreciation for the ability to jump on stage for fans.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“It’s hard to have that taken away and be told, ‘You can’t do this,’” he says. “The pandemic taught us to appreciate what we have and the freedom we all take for granted.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br /></p></div><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><b><i><br /><br /></i></b><p></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-38832174601492755672021-10-25T00:06:00.002-04:002021-10-25T00:06:25.128-04:0098 Degrees Return to Pop Music After 8-Year Break With Fresh Perspective on ’90s Boy Band Struggles<p><b><i><u><a href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/98-degrees-return-boy-band-1235015488/"> SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnS_8vaEv5zLLPTVtaPgTuKxA8ByqR3q9Jo0ujXL2RwuPutZR54iNPbyTR6OwSzv9Qp0OHOpMy4FeSIzJKhUANwju7aVsPW_YfGNQf6tAdqoZyIrj8Ed3DzSXp9o5rLjZ3IUzklOlax5I/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnS_8vaEv5zLLPTVtaPgTuKxA8ByqR3q9Jo0ujXL2RwuPutZR54iNPbyTR6OwSzv9Qp0OHOpMy4FeSIzJKhUANwju7aVsPW_YfGNQf6tAdqoZyIrj8Ed3DzSXp9o5rLjZ3IUzklOlax5I/" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">For Jeff Timmons, it barely took a second to recognize his bandmate <a data-tag="nick-lachey" href="https://variety.com/t/nick-lachey/" id="auto-tag_nick-lachey_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">Nick Lachey</a>’s voice behind the piglet costume on “The Masked Singer.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“I knew as soon as I heard it – then went right down to The Strip and bet!” laughs the Vegas resident. It’s no wonder since Lachey’s was the same powerful, masked voice that first wowed Timmons as he searched for potential vocal group members while forming <a data-tag="98-degrees" href="https://variety.com/t/98-degrees/" id="auto-tag_98-degrees_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">98 Degrees</a> 26 years ago.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Sent a tape of a track by Lachey’s band with Justin Jeffre, The Avenues, Timmons knew he’d found a special vocalist. “I heard Nick’s voice and without seeing what he looked like, I went, ‘I gotta get that guy.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“That’s the only reason I made the cut — there was no picture with the tape,” cracks Nick Lachey.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“I was on the recording too, but he was not impressed!” adds Jeffre, who was later recruited by Nick Lachey.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Eventually joined by Nick’s brother, Drew Lachey, the boy band would sign with Motown Records, release chart-toppers like “Because of You” and “The Hardest Thing,” collaborate with Mariah Carey and go from having <a data-tag="janet-jackson" href="https://variety.com/t/janet-jackson/" id="auto-tag_janet-jackson_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">Janet Jackson</a> posters on their walls to opening for the icon.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">More than two decades on, the Ohio natives are back with their first new non-holiday music in eight years, starting with the <a data-ml-dynamic-type="sl" data-ml-dynamic="true" data-ml-id="1" data-ml="true" data-orig-url="https://music.apple.com/us/album/where-do-you-wanna-go-single/1575739627" data-skimlinks-tracking="xid:fr1635134441022jcj" data-xid="fr1635134441022jcj" href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/where-do-you-wanna-go-single/1575739627" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;" target="_blank">summery, up-tempo single, “Where Do You Wanna Go.”</a> “We recorded a couple of other songs too and they’re something different for us, but still fit with the 98 Degrees sound,” says Jeffre, sitting down alongside Timmons and the Lachey brothers in Los Angeles. “We always want that balance of music that’s relevant to today, but won’t make our fans go, ‘This doesn’t sound like those guys.’”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Recording new music was partly initiated by the pandemic, with Nick Lachey chuckling that the band members, “were bored.” Getting serious, he adds” “No, we’ve always wanted to do new music, but being unable to do anything for a year gave us all a new perspective. It made it so exciting to finally get back together. And, we had a great song submitted to us, which we all loved and wanted to record.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Rather than work virtually, the quartet headed to Vegas and formed a recording “bubble” at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“You don’t really think, ‘I’m going to Vegas to be safe,’” says Drew Lachey of hitting Sin City amid the pandemic. “But it worked out well because we were at the Westgate, where Elvis used to play, so we had that throwback Vegas vibe, which made us even more excited to put out new music.”</p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">In addition to recording new tracks, the foursome worked with producers like DJ Lux to remix heyday hits like “The Hardest Thing” and “Invisible Man” for upcoming remix EP “Summer of 98.” It’s all part of the band’s 98 Days of Summer campaign, which features new photos, music and throwbacks.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">While the campaign celebrates the ongoing nostalgia for ’90s boy bands, the singers note making music today is more enjoyable than during that era. Bursting onto the scene alongside groups like <a data-tag="backstreet-boys" href="https://variety.com/t/backstreet-boys/" id="auto-tag_backstreet-boys_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">Backstreet Boys</a> and *<a data-tag="nsync" href="https://variety.com/t/nsync/" id="auto-tag_nsync_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">NSYNC</a>, they faced pressure to be like their peers.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“It was tough because we were expected to be a certain way with our label and had the pressure of being compared to these groups, while struggling to find our own identity,” says Timmons. “We had to find an identity and separate ourselves from Backstreet and *NSYNC, which was hard because they were well-oiled machines.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“And it seemed like everybody was trying to push that narrative [of rivalry] onto us, but we saw ourselves as a different kind of group,” adds Jeffre. “There was only four of us, we weren’t dancers, we were all about the vocals and we were on Motown, so weren’t part of that same machine. But it was to our favor that we were compared to what became some of the biggest bands in history.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">One way the band did set themselves apart — albeit unintentionally — was becoming known as much for their physiques as their music. Timmons notes that staying fit came naturally given their sporty backgrounds, so they never anticipated such attention.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“We were all athletic guys, but when we’d get with the pop photographers — and back then there were only a few — they encouraged us to take our shirts off,” says Timmons. “It’s not like we got out there to flex, but it did become part of our image, so then you have to live up to that image because the second you slipped, someone would remind you you’re getting pudgy!”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Today, the group aren’t fazed by outside pressures and expectations. Nick Lachey notes they’ve also stopped taking themselves too seriously. “In the late ’90s, there was so much pressure and we were on this rollercoaster, so never stopped to smell the roses,” he says. “We have a better perspective now and know this is something we’re blessed to do 20-something years later. It’s like, ‘Let’s work hard for it, but let’s also enjoy the moment.’”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“Everything was riding on 98 Degrees when we were younger,” adds Timmons. “Now we have other jobs, kids, families, girlfriends and we’re able to go out there and just have a good time. We have the best rapport we’ve ever had and our fans seem more exuberant and excited than ever.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Making music that would form that lifelong fan base is exactly what Timmons dreamed of when he moved to Los Angeles. But after the pal who introduced him to Nick Lachey and Jeffre dropped out of the group, the trio had to find a replacement, with Timmons’ brother Michael briefly joining the band.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Although family members may have seemed an obvious avenue to explore — New Kids on the Block has brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, while Backstreet Boys have cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell — Nick was reluctant to suggest Drew.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“I, of course, thought of him, but didn’t want to appear to have an agenda,” he confesses. “[Justin] actually suggested Drew because I felt uncomfortable doing it.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Jeff says as soon as Drew joined, 98 Degrees’ sound “snapped” into place.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“Life got so much better for everybody,” Drew quips.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Among the standout moments of their early days, the band performed backstage at a Boyz II Men concert, worked with Stevie Wonder, recorded a No. 1 hit “Thank God I Found You” with Mariah Carey and opened for Janet Jackson in Hawaii.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">“The spectacle and grandness of that production was amazing,” recounts Nick Lachey. “We were early into our career and had only played clubs, then suddenly we’re on stage in a stadium full of people. We grew up on Janet Jackson. I had the Rolling Stone cover hanging in my bedroom so it was like, ‘Wow, now we get to share the stage with this amazing woman.’”<br style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-secondary-fancy); font-weight: 700;"><br style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span>It’s returning to the stage they’re excited for, starting with playing the Great New York State Fair on 21 August. Additional dates are expected to follow. “The opportunity to tour and perform – none of us will ever take that for granted again,” says Nick Lachey. “We’ve missed it a lot.”</p></div><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-35139231826648609162021-10-25T00:01:00.002-04:002021-10-25T00:01:07.508-04:0098 Degrees Cruises Back in Time With Nostalgic ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’ Video (EXCLUSIVE)<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/98-degrees-video-where-do-you-wanna-go-video-premiere-1235019022/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAo36NfUR1Y-v0c1PQ_z83wE8Fffc0eSjofAJtA5CD70uEDA7gO0kWfg2nzZ5iZmanCy4Umhm4XmWCkml3T7ESWM3Mg2Zg1wgpCeN_5TuVrGkigHEq-yZYSNZByQZK7DfJksxd-_CPN_U/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAo36NfUR1Y-v0c1PQ_z83wE8Fffc0eSjofAJtA5CD70uEDA7gO0kWfg2nzZ5iZmanCy4Umhm4XmWCkml3T7ESWM3Mg2Zg1wgpCeN_5TuVrGkigHEq-yZYSNZByQZK7DfJksxd-_CPN_U/" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5;">Cruising through California sunshine in a bright yellow, convertible Chevrolet pick-up truck while rocking bucket hats, turtleneck sweaters and backwards baseball caps, <a data-tag="98-degrees" href="https://variety.com/t/98-degrees/" id="auto-tag_98-degrees_1" style="border-bottom: none; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s linear 0s, border-color 0.15s linear 0s;">98 Degrees</a> embraces ’90s nostalgia in the video for the group’s new summer anthem, “Where Do You Wanna Go.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Premiering on <em style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Variety</em> below, the video sees the Cincinnati natives kick off the day with a sun-soaked, poolside barbecue in Los Angeles, before hitting the road, where switching the car’s stereo on transports them back in time.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">“I just cannot believe we ever attempted to wear that stuff,” Timmons, 48, tells <em style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Variety</em> about having fun with throwback outfits alongside bandmates Justin Jeffre, Nick Lachey and Drew Lachey. “Seeing the guys wearing that ridiculousness again really brought back the feels.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">While the impact of Covid-19 was felt with on-site temperature checking and masks, Timmons says it was otherwise business-as-usual on the shoot, co-directed by Stephanie Pearson and Aaron Eisenberg, produced by Anneliese Salgado and styled by Kirsten Stevens.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">After being locked down like everyone else, being able to do what we love again was a total blessing,” he says. “Hanging with my brothers, filming a new video for the fans — it doesn’t get better than that.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">The single is the first of new music recorded by the group, which formed in 1995, while locked down at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. The musicians also worked with DJ and producer Brandon Mashburn, aka DJ Lux, to remix past hits like “Invisible Man,” which will feature on an upcoming remix EP.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">The new releases come amid the band’s #98DaysofSummer campaign, which features daily social media content.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">Co-written by DJ Lux, Aaron Space, Chantel Jeffries, Alexandra Veltri, Eva Honey and Stefan Lit, “Where Do You Wanna Go” and its accompanying video perfectly encapsulate how the group wanted to mark its first new non-holiday music in eight years.</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;">“We’ve been racking our brains on how to stay true to ourselves and pay homage to the era that propelled us into the limelight, while embracing the current sound from a sonic and production standpoint,” Timmons says. “It was easy with such a well-written and well-produced song like ‘Where Do You Wanna Go.’”</p><p style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: start;"><br /></p></div><p><b><i><br /><br /></i></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-35507902173463327992021-10-24T23:53:00.004-04:002021-10-24T23:54:23.732-04:00Interview: Jeff Timmons Talks About The Return Of 98 Degrees And His Solo Career<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/2021/07/14/interview-jeff-timmons-talks-about-the-return-of-98-degrees-and-his-solo-career/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWv8knpplS483PqqbThehP95X6AdoZd32kDy8iZAHgtEJqWOipmRH0vn_BkETfd_BkzPCTz3MRf8KEbaUDFgug8E0Rus5RoQSdXTzJU-vuv-s8I41nqO0wx7rjwG5ChNcL2jpEi_fJINA/s1200/jefftimmonsfeat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWv8knpplS483PqqbThehP95X6AdoZd32kDy8iZAHgtEJqWOipmRH0vn_BkETfd_BkzPCTz3MRf8KEbaUDFgug8E0Rus5RoQSdXTzJU-vuv-s8I41nqO0wx7rjwG5ChNcL2jpEi_fJINA/s320/jefftimmonsfeat.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/tag/jeff-timmons/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(254, 130, 9) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Jeff Timmons</a> is best-known as one quarter of the multi-million selling band <a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/tag/98-degrees/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(254, 130, 9) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">98 Degrees</a>, who made their debut in 1997 with breakthrough single ‘Invisible Man’.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In 2003 after years of success that saw them tour the world and notch up plenty of hits, the band went on hiatus as they pursued solo endeavours. 9 years later, the band reunited and in 2013 they released new album ‘2.0’, which was followed in 2017 with the festive collection ‘Let It Snow’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">This year, the band is celebrating their success with #98DegreesofSummer on social media and last Friday they released new single ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I spoke to Jeff this week to discuss the return of 98 Degrees, look back on the band’s huge success and find out how he feels about his foray into releasing music as a solo artist…</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Let’s start by saying that it’s one of Pop’s great injustices, that 98 Degrees weren’t bigger here in the UK…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">There’s always still a chance, right? With the new song and the way things are so viral now, compared to when we were out the first time, there might be an opportunity for us just yet.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I was championing you guys all the way back in the 90s. I discovered your music when I was interning at a national newspaper and I was handed a CD of ‘Invisible Man’…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">‘Invisible Man’, although it was our first song, I feel like that one made the most impact in the UK. We tried to come back several times but every time we went back to the UK, our label was getting sold. Every time we went there, unfortunately, we had a different staff so the only song that really sort of stuck, and it was only there for a second, was ‘Invisible Man’. Literally it was a blip on the charts. At that time the UK charts were quite different than the US. You had to follow up with single after single because they would come on the charts and then they were gone. I’m glad that you remember that and I’m flattered you know that song.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">98 Degrees is back with a new song, ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’, and it sounds like classic 98 Degrees but also works in the current pop climate because it sounds so fresh. Why did you decide to release that song now?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">We got really lucky with that song. We had been gone for a little while and music changed quite a bit (in terms of the) the way you distributed music, the sound of music, and all that stuff. We were traditionally known as balladeers and when we came back, we were trying too hard. We adopted a different sound and it didn’t really translate. We went with a label that had a different angle for us that they thought would be amazing and it didn’t work. This time, we were like, ‘look, how can we adopt the current sound while being true to what our sound is?’ and we felt that this exemplified exactly that. I’m glad you think it’s fresh, but you can still recognize that it’s a 98 Degree song. For those that don’t know, maybe it’ll introduce us to a new audience, which is always the hope.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I was surprised in the 90s that the press was so quick to just lump you in the boyband group with Backstreet Boys and N’Sync. To me, you were a lot closer to Boyz II Men, as 98 Degrees were all about the vocals and the harmonies. Was it frustrating for you to be categorised with the boybands?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I’ll be honest with you, at first it was. When I started the group Boyz II Men was the model. I was so enamoured with their sound and thought that there was a certain uniqueness that would apply to the way I would love to have my music out there, that we were really flattered when we got discovered at a Boyz II Men concert and we got signed to Motown like Boyz II Men. Boybands weren’t prevalent here in the United States yet and it wasn’t until we went overseas and saw this onslaught of these boybands that we started being affiliated with this term. We felt that it was an insult in the beginning but certainly being lumped in with groups, and considered in the same era, as the Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, who we are dear friends with, now we’re embracing it. It’s always interesting to me that even though we never broke the UK, it was always the UK journalists like yourself that recognised that the sound was a little bit different. Here in the States they saw basically four white guys doing harmony and it was ‘oh, they’re a boyband’. It was a bit frustrating but certainly when you get all the drippings that come along with it – the worldwide fame and the fandom – you’re like, ‘OK cool, it’s not such a bad thing after all’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">For me 98 Degrees has always been about soul and the vocals. That’s always been the focal point and no disrespect to Backstreet Boys or N’Sync, both of whom I’m a fan of, but their brand was a little more smoke and mirrors and big production…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I’m very flattered that you have observed. Obviously you’ve done your homework. You were around in the beginning as an intern so you understood the gestation of that group and the foundation was the vocals. When we started out it was just four-part harmony. None of us played any instruments and certainly it was very difficult, unlike today, to just create tracks from scratch with inexpensive equipment. All we had was our voices and quickly we learned that performing live and outside and acapella got us very far. We were always priding ourselves on a true quartet – tenor, tenor, bass and baritone – and we’ve stuck with that for the songs. Production’s changed so it’s harder for us to get the younger producers to understand that we need to incorporate all four of the guys and their strengths, but we somehow are able to pull that across it and get that accomplished, especially with the most recent stuff we recorded.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">You’re in the middle of #98DegreesOfSummer, which is going to end with the release of an EP. Where did that idea come from?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I wish we could take credit for coming up with the concept. We’ve got a new manager Johnny Wright, who as you know he manages Justin, he managed Backstreet (Boys) and N’Sync, and we never had a really, really strong management team. We thought this time, ‘this might be the last time we ever come out. Let’s do it right. Let’s go get Johnny Wright, he knows how to do this stuff’ and it was his brainchild. He was like, ‘let’s revisit and embrace the mistakes while we’re releasing new stuff. We’ve got the remix album coming out and the new music and and let’s pay an ode to your fans by allowing them to share in the nostalgia of you guys coming back’. He timed it out that 98 days would be a sufficient amount and teamed up with iHeart, because of our strong relationships and friends, they’re really supporting this and we can’t thank them enough. The campaign is just something that’s really smart and clever. Again, I wish I could take credit for that but you’ve got to give credit where it’s due and Johnny’s the man behind that.</p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p><b><i><br /><br /></i></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-72229519521366349012021-10-24T23:28:00.002-04:002021-10-24T23:28:41.714-04:00Britney Spears’ Friend Jeff Timmons On What First ‘Enamoured’ Him About Her, ‘Free Britney Radio’ & Raising A Daughter In Showbiz<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://etcanada.com/news/800851/britney-spears-friend-jeff-timmons-on-what-first-enamoured-him-about-her-free-britney-radio-raising-a-daughter-in-showbiz/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyYoFmOn20CaGu9xwSJhONvpumTFwL7XPrZGD-bIraxU9eqYXY3EMFXqt8r8aE5YSpEzXlzHFDTq76DRxbGRWe5mnTujoxKj7eYmaqZUMgwa9rmb4qVfzeYulKkUI0aXzVgYbeKxQRog/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVyYoFmOn20CaGu9xwSJhONvpumTFwL7XPrZGD-bIraxU9eqYXY3EMFXqt8r8aE5YSpEzXlzHFDTq76DRxbGRWe5mnTujoxKj7eYmaqZUMgwa9rmb4qVfzeYulKkUI0aXzVgYbeKxQRog/" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As he gears up for hosting nationwide radio takeover “Free Britney Radio”, 98 Degrees musician Jeff Timmons is opening up about rising to fame alongside the superstar and the lessons of that time which are coming into play as his own daughter pursues the spotlight.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Together with production company Benztown, Timmons is behind a radio takeover which will see stations rebrand as “Free Britney Radio” on Wednesday, which is when the 39-year-old singer’s conservatorship hearings continue in Los Angeles.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Hosted by Timmons and featuring Spears’ chart-topping hits, live crosses to the courthouse, covers and interviews, the pop-up station aims to show support for the singer from the radio industry, which has been playing her music daily since she broke out with “Baby One More Time” in 1998.</p><div class="fsk_splitbox_2631_onscreen" id="fsk_splitbox_2631_onscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;"><div class=" fsk_splitbox_2631" id="fsk_splitbox_2631" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 603px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" mozallowfullscreen="" name="fsk_frame_splitbox" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 603px;" title="3rd party embed" webkitallowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">It was during that time that Spears’ ex-manager Larry Rudolph – who was 98 Degrees’ attorney at the time – invited Timmons and bandmates Justin Jeffre, Nick Lachey and Drew Lachey, to collaborate with her.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“He popped in the VHS tape of ‘Baby One More Time’ and said, ‘Look, she’s wanting to work with one of the boy bands. Everybody’s passed.’ We saw that video and were enamoured by it. We were like, ‘We’d love to work with her!’”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Timmons, 48, says the boy band planned to collaborate with Spears on her next song, but with their label, Motown Records, pushing them more towards R&B than pop, the collaboration never eventuated. However, they did end up touring with Spears and crossing paths throughout following years, with Timmons witnessing the songstress experience the same pitfalls of showbiz success as he did with 98 Degrees, who just released their new summer single, “Where Do You Wanna Go.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">While he notes Spears’ experience of fame was on a whole other level, he recalls being overwhelmed when endless locals in his Ohio hometown wanted in on his success after 98 Degrees broke out with hits like “Invisible Man” and “Because of You”.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“I’m from a small town and at one point I was the laughing stock for quitting college to go pursue a singing career,” he says. “It was interesting to see how overnight, the same people who were cascading me out of the town, were wanting things. Distant cousins did exposes and people I wasn’t even friends with were wanting tickets or coming around to say they needed investment for different things.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“And, we were a very popular group, but by no means the astronomical status of Britney,” he adds. “But, I saw how in one snap of the finger, things change. One second, I was the laughing stock of town, the next they were giving me the key to the city.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Everybody wanting a piece of the pie as he became successful is something Timmons believes also occurred with Spears and may have contributed to her struggles to regain her independence. She was placed into conservatorship amid mental health concerns in 2008 and her father, Jamie Spears, has since controlled her finances.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Such drama is one reason why Timmons, a father-of-five, treads carefully when it comes to his own kids following his footsteps into the entertainment industry.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Timmons has two children from his first marriage (including daughter Alyssa, who has dabbled in modelling) and two step-children through his wife of 10 years, Amanda. The couple also have a nine-year-old daughter, Ariahuna, who collaborated with Timmons on Christmas song “Where Are You Christmas” last December, is preparing for another stint on the catwalk (having made her runway debut at the age of five) and has a Christmas movie coming up.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“It’s a very up-and-down, harsh business and you’re put under a microscope, so I’ve never encouraged or pushed my kids into it, but Ariahuna loves it,” he says. “For me, I always just loved the music, so that’s why I did it, but she wants to do movies and be in the limelight. She enjoys the attention and she’s good at it, so I’m there to support her as a cheerleader and a dad.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“If I can help her survive some pitfalls – it’s impossible to escape<em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> all</em> of them – I’m here for that,” he continues. “I’ll help and protect her as much as I can.”</p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-69087009763591374932021-10-24T23:08:00.005-04:002021-10-24T23:08:44.132-04:0098 Degrees Members Preview ‘Total Relief Live’ Benefit, Invite Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake to Join Lineup<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i><u><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/98-degrees-members-preview-total-201954754.html">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeG3i4nozTyukjCtjaau8CaZuqi0k24Qp6up-TvJyIY8k0dgAJiCXcX77kmSHnaPtlQLIjGPrnRJwjFgT0noKZWCRFT_VirBA87IPp4diuYKN9u8CD9UYJJV6Hxy9GGJnGUmnfskeX8BQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="630" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeG3i4nozTyukjCtjaau8CaZuqi0k24Qp6up-TvJyIY8k0dgAJiCXcX77kmSHnaPtlQLIjGPrnRJwjFgT0noKZWCRFT_VirBA87IPp4diuYKN9u8CD9UYJJV6Hxy9GGJnGUmnfskeX8BQ/" width="320" /></a></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some of the biggest stars of ’90s pop will convene in Los Angeles for a benefit concert paying homage to MTV’s “Total Request Live” era this January, and organizer <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:Nick Lachey" href="https://variety.com/t/nick-lachey/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nick Lachey</a> is ready to “roll out the red carpet” for “TRL” icons Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:98 Degrees" href="https://variety.com/t/98-degrees/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">98 Degrees</a> member is working with the group’s manager Johnny Wright, along with MTV, Live Nation and Spears’ former manager Larry Rudolph for the upcoming fundraiser, which will benefit hunger relief organization, Feeding America. Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean and *NSYNC’s Lance Bass are already signed on, while Lachey says further invites have “gone out to everyone.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I’ve reached out to a lot of our friends from those days and everyone’s super-supportive and ready to be a part of it and rally for a good cause” Lachey told <em>Variety</em> backstage at the 2021 <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:iHeartRadio Music Festival" href="https://variety.com/t/iheartradio-music-festival/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">iHeartRadio Music Festival</a> at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday. “Of course, we’ll ask Justin! When you’re talking about the biggest names of that era, you [think] Britney, Justin. We’d love to have either or both of them involved.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I think Britney’s got bigger stuff going on in her life,” Lachey added. “She’s newly-engaged and dealing with her conservatorship situation, but if she wanted to be a part of it, we’d be rolling out the red carpet. She was one of the iconic names of that era.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She’d have to un-retire first!” interjected bandmate Jeff Timmons, who recently hosted a <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:“Free Britney Radio” pop-up station" href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/free-britney-radio-98-degrees-jeff-timmons-1235017382/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Free Britney Radio” pop-up station</a> in support of Spears amid her conservatorship hearings.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lachey hopes the evening will give fans a chance to celebrate nostalgia and music while helping Feeding America, a network of food banks which aids those in need through shelters, food pantries and soup kitchens.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“More than ever, we have to address the food insecurity in our country, so the chance to put this together in January and be a part of the night along with so many other acts from that era is something we’re looking forward to,” Lachey said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lachey, Timmons and bandmates Justin Jeffre and Drew Lachey gave fans a possible taste of what might be in store at the benefit gig during their Thursday night concert in Las Vegas as part of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Concerts on the Beach series. The show came as the Ohio natives wrapped up their 98 Days of Summer campaign, which featured the release of their “Summer of 98” remix EP.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It didn’t matter if they were rock, pop, rap – we were all related by three letters: T-R-L. And, right now we want to do some of our favorite ‘TRL’ hits,” Drew Lachey said, introducing the “TRL”-themed set, which included Sugar Ray’s “Fly,” MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The group, who confirmed to <em>Variety</em> that they’re recording new music, also performed Backstreet Boys smash, “I Want It That Way,” channeled the Spice Girls during “Wannabe” and rocked out to Blink 182’s “All the Small Things.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You haven’t really made it until people make fun of you in their music videos,” Drew Lachey said, referring to the video for the 2000 track, in which pop-punk trio Blink-182 parody boy bands.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The guys also covered “…Baby One More Time” by Spears. Having known the singer for years, they’re thrilled for <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-ylk="slk:her recent engagement to Sam Asghari" href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/britney-spears-sam-asghari-engaged-1235062501/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">her recent engagement to Sam Asghari</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“This guy has been through thick and thin with her during the toughest part of her life, so he’s probably her soulmate and we just wish her the best,” Timmons said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As for whether the musicians have any marriage advice for the singer, Timmons and Nick Lachey jokingly pointed out they’re onto their second marriages, while Drew Lachey — who’s approaching his 21st wedding anniversary with wife Lea — had a simple pearl of wisdom.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The best advice for any married couple is don’t listen to other people’s advice,” he said. “Every relationship is different. Listen to your spouse and know when to talk and know when to shut up.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Time and attention – the best ingredient of all,” added Jeffre.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“That from the guy who’s not married!” laughed Timmons.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /></i></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-23405543196909292192021-10-24T23:04:00.004-04:002021-10-24T23:04:50.348-04:00Best-Selling Boy Band 98 Degrees Reflect On Their Career Coming 'Full Circle' & 'Timeless' Love Songs As They Celebrate Upcoming 25th Anniversary<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://okmagazine.com/p/98-degrees-reflect-on-their-career-timeless-love-songs-celebrate-25th-anniversary-fall-tour/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">International pop sensation </span><a href="https://okmagazine.com/t/98-degrees/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">98 Degrees</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> ended their "98 Days Of Summer" campaign with a splash with a performance in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay on Thursday, September 16.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Before taking the stage, the band exclusively spoke with </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">OK!</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> about their incredible upcoming 25th anniversary as a group, the struggles of the pandemic, and how themes of love in music are timeless.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2g0paLqjq6aKiH-tv272ap7YW6hhnjNi62omcggZ0J1l5bwWJboVslliLnkOf0xNptBeCjepWx93ZDIJHOft06xqLAbAZeGjLaIWqBko0-m5PpbgtblT_uC3L-lZ3lvuOJRzB1RYKqqk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2g0paLqjq6aKiH-tv272ap7YW6hhnjNi62omcggZ0J1l5bwWJboVslliLnkOf0xNptBeCjepWx93ZDIJHOft06xqLAbAZeGjLaIWqBko0-m5PpbgtblT_uC3L-lZ3lvuOJRzB1RYKqqk/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">It's been a hectic day for the four pop stars — </span><a href="https://okmagazine.com/t/nick-lachey/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nick Lachey</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://okmagazine.com/t/drew-lachey/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drew Lachey</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://okmagazine.com/t/jeff-timmons/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jeff Timmons</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="https://okmagazine.com/t/justin-jeffre/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Justin Jeffre</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> — as they prepare for their final performance of the summer, but everyone has a great attitude about the hustle and bustle of Sin City.</span><p></p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Drew, 45, is quick to quip, "Well, it's Vegas. It should never be boring."</p></div><div data-percent="25" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Boring is definitely not the word for this group who all flew in from different parts of the United States for the iHeartRadio Festival Kickoff, and after a year and a half of being cooped up due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were more than ready to get back to doing what they love.</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"We were really anxious to just make some new music and to get back in front of our fans and perform again." Jeffre, 48, says, noting the role the pandemic played in giving them time to think about their next steps as a band. "Being pulled away from everything for 18 months really made us want to hit the ground running and just get right to it."</p></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nick, 47, adds, "You really appreciate things even more when you're not able to do it, and that's what we experienced with the pandemic. So it feels great to be able to be back out there."</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The "What's Left Of Me" singer <a href="https://okmagazine.com/p/nick-lachey-wont-respond-jessica-simpson-memoir-open-book/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">goes on to describe</a> the unique vibe of their audience that evolved after being away for so long. "There's just a real celebration of life that happens now," he says. "I mean to get in front of a live audience to feel the energy."</p></div><div data-percent="50" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"We feel like we're blessed and fortunate to do it, but it's great to see the enthusiasm and kind of feed off the energy in the crowd, so it's better than ever," Timmons, 48, chimes in. "I mean, really, I mean, we're so lucky this many years later."</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The award winning pop group released their first, self-titled album in 1997, and went on to <a href="https://okmagazine.com/photos/best-90s-christmas-songs-albums/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">release 3 others</a> before their hiatus between 2003 and 2012.</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The <a href="https://okmagazine.com/news/drew-lacheys-scrumptious-marinated-shrimp-skewers-recipe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">younger Lachey brother</a> was happy to open up to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">OK! </em>about their journey from their very first tour to today, and the biggest thing the 45-year-old singer claims to have learned over the years is appreciation.</p></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"Just to appreciate the time that we had together to make music and perform," he answers candidly. "You know in the beginning we took it very, very seriously, which is great because <a href="https://okmagazine.com/news/drew-lacheys-scrumptious-marinated-shrimp-skewers-recipe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;">you know it's work ethic</a>. You put your all into it, but there are probably times we could have slowed down a little bit, smelled the roses a little bit and enjoyed the ride a little bit more."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"It's been a sort of full circle 25 years," Drew goes on, explaining that coming back after so many years makes everything feel new again. He also mentions that they are "wiser" now, to which Timmons jokes they are "on the twilight" of their lives.</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Countless changes happen over 25 years, but one thing that has never wavered for 98 Degrees is the theme of their music.</p></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The band jokes they won't likely be<a href="https://okmagazine.com/p/beauty-saweetie-cat-eyeliner-makeup-2021-billboard-music-awards-style-shop/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;"> writing any bops</a> about "politics" or "stacks on stacks" but sending messages of love through music is something they won't stop doing anytime soon.</p><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"I think for us the theme of most of our songs have always come back down to being love songs, you know? That’s kind of where we made the biggest impact." Drew elaborates. "That's always going to be kind of our go-to sound and storyline [...] And those are kind of the timeless songs that we connect to and we appreciate."</p></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The hit pop group kicked off their tour at The Great New York State Fair on August 21 and will continue throughout the year <a aria-describedby="audioeye_new_window_message" href="https://www.98degrees.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">hitting locations in</a> Southern California, Georgia, Arizona, Ohio, and more.</p></div><div class="roqdnd-0 aaqyp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The band recently released their single and brand new music video <a aria-describedby="audioeye_new_window_message" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rEG6ryc8s&ab_channel=98Degrees" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s, background 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">"Where Do You Wanna Go."</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 32px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-22468538504746976562021-09-23T23:43:00.005-04:002021-09-23T23:43:52.787-04:00Interview: Jeff Timmons Talks About The Return Of 98 Degrees And His Solo Career<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/2021/07/14/interview-jeff-timmons-talks-about-the-return-of-98-degrees-and-his-solo-career/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; 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font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/tag/jeff-timmons/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(254, 130, 9) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Jeff Timmons</a> is best-known as one quarter of the multi-million selling band <a href="https://entertainment-focus.com/tag/98-degrees/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px 0px inset, rgb(254, 130, 9) 0px -2px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">98 Degrees</a>, who made their debut in 1997 with breakthrough single ‘Invisible Man’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">In 2003 after years of success that saw them tour the world and notch up plenty of hits, the band went on hiatus as they pursued solo endeavours. 9 years later, the band reunited and in 2013 they released new album ‘2.0’, which was followed in 2017 with the festive collection ‘Let It Snow’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">This year, the band is celebrating their success with #98DegreesofSummer on social media and last Friday they released new single ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I spoke to Jeff this week to discuss the return of 98 Degrees, look back on the band’s huge success and find out how he feels about his foray into releasing music as a solo artist…</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Let’s start by saying that it’s one of Pop’s great injustices, that 98 Degrees weren’t bigger here in the UK…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">There’s always still a chance, right? With the new song and the way things are so viral now, compared to when we were out the first time, there might be an opportunity for us just yet.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I was championing you guys all the way back in the 90s. I discovered your music when I was interning at a national newspaper and I was handed a CD of ‘Invisible Man’…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">‘Invisible Man’, although it was our first song, I feel like that one made the most impact in the UK. We tried to come back several times but every time we went back to the UK, our label was getting sold. Every time we went there, unfortunately, we had a different staff so the only song that really sort of stuck, and it was only there for a second, was ‘Invisible Man’. Literally it was a blip on the charts. At that time the UK charts were quite different than the US. You had to follow up with single after single because they would come on the charts and then they were gone. I’m glad that you remember that and I’m flattered you know that song.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">98 Degrees is back with a new song, ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’, and it sounds like classic 98 Degrees but also works in the current pop climate because it sounds so fresh. Why did you decide to release that song now?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">We got really lucky with that song. We had been gone for a little while and music changed quite a bit (in terms of the) the way you distributed music, the sound of music, and all that stuff. We were traditionally known as balladeers and when we came back, we were trying too hard. We adopted a different sound and it didn’t really translate. We went with a label that had a different angle for us that they thought would be amazing and it didn’t work. This time, we were like, ‘look, how can we adopt the current sound while being true to what our sound is?’ and we felt that this exemplified exactly that. I’m glad you think it’s fresh, but you can still recognize that it’s a 98 Degree song. For those that don’t know, maybe it’ll introduce us to a new audience, which is always the hope.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I was surprised in the 90s that the press was so quick to just lump you in the boyband group with Backstreet Boys and N’Sync. To me, you were a lot closer to Boyz II Men, as 98 Degrees were all about the vocals and the harmonies. Was it frustrating for you to be categorised with the boybands?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I’ll be honest with you, at first it was. When I started the group Boyz II Men was the model. I was so enamoured with their sound and thought that there was a certain uniqueness that would apply to the way I would love to have my music out there, that we were really flattered when we got discovered at a Boyz II Men concert and we got signed to Motown like Boyz II Men. Boybands weren’t prevalent here in the United States yet and it wasn’t until we went overseas and saw this onslaught of these boybands that we started being affiliated with this term. We felt that it was an insult in the beginning but certainly being lumped in with groups, and considered in the same era, as the Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, who we are dear friends with, now we’re embracing it. It’s always interesting to me that even though we never broke the UK, it was always the UK journalists like yourself that recognised that the sound was a little bit different. Here in the States they saw basically four white guys doing harmony and it was ‘oh, they’re a boyband’. It was a bit frustrating but certainly when you get all the drippings that come along with it – the worldwide fame and the fandom – you’re like, ‘OK cool, it’s not such a bad thing after all’.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOAD8ADQ4XnwxUiEnLGby_oof1yUZpS9Abkj5yZfY-Y-ak6tQedEV6JZMn97p0MAxnm1nIKRePoCwGjBqr2K0m53Zu6oUNGtIq8vGhw_ZtaddNc2RQ4tWWWXWZR3JlYrntWiR5_Zz780/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOAD8ADQ4XnwxUiEnLGby_oof1yUZpS9Abkj5yZfY-Y-ak6tQedEV6JZMn97p0MAxnm1nIKRePoCwGjBqr2K0m53Zu6oUNGtIq8vGhw_ZtaddNc2RQ4tWWWXWZR3JlYrntWiR5_Zz780/" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">For me 98 Degrees has always been about soul and the vocals. That’s always been the focal point and no disrespect to Backstreet Boys or N’Sync, both of whom I’m a fan of, but their brand was a little more smoke and mirrors and big production…</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I’m very flattered that you have observed. Obviously you’ve done your homework. You were around in the beginning as an intern so you understood the gestation of that group and the foundation was the vocals. When we started out it was just four-part harmony. None of us played any instruments and certainly it was very difficult, unlike today, to just create tracks from scratch with inexpensive equipment. All we had was our voices and quickly we learned that performing live and outside and acapella got us very far. We were always priding ourselves on a true quartet – tenor, tenor, bass and baritone – and we’ve stuck with that for the songs. Production’s changed so it’s harder for us to get the younger producers to understand that we need to incorporate all four of the guys and their strengths, but we somehow are able to pull that across it and get that accomplished, especially with the most recent stuff we recorded.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">You’re in the middle of #98DegreesOfSummer, which is going to end with the release of an EP. Where did that idea come from?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">I wish we could take credit for coming up with the concept. We’ve got a new manager Johnny Wright, who as you know he manages Justin, he managed Backstreet (Boys) and N’Sync, and we never had a really, really strong management team. We thought this time, ‘this might be the last time we ever come out. Let’s do it right. Let’s go get Johnny Wright, he knows how to do this stuff’ and it was his brainchild. He was like, ‘let’s revisit and embrace the mistakes while we’re releasing new stuff. We’ve got the remix album coming out and the new music and and let’s pay an ode to your fans by allowing them to share in the nostalgia of you guys coming back’. He timed it out that 98 days would be a sufficient amount and teamed up with iHeart, because of our strong relationships and friends, they’re really supporting this and we can’t thank them enough. The campaign is just something that’s really smart and clever. Again, I wish I could take credit for that but you’ve got to give credit where it’s due and Johnny’s the man behind that.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 660px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>
Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-18025798696402417212021-09-21T00:22:00.002-04:002021-09-21T00:22:58.007-04:00Q&A: 98 Degrees revisits the ’90s on new single ‘Where Do You Wanna Go’<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/98-degrees-revisits-the-90s-on-new-single-16333218">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lE2poQFxFpT-VmIndnDX7uCHtn-wxfmfvPdpUi133qYIYpAcbxYxNQ2L89Ql1VOi5kMONDrhuTRxiGZqB0ZtWzDYTtNjBtNOASvznNNk0jyOr6aaM6XzdaVJEe5QHeMmc-6aq380yiY/s1200/60ae71ae57f9f.image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lE2poQFxFpT-VmIndnDX7uCHtn-wxfmfvPdpUi133qYIYpAcbxYxNQ2L89Ql1VOi5kMONDrhuTRxiGZqB0ZtWzDYTtNjBtNOASvznNNk0jyOr6aaM6XzdaVJEe5QHeMmc-6aq380yiY/w640-h426/60ae71ae57f9f.image.jpg" width="640" /></a></u></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><u><br /></u></i></b></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Everything ‘90s is new again.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Slip dresses and puffer jackets are on trend. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are back together. Willow Smith’s new album features a duet with pop-punk queen Avril Lavigne.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">98 Degrees is hoping to ride that wave to renewed success. The four-man outfit — brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons and Justin Jeffre — has a new single, “Where Do You Wanna Go,” whose sound and video is a cheeky throwback. It previews a forthcoming EP that will feature new songs, remixes of past hits and a collaboration with an unnamed country artist.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">98 Degrees scored several hits in the late ‘90s and early aughts, including “I Do (Cherish You),” “The Hardest Thing” and “Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche).” From the start, this wasn’t your average boy band. The Ohio natives came together independently before signing to Motown Records. There was no slick choreography, and they were decidedly beefier than their counterparts.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The group has recorded sporadically since 2000. Nick Lachey went on to hosting gigs and won the most recent season of “The Masked Singer.” He became a pop culture fixture alongside ex-wife Jessica Simpson on the MTV reality series “Newlyweds” and scored a solo hit with 2006’s “What’s Left of Me.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Drew Lachey won “Dancing with the Stars” Season 2 and starred on Broadway in “Rent” and other productions. Timmons co-created Men of the Strip, sort of a PG-version of Chippendales. Jeffre ran for mayor of Cincinnati and largely stayed out of the spotlight.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">All four members spoke via Zoom about the group’s new music and ‘90s memories.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-family: Karla, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/music/98-degrees-revisits-the-90s-on-new-single-16333218?jwsource=cl</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q:Why did you go the throwback route with “Where Do You Want to Go?”</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeff: </strong>You gotta find the right song. When we first came back, we didn’t know what that was. We probably were overthinking a little bit and not being true to ourselves completely. With this song, it was a no-brainer. This sounds like a 98 Degrees song with a fresh twist, fresh production. We just thought it sounded like a summer hit.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: The video features lots of ‘90s fashion. Did it take you back to that era?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew: </strong>We’ve never left that time. There was a sense of nostalgia. You’re putting on the baggy clothes, wearing the tank tops and the bucket hats and all that stuff. But a lot of those trends are current again now, and that was part of why we felt like it was a good fit for this song.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: Do you see old photos and think, “Why did I wear that?”</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew: </strong>Every day.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Justin:</strong> Looking back, it’s hard to believe that we actually agreed to wear some of that stuff.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick: </strong>The style is coming back. But some of it probably should never come back based on the pictures I’ve been looking at. I think we’ve always been a group that’s at least tried not to take ourselves too seriously. The video was a chance to go back and be a little bit self-deprecating and have some fun with it.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: Did anyone pull pieces from their closet for the new video?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick: </strong>The basketball jersey I wore, I think, is probably the same one I wore in the late ‘90s. That just shows I need to go ahead and clean my closet.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew:</strong> It might have been a little tighter through the …” (wraps hands around waist)</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: You got back together during the pandemic?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Justin:</strong> We had been wanting to do new music when the lockdown happened. We were doing shows, and everything just got put on hold. We got the opportunity to get together and create a (COVID-19) bubble in Vegas and recorded some songs.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew: </strong>We’re still able to sound like 98 Degrees, but they are current-sounding songs. In the past, we’ve experimented with some stuff, and it almost seemed like we were going too far away from who we were as singers. This one seems to be sitting right in the pocket and has a really great feel to it.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: What are the remixes like of your older songs?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew:</strong> If you didn’t know the originals, they would be hits on their own. We didn’t just go and put (heavy bass) underneath it and that’s the remix. DJ Lux played with some of the structures, some of the melodic elements, brought out different lines that were afterthoughts in the original songs and made them featured parts.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: Was it easy to fall back into your old roles and reignite the chemistry?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew: </strong>Well, we don’t like each other, anyway, so it’s really easy just to keep going with that. The old cliché about riding a bike, it’s true. When we sing together, the sound comes back really quickly. We still tell the same jokes we told in the late ‘90s.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick:</strong> It really is all about, we pop a couple of beers and everything feels normal again. Off and running.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: You scored a No. 1 alongside Mariah Carey and Joe on “Thank God I Found You.” What was it like working with the ultimate ‘90s diva?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick:</strong> I just remember being blown away that she wanted us to be on it. Just so honored and flattered to be a part of that project. And we were also huge fans of Joe — still are.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: What’s everyone’ favorite Mariah song?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeff:</strong> Can you pick the one with Boyz II Men? Or does it have to be a solo one? “One Sweet Day” is probably my favorite one.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Justin:</strong> I’m a big fan of Mariah, so it’s hard to pick one.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew:</strong> Was it “Vanishing?” Is that on the first album? I always liked that one. Also, the Journey cover, “Open Arms.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick:</strong> I like the song “The Roof.” That’s one of my favorite ones.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: Jeff, you hosted a “Free Britney Radio” day on stations across the country in support of the #FreeBritney movement. Why was that important for you?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeff:</strong> I think anybody that watched the “Framing Britney” documentary probably was taken aback by just how crazy everything is. That was bananas to me. We didn’t expect to do anything Earth shattering but show our support toward her and hoping that she gets away from the constraints that she’s under as quick as possible.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: I imagine a lot of acts from her era, when labels were cranking out pop stars, can relate to what she’s going through.</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeff: </strong>I think that any artist can relate to what she’s been through. Or anybody in the spotlight can relate to what she’s been through as well. As you have more success, sometimes the people that surround you, your inner circle and your outer circle, begins to change and their behavior changes toward you. We experienced that, I think, at a much smaller level than she has, obviously.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: How quickly did any of you know that was Nick on “The Masked Singer?”</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew:</strong> He’s got this really irritating, grating voice that once you hear it, you just know. It’s kinda like nails on a chalkboard. You know exactly what that sound is.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick:</strong> It’s such a bizarre concept and such a bizarre thing to be a part of. But because of that, it’s one of the more fun things that I’ve gotten to do.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Q: What memories do you have of Houston?</strong></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Drew:</strong> Growing up, my knowledge of Houston was the Oilers. I think of, like, Warren Moon and the old Oilers helmet.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Jeff:</strong> We also performed at Astroworld. That was one of our first, big amusement park performances.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nick:</strong> We did the Rodeo, too. Another concert I remember doing there was we performed at an outdoor amphitheater (the Woodlands Pavilion). It was, like, in the woods. It was so hot and muggy. I just remember sweating like I’d never sweat before.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Karla, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">joey.guerra@chron.com</p><p><br /><br /></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-38599456816072351272021-09-21T00:04:00.001-04:002021-09-21T00:07:30.029-04:00Friday After Five finale unites Boy Bands for ATCK concert (VIDEO)<p><b><i><u><a href="https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/top-stories/friday-after-five-finale-unites-boy-bands-for-atck-concert/"> SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gAjEqNIZtaXFpa_NxbknsnTpTPbC3kHhZXg9ID6cnRe5CQNsSeJjdAhAfB2H0jK-O4eWd52Pl0asr7gVa6GsmeewVp3FuvoUwoHgXVPd2ABjkODZlOFWIs_6DO1Kpk9Og9-rfEtZkP0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gAjEqNIZtaXFpa_NxbknsnTpTPbC3kHhZXg9ID6cnRe5CQNsSeJjdAhAfB2H0jK-O4eWd52Pl0asr7gVa6GsmeewVp3FuvoUwoHgXVPd2ABjkODZlOFWIs_6DO1Kpk9Og9-rfEtZkP0/" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — As Friday After Five closes out it’s 25th season Friday night, the final concert will include members of some of the most famous Boy Bands.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ATCK or “All the Cool Kids” concert will feature Grammy Award winning Boy Band artists, A.J. McClean of the Backstreet Boys, Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees, Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC, and their friend Chris Blue, season 12 winner of The Voice.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘All The Cool Kids’ will “ATCK” the Ruoff Party Stage in Owensboro on September 3 to say Bye-Bye-Bye to the 25th Anniversary season.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daybreak anchor Jake Boswell and meteorologist Joe Bird had a chance to check in with Jeff Timmons and DJ Lux Friday morning.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can meet one-on-one with A.J. McClean, Jeff Timmons, Chris Kirkpatrick, Chris Blue, and DJ LUX. You’ll also get to grab autographs and have your picture taken with them before the show. Then you’ll get to watch the concert from a designated VIP location.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The concert, happening September 3 at the Ruoff Stage in Owensboro, is free to attend.</p><p><br /></p>
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border-radius: 8px; border: none; height: auto; image-rendering: -webkit-optimize-contrast; left: 324.146px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); vertical-align: bottom;" /></div></div></figure><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Some of the biggest stars of ’90s pop will convene in Los Angeles for a benefit concert paying homage to MTV’s “Total Request Live” era this January, and organizer <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Nick Lachey" href="https://variety.com/t/nick-lachey/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nick Lachey</a> is ready to “roll out the red carpet” for “TRL” icons Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:98 Degrees" href="https://variety.com/t/98-degrees/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">98 Degrees</a> member is working with the group’s manager Johnny Wright, along with MTV, Live Nation and Spears’ former manager Larry Rudolph for the upcoming fundraiser, which will benefit hunger relief organization, Feeding America. Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean and *NSYNC’s Lance Bass are already signed on, while Lachey says further invites have “gone out to everyone.”</p><div class="caas-da"><div id="sda-INARTICLE"></div></div><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“I’ve reached out to a lot of our friends from those days and everyone’s super-supportive and ready to be a part of it and rally for a good cause” Lachey told <em>Variety</em> backstage at the 2021 <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:iHeartRadio Music Festival" href="https://variety.com/t/iheartradio-music-festival/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">iHeartRadio Music Festival</a> at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday. “Of course, we’ll ask Justin! When you’re talking about the biggest names of that era, you [think] Britney, Justin. We’d love to have either or both of them involved.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“I think Britney’s got bigger stuff going on in her life,” Lachey added. “She’s newly-engaged and dealing with her conservatorship situation, but if she wanted to be a part of it, we’d be rolling out the red carpet. She was one of the iconic names of that era.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“She’d have to un-retire first!” interjected bandmate Jeff Timmons, who recently hosted a <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:“Free Britney Radio” pop-up station" href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/free-britney-radio-98-degrees-jeff-timmons-1235017382/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">“Free Britney Radio” pop-up station</a> in support of Spears amid her conservatorship hearings.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Lachey hopes the evening will give fans a chance to celebrate nostalgia and music while helping Feeding America, a network of food banks which aids those in need through shelters, food pantries and soup kitchens.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“More than ever, we have to address the food insecurity in our country, so the chance to put this together in January and be a part of the night along with so many other acts from that era is something we’re looking forward to,” Lachey said.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">Lachey, Timmons and bandmates Justin Jeffre and Drew Lachey gave fans a possible taste of what might be in store at the benefit gig during their Thursday night concert in Las Vegas as part of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Concerts on the Beach series. The show came as the Ohio natives wrapped up their 98 Days of Summer campaign, which featured the release of their “Summer of 98” remix EP.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“It didn’t matter if they were rock, pop, rap – we were all related by three letters: T-R-L. And, right now we want to do some of our favorite ‘TRL’ hits,” Drew Lachey said, introducing the “TRL”-themed set, which included Sugar Ray’s “Fly,” MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The group, who confirmed to <em>Variety</em> that they’re recording new music, also performed Backstreet Boys smash, “I Want It That Way,” channeled the Spice Girls during “Wannabe” and rocked out to Blink 182’s “All the Small Things.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“You haven’t really made it until people make fun of you in their music videos,” Drew Lachey said, referring to the video for the 2000 track, in which pop-punk trio Blink-182 parody boy bands.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">The guys also covered “…Baby One More Time” by Spears. Having known the singer for years, they’re thrilled for <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:her recent engagement to Sam Asghari" href="https://variety.com/2021/music/news/britney-spears-sam-asghari-engaged-1235062501/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">her recent engagement to Sam Asghari</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“This guy has been through thick and thin with her during the toughest part of her life, so he’s probably her soulmate and we just wish her the best,” Timmons said.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">As for whether the musicians have any marriage advice for the singer, Timmons and Nick Lachey jokingly pointed out they’re onto their second marriages, while Drew Lachey — who’s approaching his 21st wedding anniversary with wife Lea — had a simple pearl of wisdom.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“The best advice for any married couple is don’t listen to other people’s advice,” he said. “Every relationship is different. Listen to your spouse and know when to talk and know when to shut up.”</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“Time and attention – the best ingredient of all,” added Jeffre.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;">“That from the guy who’s not married!” laughed Timmons.</p><p style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><br /></p></div></div><br /></span></div>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-10661267207608160382021-09-20T23:26:00.002-04:002021-09-20T23:28:06.617-04:00Nick Lachey Shares How His Family Is Adjusting to Living in Hawaii (Exclusive)<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://www.etonline.com/nick-lachey-shares-how-his-family-is-adjusting-to-living-in-hawaii-exclusive-172523">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><span face=""Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">By </span><span class="field field-byline field-byline--full field-type-entity-references-text field-type-entity-references-text--full" face=""Interstate Bold", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Mona Khalifeh</span></p><p><span class="field field-byline field-byline--full field-type-entity-references-text field-type-entity-references-text--full" face=""Interstate Bold", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzuAQn5oNipleZ_C1x6z8ckX521KQ0YG-xcqmkGZ9HLqkdvXx3O53Tzyg_NglttqXjfuBSKNZ2m3k_6adfN_o0KFRNGdh5Shj2znjeliICCxQU8b2DeqT2VWu49xVoLdrS_lv3lXBce8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzuAQn5oNipleZ_C1x6z8ckX521KQ0YG-xcqmkGZ9HLqkdvXx3O53Tzyg_NglttqXjfuBSKNZ2m3k_6adfN_o0KFRNGdh5Shj2znjeliICCxQU8b2DeqT2VWu49xVoLdrS_lv3lXBce8/w640-h640/image.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.etonline.com/people/nick-lachey" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005fb6; font-family: "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease 0s, background-color 150ms ease 0s;" target="_blank" title="Nick Lachey">Nick Lachey</a> is living on island time these days. The host and singer talked to ET about <a href="https://www.etonline.com/vanessa-lachey-reveals-husband-nicks-reaction-to-moving-their-family-to-hawaii-for-ncis-exclusive" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2397ff; font-family: "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease 0s, background-color 150ms ease 0s;" target="_blank" title="adjusting to life in Hawaii">adjusting to life in Hawaii,</a> where his wife, <a href="https://www.etonline.com/people/vanessa-lachey" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2397ff; font-family: "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease 0s, background-color 150ms ease 0s;" target="_blank" title="Vanessa Lachey">Vanessa</a>, is filming her new series, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">NCIS: Hawaii</em>.</p><div class="mobile-incontent-social bidbarrel-ad" data-ad-ref="mobile-incontent-social" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">"She's kind of owning that role. She's really, really truly invested in it, and she loves being there, we all love being there," Nick said of Vanessa spearheading the new spinoff of the beloved CBS franchise. "I mean, the whole family's there at this point, so yeah, excited for her, excited for the opportunity to showcase her on a stage like that. The 20th is the big premiere, so we'll see, fingers crossed, but yeah, very, very happy for her."</p><div class="mobile-banner-plus-middle bidbarrel-ad" data-ad-ref="mobile-banner-plus-middle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The couple not only brought their children with them to Hawaii, they're bringing their four-legged family members over too.</p><p><span class="field field-byline field-byline--full field-type-entity-references-text field-type-entity-references-text--full" face=""Interstate Bold", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">"Believe it or not, I'm flying with our dogs Monday finally. Just want to get our dogs to go to Hawaii, so we're going with the dogs on Monday," Nick shared</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">While it's taken some time for the Lachey family to adjust to island life, Nick tells ET he can't complain about <a href="https://www.etonline.com/watch-vanessa-lachey-sob-the-moment-she-finds-out-she-landed-a-role-on-ncis-hawaii-172070" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2397ff; font-family: "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease 0s, background-color 150ms ease 0s;" target="_blank" title="living in paradise">living in paradise</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">"Hawaii is Hawaii, you can't complain about it. It's a total life adjustment, so I think for the whole family, it took some time to get into that new school, new living situation, but yeah, we're loving it," the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alter Ego </em>host said of their new living arrangements. "It's a great place to be and most importantly, she's at home on her show doing what she loves to do."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">He continued, "We're all loving it and it's good for the entire family. Hopefully we'll be there for the next 15 years." </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">In addition to his <em style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Masked Singer </em>spinoff, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alter Ego</em>, Nick has been busy with <a href="https://www.etonline.com/98-degrees-are-bringing-back-the-90s-with-new-music-and-want-to-collaborate-with-other-boy-bands" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2397ff; font-family: "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 150ms ease 0s, background-color 150ms ease 0s;" target="_blank" title="his band, 98 degrees">his band, 98 Degrees</a>, who most recently performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. There, ET spoke with Nick and his bandmates, Justin Jeffre, Drew Lachey and Jeff Timmons, about their new music and being back together onstage.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Interstate Light", "Interstate Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 28px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-17747452278504221102021-09-20T23:11:00.001-04:002021-09-20T23:11:18.917-04:00Nick Lachey previews 'radical' new singing competition Alter Ego: 'It's just a trip'<p> SOURCE</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">By </span><a class="author-name author-text__block elementFont__detailsLinkOnly--underlined" href="https://ew.com/author/lauren-huff/" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 3px;">Lauren Huff</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vSoN_98ruLCff0Um3hrzmBTUedFypI9Lp6e56mPIBJNz9d0Eiux-RkMlvgQJNWPLGx_1Ni_qpIWbc-RX50cMzSrx0dZpcNlU-IcD5-jCY5ilafK4cjaHsAkP8LhLw_fTJcGSunOP3GE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8vSoN_98ruLCff0Um3hrzmBTUedFypI9Lp6e56mPIBJNz9d0Eiux-RkMlvgQJNWPLGx_1Ni_qpIWbc-RX50cMzSrx0dZpcNlU-IcD5-jCY5ilafK4cjaHsAkP8LhLw_fTJcGSunOP3GE/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ew.com/tv/alter-ego-meet-the-avatars-fox-singing-competition/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">Alter Ego</a></em> is kind of like Fox's other singing competition, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-masked-singer/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">The Masked Singer</a></em>, but on steroids, according to judge <a href="https://ew.com/tag/nick-lachey/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">Nick Lachey</a>.</p></div><div class="paragraph" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The visual-effects-heavy series gives 20 contestants the opportunity to be stars, but they're not singing as themselves. Instead, they create, perform, and compete as their dream avatar alter ego in front of judges Lachey, <a href="https://ew.com/tag/alanis-morissette/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">Alanis Morissette</a>, <a href="https://ew.com/tag/will-i-am/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">will.i.am</a>, and <a href="https://ew.com/tag/grimes/" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; padding: 2px 0px; text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 4px;">Grimes</a>. "It's incredible technology meets incredible talent, and to watch it unfold on stage in front of me was pretty radical," says Lachey of the avatars, one of which shoots lasers from its eyes, while others can fly.</p><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">While viewers will get to see both the avatars and the humans behind them, the judges only had a screen showing the alter ego performing, meaning they have no idea who the person doing the actual singing is or what they look like. As the self-proclaimed "least tech savvy" of the judges, Lachey says he was blown away by the technology and what it was able to capture.</p></div><div class="div-sm-highImpact" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="placement-1490" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; width: 1px;"></span></div></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"It's just a trip," Lachey says. "The amount of detail and the amount of thought and what they were able to do — they can change in real time! Through the motion capture technology, [the avatars] are mimicking the movement and the expression of the performer. It's freaky, how real it is."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For instance, if the performer plays the cello, the avatar plays the cello as well. If the performer gets emotional, the avatar will actually cry with them. And even though the performances were all completely computer-generated, Lachey says it didn't take him out of the performances at all.</span></p><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"It was that combination of the humanity and the artistry and the tech, and all those things coming together in a really beautiful way that made the show so fun to be part of. And I think that's what's really gonna resonate with people when they watch it. It's undeniable," he says. "It's really bizarre, but you're totally invested in the performances. I'm excited for everyone to see it and have their minds blown like mine was."</p></div><div class="div-sm-inContent" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alter Ego</em>, which is hosted by Rocsi Diaz, premieres after <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Masked Singer</em> on Wednesday, Sept. 22 and Thursday, Sept. 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.</p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 712px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></p></div></div><div class="articleContainer__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: col3-start / col4-start; margin: 0px auto; max-width: none; place-self: start; width: 640px;"><div class="component inline image margin-32-tb align-img align-default" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 32px;"><div class="component lazy-image lazy-image-udf image-wrapper aspect_3x2 cache-only align-default rendered image-loaded" data-alt="Alter Ego" data-crop-percentage="67" data-focal-point-x="980" data-focal-point-y="0" data-high-density="true" data-orientation="default" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" data-shop-image="false" data-special-crop="" data-src="https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2021%2F09%2F08%2FAlter-Ego.jpg" data-title="Alter-Ego" data-tracking-zone="image" data-use-imagesvc-to-cache="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; margin: auto auto 0px; max-width: 640px; min-height: auto; position: relative; text-align: center;"></div></div></div><div class="intro article-info" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95); font-family: "Caslon Doric", serif;"><div class="headline-wrapper" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="sponsor-logo" id="karma-lazy-sponsorLogo" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"></div></div></div>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-11350164887954213512021-09-19T23:07:00.002-04:002021-09-19T23:07:25.034-04:00Nick Lachey Reveals When He Knew His Wife Vanessa Was "The One"<p><b><i><u><a href="https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a37611921/nick-vanessa-lachey-husband-wife-marriage/"> SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Nick Lachey </span>is best known as the lead singer of the boyband 98 Degrees — one of the late 90s/early 2000s singing groups that became heartthrobs around America, while <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Vanessa Lachey</span> (née Minnillo) is an actress, model, and TV host on shows like <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">Entertainment Tonight</em>. With similar, fast-paced lifestyles, the two were destined to meet eventually. Similar to your favorite romantic comedy movie, the path to their decade-long marriage wasn't quite a straight and narrow path.</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">As a matter of fact, Nick was previously married before dating Vanessa. In December 1998, he was introduced to fellow singer <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Jessica Simpson</span> at a Christmas event. They dated on and off until they tied the knot in October 2002. MTV even documented the newlyweds' lives in a short-lived reality television show called <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><a class="body-link" data-affiliate="true" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.amazon.com/Newlyweds-Nick-Jessica-Season-1/dp/B00062IDZQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Newlyweds-Nick-Jessica-Season-1/dp/B00062IDZQ?tag=countryliving_auto-append-20&ascsubtag=[artid|10050.a.37611921[src|[ch|[lt|" rel="nofollow noskim" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica</a></em>. The show concluded in March 2005, just months before they filed for divorce<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">. </em>The news shocked everyone as their relationship seemed like a pop culture match made in heaven.</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">Fast-forward to November 2010 and Nick proposes to Vanessa after years of knowing each other. Here are the cinematic details to how the two met, as well as how the dynamic duo finds balance between marriage, family, and stardom.</p><h2 class="body-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3125rem;">How did Nick and Vanessa meet?</h2><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2wyVUb3d7JBdLOfE1gfcTaJaPWPBitYwYF6thNTnRmPr4mHIYiNR2yh1EIXFLbARmRNI6HQWrlu9ooa9FwDdxaNsGzFXHord2q7VU9qwJwWKwO24gGHStVmKSqrvAsHBhyeJSWw3RNg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="768" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk2wyVUb3d7JBdLOfE1gfcTaJaPWPBitYwYF6thNTnRmPr4mHIYiNR2yh1EIXFLbARmRNI6HQWrlu9ooa9FwDdxaNsGzFXHord2q7VU9qwJwWKwO24gGHStVmKSqrvAsHBhyeJSWw3RNg/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">As the host of MTV's <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">Total Request Live</em>, Vanessa met tons of early 2000s pop culture icons, and one of those was Nick. Because his band was a pretty big deal, Nick would be a frequent guest on the show. As a matter of fact, Vanessa would often report on his and Jessica's relationship as that was THE hot topic of the time (can you say awkward?).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">"I wouldn’t necessarily say TRL brought us together, but that was definitely part of our time together — me being a musician and her being on-air talent. I saw her multiple times throughout the years when she was on TRL," said Nick in an interview for <a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7981924/nick-lachey-vanessa-minnillo-romance-trl-whats-left-of-me-video" href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7981924/nick-lachey-vanessa-minnillo-romance-trl-whats-left-of-me-video" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Billboard</a>.</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">What Vanessa dubbed as the beginning of their relationship was the shoot for Nick's music video titled "<a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=899a8WlVpNk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=899a8WlVpNk" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">What's Left of Me</a>." The hit song was about his past relationship with Jessica, but on set, a new relationship was blooming.</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">In an interview with <a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7981924/nick-lachey-vanessa-minnillo-romance-trl-whats-left-of-me-video" href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7981924/nick-lachey-vanessa-minnillo-romance-trl-whats-left-of-me-video" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Billboard</a>, Vanessa said,"But the video, which was on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">TRL</em>, was the beginning of our relationship. That’s what made it no longer friends and it got romantic. To the point that if you go back and look at the video, when he came to premiere it, I was so nervous and so crushing him that I didn’t show up for work that day. I called in sick."</p><h2 class="body-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3125rem; text-align: start;">The New Year's kiss that sealed the deal</h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SZD-toYAREgjaU5YK2Nrha1Zse4bO1pvwObqDCZMKpdYI2u3z2LUSLH4U2UNmAs4kAX520ZaV4VqgqJmU5bjcWKE-svJ7-YpWhmy3FlER7I0SMHRvh3t3aP1uRGWQLkEcAAUdEtGvFA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="685" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SZD-toYAREgjaU5YK2Nrha1Zse4bO1pvwObqDCZMKpdYI2u3z2LUSLH4U2UNmAs4kAX520ZaV4VqgqJmU5bjcWKE-svJ7-YpWhmy3FlER7I0SMHRvh3t3aP1uRGWQLkEcAAUdEtGvFA/" width="161" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">On New Year's Eve 2007, Nick and Vanessa took their relationship public on live television. Although they were spotted together previously, they left no more speculation when they went in for a smooch on MTV's New Year's Eve special. *cue the awws*</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">In 2009, the couple broke up for about a month or two, but they couldn't stay away from each other. Call it fate or destiny. After some time apart, they decided that being "just friends" couldn't work because they were head-over-heels for each other.</p><h2 class="body-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3125rem; text-align: start;">When did Nick and Vanessa tie the knot?</h2><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;">In a 2010 interview with <a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOCcb1Llg0" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOCcb1Llg0" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">CNN</a>, Nick had these kind words to say about his wife: "I think I knew pretty early on that we would be a good match, that I loved her. So I would say, within the first six months we dated, I probably knew that was the one I wanted to be with."</p><div class="screen-reader-only" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: start; width: 1px;">This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.</div><div class="embed embed-instagram embed-center media-loader lazyloaded media-loaded" data-align="center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: 47.5938px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;"><div class="embed-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: start;">The couple threw a small, intimate wedding on a private island in the British Virgin Islands. Rather than wedding invitations, the couple sent plane tickets to their guests as if for a surprise trip. Needless to say, we're definitely jealous of those guests, but fans got an inside look into the special day with the TLC-special </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; outline: 0px; text-align: start;"><a class="body-link" data-affiliate="true" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Vanessas-Dream-Wedding-Season/dp/B06XBQQCVQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Vanessas-Dream-Wedding-Season/dp/B06XBQQCVQ?tag=countryliving_auto-append-20&ascsubtag=[artid|10050.a.37611921[src|[ch|[lt|" rel="nofollow noskim" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Nick and Vanessa's Dream Wedding</a></em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: start;">.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><h2 class="body-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3125rem;">The couple has 3 children together.</h2><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">Nick and Vanessa currently have three children together:</p><ul class="body-ul" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; list-style-position: inside; margin-left: 47.5938px; margin-right: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-left: 2.3rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.4; list-style: outside none; margin-bottom: 0.625rem; outline: 0px;">Camden John Lachey (born Sept. 12, 2012)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.4; list-style: outside none; margin-bottom: 0.625rem; outline: 0px;">Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey (born Jan. 5, 2015)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.4; list-style: outside none; margin-bottom: 0.625rem; outline: 0px;">Phoenix Robert Lachey (born Dec. 24, 2016)</li></ul><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; list-style-position: outside; outline: 0px;"></ol><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">In 2020, Vanessa told <a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/vanessa-lachey-is-open-to-4th-baby-with-nick-its-possible/" href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/vanessa-lachey-is-open-to-4th-baby-with-nick-its-possible/" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">US Weekly</a> in an exclusive interview that she's open to the idea of having a fourth child with Nick.</p><h2 class="body-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Memphis W01", Times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3125rem;">Nick and Vanessa are booked and busy, including a new role on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">NCIS: Hawai'i.</em></h2><div><em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYetmu_XNxP8ejtP8tl67LOB3903wixE2_4KfPeFoZBKYJ0yEBu3ZXBbGVl7dSeIuoYjsel09umlsnI5gAMyNtWPEDcHRxiXK49g5fBHcdQuY0TzxPNtU6gE6CATuCie-ShQNhZ-dcTN8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYetmu_XNxP8ejtP8tl67LOB3903wixE2_4KfPeFoZBKYJ0yEBu3ZXBbGVl7dSeIuoYjsel09umlsnI5gAMyNtWPEDcHRxiXK49g5fBHcdQuY0TzxPNtU6gE6CATuCie-ShQNhZ-dcTN8/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></em></div></div><br /></div></div><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">The married couple are no strangers to lights, camera, and lots of action. Having children and raising a family didn't slow them down one bit. Less than a year after their third child, both Nick and Vanessa were announced as cast members on the hit ABC show <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><a class="body-link" data-vars-ga-outbound-link="https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a19991471/dancing-with-the-stars-behind-the-scenes-secrets/" href="https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a19991471/dancing-with-the-stars-behind-the-scenes-secrets/" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(230, 244, 225) 0px, rgb(230, 244, 225) 100%) 0px 100% / 0px 0px repeat-x; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(84, 158, 56); box-sizing: border-box; color: #549e38; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.05rem; padding-top: 0.05rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background 0.4s ease-in-out 0s, color 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">Dancing With The Stars</a></em> in 2017. The husband-wife duo were paired with another husband-wife duo, professional dancers Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy. "I'm definitely glad that [Vanessa and I] did it together," Nick told <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">Country Living</em>. "But for me, it's obviously one of those things you check off the list and [say], 'I'm good.'"</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">Nick and Vanessa later went on to to yet another hit show — Netflix's <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">Love is Blind</em>. No, they weren't contestants trying to find love without seeing each other until a proposal. They were cohosts. They admitted that they could relate to the show's concept since the beginning of their relationship involved long distance and spending hours on the phone getting to know each other.</p><p class="body-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 47.5938px; outline: 0px;">Fast forward to now and Vanessa shared with fans on Instagram an emotional video of her learning that she got a new leading role on <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">NCIS: Hawai'i.</em> She captioned the video: "I remember the day I got the call 'You got the job!' I will never forget it! Dreams do come true. One week from today, our show premieres and I’m beyond grateful for this opportunity. My life is changed forever. ❤️"</p><div class="breaker-ad article-breaker-ad standard-article-breaker-ad" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; min-height: unset; outline: 0px; padding-top: 0.3125rem; position: relative; text-align: center; transform: none; width: 1119.88px;"></div>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-59234910633709189602021-06-30T21:39:00.004-04:002021-06-30T21:39:44.789-04:00iHeartRadio Countdown: Nick Lachey Stops By To Talk New 98 Degrees Music!<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://star941fm.iheart.com/featured/on-with-mario/content/2021-06-04-iheartradio-countdown-nick-lachey-stops-by-to-talk-new-98-degrees-music/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b><i>By Mario Lopez</i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #f6f8f9; color: #3f4447; font-family: Mulish, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;">This weekend on The iHeartRadio Countdown with Mario Lopez 98 Degrees frontman and recent winner of 'The Masked Singer' Nick Lachey will be checking in! He'll talk all about winning the hit FOX show, all the new projects that 98 Degrees is involved in, filming season 2 of 'Love is Blind' on Netflix and revealed why he's about to move to Hawaii! Plus we'll countdown the top 20 songs, play some throwbacks, talk music news and more!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f6f8f9; color: #3f4447; font-family: Mulish, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>
<iframe title="" height="200" width="100%" src="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/on-with-mario-lopez-interviews-23358161/episode/nick-lachey-83281691/?embed=true&cid=oembed&keyid%25255B0%25255D=ON%252520With%252520Mario%252520Interviews&keyid%25255B1%25255D=Nick%252520Lachey%252520-%252520ON%252520With%252520Mario%252520Interviews&sc=podcast_episode_widget&ihrnetwork=true" allow="autoplay" frameborder="0"></iframe>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-39544291708367665842021-06-30T21:34:00.000-04:002021-06-30T21:34:13.453-04:00Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC And 98 Degrees Stars Dish On Their Surprise Las Vegas Boy Band Battle<p> <b><i><u><a href="https://etcanada.com/news/789102/backstreet-boys-nsync-and-98-degrees-stars-dish-on-their-surprise-las-vegas-boy-band-battle/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGOBCtiedBZLX5dkbcRz6ZSAO8jP2O2lh-pb7CcVUB_E1qtadPfPtW1RBLmh09IEaUCANWe2CrQnLbcVBQOjYeccZHQdXYsMNbJ0Da4t3cyXOCC8IJy1esgau4v6mEoXa4_urGf4iuQE/s720/GettyImages-1322073817.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGOBCtiedBZLX5dkbcRz6ZSAO8jP2O2lh-pb7CcVUB_E1qtadPfPtW1RBLmh09IEaUCANWe2CrQnLbcVBQOjYeccZHQdXYsMNbJ0Da4t3cyXOCC8IJy1esgau4v6mEoXa4_urGf4iuQE/w640-h426/GettyImages-1322073817.jpeg" width="640" /></a></b></div><p><b><b><br /></b></b></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">It was the battle of the boy bands in Las Vegas over the weekend.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Three of the world’s biggest male pop groups collided on stage in Sin City during a performance showcasing some of their greatest hits on Saturday.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys and Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC were in the middle of a musical showdown at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino’s International Theater when Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees crashed the performance</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The musicians came together for the Victoria’s Voice Foundation’s “An Evening to Save Lives: Music for Life” fundraiser, hosted by Timmons.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The foundation was started by Westgate Resorts president and Queen of Versailles star, David Siegel, and his wife, Jackie Siegel, after their 18-year-old daughter, Victoria, died of a drug overdose in 2015. The organization works to fight the opioid epidemic by helping reduce drug experimentation, addiction and overdoses among youth, particularly amid an increase in fatal overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Before they hit the stage, Timmons, Kirkpatrick and McLean sat down with ET Canada, sharing how as parents, Victoria’s passing and the Siegels’ subsequent work hits close to home.</p><div class="fsk_splitbox_5548_onscreen" id="fsk_splitbox_5548_onscreen" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px;"><div class=" fsk_splitbox_5548" id="fsk_splitbox_5548" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 603px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" mozallowfullscreen="" name="fsk_frame_splitbox" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 603px;" title="3rd party embed" webkitallowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“We’re all fathers, so we’re all very protective,” said McLean, dad to daughters Ava, 8, and Lyric, 4. “And, something like this is very close to the chest for me, being in recovery and battling my own demons, so to be here to spread awareness and be supportive is what matters most.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsDWEA0wY1kWz0btwS5cVMzLYzet3M5wT8Gtl4Qgn-IVUe9wPeMyqqVLDHSR8WV7VhnV1E2BmYwAeoAzl0NNsaKJ9QIxvh2-RjsjMnyupsWqBJFT3NXFqnuKiOIM2k2n-3WlzpYfmOaQ/s1024/GettyImages-1322073799.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1024" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsDWEA0wY1kWz0btwS5cVMzLYzet3M5wT8Gtl4Qgn-IVUe9wPeMyqqVLDHSR8WV7VhnV1E2BmYwAeoAzl0NNsaKJ9QIxvh2-RjsjMnyupsWqBJFT3NXFqnuKiOIM2k2n-3WlzpYfmOaQ/w640-h458/GettyImages-1322073799.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">McLean, 43, has been open about his sobriety struggles, freely discussing the topic on his podcast, Pretty Messed Up. Having marked 18 months sober, he admitted being back in the party town of Las Vegas, where the Backstreet Boys wrapped a two-year Larger Than Life residency in 2019, has been testing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“It was a bit stressful yesterday, being back [and] with things reopening,” he said. “I haven’t been around as many people in a tight space in a year-and-a-half, so I was a little anxious, but knowing that I’ve got a great support group back home [helps.] I just got off a nice sober boys’ trip over the past week, so I’ve been able to build a good foundation [while] not being on the road or here in Las Vegas.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As for how the pop stars will teach their kids about drugs, temptations and addiction, Kirkpatrick noted the value of resources like the Siegels’ book, <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Victoria’s Voice: Our Daughter’s Dying Wish to Share Her Diary</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“You can give them tools to research and find out for themselves, because it’s already hard enough with kids,” said Kirkpatrick, who has a 3-year-old son, Nash, with wife Karly. “Thinking back to when I was young and the things I wanted to try and do – you don’t want to be that parent that tells your kid, ‘No,’ all the time because then they’re just going to want to do it. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m gonna let you make your decisions, but these are the repercussions.’”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Kirkpatrick, 49, and Timmons, 48, commended Victoria’s Voice for bringing awareness to how the opioid crisis is impacting youth.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“They have this program called the Victory Clubs and incentivize kids to not only become educated, but educate other people,” Timmons said about the program, which rewards drug-free youth with perks like school parking spaces or movie tickets. “The opioid epidemic continues to grow. There isn’t a demographic that it doesn’t affect, so it’s a universal problem.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">After Soul of Motown, who have a residency at Westgate Las Vegas, opened the concert with hits like “My Girl”, Jackie Siegel shared how Victoria was a huge fan of the artists playing the fundraiser, which took place on the eve of the sixth anniversary of her passing. “She grew up with all the performers. That was her era and I know she’s loving it.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“There’s been some very iconic performers at the Westgate International Theater,” Jackie also said. “Elvis Presley and many others. But nothing has been as iconic and important as tonight’s Music for Life because tonight, we’re going to save lives.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Singer-songwriter Victoria Dennis performed “Perfect Storm,” a powerful track she wrote after reading Victoria’s diary entries, before The Voice season 12 winner, Chris Blue, got the audience on their feet with his new single “Moon.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">DJ Lux kept fans dancing with a party-pumping set, which continued with McLean performing the Backstreet Boys’ “The Call”. Kirkpatrick then joined McLean on-stage, noting what the two have in common. “We both had five people in our band, we both were known as the guy with the hair – mine was on my head, yours was on your face – and we both had Johnny Wright as a manager,” Kirkpatrick said.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“My band was known for dancing – you’re known for Dancing with the Stars,” he added, before singing *NSYNC’s “Tearin’ Up My Heart”.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“That was a great song, but I got one that’s better,” McLean responded, before launching into “I Want It That Way.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Kirkpatrick reacted with “Bye Bye Bye”, before McLean hit back with “Larger Than Life”.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">At that point, Timmons crashed the sing-off, saying, “You guys weren’t the only boy bands during that time!”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“We were the only ones that mattered,” Kirkpatrick fired back.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Undeterred, Timmons performed a remix of 98 Degrees’ late ’90s hit “The Hardest Thing”, before leaving McLean and Kirkpatrick to their song battle.</p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Instead, McLean declared past rivalries over and announced he and Kirkpatrick have a new single “Air” with their side band ATCK (All the Cool Kids). The group includes McLean, Kirkpatrick, DJ Lux and drummer Ryan Stevenson.</p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">After debuting the track, McLean performed his new solo single “Love Song Love” for the first time live. “There’s been a lot of negative energy around the world lately,” he said, introducing the song, from his forthcoming EP. “We need more love. We need more acceptance. We need more tolerance. We need more compassion. Real love conquers all. Love wins.”</p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">He closed the show with “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” before guests hit an afterparty at the hotel’s extravagant penthouse floor, where late Presley stayed during his residency days.</p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Fans who couldn’t make it to Las Vegas for the fundraiser may soon get another chance to catch at least one of the show’s headliners performing in town again. “Any of you guys happen to catch the Larger Than Life Las Vegas residency?” McLean teased. “A little birdie told me that Backstreet Boys might be coming back to Vegas sooner than you think!”</p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br /></p></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; font-family: sequel-sans-book, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br /></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-43550597549443377632021-06-30T21:28:00.006-04:002021-06-30T21:29:02.788-04:00Baking Up Love wraps up filming, cast set to return late August for movie premiere<p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> <b><i><u><a href="https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/baking-up-love-wraps-up-filming-cast-set-to-return-late-august-for-movie-premiere/">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></span></span></p><p><b><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">BY Matt Sheehan</span></i></b></p><p><b><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">MORTON, Ill. (WMBD) — There’s been a lot of excitement in Morton these last couple of weeks.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">A film crew has been showcasing the town in a Pure Flix movie, Baking Up Love.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">From the high-school, to the fire house, to the Confectionary, many businesses have been put on display during the movie.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Monday morning, Good Day Central Illinois’ Matt Sheehan was joined live in-studio by award-winning actor and producer Michael Bonini, and actor, lawyer, and WWE Superstar David Otunga to talk about what it’s like to be here in central Illinois.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">The cast is set to return to Morton to premiere the film on August 28. It will then release on September 1 for streaming on Pure Flix.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">The movie was written and directed by Candice Cain of Gemelli Films. Nicholas Prainito, CEO of Gold Hive Media is the assistant director for the film.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Below you will find a sneak peek of the movie with David Otunga, Michael Bonini, Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees), and Matt Sheehan as an extra.</span></span></p><figure class="ns-block-embed-anvato" data-anvato-player-id="p14" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: lora, georgia, times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><div class="ns-block-embed__wrapper" id="anvato-player-p14" style="border: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="l-article__image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1.25rem;"><figure class="c-photo c-photo--featured" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-photo__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Drew Lachey, Nick Lachey, Justin Jeffre, Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees</p><cite style="box-sizing: border-box;">Photo: Andrew Chin/Getty Images</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="l-article__content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1.875rem; text-align: start;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">The temperature is rising now that 98 Degrees is getting the band back together with new music, new videos and new live performances.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">The popular late ‘90s band composed of Jeff Timmons, brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, and Justin Jeffre reunited during the global COVID-19 pandemic to celebrate the band’s past and write the next chapter of 98 Degrees.</p><div class="fsk_splitbox_332_onscreen" id="fsk_splitbox_332_onscreen" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div class=" fsk_splitbox_332" id="fsk_splitbox_332" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 603px; text-align: center; width: 603px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" id="fsk_frame_splitbox" mozallowfullscreen="" name="fsk_frame_splitbox" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 603px;" title="3rd party embed 1" webkitallowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“We really realized how much we enjoy performing together and singing together, so we decided we wanted to take the opportunity to make new music since we couldn’t do live shows,” Drew told ET Canada.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">The process began when all four artists and their production team quarantined together in Las Vegas to rework some of their biggest hits.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“We had great producers that worked with us,” Drew said. “The way that they reimagined them, they heard things in the tracks that we didn’t even focus on. I wish we could take credit for reimagining the remixes, but honestly, it’s the producers we worked with and they just did a fantastic job pulling out things that we’re hidden under there and bringing those up into the focus.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“There’s a couple of those that dare I say I actually like the remixes a little better than the original,” Nick added. “It’s like, ‘Wow, I wish we did that the first time around.’ But it came out really well, and we’re super excited for everyone to hear it.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">The remixed EP will drop in the midst of the band’s current campaign titled “98 Degrees of Summer”, where they’ll be posting things like old artifacts and never before seen footage every day until Sept. 17.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“It takes us down memory lane, too,” Timmons said. “Some of this stuff we’ve compartmentalized and put in the back of our minds because of the way we looked or the way we were dressed, but it’s been refreshing, and we want to encourage our fans to submit stuff through our socials and we’ll put it out there.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">But it’s not all a blast from the past; 98 Degrees also recorded a new track that is set to drop July 9th. Though the ready for summer song was recorded in a hotel room in the midst of a global pandemic rather than a fully functioning recording studio, the guys all agree, the experience was “like riding a bike.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“It’s funny because we were working with our production team on another song that we had really fallen in love with and they said there’s this other song that you should check out, which is a similar story to how we first recorded ‘Because Of You’ back in the day,” Nick said. “We heard this song and thought it was a smash and the perfect summer song. It’s got that cool summer party vibe.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“Everybody is coming out of a horrible year and a half with COVID and we all want to get back to doing things we love with friends that we love and this song is totally right for that time,” he added. “We’re really excited about it, and on a musical level, I think we sound better than we ever have and I’m really proud of who we are as singers and musicians.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">Accompanying the new track will be a music video that alludes to some of the band’s best and most embarrassing fashion moments of the past.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“Most of the outfits we tried to burn and not bring them back,” Drew joked. “But there were a lot of overalls without shirts and things like that. It’s about finding the balance between the modern fashion that is an ode back to ‘90s fashion and what we feel comfortable in.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“Ironically, our stylist said they didn’t have to go through the old archives or thrift stores because they went to Urban Outfitters and pretty much all that stuff has been recycled and is in style now,” Timmons added.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">Looking back at the band’s overarching career, Nick says he “doesn’t regret a thing because our path was exactly how it needed to be.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">“The beauty of it is that we still get to walk down that path,” he said. “We’re still doing it, we’re enjoying it more than ever, and I think we’re doing it better than ever, and appreciating it more than ever.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px;">Check out 98 Degrees of Summer on the band’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/98degrees/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); box-sizing: border-box; color: #b91c8d; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 120ms cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s;" target="_blank">Instagram now</a>, and listen to their newest track, “Where Do You Wanna Go” when it drops on July 9th.</p></div></div><p><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>Still Lovin 98 Degreeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899478002683208373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7989623519545260889.post-37545150352072255732021-06-30T21:02:00.001-04:002021-06-30T21:02:30.504-04:0098 Degrees Reveals the Britney Song They Passed On and How They (Mostly) Avoided Boy Band Feuds<p><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"> <b><i><u><a href="https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/1281543/98-degrees-reveal-the-britney-song-they-passed-on-and-how-they-mostly-avoided-boy-band-feuds">SOURCE</a></u></i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"><span class="article-detail__by" face=""Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.25px;">By</span><span class="article-detail__meta__author" data-hook="adp-meta-author" face=""Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.25px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="https://www.eonline.com/authors/natalie-finn" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">NATALIE FINN</a>, </span><span class="article-detail__meta__author" data-hook="adp-meta-author" face=""Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.25px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/authors/alli-rosenbloom" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">ALLI ROSENBLOOM</a> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span class="article-detail__meta__author" data-hook="adp-meta-author" face=""Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: red; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.25px; text-transform: uppercase;"></span></span></p><h2 class="article-detail__subheader article-detail__subheader--speakable" data-hook="adp-subhead" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">98 Degrees' Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons and Justin Jeffre talked to E! News about their summer plans, new music and how they managed to stay close for all these years.</span></h2><div><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__photo-text " style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">No need to take the temperature of the room: <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/98_degrees" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">98 Degrees</a> </span>is officially fired up about getting back out on the road.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"We were so used to performing together and being together that it felt really strange not to be doing something," <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/nick_lachey" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nick Lachey</a></span> told E! News in a recent interview with the whole group as their <a href="https://www.instagram.com/98degrees/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">98 Days of Summer campaign</a> got underway (<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">hello</em>, epic '90s throwback pics!). "As soon as we could possibly get together, we created a little bubble in Vegas and went and recorded there and started recording some new music for the first time in a long time. I think we were all just itching to do it because it had been way too long."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">They <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">had </em>planned to be performing all throughout last year, but...music fans know how that went.</span></p><div><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">We were all excited," agreed <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Jeff Timmons</span>, who founded the group in 1995 with fellow Ohioans Nick and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Drew Lachey</span> and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Justin Jeffre</span>. "We all appreciate each other and the journey we've been through together. But with the pandemic, as crazy as that was for everybody on the planet, you're like, 'Wow.' You really grow more appreciative for the opportunities you have to do stuff like this, especially like this, right? So, we kind of all talked to each other and were like, look, let's not go back and just do the dates that we were supposed to do in the past, let's try to do some new music and put some new stuff out there for our fans.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"I mean, they've been so loyal and they've turned out for us better than we expected after being gone so long and have been more loyal than ever, so we were like, let's give them something that's new and exciting from us."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">The first fruit of their creative labors will be the single "Where Do You Wanna Go"—a "summer fun song," Justin described it—dropping July 9. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"Honestly, I think we sing better and we sound better than we probably did back when we first started," Nick said. "I think we've all worked really hard to be where we're at and we come together really well, we're having more fun than we've ever had. So, I think what we're doing now is better than what we've ever done, frankly. We're excited."</span></p></div></section><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__photo-text article-detail__photo-text--portrait" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">And let's remember, it's no small feat to still be psyched about going to work together after 26 years, when so many bands scatter to the four winds after a tiny fraction of that time. (98 Degrees did announce a hiatus in 2003 but, just as they assured their fans, it was <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">not</em> a breakup.)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"I mean, anybody who tells you that being in a group is all rainbows and butterflies is lying to you," Drew said. "It's just like any relationship. You have to work at it. There are going to be times where you need to just step away from it and calm down. But I think ultimately what works for us is we all respect each other, we all respect what each of us brings to the group as individuals and I think that we each share a common goal. And as long as we stay united in that goal and focus on that goal, and we have that in common, then we're good."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Nick compared it to a marriage, explaining, "As long as you respect each other as human beings and as brothers, you're not always going to get along but at least you respect that person enough to say this is not the time for that, take a step back. And it didn't come easily. Like any group, we've taken our lumps and had our fights and arguments and whatever, but you get to a place, especially now later in life when you have better perspective, and we truly appreciate what each other brings to the group and, more than anything, respect our journey together."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">The elder Lachey brother, who branched out as a solo artist and TV host during the group's decade-long hiatus, said, "I can speak for myself that I'd much prefer being on stage with these guy. It's much more fun. It's a brotherhood, it's a comradery that we've formed over 27 years, is that what you [looking at Drew] said? Crazy."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">They're so close they couldn't quite remember <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">how</em> long they'd known each other, Nick echoing Drew that it was 27 years and Jeff suggesting 24 before Drew remembered that 1995 was 26 years ago. "See, we're not good at math, that's why we sing," he quipped as they all laughed.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">But taking their jobs seriously and focusing intently on how to make 98 Degrees great likely saved them some angst in the early days, back when the public couldn't help pitting boy bands—and countless other artists—against each other.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"Who are they?" Drew cracked when asked what it was like angling for a slice of that pop heartthrob pie with <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/backstreet_boys" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Backstreet Boys</a></span> and <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/n_sync" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">'<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">N Sync</span></a>.</span></p></div></section><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__video-text" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"Really, we're all type-As so we put so much pressure on ourselves internally, individually and collectively as a group on our own," Jeff said. "While we knew that those groups were out there and that we were being compared to them, we were already in that lane putting a ton of pressure on ourselves."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Being on a different label, Motown Records, while the other two groups came up on Jive, "it really took a little while to figure out how to market and promote us there for a little bit," he recalled. "So, we had some challenges. And all groups and all artists have challenges, but we had some extra challenges that some of the groups didn't. So we already had that pressure on us before we started getting compared to Backstreet and 'N Sync. And then, look, they burst onto the scene, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">TRL</em> came out and then we pointed out to our label, we're like, 'That's the kind of stuff we need to be doing!'</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"So, it was more like joining into that sort of lane with those guys. And the comparison, while we did think we were different than them, we sort of welcomed it because they were selling millions and millions of records and performing all over the world.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Which 98 Degrees proceeded to do as well, starting with their 1997 self-titled debut album, which was certified 3x platinum.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"I think it makes good media to make it seem like there were these hard-core rivalries," Nick observed. "We were friends with those guys. But I'm saying, there was room for everybody. Those were incredible days where you're selling tens of millions of records. It was awesome! It was awesome to be a part of it. We would do shows with those guys and we toured with 'N Sync all over the U.K."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">He added, "So, we were competitive, to Justin's point, more with ourselves and I think more about staying where you were. Like, we had established ourselves but there were constantly new groups coming out and it was like, how do we stay where we're at, how do we continue? We have to make the next record better than the last one and continue to up our game because, you know, there was a lot of competition still coming at that point. But as far as those other two groups [BSB and 'N Sync] it was never really like that."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Drew then recalled, "There was a group in the U.K. called <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">5ive </span>that we..."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Nick quickly cut in with a laugh, "Yeah, we didn't like those guys. Put that on the record."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"We hated those guys," Drew agreed. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Ok, so they had time for <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/522662/nick-lachey-picks-the-worst-boy-band-of-the-90s-hint-it-s-not-98-degrees" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">little</em> feuding back in the day</a>. In 2014 on <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Watch What Happens Live</em>, when asked to name the worst pop group of the 1990s, Nick was pleased that <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/andy_cohen" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Andy Cohen</a></span> himself brought up 5ive.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"It's so funny you call them out," the singer said. "That's exactly who I was gonna say." Explaining why they had a "big-time beef" with the then-five-man group, Nick recalled, "We were on the Smash Hits tour in the U.K. with a bunch of pop groups at the time, and 5ive for whatever reason just had it out for us. So we used to battle every night." </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Reached for comment straightaway after <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">WWHL </em>aired, 5ive member <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Abz</span> <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Love </span>(real name Richard Breen) <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2014/03/19/5ive-98-degrees-feud/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told TMZ</a> that 98 Degrees "sucked ass" then and "probably still do." But admittedly, he said, if they were giving the American group crap on tour years beforehand, "To be fair, we were the bad boys of pop so we were always looking for trouble. They just happened to be in the way." (Five months later, Abz <a href="https://www.auspop.com.au/2014/09/interview-abz-5ive/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">announced on Twitter</a> that he was no longer a member of 5ive.)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">But if you slighted 98 Degrees 20 years ago, prepare to still feel the burn in 2021.</span></p><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__photo-text " style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Talking about whether or not any of them had any individual beefs, à la the <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1278047/nsyncs-chris-kirkpatrick-reveals-the-one-backstreet-boys-member-he-couldnt-be-in-the-same-room-with" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">animosity that once existed</a> between <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/chris_kirkpatrick" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Chris Kirkpatrick</a></span> and <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/aj_mclean" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AJ McLean</a></span> that recently came to light, Drew mused, "I don't think there's anybody that we really hated."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Nick reminded him, "Not in this country."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">So, for the most part they kept their heads above the fray in a time when the media coverage could be merciless. But, the guys admitted, they didn't have it anywhere nearly as bad as their female fellow artists.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"I think females in general have it harder as far as scrutiny goes," Drew said. "I think we were able to kind of operate without being, like, 'Oh, oh my goodness, he has a beer belly now?!' You know what I mean? We're not constantly being scrutinized for if we change our hair or if something happens or who we're dating or anything like that. That's just a broader male versus female sexism issue, not just late '90s, early 2000s pop artists."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Jeff concurred. "Frankly, behind the scenes, it wasn't as exposed as it is now with social media and camera phones, and all this stuff that people could get away with in the past, they can't get away with it as much now. They still do it, but it's not as prevalent, hopefully."</span></p></div></div></section><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__photo-text " style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">And perhaps no one got more <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1234838/the-most-haunting-moments-of-framing-britney-spears" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">crushed between the gears</a> of the machine that was also making her one of the biggest stars in the world than <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/britney_spears" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Britney Spears</a></span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"She was a sweetheart," Nick recalled. "We did a lot of shows with her early on, she couldn't have been sweeter. And you saw the talent, I mean we all could see it coming. I haven't seen her lately so I can't speak to what she's going through later in life, but she was nothing but a doll, a total sweetheart, and couldn't have been nicer to us and all that good stuff."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">He added, "Being in a group you can kind of shoulder all that pressure on each other, and if you're a solo artist, you're out there on an island sometimes. And it can be a tough road."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Justin remembered, "We were all still in our 20s, too, so I can't imagine the pressure of being a young female and really still not even grown up. So, having to deal with all that pressure all by yourself..."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">To which Nick said, "I can't imagine going through some of these experiences at a younger age, it would've been really, really tough."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Despite their paths crossing over the years, they never recorded with Britney—but not for lack of opportunity.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">While thinking back on some of the songs they passed up (a little tune called "Bye Bye Bye"; <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">almost </em>"The Hardest Thing," which they only did at the label's request and it turned out to be one of their biggest hits; a collab with a then-unknown rapper named <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Nelly</span>, leaving them wondering what might have been), Jeff recalled Britney's manager <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Larry Rudolph </span>showing them "...Baby One More Time."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Originally written by <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Max Martin</span> for <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">TLC</span>, which turned it down, Britney's team was hoping to capitalize on some proven boy-band success. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"And [Larry] was like, 'We're trying to get 'N Sync to do something and they won't do it!" Jeff said. "And we were like, 'Well, if <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">they're</em> not doing it...'"</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Britney, of course, emerged with one of the biggest songs ever, ranked last year by <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rolling Stone</em> as the No. 1 best debut single of all time.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">So apparently we made a couple of bad choices," Nick cracked as the members of 98 Degrees, once again, shared a laugh together.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">But while maintaining the mandatory chemistry that makes a boy band go round and the requisite enjoyment that they need to keep going after all these years is important, they've also had to readjust here and there to keep pace in a rapidly evolving pop landscape. Social media, which wasn't around when they first came together, obviously helps, both with major announcements and connecting more consistently with fans—who nowadays expect a little peek behind the curtain.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"So we want to be relevant in the music scene today, but we also want to stay true to who we are as artists and the sound that we've created that our fans know, love and expect to hear from us," Justin explained. "So you have to try to, in a sense, reinvent yourself but also keep the magic that is our sound."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Added Nick, "Yeah, I think you get in trouble trying to chase something you're not, tying to chase a trend or trying to chase a sound, and there's probably even times where we've gotten caught up in that a little bit." For their latest, "Where Do You Wanna Go," we really tried to approach this as, hey, let's make sure this is true to who we are and kind of in our wheelhouse. We all feel really good about where it ended up and excited for everybody to hear it on July 9th."</span></p><div class="columns is-desktop" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: -1rem -1rem 0.5rem;"><div class="column is-7-desktop is-offset-1-desktop article-detail__main-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 auto; margin-left: 97.6562px; padding: 1rem 40px 1rem 1rem; width: 683.656px;"><section class="article-detail__segment" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__photo-text " style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div class="article-detail__text-only" data-testid="segment-text-only" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Another little something that's different from when they first started out: Nick, Drew and Jeff now have 10 children among them, plus Justin has nephews who are old enough to have witnessed a few 98 Degrees concerts in their day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"Do they sneak into the corner and listen to 98 Degrees on their phone?" Drew said with a smile of his two kids with wife <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Lea Lachey</span>. "No, I don't think so. But they appreciate what we accomplished. At least my kids are getting to the age now where they understand it. Jeff's kids are obviously that age as well. Nick's are probably still—"</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">"My oldest definitely understands, like, 'OK, people know who my parents are and know who my dad is,'" Nick said of 8-year-old son <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Camden</span>, the eldest of his three children with <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/vanessa_lachey" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vanessa Lachey</a></span>. "And I always tell him, I say, 'I'm just dad. Don't think of what I do.' But I do think at some age they start to, and he's starting to get to that point where he's putting it all together."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Drew said, "Some people have parents that are doctors, some that are custodians, some that are teachers. Every person has a job and a story and ours is just a little different."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">And jumpstarting 98 Degrees in 2012 also meant a lot to Nick because his kids could then see for their own eyes what Dad did for a living. "Otherwise, they just have to take my word for it," he joked. "And now they can actually come to a concert and see you do what you love to do. And hopefully it inspires them on some level."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: medium;">Or, as father of five Jeff might put it to his brood, "I swear we were cool at one time!"</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Catch 98 Degrees' new single "Where Do You Wanna Go" and the premiere of the song's music video on Friday July 9th</span></span></p></div></div></section></div></div><div class="article-detail__image-wrap" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e1e1e; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"></div></div></section></div></div></section><div class="article-detail__image-wrap" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e1e1e; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-right: 2rem; width: 380.188px;"></div></div></section></div></div></div></section><section class="article-detail__segment" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "Open Sans", BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.25px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><div class="article-detail__cta" data-testid="segment-cta" style="box-sizing: inherit; width: 633.656px;"><a data-analytics-cta-type="gallery" data-analytics-linklocation="article-call-to-action" data-hook="cta-link" href="https://www.eonline.com/uk/photos/6646/musicians-performing-live-on-stage" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e1e1e; cursor: pointer; display: flex; text-decoration-line: none; width: 633.656px;"><div class="article-detail__cta__thumb-wrap" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: 2rem; width: 100px;"></div></a></div></section></div>
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