98 Degrees Up Close in Studio 106.5 Baltimore

98 Degrees on their My2K Tour and Perform a Medley of their Hits Live on Set

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98 Degrees will be at the Microsoft Theater tonight for their my2ktour.com. This segment aired on the KTLA Morning News, Thursday, August 25, 2016.

98 Degrees on the Covino & Rich Show

Nick Lachey calls the Smiley Morning Show. Hear it here!

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SMILEY MORNING SHOW

Nick Lachey from 98 Degrees called into the Smiley Morning Show ahead of their big concert. He talks the olympics, his spot in Cincinnatti, the tour and his fans! #SmileyMorningShow #NickLachey #98Degrees

Couple Gets Engaged at 98 Degrees Concert—Is This 1998 All Over Again?

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BY: CARSON BLACKWELDER

And yes, "I Do (Cherish You)" is involved.

This isn't a time warp back to the late '90s, but it'll certainly give you a major dose of nostalgia. One lucky couple just got engaged with a little help from 98 Degrees and one of their classics.

The boy banders introduced the oh-so-romantic "I Do (Cherish You)" by telling the crowd in Coney Island during their MY2K tour that "there's one ballad that we've been known for all over the planet, everywhere we go, no matter what language they speak."

That's when a fan named Rosa was introduced and had the honor of being serenaded by the handsome singers—Jeff Timmons, Justin Jeffre, and Lachey bros Nick and Drew—as well as taking turns dancing with each of them.

"I don't see a ring on your finger," Nick Lachey prompted before the song. "Will you marry us?"

At the end of the song, Rosa's beau, Mike McGinn (a DJ from 92.3 AMP Radio), is introduced and makes quite the grand entrance, followed by a nervous speech before popping the question to his lady love. The crowd goes wild, as they should, because it's a yes!

Astra, one of Mike's radio colleagues, shared the epic video on YouTube and revealed how this all came together. Turns out, Mike told her Rosa was a big fan of 98 Degrees—especially Jeff Timmons—and since Astra happens to know him, the stars aligned.

Photos: A night of Y2K pop with 98 Degrees and more in West Valley City

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98 Degrees Talk New Music & Why They Were Never a 'Manufactured Group'

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• Jeff Benjamin

Before their headlining set at the My2K tour stop in Brooklyn, Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons chatted with us about their loyal fanbase, favorite videos and why they still love working together

While 98 Degrees go all out on the boy-band charms as headliners on the My2K Tour (think matching camouflage pants and coordinate dance moves), backstage at their Brooklyn show, the guys are four laidback friends who still crack one another up. 

Before they took the stage for the most nostalgically impressive set of the night, Fuse looked back with the quartet about their breakout years (find out why they weren't your typical boy band), looked forward (new music!!) and more.

FUSE: How's the My2K tour been?
Justin Jeffre: It's been a blast, really. It's great to be back with these guys, doing what we love to do, what we always dreamed of. It's a little surreal to still be doing it, but our fans are still there and we're having more fun with them than ever.

A big part of the tour are the meet-and-greets. What are these like now versus when you initially hit the scene?
Nick Lachey: They're drinking now! [Laughs] They're all drinking age and it somehow makes it all more fun.
Justin: It makes us feel more comfortable with our drinking. We have a pass now. [Laughs]
Nick: It's like we've all grow up together in a weird way. It's cool. We see a lot of the same faces. The loyalty they've shown us and our group is incredible. It's just a big party—I don't know how else to describe it.

The 2.0 album came out in 2013. Is this tour setting in motion new material?Justin: The feedback we're getting from fans is that 'We want to hear new music.' The way we feel is that more we're together, the more likely that is to happen. We love what we do and I think that we want to keep doing it. It's just a question of when and what, as opposed to if we're going to do it.
Nick: We did the tour three years ago and it reemphasized to us that we enjoy doing this together so we looked for another opportunity to get together on tour, which happened this summer. Where that leads is anyone's guess at this point. The one thing we can take away from this, if nothing else, is that we love being together, we love performing together, so it's definitely not even close to being the end of anything. Just another chapter.

Your music videos stand out to me as a big part of your career. What do you guys think is your most iconic video?
Justin: "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)" for me. Working with Wayne Isham was always interesting. I've been to a few Mayan ruins before, but to actually go there to shoot a video, have an incredibly beautiful female star, it was really a lot of fun.
Nick: That was a time when videos could make a song in a lot of ways—it was such an integral part of what you were doing. The labels recognized it, they spent a lot of money on music videos, and we were lucky enough to get connected with Wayne on the "Because of You" video, and then he did several of our next videos. He made a point to make them all different and that was a big part of our success honestly. For me, the "Because of You" was probably the most special because it was the first one. We were on top of the Golden State Bridge—which we found out literally no one gets to do, even the guys who were taking us up on the elevator were saying, "Wow, I'm shocked you guys got the permits to do this." It was just something you didn't get to do.

Jeff Timmons: Wayne was also good about technical aspects. In "I Do (Cherish You)" he had all these SLR videos set up in a circle, shooting in a circle, and that had never been done before. Technically, he was pushing the envelope, while at the same time having great storylines—having [Saved by the Bell star] Screech come out at the end of "I Do" completely changed the feel of the video.

If you could rewrite the narrative of that time, what do you wish people knew or focused on more?
Nick: If there's one thing—and people know this, it's not a secret—but people assume because we were lumped in a "boy-boy movement," that we were a manufactured group; that we auditioned in Orlando, the whole thing. But we took a lot of pride that that was not the case: We put ourselves together, we all moved to L.A., and did it the old-fashioned way of pounding the pavement and making connections. That was always something we were quick to clear up because we took a lot of pride in the fact that we did this on our own and didn't have the "machine" behind us.
Justin: And we were signed with Motown. We were a vocal group, first and foremost, not a dance group. But people had this impression of what a boy band was and so they assumed we were just like everyone else.
Nick: So…now we're great dancers. [All laugh]

If there was a fifth act on the My2K Tour, who would you want it to be?Jeff: Contrary to popular belief, we're actually good friends with a lot of the boy band guys—like *NSYNCand Backstreet [Boys]. It'd be cool to have Backstreet with us. We're very happy with the bill, but it'd be cool to have them on.
Nick: I mean…Britney?! It was a great era of music and there were so many great acts. So many you could pick.
Drew Lachey: The fact of the matter is that everyone group represents a different nook in time and brings a different fanbases together. The fans love it how it is.