Tearin' Up My Web Page: the *NSYNC Side of the Street

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TEARIN' UP MY WEB PAGE
the *NSYNC side of the street

Okay. I have been walking around SunsetStrip for months now and it is Backstreet, Backstreet, Backstreet as far as the eye can see. Nick's birthday. Brian's favorite color. Kevin's cheekbones. Every other page has the same five guys and the same slow song playing in somebody's head. So I am Monique, I'm 17, I live in Atlanta, and this page is the answer.

For the record: I own Backstreet's Back. It's fine. They're fine. I'm not here to be mean. I'm here to be correct.

THE FIVE
Justin	Jan. 31, 1981 Tennessee	The youngest, the curls, the dancing. Was on the Mickey Mouse Club as a kid.
JC	Aug. 8, 1976 D.C. area	Also Mickey Mouse Club. The best voice in any boy band, period. Also the cutest, and I will not be taking questions.
Chris	Oct. 17, 1971 Pennsylvania	The oldest, the funniest, the one who got the group started. Birthday next month!
Joey	Jan. 28, 1977 Brooklyn	Loud, happy, from New York and proud of it. He and Chris both used to perform at Universal Studios in Orlando.
Lance	May 4, 1979 Mississippi	The bass. Joined last, holds it all up from underneath. The polite one.

Where the name comes from: Justin's mom said the boys sounded really in sync. Then somebody noticed the last letters of their names spell it out: justiN, chriS, joeY, lansteN (that's Lance's nickname) and JC. You cannot make that up.

Fun fact that will annoy somebody: Joey and Nick Carter have the same birthday, January 28. Three years apart. It means nothing. I just like bringing it up.

"BUT BACKSTREET..." : MY ANSWERS

"Backstreet was first."
True. And? The Beatles weren't the first band either.

"*NSYNC is just a copy."
Both groups started in Orlando. Apparently that's where boy bands grow, like oranges. Being from the same place doesn't make you the same.

"Millennium sold over a million copies in one week."
It did. I'm honest. Congratulations to them. Our album came out in America in March 1998 and people are still buying it, so check back in a year and a half and let's see whose is still selling.

"They can't sing live."
I saw them live this year, in person, with my own ears. They sang. Next.

"America only noticed them because of the Disney Channel."
The Disney Channel concert in the summer of 1998 is how I found them, so, yes, and thank you, Disney Channel. I taped it off TV and the tape is basically see-through now.

MY TOP SIX

Tearin' Up My Heart – the one that started it for me. Still turn it up every time.

God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You – the slow one. My mom likes it too, which is scary.

I Want You Back – the first single. Still sounds exactly like the first time I heard it on the radio.

For the Girl Who Has Everything – not a single, but it should have been. JC's best vocal.

Here We Go – best one to dance to in your room with the door shut.

Sailing – their version of the old Christopher Cross song. My dad approves, which is even scarier than my mom.

Also the song with Gloria Estefan that's on the radio right now? The harmonies. I'm just saying.

THE TRUCE CORNER (because I'm the bigger person)
Things both sides can agree on: five guys is the right number. Matching outfits are a choice we all have to respect. Both groups work really hard. And whoever you like, nobody should be sending anybody mean e-mail over it. If you're a Backstreet fan and you made it this far, I respect you. Now go listen to Tearin' Up My Heart one time. Just once.

You are fan number

(and I bet at least a hundred of you were Backstreet fans who got lost)

Agree? Disagree? Want to fight about it politely?
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Last updated Wednesday, September 22, 1999
© 1999 Monique. *NSYNC and their songs belong to them and their record company, not me. I'm just loud about it.