Fake Rivalry with *NSYNC
During their heyday, it looked like the rivalry between the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC would go on forever. Fans went as far as to buy multiple albums to boost record sales for their favorite group. We never actually witnessed the band members bumping heads with each other, but we also never saw them acting all buddy, buddy. That led to the notion that there was a feud brewing.
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But now that the boy band members have grown up and matured, they’ve spilled the tea and given us the truth about what went down. As it turns out, there was no rivalry. A.J. Mclean revealed that the fellow boy bands had nothing but respect for each other. The ”rivalry” was amplified to boost the popularity of the bands.