
“We were just on stage going, ‘Maybe we should do a supergroup and tour and do an album,’” said Carter. McLean hopes Back-Sync can eventually perform a Las Vegas residency or tour, while Carter’s toyed with incorporating other boy bands. The singers say Friday’s performance is just the beginning of ongoing collaborations.

“ a statistic that keeps everyone at the Trevor Project motivated to create affirming spaces that we know save LGBTQ lives.” “At least one LGBTQ person attempts suicide every 45 seconds in the United States,” said Trevor Project CEO Amit Paley, via video. The musicians also presented a cryptocurrency check for one million dollars in $TKINU tokens to the Trevor Project, on behalf of their involvement with cryptocurrency project Mission Tsuki. “When we were writing the treatment for this video, I was adamant about having two beautiful transgender girls and that’s what we did to show our love and support for the community,” he said, after introducing one of those models, Nahla Wyld. McLean performed solo single, “ Love Song Love,” which he recently released in support of the LGBTQ community. “Whatever word’s higher than excited, that’s what I currently am,” he enthused. The boy banders worked with Carter’s brother-in-law Corey Conrad, vice president of strategic alliances, events and entertainment for the Grove, to organize the evening on the shopping precinct’s level eight rooftop overlooking L.A.įollowing bingo, RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Michelle Visage and musician Todrick Hall made a surprise appearance to introduce Back-Sync. McLean’s 8-year-old daughter Ava and her pals won one round, excitedly rushing to the stage to claim their prize of a dinner at Bistro 1759, a moving restaurant atop the Grove’s double-decker trolley. The night commenced with bingo hosted by Bingo Boy (Jeffery Bowman) and drag queen Roz Drezfalez. Lil sneak peak of #backsync 🤫 /G2Yk0seBXn

“It’s exciting and fun because it brings out a whole other personality that you wouldn’t necessarily do in your own group.” “The dynamics are different when you mix-and-match different groups,” said Carter, who previously formed Nick & Knight with New Kids on the Block’s Jordan Knight. Better late than never, right?”Īs for how Back-Sync brings the musicians different joy to their own bands, Carter said collaborating with *NSYNC after 28 years as a Backstreet Boy was refreshing. “I’m kidding, because I still don’t understand why we didn’t get an opportunity to do more things together, but we learned that it was managers and stuff happening behind-the-scenes that prevented it. “Twenty years ago? Hell no!” laughed Carter. Given the intense rivalry between fans during the boy band pandemonium around the turn of the millennium, Carter joked he could never have imagined such a collaboration at the time. “BSB fans are very loyal, so we’re going, ‘We get it – certain people liked one band or the other back in the day, but now it’s okay to like both.’” “It’s interesting to have the four of us knuckleheads do something together, which you’ve never seen before,” added Fatone. “Everybody’s wanted us to do something together and now we get to come together for an amazing cause.”

“This has been a long time coming,” McLean told Variety during rehearsals. *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys Members Debut New Collab, Talk Past Rivalries and Mutual RespectĭJ Khaled Scores as Summer Party Host With Superstar-Studded 'Khaled Khaled': Album Review The pop stars united for Bingo Under the Stars, an evening celebrating Pride and benefitting the Trevor Project and L.A. Las Vegas engagements, joint music, movies - Backstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter and * NSYNC’s Joey Fatone and Lance Bass are touting “endless” possibilities following their sold out debut performance as “Back-Sync” at the Grove in Los Angeles on Friday night.
