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- A Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC team-up is still in the cards, Nick Carter revealed in a recent interview
- Carter told Parade that “conversations” have taken place “internally” about sharing the stage with the fellow pop powerhouses
- The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC were popular boy bands whose careers exploded in the late 1990s
It’s safe to say Backstreet Boys want it that way too!
Nick Carter revealed in a new interview with Parade that a future collaboration between his music group and *NSYNC has been at the center of “conversations” — marking the band’s latest comments about a hopeful team-up between the two pop powerhouses.
“We’ve talked about it a ton, actually,” Carter, 40, told the outlet of the two groups potentially sharing the stage. “We’ve had those conversations internally [with] managers. It just hasn’t lined up yet.”
Carter elaborated for Parade‘s July cover story, which he appeared on alongside his bandmates, that joining forces with New Kids on the Block specifically was “a really great experience for us and the fans.” The two groups previously co-headlined their NKOTBSB Tour 2011 and 2012.
“Because they never thought that it would ever happen,” he said. “So we’re always thinking of really cool collaborations like that, and it has come up as a conversation.”
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Carter’s latest *NSYNC comments come five months after fellow BSB member AJ McLean was asked if a “joint tour” could be on the horizon between the two bands. At the time, he told E! News, “No one knows what the future holds.”
“They haven’t done something in over 22 years,” he added of *NSYNC, which last toured in 2002 in promotion of their last studio album, Celebrity. “And we’re gonna keep doing what we do. But we’ll see what happens.”
*NSYNC — consisting of JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake and Lance Bass — has been more active in recent years, releasing the track “Better Place” for the Trolls Band Together soundtrack in 2023.
The release marked the group’s first song in two decades. The band members made various public appearances to promote it — and also reunited to support each other during some of their other endeavors.
Speaking with PEOPLE in May, Fatone, 48, gave an update on what the future holds for the five-part harmonizers.
“Of course, the big question is, is *NSYNC ever getting back together? The answer is, we haven’t had that conversation yet,” he said.
“The five of us need to get together, and that day has not happened yet. Everybody’s everywhere in the world, and I think it’s more important to get everybody in person, as opposed to just getting on a chat or on a phone call,” Fatone added.
Backstreet Boys — consisting of Carter, 45, McLean, 47, Kevin Richardson, Brian Littrell and Howie Dorough — are currently prepping for their Las Vegas residency at Sphere in July and August.
The Into the Millennium show will bring the band’s 1999 album Millennium to life for nine shows in what Dorough, 51, called a “comeback on the next level.”
“We’re bringing a rebirth to a record that we released years ago and taking our fans, some that have either seen some of the show back in the days, or some that weren’t even probably born yet that are seeing it for the first time,” he told PEOPLE earlier this year. “We’re very blessed to be able to go back to Vegas too in this style — larger than life!”
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