![]() ![]() The Deep Cut: “Heat It Up,” the first proper track on the album, samples Slave’s 1979 funk classic “Just a Touch of Love” - a bold move that 98 Degrees pulls off on a song that works for both tween fans and the parents lovingly driving them to the boy band concert. The Classic: “Because of You” may have charted higher on the Billboard Hot 100, but “The Hardest Thing” stands as one of the era’s most interesting boy band ballads, complete with a boxing-themed music video and a lyrical shout-out to Doctor Zhivago. The Story: As Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC spent the late ‘90s trading hits and Total Request Live supremacy, 98 Degrees, led by the brothers Lachey, not-so-quietly established a fruitful lane of their own, with second album 98 Degrees and Rising containing the most hits and high points of a long-running career. Here are our favorites from the last three decades - and here’s hoping that the first great new boy band of the 2020s is figuring out their socially distanced dance moves as we speak.ģ0. (We did make an exception to include the first Boyz album, though, as a sort of passing of the torch from their boy band mentors - but we also elected not to include late-period albums from now-grown boy bands, like Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins.) We basically stuck with our staff rulings from a few years ago about some of the most borderline cases: 112 and 5SOS in, Brockhampton and Boyz II Men out. The 100 Greatest Boy Band Songs of All Time: Critics' Picksīut of course, the usual caveats apply about having to draw the distinction of who does and doesn’t count as a boy band - an unenviable task, even for the professionals. ![]()
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