Chapter 1: What insights does Joey Fatone share about his journey with NSYNC?
You look sharp, man. I'm trying. I don't even dress up that much, but today I felt like cleaning up today. So that was really it.
This is a good suit. I like it a lot. I like the color. I could throw it on. The gray beard really goes with the suit. It's really good. Thank you. I got a couple of grays coming in my beard.
Oh, dude. It starts in a couple of months, or it feels like a couple of months, but a couple of years, all of a sudden it's...
like this but it's okay you're rocking it i learned to be okay with it and i can even sometimes i'll die and people like you die i'm like yes because it's fun i know it's not real it's okay are you gonna bring the red back yeah maybe you know what i did the one time where when i did the trolls i did the hair and the eyebrow actually oh that's a rich stripe have you donned a santa outfit since you've gone gray
Not yet, but you know, that's coming in. I think that's fortuitive. The more I grow this out, it's definitely going to be, I'm definitely going to have to do that at some point or do a role like that, I think. I think it'd be kind of fun to play a Santa role.
Oh, hell yeah.
Like a musical. Yeah, whatever. Musical Santa. Anything. Anything. I don't know. You know, killer Santa or something. Who knows? Ooh, that'd be good. Right? Like a horror. See, I would do that.
Joy Fatone, welcome to the show, man.
I'm so excited to have you. Hey, man. Thank you. Very, very happy to be here. Very excited to be here. My girl listens to you guys, actually, so thanks. It's great. She's like, oh my God, you're already going to be on there? Really? Okay, good. Because I can't wait to listen to it. Okay, good.
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Chapter 2: How did Joey Fatone's relationship with Lou Pearlman impact his career?
I've never been in your shoes. You've never been in my shoes. So you can never really relate. But if you've been on a, you know, again, the only time you can really say is like if you've been on a football team and that camaraderie of that team, it's the same kind of feeling. But then it's like you have the ups and downs like everything.
You've got the pressures of, you know, from, you know, the artist and being a musician in a boy band, you know. How do you fit in? Do you fit into that? Are you the lead singer? Who are you? What do you? And then it's the how much money financially? What's going on mentally? So for this, for the doc, you know, I always, you know, me and my manager, Joe, we both co-produced it and directed it.
It's kind of those things where we wanted to kind of go, what makes everybody tick from day one? What happened? And let's tell the story individually and what goes on. And it's pretty fascinating to see a lot of these individual stories. And there's a lot of guys from different groups. I have myself and Lance is in it. From NSYNC, you have Jeff Timmons and Nicholas Shea from 98 Degrees.
You have Sean and Juan Yeh from Boyz II Men. So a lot of two of the guys are almost from each group.
and you hear these stories and some of them are good and some of them are bad and obviously you know a lot of documents go down those deep dark tunnels and holes and we are definitely touching that surface but yeah we're not trying to beat a dead horse here it is what it is but you understand that you know there is you know whether there's mental financial physical struggles or abuse or whatever the case may be it's amazing to see what they've come out of you know you got lfo one of the guys from lfo the group
Uh, you know, new kids on the block had a bunch of hits. Thank you. Exactly. Wow. Look at you. It's on my playlist. I love it. I love that song. And the sad part about him is, is it wasn't like a downfall of depression. He wasn't into drugs. He had three, each band member passed away in different times for different reasons and some due to cancer, but it was unreal.
And, you know, the struggles and thinking about, After that, the depression he went through. And it's almost like this kind of curse he had. It's just bizarre. But again, it's amazing to see how that arc comes about with everybody comes out a different way. But it's great to see that majority of the guys in groups have come out. I mean, not to everybody, but...
And there's always people to reach out to and talk to. I think that's the most, you know, people always say, you know, well, mental health is important. And it is important. Back in the day, it wasn't like, you know, you could talk to somebody. It was like, yeah, just suck it up.
Right. I think Nick brought that up in the doc where he was saying, like, now Justin Bieber, he could just cancel a whole tour.
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Chapter 3: What themes are explored in the documentary 'Boy Band Confidential'?
We sang in high school and I brought him in and. And it was, there was that moment in the doc, Jason's sitting and kind of saying, you know, it is what it is. You have this shot on him. He's like reflecting, you know, and he's kind of. Yep. His face, you could see the thought. He's thinking about that fork in the road.
And it sounds like, you know, he, you know, he talked about he went to college and it sounds like he's been successful in his career and doing just fine, doing real estate, great industry to be in. And you just kind of saw him having this just wonder, you know? And like, it made me think about, I wonder what the thing he was wondering about.
And I think it's like, no matter what happens in your life, right? And obviously this doc, you peel back some of the darkness of the boy band and the trials and tribulations that you went through.
But like, no one will take away from you and the rest of the group that you guys did something extraordinary with your life and not to take anything away from, I mean, being a parent, I think is extraordinary. But very few people get to perform in a stadium. Very few people get to be what NSYNC was. And that is... It's surreal. It's like another life. It really is.
It's weird. And that is so fucking cool what you did. But you did it. And a lot of people don't understand that. And I'm glad that you kind of point that out because it is true. And that's the reason why doing this talk and talking to these other guys
not to say that everybody has done stadiums, but a hundred percent, they all have been there before, whether it's been opening at closing act or doing, you know, their stadium themselves, they've been there. They've seen the feeling, they know that rush. They know, you know, and again, not, not a lot of people, like you said, can do that or say that. And it's just, it's, It's a blessing.
It's fun.
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Chapter 4: How does Joey Fatone compare the pressures of being in a boy band to other professions?
You know, it's a job. That's the other thing you take into consideration. You got to really think about it. It is a business. Let's be real.
I mean, a lot of times it consumes people's lives, I think, way too much, which again, I can respect it in the sense of if that's their artistry, you know, but for me, I'm like, I've learned and figure out, okay, I like doing that, but I don't want to overkill myself on that because I want to beat myself silly. But however, I like doing this.
So entertaining and performing really came, you know, fun for me. And just I think just a form of just of just doing things like storytelling and Broadway and stuff like that, you know, going back to Broadway and doing stuff like that. It's been great. I've been loving it now where now I'm not trying to be, and I think that's what's interesting about this time and age and day and age for me.
I'm not trying to be number one. I'm not trying to sell records. I'm not trying to be like, ooh, I just want to be irrelevant in the sense of come and see the stuff that I'm doing. Enjoy it. If you like it, great. Come see more stuff that I'm doing. If you don't like it, tell me. Let's figure out and pivot something else that may not work. Or if it's not your cup of tea, it's not your cup of tea.
I'm not going to yuck your yum. You can do mine.
It's all right.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What does Joey Fatone reveal about life as a father to daughters?
How a whole new generation that has never even really either knew what NSYNC was or got this new surge of it because of the movie, which is, it's pretty amazing to see. What do you miss the most about that period of your life? Oh, gosh. Now that I'm 49, not much. In a good way.
You don't miss the tours?
You know what? Because I do perform now. I don't have to miss the tours. So I've done shows with AJ. We did a show at Legendary Night, we called it. And AJ was doing it. It's great because even though he's doing this here, every once in a while he's like, yo, we're doing some more shows that we're doing. I'd love to do more. And we've done these concerts where we sing each other songs.
It's like a theater. It's like, depending on where we are, it could be from 2,500 to almost 5,000 seater. We do a show. We get our fix because me and him are hams. We love to perform.
It's fun.
It's a great thing. And that's the thing. It could be five people, 5,000 people. I just love performing. And I think that's why I don't have to do the tour because I can always do it a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And I can go home.
Right, like you get to decide now what you do and what you don't do.
Usually it was, you're going to do this, you're going to do that. Nobody called me up, honestly, and said, hey, I want you to do a doc. Seriously, nobody called me up to do that. Me and my manager were like, you know what? We've heard about people doing docs. And it's like, you know what? Let's do it ourselves. And we know enough people. And also, I didn't want them to.
That was the other thing with a lot of times when you have the interviewers, it does put people in a position. And sometimes they get defensive or they get shy or they shut down. So for me, it's like, listen, I am one of your peers. I'm not going to try to screw you over. And this is something that I'm not trying to do. I'm not trying to manipulate anything.
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Chapter 6: How did the rivalry between NSYNC and Backstreet Boys affect the members?
We wanted to do, and we were constantly, we were in Germany for about two and a half years where we first started doing stuff, just constantly working, doing the shows, tours, this, this, this, and not thinking about it because, you know, Lou was taking care of everything.
Yeah, and you were young and you trusted him. Exactly.
And that's kind of where later on they were like, wait a minute, this money's going out and you're not getting any of that money or percentage. I don't know what kind of contract they even said you guys signed, but maybe you should look into it. And that's when we looked into it and was like, okay, we definitely need to do something about this.
Yeah. And you did. Goodness. I imagine you get kind of tired about asking about reunions. All good.
yeah and i'm not i mean you've already asked it's been asked and answered um it's it's out now that i've been doing a couple of these interviews to be honest people are like well what did you say because there was a zoom call and and i gotta be honest it just the the hard part is is getting five guys together for sure and i even and i guess the best way to describe it for me too is is because people was like well it's just easy it's easy guys you just do it it's easy it sounds easy
But you got five individuals. I have already had my children. Like I said, one is 25. The other one's 16. The other one's almost halfway out the door. I have a lot more freedom in the sense of the choices. Like I said, I can make. Lately, things have been just a lot more easier. Obviously, I just take one kid to school instead of two kids, you know, and it's a lot that kind of stuff.
Everybody else has young kids. They're one, two, six and seven or something like that around those ages. Chasey's the only one, which is the smartest person, doesn't have any children. Yeah. So he's living chill free and he's doing his thing. And I think that's, again, it's hard to go back to something to where, you know, you've been the boss all the time.
And then it's probably a little bit different for everybody individually or how they feel to where now you have four other guys that are your colleagues that now they have an importance just like you. So you're not the main person to say this is what goes. Yeah. Or you feel that way. You know what I'm saying? You feel like maybe my voice needs to be heard. So I think that's the other thing.
So the hardest part about that is, is how do we get these five guys to get our heads together in the same thing? That being said for that, but then you also have guys that are still working and still doing things. You had Justin that just finished a tour. Why would he want to go back out on tour again? If people are like, oh, it's easy, just go back out on tour again.
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Chapter 7: What does Joey Fatone think about the current state of boy bands?
But it's always funny when my kid always once in a while when I'm like, she's like, Hey, I want to meet Tom Holland. I'm like, good luck. I'm like, no shot. I'm like, he's over there with a bunch of security. We're at the Spider-Man for me. And I'm like, I'm not doing that. So there's certain things I'm like, I am not, I know exactly how that dude feels and I know exactly what he's going through.
I don't need another kid jumping on top of like that kind of stuff. I'm like, and she understands obviously as she gets older, but it was very funny where one time, another time she was like, I can't remember what group it was, but she was like, Oh, we're going down there and watching this band. We're going down there. I'm like, okay, fine. A writer, a writer. Oh gosh, she did dance with stars.
I'm drawing blanks of all these groups now. He has a brother. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, another group.
Oh, I need to know.
But it was the most, I'm going to get it. It'll come to me in a little bit. But it was the funniest thing because she was like, oh, no, we're going down because we were like at a VIP suite thing. And she's like, no, I want to go down. I'm like, gosh, come on. And she's like, no. And I'm thinking to myself, when I was a kid, I would want the same thing.
And if I was able to get access to that, if my dad was able to do that for me. I would want my, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like, you know what? All right, let's go down. And I was like the dad standing in the pit, like, okay.
I'm curious.
I think for people who don't know the music industry, you don't realize just how many people kind of go into the machine and the writers and things like that. And it was, I think in the documentary, I think it was, uh, I forget which band it was, but you know, there was one song that was supposed to go to, uh, boys to men, but it went to 98 degrees.
Was there ever, was there ever a song that the backstreet boys got that the guys in NSYNC were like, fuck, that's a good song. I would, we would, we would have crushed that. Well, there was the Disney thing.
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Chapter 8: What are Joey Fatone's reflections on his favorite NSYNC songs?
It's an amazing song. It's great.
I don't know who listens to the radio these days, but I imagine you have moments where one of your songs come on, or somewhere, some way.
Most of the time now, it's probably at a supermarket, a Ralph's.
Hey, NSYNC is bumping in my car. Yeah, you're in my playlist. Yeah. Are you turning it up? Are you, you know, are you hitting next, so to speak?
Yeah, you know, it doesn't bother me. Yeah, I don't, I don't, you know, there's always an appropriate time for everything, you know. It's only after you're in a row, you're an old bye-bye. But, you know, like, it's always interesting, though, if, like, you're at a club or a bar and the bar and the DJs, you know, they turn the song on because then all of a sudden everybody's like, ha, ha, ha.
And they all look at you and they're like, what the hell do you want me to do?
Get up and fucking start singing. Joey, that's exactly what they want.
Do you have, what are, if you could, you're like top five, maybe other boy band songs, not from NSYNC.
Wow. Backstreet has, the video is absolutely horrible, but the song is great when they're in the water.
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