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Making a Million Dollars In One Night
There was a little rivalry there, you know, because we 100%— we had met them a couple years earlier and You kind of try and keep tabs on what everyone else is doing. And then we heard they were— and our videos were both like black and white. It was just, there were too many. But they beat us to the punch every time, so they were the first ones on MTV.
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What else have I done in my illustrious career? Tell us about the— OK, when you were in the boy band in '90s— I mean, you still are. But when you guys were first touring, what was around? It was Backstreet Boys, and it was NSYNC.
NSYNC? NSYNC. So the summer of '97 is when we came out, and we had a single called "Invisible Man." maybe a month before we dropped that single, Backstreet Boys, who had been big in Europe for a couple years before that, they came over and dropped their first…
Were you pissed that Backstreet Boys were around?
There was a little rivalry there, you know, because we 100%— we had met them a couple years earlier and You kind of try and keep tabs on what everyone else is doing. And then we heard they were— and our videos were both like black and white. It was just, there were too many. But they beat us to the punch every time, so they were the first ones on MTV.
And, uh—
Damn it. But now we're all— I mean, we're all friends with those guys and continue to be.
The coolest thing that happened to me on the show, I think Sarah, she's one of like the assistants on the show, came to my room and she goes, you want to come to Nick's room? We're having some drinks. And I go, what? And she goes, "Yeah, Nick wants you to com…