Boy Band Confidential, which premieres on ID April 13 and 14, features interviews with Lance Bass, AJ McLean, Nick Lachey, and Boyz II Men\u2019s Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, among others<\/p>\n
\n\t\u2018NSYNC\u2019s Joey Fatone<\/a> is giving fans a candid look at the dark reality of being a young artist during the height of the Nineties boy-band craze in a new documentary special, Boy Band Confidential.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBeing in a boy band was one of the greatest experiences of my life, but it also came with challenges we didn\u2019t always understand at the time,\u201d Fatone said in a press release announcing the special on Tuesday. \u201cThis project gave all of us a chance to reflect, to be honest, and to share what really happened behind the spotlight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tPremiering on ID over two nights on April 13 and 14, Fatone serves as an executive producer on the four-part project that features interviews with his fellow \u2018NSYNC member Lance Bass<\/a>, Backstreet Boys\u2019<\/a> AJ McLean, Nick Lachey<\/a> of 98 Degrees, and Boyz II Men\u2019<\/a>s Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, among other singers, managers, and industry insiders.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI was sitting on the 38th-floor balcony of my New York apartment, and I just thought about jumping off,\u201d O-Town\u2019s Ashley Parker Angel says in the first trailer for the documentary series.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe series aims to lift the veil on the dark side of the music business during this time period, addressing the systemic exploitation of young singers and \u201cexposing untold stories of abuse, addiction, and financial manipulation,\u201d according to a press release.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tGoing beyond nostalgia, the project takes \u201can honest, unfiltered look at a cultural phenomenon that shaped an entire generation,\u201d ID President Jason Sarlanis said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re illuminating the pressures, vulnerabilities, and surprising realities of life at the height of pop stardom with a level of access rarely achieved in music documentaries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boy Band Confidential, which premieres on ID April 13 and 14, features interviews with Lance Bass, AJ McLean,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[182419,18,117,19,17,182420,26389,337,182421,26394],"class_list":["post-402542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-boy-bands","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joey-fatone","tag-lance-bass","tag-music","tag-nick-lachey","tag-nsync"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116288095888632146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}