Alright...the Boyband Era. Let's get started.

 

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It's actually debatable if you can really call Hanson a boyband, because they actually played their own instruments and the like, but I'm including them because they had a big influence in bringing pop music back to the U.S.

 

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I call this, "The Video That Jumpstarted Puberty For Me." Brian Littrell was my first major celebrity crush.

 

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I crushed on Brian Littrell, but I was tooootttttttalllllyyyy obsessed with Nick Lachey once 98 Degrees hit. Totally. I had a picture of him in my diary and everything. I used to follow 98 Degrees fanfiction and everything.

 

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10. "Misery" by The Moffats

 

This one I'm hesitant about, because I don't know if I really consider the Moffats a boyband, but apparently they were, and this is a song that I used to have teenaged angst to, so I'm going with this.

 

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Again I was obsessed with Nick Lachey.

 

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I have no idea where I heard this one from, but I remember it anyway. Kinda weird. And what it is with this era and spiky blond tips?

 

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18. "Here We Go" by N'Sync

 

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Rich Cronin was such a beautiful guy before cancer ravaged him. R.I.P.

 

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Well, Aaron Carter was kind of a boyband in himself, wasn't he? Dear god I remember 8th grade girls who wouldn't shut up about him. Me? I thought he was too young and blond for me even when I was 14. LOL.

 

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When I was 16-ish and saw this video, the video was silly because they looked like middle schoolers. Now that I'm nearly 30 and watching this, I want to laugh my ass off because they all look about 10.

 

Jesse McCartney...he sure did grow up nice though, didn't he?

 

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God, Kristen Dunst was really everywhere when she was a teenager, wasn't she? No wonder she got "exhausted".

 

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The double entendre of this song wasn't lost on me when I was 15.

 

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I love the irony of this song- about how pop was never fading out, yet pop imploded in the following year of the 2002 in the U.S. Boybands and pop stuck around the U.K. and other countries, but it died in the U.S. until the Jonas Brothers came around circa 2006-2007...I think it's largely because 9/11 really changed the mood of the country. Also, likely because the people that supported the late 90's pop explosion had grown up and were more interested in hip-hop by the time they were in high school/college.

 

Also, seriously, I loved Nick Lachey sooooo much.

 

Finally...damn, check out how baggy all the pants are. Seriously, it's hilarious.