Tracks rarely, if ever, have the narrative momentum of a good song. Like "Bye Bye Bye" or on ballads like "Tearin' Up My Heart" - but the There are hooks scattered throughout here -Īlmost all arriving on the chorus, whether on propulsive dance numbers Not only doesn't have much on-record charisma, but their singles areĬonstructed as records, existing entirely on the surface, lacking theīackbone of a strong song. Office - but it doesn't transcend their era. Just before the stock market crashed, just before George W. Music evokes a time and place - the heady days of the Y2K roll-over, Proper records, like most teen pop records, were cluttered with filler.īut that doesn't necessarily mean that their hits have stood the test of Good overview and introduction to *NSYNC,īut it's also their most consistent and enjoyable album since their Surprisingly detailed liner notes from Chuck Taylor, this not only is a Track on certain foreign-market pressings of No Strings Attached Singles, adding "I'll Never Stop" - previously featured as a bonus Appearing four years after their final album, 2001's Celebrity, Greatest HitsĬontains every one of their 11 non-holiday-themed Billboard Hot 100 Is that better illustrated than on *NSYNC's first compilation, 2005's lean 12-song Greatest Hits. Given moment, a way to revisit a particular place in time. Retain some of their initial power, or they become an aural snapshot of a Passes, the hit singles of a given day either wind up as classics that Of course, pop music isn't necessarily meant to beĭurable - it's meant to exist in the moment, and once that moment It doesn't give much of an indication of the durability of the group's Such mass multimedia saturation only gives the illusion of longevity and It seems like their time in the spotlight lasted much, much longer, but Presence on the charts, on MTV, on the airwaves and on magazine covers, Great teen pop boom at the turn of the millennium. Years in their reign as one of the two most-popular boy bands in the Released a mere three proper albums over the course of a mere three
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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