Pop, the lead single from their smash 3rd album Celebrity, was a departure from NSYNC’s bubblegum songs marking more experimentation in their sound and image. Yet after all the promo and having one of the most expensive music videos at the time, it was seen as an underperformance for the group. Charts. It peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 19. 
 

looking back, it is one of their best songs and can be considered a brave move in tackling other genres and mixed with pure pop. Did Pop deserve better? What do you think of ha? Do you think of ha?

 

 

It sounded too manufactured and even the GP saw through it, so they said "PASS!" to the song. 

 

It's a huge bop tho, I must say. Very well produced.

flopped?  It's the only Nsync song I can name (thanks to  the Jimmy Neutron Movie lmao)

They stopped looking like twinks and the gp moved on

I honestly hadn't realized Wade Robson and BT worked on this song. They also worked with Britney on her self-titled album released a few months later, on the songs What It's Like to Be Me and Before the Goodbye, respectively. I can definitely hear the influence on the latter. 

thought this was gonna be about the U2 album 

51 minutes ago, aesthetic bih said:

It sounded too manufactured

This.. 

 

Their whole sounds sounded too manufactured but this one was the cherry on top and not in a good way.. 

 

Backstreet Boys knew where to draw the line. 

1 minute ago, Johnny Jacobs said:

This.. 

 

Their whole sounds sounded too manufactured but this one was the cherry on top and not in a good way.. 

 

Backstreet Boys knew where to draw the line. 

Backstreet Boys should have drawn that line a decade ago. Now they are seen as washed-up hasbeens 

It didn't seem like a flop or an underperformance back then, it felt big tbh.

4 minutes ago, JustHoran said:

Backstreet Boys should have drawn that line a decade ago. Now they are seen as washed-up hasbeens 

I meant back then with the sound  

 

I didnt even heard their music past incomplete 

Edited December 19, 20223 yr by Johnny Jacobs

It sounds too oldfashioned; like a song from 1980s.

It was released a point where capital P Pop music was being fazed out. It's basically why Backstreet Boys were also underperforming at the same time and why NSync followed up Pop with Gone/Girlfriend to more success.

"What we're doing is not a trend"

I like the song but for some reason it comes across cheesy. I don't think their other big songs felt anywhere near as cheesy.

It peaked at #5 on pop but had little crossover appeal to other formats... for obvious reasons ddd and wasn't issued as a physical single in the US so the peak reflects that. Third single Girlfriend also peaked at #5 on pop radio but did better on rhythmic and was actually released physically in the US which allowed it to vault into the top 6 of the Hot 100. If Pop was released physically it would have easily shot into the top 5 too.

 

A similar thing happened to Bye Bye Bye which was the longest running #1 single on pop in 2000 but only peaked at #4 on the Hot 100 because it wasn't released physically. Follow-up single It's Gonna Be Me was also #1 on pop (for less weeks) but managed to go to #1 on the Hot 100 because it was released physically. All 3 singles released in the US that era could have easily gone #1 on the Hot 100 if they were issued physically.

Lacks a strong melody, more noisy than musical, not an interesting concept.

nsync was old news by then. the GP was too busy spending coin on janet's all for you

Because the last mega pop era aka 1989 when pop was a thing has disastrous quality

since then pop=cringe

-lack of physical release

 

-hyper-manufactured; it sounds abysmal 

 

-Janet Jackson, Jlo, Alicia Keys, Usher, Destiny’s Child were tearing up the charts with R&B

I don't know that Pop, but I know this @Pop, who is anything but a flop. One of the best ATRLers!

6 hours ago, unclefloprry said:

flopped?  It's the only Nsync song I can name (thanks to  the Jimmy Neutron Movie lmao)

Bye Bye Bye is their signature song lol

 How did "Pop" make Top 20 on Hot 100 and get to Top 5 on Pop radio but didnt make Year End?

20 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

I don't know that Pop, but I know this @Pop, who is anything but a flop. One of the best ATRLers!

 

 

Slaying the ATRL game since 2008.