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NeroForte-InMyPrime t1_j56x4yt wrote

Reply to NSYNC in 1997 by Djf47021

When jeans were that baggy, nobody would know if you skipped every leg day and Justin still had skinny arms. I looked exactly the same at the time… but just saying. Haha

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billyjk93 t1_j56sikv wrote

On the subject of your last sentence, I think it's pretty sad that yoko being there probably caused a lot to be left unsaid. I think if they could've had any time in a room together to just talk and not trudge through production, they might've been able to be real with each other and at least salvage their relationships. Maybe even ironed out some issues and entered a new phase as a band.

It would've at least been cool to see them collaborate for songs on their solo albums. But we as fans will never know what all the issues were and if they could've ever worked through it. But I kind of think they all thought they would get back together in some way until John got assassinated

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Sayoria t1_j56ptuh wrote

Reply to NSYNC in 1997 by Djf47021

Joey Fatone is literally everywhere that the odds of him reading this comment is probably 100%.

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norrisrw OP t1_j56mz8b wrote

Absolutely true. By 1969, the band had pretty much reached a tipping point. Paul and John were barely speaking to each other.

George had traveled to the States, and he discovered there was SOOO MUCH more he could do musically away from The Beatles. By the time they tried to get together at Twickenham, he was already mentally out of the band. Meanwhile, it was Paul and Ringo who were trying to keep it together, because they had less than two weeks to crank out new material. But when John hired Phil Spector to produce the Let It Be album, it literally broke Paul. So, a band on the cusp of breakup with a short deadline? No pressure.

While John wanting Yoko present at band meetings did nothing but make a bad situation worse for the band, it is interesting to note that Paul McCartney correctly predicted the reductive reasoning of the fans ("In 50 years, they'll say The Beatles broke up because Yoko sat on an amp").

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DuvalHMFIC t1_j56jrur wrote

Reply to NSYNC in 1997 by Djf47021

I can’t believe I lacked self confidence in high school when my competition was dudes lookin like this. What the hell was I thinking?

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