{"id":117371,"date":"2024-03-21T21:08:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/21\/nsyncs-lance-bass-and-chris-kirkpatrick-celebrate-no-strings-attached-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:08:33","slug":"nsyncs-lance-bass-and-chris-kirkpatrick-celebrate-no-strings-attached-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/21\/nsyncs-lance-bass-and-chris-kirkpatrick-celebrate-no-strings-attached-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"*NSYNC&#8217;s Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick celebrate &#8216;No Strings Attached&#8217; anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-21\/M_NSYNCNoStringsAttached_032124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Sony Legacy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong>&#8216;s collab with<strong> *NSYNC<\/strong>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4vhUwmgVu8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Paradise<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; has got everybody looking back &#8212; but on March 21, group members <strong>Lance Bass<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Kirkpatrick<\/strong> looked all the way back to the group&#8217;s most iconic album.<\/p>\n<p>March 21, 2024, marks the 24th anniversary of the release of <em>No Strings Attached,<\/em> the album the group made after freeing themselves from manager\u00a0<strong>Lou Pearlman<\/strong>. It sold 2.4 million copies in its first week &#8212; a sales record that stood until <strong>Adele\u00a0<\/strong>released<em>\u00a025<\/em> in 2015. To date, it&#8217;s sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The album produced the group&#8217;s signature song, &#8220;Bye Bye Bye,&#8221; as well as &#8220;It&#8217;s Gonna Be Me,&#8221; &#8220;This I Promise You&#8221; and fan favorite &#8220;It Makes Me Ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, Chris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4yI-HsOCJf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>posted video<\/strong><\/a> of the group&#8217;s tour in support of the album and wrote, &#8220;What were you doing back in 2000? Happy 24th to this one!!&#8221; The official *NSYNC account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/nsync\/3328727705296115977\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>reposted<\/strong><\/a> fans&#8217; memories of release day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4x9P8Jr1Jn\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>posted the album cover<\/strong><\/a> on Instagram and wrote, &#8220;Happy 24th to our second born! Give me 3 of your favorites in no order. I\u2019ll go first\u2026. It\u2019s Makes Me Ill &#8211; I Thought She Knew- Bye Bye Bye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One fan wrote in the comments, &#8220;just played this album for my kids on the way to school and my 8 year old goes, &#8216;are they still alive?&#8217;\u201d Oof!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Legacy Justin Timberlake&#8216;s collab with *NSYNC, &#8220;Paradise,&#8221; has got everybody looking back &#8212; but on March 21, group members Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick looked all the way back to the group&#8217;s most iconic album. March 21, 2024, marks the 24th anniversary of the release of No Strings Attached,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/21\/nsyncs-lance-bass-and-chris-kirkpatrick-celebrate-no-strings-attached-anniversary\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}