{"id":117874,"date":"2024-06-13T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/13\/tell-me-why-my-dads-a-pop-star-joey-fatone-aj-mclean-talk-fatherhood\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:02:33","slug":"tell-me-why-my-dads-a-pop-star-joey-fatone-aj-mclean-talk-fatherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/13\/tell-me-why-my-dads-a-pop-star-joey-fatone-aj-mclean-talk-fatherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tell Me Why” my dad’s a pop star: Joey Fatone & AJ McLean talk fatherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we head into Father’s Day weekend, have you ever wondered what it’s like\u00a0to have a pop star as a father? *NSYNC<\/strong>‘s Joey Fatone<\/strong> found out the hard way that sometimes it means your favorite group isn’t the one your dad’s in.<\/p>\n

“We were at a wedding one time, and my little one, Kloey<\/strong>, she was very young at the time,” Joey recalled. “And all of a sudden they played an *NSYNC song. … And then the Backstreet Boys<\/strong> song came on. Do you know, my kid grabbed the microphone and knew all the words?”<\/p>\n

“And I go, ‘When have you ever learned the words?’ Like, she knew every word! I was like, ‘That’s messed up!’ And she just laughed at me and went, ‘I like it.'”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Joey’s current tour mate, <\/a>Backstreet Boys<\/strong>‘ AJ McLean<\/strong>, says his daughters don’t like it when the public wants a piece of their father.<\/p>\n

“Both my girls are really territorial over daddy,” he noted. “If we’re out having a daddy-daughter day and someone stops for, like, an autograph or a photo, they [become], like, mini bodyguards … but they love it.”<\/p>\n

And AJ says he gets a weird sense of satisfaction from kids at his daughter’s\u00a0school who try to tease him by making Backstreet jokes during the school drop-off.<\/p>\n

“As I walk away, like clockwork every morning, the same two boys [sing], ‘Tell me why!'” says AJ, referring to the famous lyric from Backstreet’s “I Want It That Way.” “And I just think it’s adorable, whether they’re making fun or not.”<\/p>\n

“They know<\/em> it!” he laughs. “‘You’re 11 years old and you know it.'”<\/p>\n

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Jeremychanphotography\/Getty Images As we head into Father’s Day weekend, have you ever wondered what it’s like\u00a0to have a pop star as a father? *NSYNC‘s Joey Fatone found out the hard way that sometimes it means your favorite group isn’t the one your dad’s in. “We were at a wedding oneRead More →<\/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\/117874"}],"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=117874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}