However, there's actually a scientific reason behind why those covers are so successful. While this boom gave us some of our favorite Christmas tunes, it can be frustrating to hear hundreds of covers that sound relatively similar to one another. These songs featured themes of home, peace, and love that provided relief from the specific difficulties of the time. While the production of new Christmas songs died down around the end of the 19th century, the period from the Great Depression until the end of World War II saw a boom in secular, American Christmas songs, says Psychology Today.
#INSYNC CHRISTMAS SONGS UPDATE#
If you're looking to update your playlist too, then keep reading!Īlong with Christmas classics like "Jingle Bells," we love to listen to more recent releases, like Ariana Grande's "Santa Tell Me" and Taylor Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm." This rise in shimmery, upbeat Christmas music follows the religious hymns (like "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,") and the novelty songs ("I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas") that were hugely popular in earlier generations.Īrt is often a response to the culture and events that are happening at the time, and Christmas music is no exception. There's just something special about listening to holiday tunes under the glow of the Christmas tree, so we got the scoop on Pandora's 50 most thumbed songs for the holiday season. "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" ( Home for Christmas): There's something just so perfectly ridiculous and cheesy about this, the group's greatest contribution to the modern Christmas music canon.Christmas songs are a huge part of the holiday season for many of us. "Girlfriend" ( Celebrity): The last single the group ever released, Timberlake's work with The Neptunes ( Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) here presaged the sound of his debut solo album Justified, dropping a year after Celebrity. This Max Martin-produced track, the group's debut single, is so quintessentially '90s the perfect nostalgia fix.ħ. "I Want You Back" ( *NSYNC): The song that started it all. How many couples danced their first dance at their wedding to this? The limit does not exist.Ĩ. "This I Promise You" ( No Strings Attached): Written by Richard Marx, this song still stands as one of the group's best and most romantic ballads. But is its purity totally comforting all these years later? Hell yes.ĩ. "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You" ( *NSYNC): Is this song cheesy AF? Sure.
"It Makes Me Ill" ( No Strings Attached): Future Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss really did the boys a solid, writing this R&B-influenced song for them that still totally slaps 20 years later.ġ0. And it hits even more potently at this particular moment in time, if we're being honest.ġ1. "Digital Get Down" ( No Strings Attached): In the canon of songs written at the advent of the internet age that were obsessed with cyber sex, this one reigns supreme. "Space Cowboy" ( No Strings Attached): What was it about the turn of the millennium that had pop stars obsessed with space? Chasez did his thing writing this track, though, and the guest verse from the late Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes is a classic.ġ2. "Just Got Paid" ( No Strings Attached): This cover of Johnny Kemp's 1988 new jack swing hit was absolutely the anthem for everyone who just joined the work force in the early '00s.ġ3. The harmonies on this jazzy, scat-heavy song are next level.ġ4. "Trashin' the Camp": Speaking of Tarzan, the boys joined Collins' for this track on the Disney film's soundtrack. So, in honor of 20 years of No Strings Attached, we present our countdown of the 20 best NSYNC songs ever released.ġ5. You know, questions like, Who's better: NSYNC or Backstreet Boys? and Who's better: JT or JC? While those two queries could be argued endlessly with no one ever reaching a consensus, there's one thing we feel comfortable to unequivocally proclaim. With the 20th anniversary of the landmark album in mind, it got us thinking about some of the debates that used to rage around the band. We were too busy losing our s-t to hits like "Bye Bye Bye," "It's Gonna Be Me" and "This I Promise You."
None of us knew at the time that, in just two short years, Justin Timberlake would go his own way and become a global superstar in his own right, leaving his pals JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone behind. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 2.4 million, a record that wouldn't be topped until Adele releases 25 some 15 years later, the album was, without a doubt, them at the pinnacle of their power. The second studio album from the seminal boy band, which celebrates its 20th anniversary on Saturday, March 21, catapulted them into global superstars upon its release. It's hard to overstate just how big a deal NSYNC's No Strings Attached was.
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