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Scott Patterson’s rewatch of his hit show Gilmore Girls is unleashing a lot of memories for fans of his podcast I Am All In. After the episode where Rory Gilmore got a 98 Degrees poster for her bedroom, emails poured in from fans talking about their favorite boy bands from the 90s and 2000s. So for this episode, Scott brings on Jeff Timmons and Drew Lachey to ask all about the origins of the band, how they felt about the “boy band rivalry of the 90s, and how Gilmore Girls became a special bond for Drew’s wife and daughter. “I would walk in the room and they would be laying on the couch together watching Gilmore Girls, and one of them would get mad if the other one got ahead in the episodes – it was a whole thing,” he says.
Scott’s not much of a boy band kind of guy, he admits, but he does love a good success story, and Jeff and Drew have that covered. Jeff talks about forming the band originally “to impress some girls,” he laughs, “but I fell in love with the music and the business of music.” After some trial and error, he found his dream team in Drew and Nick Lachey as well as Justin Jeffre, and they snuck backstage at a Boyz II Men concert to sing for Montell Jordan’s manager. A year later, they got signed to Motown Records. “Four white boys from Ohio got signed to Motown, it was kind of the dream,” Drew says. “Every group we loved, or solo artist for that matter, pretty much came from Motown.”
They say the much-hyped “boy band rivalry” didn’t feel like it had much to do with them. “We hadn’t heard about the term ‘boy band’ before….we wanted to be a doo-wop group,” Jeff says. The rift between N*Sync and Backstreet Boys was because “they came from the same camp, same management….we didn’t even think we were the same kind of group.” And in the 90s and the 2000s, boy bands were seen as studio-manufactured products who didn’t even really sing, so it wasn’t exactly a comparison they welcomed. “But then later, when you’re compared to groups that go diamond, you’re mentioned in the same breath as these legends, we certainly didn’t mind it at that point!” he laughs. Scott, himself a musician, asks all about their first tour, when they felt like they had really “made it,” and so much more; hear it all on this episode of I Am All In.
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