NSYNC’s Joey Fatone serves as executive producer on an upcoming docuseries that will chronicle the dark side of the 1990s boy band boom, ID announced Tuesday.
Secret boy band Set to premiere on April 13 and 14, it will feature interviews with the likes of NSYNC’s Lance Bass, the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, and Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, among others.
“Being in a boy band was one of the greatest experiences of my life — but it also came with challenges that we didn’t always understand at the time,” Fatone said in a statement about the upcoming series. “This project gave us all a chance to reflect, be honest, and share what really happened behind the lights.”
In a press release, ID said the upcoming series “exposes the secret machinery of manufactured stardom and the devastating human cost of the era’s glossy perfection.” In a statement, ID President Jason Sarlanes called out Secret boy band “An honest, unfiltered look at a cultural phenomenon that shaped an entire generation.”
“By bringing together Joey Fatone’s elite performers from the era’s most iconic boy bands, we highlight the pressures, vulnerabilities and surprising realities of life at the height of pop stardom with a level of access rarely achieved in music documentaries,” Sarlanes said.
Secret boy band It comes before the second season of ID Hollywood demons. This isn’t the first time the network has taken a deeper look at the exploitation and abuse stars face in Hollywood; The ID card has taken a hit Quiet on the set Back in 2024, exploring allegations of a toxic environment on Dan Schneider’s classic TV shows.
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