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Driving to work at my IT job while listening to Finn go on about the jawlines of different boy band members is almost exactly how I'd picture my life at this point.

When i was really young and just barely learning about music, I remember i heard this rock band on the radio and really liked it. I saved up money from recycling cans and went to a Tower Records (I'm old) and went to an employee and tried to explain what I was looking for. It was a heavy band..."something garden". Dude says oh yeah, it's right over here. He helps me pick out an album and rings me up. I get home, put the CD on and have never felt so confused and let down. The employee thought I was talking about Savage Garden. That sounded heavy to me. It's a Garden, Savage sounds like it's pretty heavy. Nah fam. SoundGarden. I was trying to find SoundGarden and got fuckin Savage Garden instead. Its hilarious now but young me was so sad.

For the record, Bsb sold more albums than N Sync so I don't think they were the Megadeth of boy bands. In fact BSB is the highest selling boy band of all time. Also Savage Garden is not a boy band. They are a duo. They wrote their own songs, played their instruments. They are good pop. They're from Australia not Britain.

This video is keeping the memory of my third cousin alive. He died in a tragic bicycle accident. Miss you dude. See you in my liquid dreams.

Finn knowing the names of the members and headbanging to the rap part made my year😌

Get down came out in 1996. I want you back in 1997. I witnessed it first hand on MTV back in the day in my teenage days. I've lived long enough to tell the story.

Backstreet Boys= Stone Cold Steve Austin NSync= The Rock Yeah Dwayne Johnson has had a MUCH bigger post-WWE career, but during their times, Stone Cold was more over by a fairly wide margin. Backstreet came first and had a higher peak, but NSync eclipsed them towards the end and Timberlake's solo success makes them look bigger than Backstreet Boys in retrospect NKOTB is Hogan, One Direction is John Cena

I worked with a woman who dated Rich from LFO back in the early 2000’s. She said he was actually kinda sweet. I used to always tease her by singing the chorus to Summer Girls. Hope she’s doing alright.

I saw Hanson live at Epcot in Disney World back in 2013. My friend and I were walking around drinking and they were performing to mmm’Bop. It was weird…

Been enjoying the emergence of Finn's career in comedy.

Love your channel. I remember watching your earlier videos with my father. Unfortunately, he died while attending a Saliva concert. -Click, Click, Boom

Everybody by Backstreet Boys was kinda heavy ngl

YES! this is the content I subscribed for! Before the metal head gate keepers came and made Finn feel like that's all he could talk about Finn, I always hoped you come back to the TRUE you talking about pop music and 2000s reality TV! For real tho, as a small growing channel, I completely understand following the trends to build the platform by doing the "read the wiki page" videos. But I'm so happy that you're leaning back into the stuff that YOU want to talk about because aside from the nostalgia, you have a very unique perspective as a more legit than most metal/punk aficionado, but also a family man who's worked in the corporate side of things I'm not unsubbing no matter what (I mean unless you kill someone or something) but I am one person who loves seeing the more lighthearted stuff and the stuff that isn't just for the metalhead engagement 🤘🤘🤘

Killed it with the click click boom comment, had me instantly burst into laughter, well done.

I may not always agree with Finn’s music opinion, but dammit the man knows RPGs

Savage Garden! Australian Icons! Watching this on Australia Day makes me a proud Aussie!😂 thanks Finn ❤

The BSB/*NSYNC comparison to Megadeth/Metallica should be the other way around.

Bsb actually sold way more records than *NSYNC so you got the two mixed up there

My wife loves her boy bands. 😂. Fun fact: randomly ran into both Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick on separate trips to Epcot. Both of them were great dudes and chatted us up…respect. Chris even invited us to go drinking around the world with him and his friends! 😂

Always thought it was so awkward how a group of 4-5 guys would always be collectively saying things like “I’LL never break YOUR heart”, all presumably to the same person. Like that’s just weird. That beat to “Tearin’ Up My Heart” slaps though, NGL.

You should check out Everybody Get Up by Five, it’s basically Nu-Metal with out the guitars, and I suppose that’s why Everybody Get Up by Five is a guilty pleasure of mine. Because I’m such a Nu-Metal fan.

Boyzone were Irish and predated Backstreet Boys by a little bit. A Different Beat isn't even a big hit of theirs (or at least I don't think it's remembered the same as the others) but I think about that song a lot. It's a catchy chorus. That Savage Garden song is still a banger. They're Australian, by the way.

I think you git it backwards, pretty sure BSB was bigger than nsync, views, call-ins, even today i think they have more listens on spotify then nsync.

I'm here to Stan for BSB. Pop music never had it so good as it did the millennium/ black and blue erra

Controversial opinion: a long time ago, I actually once argued with someone that One Direction is legit better than BSB and NSYNC. I was a teenager when One Direction was a thing and a young kid when these others ruled the radio. I feel like 1D had legit good pop songs while the late 90s/early 2000s boy bands were overly cheesy and just fucking awful. …I still have that opinion. This shit is terrible 😂 some of these songs are very easy to sing along to because of how massive they were, and maybe aren’t so bad when you’re drunk, but for the most part? Garbage 😂😂😂

Sometimes, in this videos of recap of all the music of previous decades I think that Finn is a reincarnation of Beavis and Butthead who got older, wiser but still have that ironic sense of humor

"Jeez, Linda." Best reaction of the entire 28 minutes. 😂

N Sync more popular? I don't know, Backstreet Boys have that "tell me why" song that almost everyone and their mother knows. N Sync has the most famous member in Timberlake but I feel like Backstreet songs are more popular

It's funny to see how Max Martin and Denniz Pop ripped themselves of with I want you back. It's basically the riff of Backstreet's back with two thirds of the notes cut off 😂 But wasn't Backstreet Boys by far the more successful and "respected" group? In my (admittedly vague) recollection they were

I like some 2000's boy band pop songs but honestly damn these don't age well & sounds dated. The music for female teens at the time & for its time. I know why there's nu metal revival or Zoomers are into Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, SOAD in the 2020's but not 2000's boy band.

What happens when Max Martin got bored from his metal band. He writes and produced maybe 50 % of hit songs from late 90 till early 2000 the same effects and influence by now kpop.

Savage Garden has Cold War spy movie vibes, he's working for the KGB as a raven.

Boy bands did not die, they just moved to South Korea.

All this talk about Final Fantasy is going to result in you having your Chad card revoked.

I am a boy band defender! I will defend all these bands, even LFO and O-Town. My personal favorite is Savage Garden. Darren has a gorgeous voice and with only 2 albums they made some of the best love songs of the 90s. Are they corny? Yes. But as far as the genre of smooth white boy ballads goes, it doesn’t get much better than Savage Garden.

Both Backstreet and Nsync started out in Europe. They were formed and managed by Lou Pearlman. They were also signed to the same label, Jive. I believe it was. The rivalry was between the Fandoms but never the members. Personally, I didn't pick a side. I loved both Backstreet and Nsync equally. I was proud of both bands for suing Pearlman for royalties/buying their band names from him back in the day. He swindled money from every band he formed in some capacity.

There is an age-appropriate young woman who was out there in Y2k who loved both bands and wanted them all to *ahem* gang together and serenade her.

Boyzone have that white saviour thing going on. Imagine running around Seattle, in appropriate attire, rain hiding the tears in your eyes, chiselled jaw and sideburns, nimbly avoiding the suboxone addicts, while frantically seeking Finn. Pulls at the heartstrings.

So back when I first got my license and my buds and I would go out cruisin’ I had my mixed CD with the hot hits like seven nation army and numb/encore (just to give ya the time frame and what I was listening to) and right in the middle of it was Misery by The Moffats! We’d cranck that tune and sing along while driving downtown

No mention of the greatest boy band ever, Fingerbang! Because they don't have a bad song.

nSync had SUPERIOR composition, production and most importantly; DRIP.

Boyzone were from Dublin, Ireland. Unfortunately 'Young Hugh Jackman' Stephen Gately died around 10 years ago.

Did that Boyzone video make your Morbid Angel tattoo disappear?

I’m fucking dying at Finn reading the sad YT comments, like it’s just objectively awful but so fucking funny

Worst 00s boybands list. Almost all of those singles were in the 90s. Infact only one was released in the 00s and that was barely. Get down 96 Want you back 96 Diffferent beat 96 LFO kiss you goodnight 99 98 Degrees 99 Liquid Dreams 00 Truly madly deeply 97 I'll be there for you 98. I have never even heard of the Moffats Seriously Finn be better. As a subscriber to the Punk Rock MBA there's one thing I know and that's fucking 90s and 00s boybands

The lyrics to boy band songs are utterly simplistic. It's 3rd grade poety. Like girl-pearl-world, rhyming you with you, fire and desire...its nails on the chalkboard for me.

19:33 the naked liquid woman. God, totally weird and would not happen now 😆😆

had to make second comment about that -her last words were “click ……click. Boom”. was in a bit of a grump mood today, but that one gave me a chuckle.

All that drip but no h20 in sight.

Please make a video about trip hop, stuff like portishead, etc.

Holy crap I totally forgot about the LFO song, like it's some kind of traumatic repressed memory.

Can you do a deep dive on wrestler albums like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage?

(whispers) Boyzone are from the Republic of Ireland, so very not British, big in the UK in the '90s though (my sister was a big fan).

LFO stands for Let's Find Out

i always doubted that the cringe of Y2K pop radio/boy band/TRL could be topped. then Finn showed me boy zone.

I was never into any of those pop bands and bands like boyzone were bigger over here for obvious reasons but as an adult I'll happily Stan for a bit of Justin trousersnake

Also B4-4 - Get Down is a Masterpiece

Finn dropping REAL references to The OC made me realize that we indeed are in a simulation.

Dying laughing over the Boyzone and The Moffets parts. More of these videos!

Back here in the Netherlands, BSB were way more famous then N’sync for some reason. BSB were absolutely HUGE…

*OMG.* 😆 *This made my day.* *So hilarious.* *I’m a Hard Rock / Metal and / Hip-Hop Guy…* and I *was an *N’SYNC* kid back in the day. 😆

If ya'll don't know Five-When the Lights Go Out you're missing out on a banger

Great one as always but from Savage Garden to Click Click Boom was FUCKING EPIC! Had to relay that....hysterics!

My dad used to play click click boom driving us to the family saw mill where he worked everyday so yeah click click boom does give me good memories haha 😂

Deep Space Nine is not a "crappy" trek spinoff. It happens to be the best Star Trek show.

All these TikTokers need to stop making emo rap and pop punk music and start forming Boy Bands. The west needs a response to K-Pop!

Sometimes Finn wishes he could...turn back time... impossible as it may seem. But he wishes he could...so bad..bay-beh. Quit playing games with his heart. Okay, I'm done, lol.

Top Ramen hair LMFAO

Lord of the Rings 1 had a film budget of 93 million dollars. Then won Academy awards. Did the backstreet boys have a 90 million dollar budget for a music video? Did it win acclimated awards esteemed by their industry? No. No they did not. Stop cherry picking and hit us with some real knowledge.

As someone who grew up on RnB music a lot of this stuff sounded just like a lot of RnB Acts. Outside of R&B I'm a huge Rock and metal fan. Got to be honest I listen to a lot of these song not going to lie. I'm a lot like you Finn if I like it I'm going to listen to it doesn't matter what genre.

got to say...the savage garden song was my prom's slow song

I will say, I've worked with some one the guys who produced and vocal trained a lot of these orlando pop acts like O town. They're rich as fuck, great at what they do, and churn out hits. Even though they sound like shit now, the amount of work put into that shit is insane. These guys are wildly talented.

Probably the funniest one yet finn!!

I expect a Version 2 of this video within 2 years after you truly have your "down the rabbit hole" moment with Kpop. It's just late 90s & early 2000s pop on all the steroids.

I lost it at the 'Backstreet Boys are the Megadeth to NSync*'s Metallica'

*NSYNC video Looks like the screen when i got a strike at the bowling alley on rich side of town

i have so much respect for these pop-star types. they honestly have to put up with FAR more industry bullshit than most people in other genres.

JEEZ LINDA

Finn boppin to boybands is everything 🙌

In argentina, BSB was waaay more popular than nsync, like a lot. No one knew the names of the nsync guys, but BSB... damn, every girl knew all of them, knew who speaks spanish, they all had their favorites... it was massive.

Click click boom reminds of my dead dog because we used to play Xbox together and he used to sing it and now everytime I hear I cry.

This is going to be an interesting follow up to your Metal fans video. I'd look at the Nsync and Backstreet Boy album booklets as a kid, and thought Nick Carter looked so cool where I tried to spike my hair like him (I think it was the Black and Blue Nick look and then DBZ's Tank Top Future Trunks influenced me to spike my hair as a kid), and when reading the Nsync albums, and you might correct my misremembering in this video, but I thought Justin was more heavily involved in the music process, and he was my favorite. I still can sing their songs from heart so much that when I thought about relistening to them recently, I didn't want to because, even for the songs I liked back then, I know they wouldn't hold up for me. Except "Makes Me ill", the opening to "Bringin Da Noise", and then listening to some of the more aggressive songs off of the "Celebrity" album as a kid is where I can see where how'd I go to being so into Nsync to being so into Slipknot and KoRn because of that angry Sport Metal energy. Although, I've tried to clean of my music tastes since then. Thanks Finn! Looking forward to your thoughts! Hope you're having a good week!

Props to Finn for not choosing the hits but the deep cuts, makes for an even funnier reaction 😂

get down by bsb came out mid 90s... and what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Finn. I really think it is time for all of us here to check out your next Video on the Big Four of 2000s Boy Bands. Like, "are the Backstreet Boys equal to Metallica, or is it N'Sync? Or is N'Sync simply the Megadeth of the Big Four?" Edit: okay, you already mentioned it here in this Video, haha. Good Job, man. 👍

Japan and Korea just kept going with it

98 degrees walked so Hinder could run. The Hardest Thing was just the boy band equivalent of Lips of an Angel.

laughed my ass off. you are not doing the best job with that "trying to not to sound like an asshole" thing though :D 10/10 I would invite you to my barbecue. Any chance to make your streams more european timezone friendly?

Man, internet without you wouldn't be the same

never noticed that Jim Carrey's character in Dumb and Dumber was in the Backstreet Boys

If this is about 2000s boy bands, why are you playing videos from the 90s? The term "video clip" is very German. Boyzone were from Ireland. Where are Color Me Badd, East 17 and Caught in the Act? You've promised bad boy bands!

26:15 has me in literal tears fam 😂 This Click Click Boom joke officially ranks as one of your top tier lines of all time.

"Roaming pack of youth pastors" shit that's funny.

13:47 😆😆😆😆

When you made the liquid wiener comment, I heard it in beavis’ voice. 😂

If you wore any of those shirts that say Bronx, you’ve definitely never even stepped foot in the Bronx

Man... In retrospect a lot of the production on these songs is kinda farty. Thankfully it got better with time.

Dude, I can't stop laughing. Ur a funny-ass dude, Finn. 😂 It's like, Beavis And Butthead commentary, but with just one person.

I also didn't realize that James Van Der Beek was in a British boy band with Hugh Jackman