98 Degrees - The "2.0" Era

[Adam (UTR)]

In addition to their spot on the New Kids On The Block/Boyz II Men tour, 98 Degrees will be releasing their first studio album in nearly thirteen years, 2.0, on May 7. Lead single hasn't been announced yet.

[BadRomance]

lol you serious?
Enough with the boy bands!

[SHOOTER]

Signed to eOne.

[musiclover98]

wow...

[Chelsea Press 2]

I used to sort of like them back in the day. I liked some of Nick Lachey and Jeff Timmons' solo work.

[K.]

I really liked "The Hardest Thing."

[hidizzyguy]

They were my favorite boy band!

[backstreetdino]

"Give me Just One Night(Una Noche)" is my fave song by them and i believe its theri bgiggest hit to date as well.

[backstreetdino]

Feb 21, 2013 15:35:40 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Signed to eOne.

Whats that?? a major label or??

[Caviar]

A flop label.

[HolidayGuy]

I liked "The Hardest Thing," as well- that, and "True to Your Heart." Other than that...

[Mack]

Yeah, 'The Hardest Thing' is the only song of theirs that I could stomach, and even it was cheesy and embarrassing to the highest degree.

[backstreetdino]

So no one like "Give me Just One Night(una noche)"? or "Invincible Man"?? those 2 songs were quite decent.

[Deleted]

I loved them I still have their Rising album.

[backstreetdino]

I hope we;ll hear news about a new single soon

[backstreetdino]

Heres some tweets & pics about the album photoshoot.

98 Degreesþ@98official

This is going to be a fun photo shoot #98May7 2.0 drops May 7th

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98 Degreesþ@98official

getting ready for 2.0 photoshoot #98May7

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[George]

Feb 23, 2013 18:58:40 GMT -5 backstreetdino said:

So no one like "Give me Just One Night(una noche)"? or "Invincible Man"?? those 2 songs were quite decent.

Oh wow, Invincible Man I really loved back then. I completely forgot about it.

[musicbuff78]

It never existed....Invisible Man, on the other hand, did.

[George]

Album due in stores May 7th.

Lead single:

[SHOOTER]

If NKOTB can sell 45-50k first week out independently, I wonder how well 98 will do.

[George]

Just announced they'll be performing during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade:

Their most recent album, Let It Snow was released last October 20th:



1. What Christmas Means To Me
2. Please Come Home For Christmas
3. Run Rudolph Run
4. Let It Snow
5. Seasons Of Love
6. What Child Is This
7. The First Noel
8. Mary, Did You Know?
9. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
10. Little Saint Nick
11. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
12. River
13. Away In A Manger (Target Exclusive)
14. Silent Night (Target Exclusive)



Additionally, Nick Lachey got eliminated 5th on this season of Dancing with the Stars, while his wife was eliminated the week after due to a surprise double elimination.

[George]

They’ve started their new Christmas tour:



Some press:

98 Degrees Heads to Balboa Theatre 'This Christmas'

Jeff Timmons chats about how 20 years later, the boy band plays on—even in San Diego this month

2018.11.02 12:37 PM
By Sarah Pfledderer

Balboa Theatre, crank up the AC please. It’s about to get heated when 98 Degrees takes the stage for 98 Degrees at Christmas on November 18. The reunited all-male quartet—calling them a “boy band” isn’t quite as apt as it was in the ‘90s—began touring to perform songs from their holiday albums last year, and this will be their first stop in San Diego. Sprinkling dad-joke banter between ballads like “Thank God I Found You,” “I Do,” and “Because of You,” the family show is meant to have a little something for everyone.

Here, founding member Jeff Timmons looks back on the past two decades, the band’s love for the holidays, and how, yes, they’re still “trying” to dance.

Give us the breakdown. How much of the show is the hits versus holiday cheer?

The tour involves everything we’ve done, really. We cover a lot of Christmas songs, we try to get our dance on—we’re not known as the best dancing group on the planet, but we move around and get the audience out of their seats. We had a Christmas album called This Christmas back in the day (1999), and last year released Let It Snow. We have fun doing those songs and pepper all of our hits in there too. And we throw a bunch of goofy stuff in there to keep it light—last year, we did a little Mr. Grinch section and a parody of “Let it Go” from Disney’s Frozen. It’s just us being silly and doing stuff you wouldn’t expect, you know, 45-year-old grown men to be doing onstage. We’re keeping it light and still acting like we’re 22-year-old kids.

Is there anything you can’t do today that you could when you were 22?

It’s the opposite. I think we’re actually better now than we’ve ever been. We’ve had another 20 years to develop our vocals! We’ve evolved as performers and as artists, not just singers. Being apart from each other and doing things on our own, we had to develop those things. I think our showmanship has gotten a lot better through the years. I mean, we used to not dance at all, and there are those who would argue that we still don’t. We were really young guys and posed ourselves as a vocal group, so we never really concentrated on moving around on stage or performance-ship.

Speaking of time apart, you had a stint in Chippendales during the band’s hiatus (2003–2012). Did you ever think that would end up on your résumé?

Not in a million years. There’s a fallacy that I actually stripped in the show. No, I hosted the show. It was very professional, and then I created a trendier one, Men on the Strip, which Magic Mike exemplified on the screen a couple of years later. It’s a fun culture. But especially when I started approaching it, it was still a bit taboo for ladies. With Men on the Strip, I’m proud I was able to develop it, and that it also might have been a catalyst for 98 Degrees to get back together—my wife said, “If you get out there, the group might see it and want to get back together now that you’re doing some stuff.” [At the time] Nick was obviously the rock star doing his thing, but I was doing a lot more production stuff behind the scenes. As far as bringing striptease into the group, we’ve talked about it but it seems to fall off the set list every time (laughs).

That’s a family-friendly choice. Is there anything you do regret from the past two decades with the band?

Some of the outfits were horrible, certainly plenty of bad performances that you don’t want to remember, but wonderful memories at the same time. The biggest regret I have from when we were our hottest would be that we didn’t have as much fun as we probably should have. We took it a little too seriously. It was just us and us against the world. We were always under so much pressure. We weren’t enjoying when we were on the Tonight Show with Stevie Wonder or singing with Mariah Carey. Looking back, we had all these fun things, and we really didn’t get a chance to enjoy it because we were so stressed and working so hard. Now, I try to enjoy every moment… even being with our families during the holidays.

Why is the holiday season so special to the band?

For us, the five or six years we were on the road, we spent Christmas together. Our memories aren’t like everyone else’s, where they’re getting around the tree or celebrating with families. We had our own little family and, traditionally, we were in a hotel room or doing nothing because everything was closed down. It means a lot to us to share the holidays together. And now, all of us have kids, with the exception of Justin. Just the thought of being with your family is tradition enough for us. That’s probably a boring answer, but we really cherish and value it.

Also, this:

98 Degrees' Jeff Timmons and Pro Wrestler 'Mr Pec-Tacular' Release a New Music Video

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[George]

Never knew the Deborah Cox/RL hit “We Can’t Be Friends” was originally for 98 Degrees:

youknowigotsoul.com/shep-crawford-talks-retirement-from-the-music-industry-crafting-classics-for-tamia-deborah-cox-exclusive/amp?__twitter_impression=true

YouKnowIGotSoul: Talk about the record “We Can’t Be Friends” with Deborah Cox and RL.

Shep Crawford: That’s one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written. That song was actually written for 98 degrees when they were at Motown. Andre Harrell wanted to make it a duet between 98 Degrees and Shades Of Brown. They didn’t end up taking the record and then it went on Deborah. RL was his label mate and he recorded it. I love that song. I personally love it even more than “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here”.

[George]

Nice in-depth update on the band along with a look back at their career plus new music on the way!

[George]

New single is out now:

[Anticonformity]

I wish Nick was solo again :(

[elementd5]

That was cute. Love that they’re still cool so many years later.

[George]

New remix album is out:

[George]

A Very Boy Band Holiday premieres on ABC on December 6th:

http://instagram.com/p/CWgwWQ0hHyb