• Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby, One More Time” Meaning Debunked in 'The Song Machine'

    Britney Spears first stormed the pop scene with her debut hit, "Baby One More Time." In the 17 years since its release, the lyrics "hit me baby, one more time" still confuses listeners as to what it could possibly mean. Were 90s kids everywhere singing of battery in relationships? A kinky sexual advance? The song's hook has finally been properly debunked in John Seabrook's latest book centered on pop music history, 'The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.'

  • O-Town Reunion: Boyband Returns In 2016 for Tour [Tickets On Sale Now]

    Between the Backstreet Boys' touring comeback and NSync's 30-second reunion performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, boyband throwbacks have been all the rage for millennials in the past few years. Next January, pop band O-Town will hit the road for a short string of small-venue shows in the U.S., making stops in big cities like New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston. The band will tour without member Ashley Parker Angel, who amicably opted out of the initial band reunion in 2014. The touring group will consist of all other original members Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller, Trevor Penick and Jacob Underwood. Tickets to see O-Town are available on the secondary market, and are currently averaging just $65 across the band's scheduled dates.

  • Backstreet Boys and NSYNC Members Team Up for a Zombie Movie

    Backstreet Boys vs. NSYNC may have been the biggest debate of the 90's, and even today, fans will go to bat for the better boy band (ahem, BSB). Constantly being compared to one another, members of each band have decided to come together for Nick Carter's newest vision, a zombie apocalypse movie titled Dead 7.

  • Greece, Colonel Tom Parker, Allen Klein and Other Bad Money Managers

    Odds are, if you're reading Music Times right now, you aren't all that interested in the current financial crisis of Greece, or the fact that the nation failed to pay the 1.5 billion euros it owed the International Monetary Fund as its bailout expired. It's a big—and very complicated—deal, but we're not going to take up your time explaining the sticky situation it puts both the Mediterranean nation and the European Union in. Instead, we figured we'd show you some of the worst money management issues in music...or more specifically, the managers that ran their clients through the cleaners worst. Performers such as Elvis Presley, Beyoncé and NSYNC get hosed.

  • Wade Robson Molestation Complaint Against Michael Jackson Thrown Out

    The final decade-plus of Michael Jackson's life often found his incredible record as a performer overshadowed by more uncomfortable tidbits, such as the many allegations of inappropriate behavior around children. At least one of those cases has been kept out of court, if not entirely disproven, as Wade Robson's claims were dismissed by a Los Angeles Court.

  • Backstreet Boys Vs. NSYNC Continues for May Meme Supremacy

    It might seem like it's been years since the battle of boy band supremacy was fought between Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, but now it seems like a certain meme has sparked competition between to '90s superstars yet again. Today, as we all know, is May 1, meaning yesterday (April 30), the Internet was filled to the brim with Justin Timberlake "It's Gonna Be May" memes. But now, BSB is trying to claim the whole spring month for themselves with their own May themed meme.

  • Was Harry Styles Going to Quit One Direction Before Zayn Malik? Lance Bass Says "Yes"

    Was Harry Styles planning to quit One Direction and go solo before Zayn Malik ambushed the band with his decision to leave last month? If former NSYNC member Lance Bass is to be believed, the answer is yes. In a new interview with Meredith Viera, the boy bander revealed that the 1D hunk was all set to leave and had been working on tons of solo material.
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