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Pop culture is one of my favorite topics and what is even better is that Lance Bass combines pop culture interviews with nostalgia in his podcast Frosted Tips. The tagline on Spotify says, “their ballads and bops got you through your teenage (more like my pre-teen years!)…now let your favorite teen idol guide you through adulting!”

Each week on the podcast, “Lance Bass and his husband Michael will be joined by our biggest teen idol crushes!” So far I’ve listened to his interview with Joey Fatone (my fav from *NSYNC), but there are also a lot of other episodes already out. For now Lance will be interviewing boy band members, but he says he’d love to interview more celebrities from back in the day.

When *NSYNC was popular, I was around nine or ten years old so I wasn’t into following what they were doing in magazines or TV. I’d look at their pictures in magazines or watch a special concert or something if it was on TV, but in the podcast, Lance and Joey talked about what they’d do on vacation, like going to clubs, what they did before the band, and what their jobs were in Orlando right before the band got signed.

They told some stories about their time in the band that I had never heard before but maybe that was because I was much younger when they were in the band. Either way, it’s always fun to hear boy band members talk about what went down when they were in the band, no matter how much time has passed!

They also do a segment where Lance reads what Joey said in an interview from 1998 and then they compare it to what he’d say now. Like what his favorite movies were or favorite actors. They talk about the music videos they wrote and even the basis of a TV show they were supposed to star in.

Like Lance says in the beginning of the podcast, people need ways to escape in this day and age so what better way than to escape back to the 90s when it was all about boy bands! It’s a fun way to hear what everyone is doing now, but the stories they tell from back in the 1990s and early 2000s are definitely the highlights of the podcast. It’s what I’d want to know about my favorite bands if I was a teenager in the 90s…back before social media.

This podcast is definitely for you if you love 90s boy bands or just want some good pop culture nostalgia.