He’s just beautiful

@dragoncatkhfan THE REAL GAG IS THAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT TOOK PLACE IN 2002, IT US ACTUALLY GIVING US A PRE-9/11/2001 WORLD WHEN TEEN POP REIGNED SUPREME! BECAUSE BY THE TIME 2002 THINGS LOOKED LIKE THIS:

Compared to let’s say the year 2000:

The only boy bands that was prominent at that time in 2002 and afterwards was O-Town with relatively mild success compared to processors like The Backstreet Boys or NSYNC, B2K, a black boyband that did more Urban music (Hip Hop and R&B) and was geared towards a more “Urban” audience since people love to racialize music. As well as Dreamstreet, which was a boyband geared more towards pre-teen kids than older kids or young adults. The glory days that the movie highlights in fandom of Boybandom where a thing of the past for the most part in 2002 (the 60s to 2001). Pop music was vastly changing at that time. It also achieved some incredible feats that we haven’t seen or heard of from the likes SINCE! Teen Pop in particular was becoming a dominant and VERY diverse sun-genre of music, in itself! Critics claimed that you had Boybands left and right of different stylings from 98 Degrees to provide more grown-and-sexy music to a mature mature audience, NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys that were both the most impactful boy-next-door-type of Heartthrobs (even though there was notable versatility within those respective groups), British and Irish acts like Boyzone, Take That and Westlife, who gave a Euro twist to things and of course, girl groups (B*Witched, The Spice Girls & Dream) and Pop female vocalists that ruled the airwaves, as well. Those ladies were known as The Pop Princesses: Samantha Mumba, Who at the time was dubbed an Irish “Britney” but really was giving Janet Jackson vibes, Mandy Moore, the youngest of the main four, as well as the most notable actress of the main four, Jessica Simpson, who was being seen as the “Celine Dion of Teen Pop” at one point, Christina Aguilera, The biggest voice of her generation and one of the best of ALL TIME to the point that critics compared her to the like of Whitney Houston (who complimented her on her rendition of “Run To You”) and Mariah Carey down to the flashiness — and last but most certainly not least — Britney Spears, who was placed as the heir apparent to Madonna, The Queen of Pop, herself. She was also noted to take inspiration or influence from Janet Jackson, another Pop music Titan that changed the landscape of Pop music forever. Britney was THE POP PRINCESS PROTOTYPE! She did things that not even her idols let alone many of her contemporaries where able to successfully do: Becoming the immortalized Girl Next Door/Good-Girl-Gone-Bad picturesque type to a dictionary definition. She had clones immediately after her initial success. Willa Ford, for an example and the other aforementioned ladies, for better or worse. It was just a different time.