.NSYNC's 'No Strings Attached' at 20: executives and collaborators look back on the record-setting album and how it launched JustinTimberlake's solo career
Justin Timberlake was barely 16 when he walked into Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. The aspiring star was recording *’s breakout single, “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” in the same room where songwriting legend Max Martin and the late Denniz Pop created some of pop music’s biggest hits.
Record executives weren’t necessarily looking for a solo star at the time, but Timberlake’s potential was apparent to Jive Records founder Clive Calder, when he and the label’s then-CEO,Having become suspicious of the group’s founder and manager,, whose shady financial dealings would be exposed in the coming years and result in prison time before his death in 2016, both *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys were embroiled in a 1999 legal battle with the mogul, the latter forced to cut him in on a...
Production on “No Strings Attached” kicked into gear soon after. “They were all gracious, fun and great to be around,” says Richard Marx, who wrote and produced the ballad “This I Promise You.” But Timberlake’s interest in and attention to the process made the singer stand out. As Marx recalls: “When I didn’t need him behind the microphone, he’d be down the hall in another studio recording demos and ideas. He was so focused. It’s no surprise at all that he became so successful.
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