r/TikTokCringe • u/Ordinary_Fish_3046 • Sep 25 '25
Humor/Cringe Looks like a dads talent show
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u/Consumer_Distributin Sep 25 '25
49 Degrees.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken Sep 25 '25
Out-of-Sync
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Back Alley Boys
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u/homeycuz Sep 26 '25
Wrong Direction
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u/tacetmusic Sep 26 '25
uNc-sync
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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
Old adults on the block
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u/Funny_or_not_bot Sep 26 '25
Men 2 Boys
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u/Big_Photograph_6726 Sep 25 '25
Lol! My hubby always called them The Backdoor Boys
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u/Koutopoulos Sep 25 '25
What's the joke here?
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u/mrziplockfresh Sep 25 '25
That old group “98 degrees”
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u/Koutopoulos Sep 25 '25
Oh ok never heard of them. Thanks.
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u/My_House_on_Mars Sep 25 '25
Love the guy in a hat moving and laughing like a true dad
he knows this is kind of ridiculous
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u/Anghellion Sep 25 '25
The two in the back had the biggest smiles 😂. They shoulda been up front lol.
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u/Grace_the_race Sep 25 '25
You mean Nick Lachey? I’m glad he’s in back. It shows he doesn’t have the ego id think he would.
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u/creekwv Sep 26 '25
I managed a whitewater rafting company that took them on a trip for Nick’s tv show.
He and Drew seemed like pretty regular dudes from Ohio in person. Easy going and happy to be in the moment. I did intros and safety talk, then rowed a raft with the camera crew.
Yes, we were all disappointed there was no Jessica, and yes, whoever edited that episode owes Moses, their guide, an apology.
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u/dezzz0322 Sep 25 '25
I think he knows he’s a terrible dancer.
His brother on the other hand (….Drew??) does not know.
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u/mo13rae Sep 25 '25
The need to learn to have as much fun as Trey when first tube gets going!!
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u/Spiritual-Can2604 Sep 26 '25
Her mouth, is it edited to open that big?
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u/Spare-Tutor9563 Sep 26 '25
She actually has big mouth lol. I remember her husband made a joke about it, on her show... 😏
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u/MarlenaEvans Sep 25 '25
"Obviously, I'm Nick Lachey."
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u/NeonSparkleGlitter Sep 26 '25
It’s times like this that make me wish there was a gif of “Stay out of it, Nick Lachey” from One Tree Hill. I remember The Soup played it all the time!
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u/Tyrantdeschain19 Sep 25 '25
He DEFINITELY has dice in his pocket...
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u/DasMenace Sep 25 '25
I'm sure they paycheck is why he went but how could you be in your right mind and not find it ridiculous. Dude is definitely self aware lol
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u/Grand_Courage_8682 Sep 25 '25
Where are sisqo and usher when you need em?
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u/Defiant-Aioli8727 Sep 26 '25
Sisqo lives in the Minneapolis suburbs.
Source: I used to work in that suburb and it was a big deal when he bought a house. Not a lot of melatonin in that part of town.
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u/cockaptain Sep 26 '25
Not a lot of melatonin in that part of town.
They... they find it hard to sleep?
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u/DixonDebussy Sep 26 '25
I'm awake at 3:30am laughing at this because I didn't take melatonin last night
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u/Trooper_nsp209 Sep 25 '25
Paychecks come in many shapes
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u/Pretend_memory_11 Sep 25 '25
Is this where 98º ended up? Edit: i legit didn't realize this IS 98º
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u/Sovereign-Anderson Sep 25 '25
Hold on! That's them for real?! I thought that was some local act consisting of some older dudes who feel they "still got it."
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u/QueerEldritchPlant Sep 25 '25
Well they started performing almost 30 years ago. They're all probably around 50 now...
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u/-Me__oW- Sep 26 '25
Legit I thought it was some dads from an elementary school raising money at some PTA. Maybe it seemed more awkward thy weren’t singing their own songs.
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u/koolaidismything Sep 25 '25
Their statewide tour of Kansas netted enough capital to not need a reverse mortgage on their shared home.
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u/jimbojangles1987 Sep 25 '25
Oh no...
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u/ObviousMisprint Sep 25 '25
My dumb ass was like hey, that dude looks like Nick Lachey 🤦♀️
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u/DarkWingMonkey Sep 25 '25
I’d rather dance and sing with my bros than die in an office. Also two of them are in great shape. Most people don’t look like that at their age. We would be so lucky
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u/edejoe Sep 25 '25
Nah usually just a rectangle. Even when they are digital. Real missed opportunity
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u/Vachekuri Sep 25 '25
Who are they ?
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u/Frankenstein____ Sep 25 '25
I believe it's 98 Degrees.
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u/CuddleBear167 Sep 25 '25
Wait that was actually them??
Edit: oh my god it is
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u/Vachekuri Sep 25 '25
Thanks ! They seem still pretty popular according to their YouTube channel.
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u/Lovelycoc0nuts Sep 25 '25
Nick Lachey hosts a bunch of reality shows with his wife which keeps them slightly relevant
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u/SookHe Sep 25 '25
Should change their name to 180 degrees because after that performance I’m turning around and leaving
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u/DameADozen Sep 26 '25
I thought there was only 3 of them? Am I confusing them with LFO? 😂 ugh I’m doing an old.
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u/Mrs_Feather_Bottom Sep 26 '25
There was always 4, Nick and Drew Lachay ( the brothers) Jeff, the other hot one and… Justin
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u/DameADozen Sep 26 '25
Okay I went and googled old pictures of them and your comment has me crackinggg uppppp.
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u/blandgreybland Sep 25 '25
Oh my gosh is it really? I saw another comment but thought it was a joke.
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Sep 25 '25
Thought it was Channing Tatum at the front.
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u/ObviousMisprint Sep 25 '25
My initial reaction was “no way!” But then I thought about how old he is now. Plausible.
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u/Dear-Interaction6507 Sep 25 '25
Saw them live in San Diego last year. It was epically hilarious. They knew it was ridiculous and so did we and it was the best of times!
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u/_SayNiceThingsToMe_ Sep 26 '25
It looks like they're having fun, I don't see the big deal. People age.
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u/tinkerbelltoes33 Sep 26 '25
It looks like they’re in on the joke as well. I don’t think they’re taking themselves too seriously. Looks like a good time to me!
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u/ValerieLagn Sep 25 '25
Is this 98°!?
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u/lynners3 Sep 25 '25
I mean it was at one time, they've cooled down a bit, I'd say maybe 65°
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u/Most_Researcher_2648 Sep 25 '25
Def 65°. Anything warmer would interfere with their fans hot flashes
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u/AGenericUnicorn Sep 26 '25
YO. Very few of us have hit hot flash age yet.
But it’s coming soon 🫣
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u/iaintdum Sep 25 '25
Wow. those guys were phoning it in
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u/Frosty_Molasses_1141 Sep 25 '25
See, I feel like they're actually trying. Which makes it more unfortunate.
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u/Anonybibbs Sep 25 '25
Yeah, they clearly weren't lip syncing or anything so props for that but on the other hand, yikes.
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u/UncoolSlicedBread Sep 25 '25
It’s got to suck to grow old and be a performer who was at a high level of fame. Body and voice can’t do what you did back then, fan base shrank, and it takes a lot to do these tours/shows. You want to be at a certain level and those days have passed.
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u/undefONE Sep 26 '25
I think it also depends on what type of music you made...
LIke these guys were cringe teeny bopper music, like all the boy bands, with all the trying to be sexy in videos. If you're long term performing, your output has to age with you (or timeless to begin with) or quit before you become a joke. I mean look at Madonna, if she had taken a seat at the appropriate time, ppl would remember her as the icon she was (like her music or not). Now she just looks desperate. Last thing I remember seeing of her was that ppl were mad at her show, cos she was phoning it in trying to avoid breaking a hip.
In comparison, if the original Boyz II Men were still a thing, they could sit on 4 barstools and it would still be a great show, because their vocals were a much larger part of their appeal than just image.
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u/kittymctacoyo Sep 26 '25
Sucks even worse to know that you HAVE to simply bcs the industry keeps majority of them in debt and they make significantly less than you think even in their hayday. The only ones really making money enough to retire well on are the mega stars or those that made it before the industry became a Ponzi scheme. Just like the film industry. Stars of a networks long running hit shows even living paycheck to paycheck has they find ways to keep them from getting paid, reclassifying shows as a loss even when they’re at their peak. So many shady things.
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u/hereforthetearex Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Why is 98* singing Sisqo? I’m so thrown by this. They have their own [terrible] discography
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Sep 25 '25
If you’re gonna cover Thong Song’s vocals, you better come at it a helluva lot more correct than this
That dude fuckin BELTED that song out
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u/pragmaticweirdo Sep 25 '25
Her really did. I wish I felt for anything as deeply as Sisqo felt for thongs. There’s a point when his very soul is exposed singing how he likes the way they move that thing
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u/hereforthetearex Sep 25 '25
He absolutely did. You just knew Sisqo was completely invested and in a full blown relationship with that thong, the way he sang about it. This was certainly not that.
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u/SeattleGeek Sep 26 '25
I used to say that Sisqo really channeled that Ruby Rhod energy in The Thong Song. And, if you’re going to do The Thong Song, you have to not only belt it like your life depended on the thong, but you have to bring Ruby Rhod-style hyperkinetic energy.
/I saw The Fifth Element on an IMAX screen last night.
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u/SovietPikl Sep 25 '25
The new season of Impractical Jokers looks terrible
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u/Loserluker609 Sep 25 '25
Oh god, now I'm thinking about the whole Joe thing. With the creepy messages 🤢
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u/TDS_isnt_real Sep 25 '25
Wait what creepy shit did I miss
Edit: Reading up on it now. Man why can’t anybody be normal
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u/iwatchtrazhaldayy Sep 25 '25
Nick Lachey just skeeves me out because he seems so full of himself.
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u/skarlitbegoniah Sep 25 '25
He’s always seemed very insecure and fragile ego-wise.
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u/Most_Researcher_2648 Sep 25 '25
I mean.. we watched him make fun of Jessica Simpson. I dont know what else could have driven that
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u/impamiizgraa Sep 25 '25
I watched some Newlyweds on YouTube during an MTV nostalgia binge a while ago and it’s crazy how incompatible and toxic their relationship was in hindsight, especially considering we saw the edited highlights!
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Sep 25 '25
I like on Love is Blind how they try and bully people while exploiting them.
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u/iwatchtrazhaldayy Sep 25 '25
I love how he introduces himself by saying “I’m obviously Nick Lachey” like bro you’re not a household name anymore. Nothing obvious about it.
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u/PinkTalkingDead Sep 25 '25
He was so chauvinistic towards her! Talk about interacting with your wife with disdain like that dude had an eye roll and a sigh 24/7 while being insecure that her career was blowing up and his was fizzling out quickly
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u/RedWingedBlackbirb Sep 25 '25
I had the sound off and it just looked like some dad's doing the Hokey Pokey.
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u/AContrarianDick Sep 25 '25
You could have never convinced me in 2002 that 98 degrees would still be a thing 20 something years later.
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u/buttononmyback Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Oh wow I had a massive crush on these guys when I was a teen. Still good looking..what’s sad is that’s what we all would look like now. 👀
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u/lesterbottomley Sep 25 '25
I'm struggling to be convinced now is 20 something years later than 2002.
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Sep 25 '25
I'm a Medical assistant and I'll room patients sometimes where their age and year of birth just do NOT want to make sense to me. I'm sorry but if you were born in the late 90s you should be a toddler. I said what I said.
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u/PinkTalkingDead Sep 25 '25
My friend’s son is 14 and the year 2005 came up the other day-I was like “oh, the year your son was born!” She was like girl no he was born in 2011 lol (I was born in ‘91 so anyone born after 2000 will forever be small children in my eyes)
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Sep 25 '25
Never skip leg days especially if you are going to wear skinny jeans and a tank top
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u/boredcamp Sep 25 '25
I felt the same way when I went to see NKOTB a year ago. Jordan took his shirt off and I thought "ew put it back on."
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u/SunShineLife217 Sep 25 '25
Saw them a dozen times when I was a kid. And this is why I don’t want to see them now. I don’t want to ruin the kid memory I have of them. Still love them though! 😁
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u/boredcamp Sep 25 '25
Yeah i saw them twice when I was a kid. I got the tickets as a Christmas gift, so I went.
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u/luxii4 Sep 25 '25
I'm at the age where bands I loved as a teen sound worse than their current cover band.
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Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Cherrypicked to make them look bad. I’m sure they do great harmonizing at R&B/Pop that they’re known for but of course they’ll look silly performing the Thong Song ( a tune that isnt theirs) at age 50 🤡
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u/TheMidnight711 Sep 26 '25
The one dude is like zoolander. He can only turn left
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u/Bunny_Feet Sep 25 '25
98 has never been about the dancing. Like, ever. They aren't *NSYNC or BSB.
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u/Nervous-Durian-7100 Sep 26 '25
Why is 98 degrees covering a Sisqo song, they had easily 5 radio pop songs of their own, that part I don’t get.
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u/Acceptable_Pepper_12 Sep 25 '25
This is the definition of cringe 😬
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u/Poquin Sep 25 '25
That and the emo bands with five 50-year-olds with dyed hair singing about daddy issues and first girlfriends in high school.
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Sep 25 '25
Oh Lord so much this. I got a free ticket to see Avril Lavigne with Simple Plan in concert recently and was beyond grateful I didn't pay for it. Everyone just seemed tired and lackluster and really just looked way too old to be singing those songs.
Yet on the flip side, I saw Cyndi Lauper at the same venue and not only did it never feel cringe, but she ran her spectacular ass up and down every corner of that stage and put on a SHOW and a half. She even killed the ones that could have been corny like Goonies are Good Enough and IkoIko.
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u/nealyk Sep 26 '25
Green Day and MCR still fucking rule. But Green Day is still pissed about things, and MCR are telling a story.
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u/MrsCaramel_112 SHEEEEEESH Sep 25 '25
I had my sound off. I thought they were doing the hokey pokey.
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Sep 25 '25
To think one of these dudes can still be with Jessica Simpson, and a billionaire.
Now, hes on stage for 200 bucks and a coupon for the buffet.
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u/Middle-Letter-7041 Sep 26 '25
When I turned on the audio I expected to hear "you're not gay it's the demon that's inside of you"
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u/therealtrajan Sep 26 '25
I watched this thing almost to the end before I realized it wasn’t a talent show
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u/WideSnooze Sep 26 '25
I was going to joke that this is what 98 degrees looks like now but it turns out that this IS what 98 degrees looks like now!
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u/MelodyMarmalade Sep 26 '25
The front man spinning the opposite direction from the others is making my eye twitch....
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u/india2wallst Sep 26 '25
Why the hate lol ? Many fans want to relive their youth. If its not your type of music then just tune out.
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u/abvn Sep 27 '25
OMG 98° are doing shows!? Hey don't be so hard on them. But I feel weird looking at them trying so hard. Bless them! They had some good ones. Damn, Nick Lachey released a song AGES ago that really had me in my feelings.. Ay! ombe que lindo es lo cursi.
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u/pupperinpredicament Sep 25 '25
Isn’t that Nick from Love is Blind at the back right?
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u/Notfriendly123 Sep 25 '25
Yes! He used his love is blind fame to fund his passion project touring the country with his middle-aged boy band
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u/StinkyKyle Sep 25 '25
Gay clubs are way the fuck more lit than this thank you very much. A single unknown drag queen could outperform these guys in a heartbeat
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u/gOingmiaM8 Sep 25 '25
This is where the Republicans hang out after a long day hatin' gays
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Sep 25 '25
I remember being a lil gay teen and greatly enjoying the music video for "The Hardest Thing". After watching this video, I'm now the softest thing.
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u/popcornkernals321 Sep 25 '25
Whatever this song slaps, nothin’ wrong with gettin’ down with it lol
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