Who is your favorite ?
It was the question that made — or utterly destroyed — friendships in the late ’90s. And if Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean had just answered his phone, one of the potential answers could have been .
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And it was during that time that Gosling told McLean that the Backstreet Boys would never make it big because they seemed like a New Kids on the Block rip-off (for the record, they didn’t rip them off until they ).
Once the Backstreet Boys had , , Gosling said McLean started ignoring his phone calls. But McLean that he wasn’t intentionally ignoring Gosling’s phone calls, and that he has a good enough voice to join the band.
Since Gosling’s career is , who bets that he joins A.J., Howie, Nick, Kevin and Brian on their next tour?
Bueller? Bueller?!
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Pop music blogger Allison Sylte is a Fort Collins-based writer and regular contributor to Reverb.




