Published: 4.30.2026
Length: 50:11
This episode follows Lance Bass through one of the most
demanding years of his career: managing a production company,
starring in On the Line, and trying to keep pace with
a recording schedule that was collapsing under its own weight. Part
Bass, Part Boss explores how he navigated those
overlapping pressures — from the hopeful early months of
recording the Celebrity album to a private moment that
may have marked the first real fracture in *NSYNC's future.
Topics Covered:
- Perceptions of success or failure in creative work
- Public optimism vs. private instability
- Structural overload and the limits of professional
ambition
- Pragmatic linguistics - approximations and shielding as
hedging
Mentioned:
- Larry
King Live 'N Sync Discusses Their Rise to Stardom
transcript (1/9/2001)
- Past
& Present YouTube Channel - Superbowl XXXV
Halftime Aerosmith and *NSYNC [2001]
- FOX
News - Fox 411: Pop's 'N Sync Guys Make Movie Deal
(1/31/2001)
- Entertainment
Weekly - 'N Sync's Lance Bass Becomes a Movie Mogul
(2/7/2001)
- Billy
Rainey.com - MTV Icon: *NSync- That's the Way Love Goes
- All
Pop - 'Stoked' about acting: *NSync's Lance Bass in T.O.
to shoot a movie (3/6/2001)
- NSYNC.com
- Melinda's Corner (Journal update 3/9/2001)
- ClassicPopMag.com
- Iconic Janet Jackson Treasures to be Auctioned Next
Month (confirmation of MTV Icon filming date, March 10
2001)
- MTV
News - 'NSYNC In the Studio with Neptunes (3/20/2001)
- MTV
News - 'NSYNC Tour Will Give Fans a Taste of Celebrity
(4/13/2001)
- livehead
16 Youtube Channel - MTV TRL At Your House (4/25/2001)
- NSYNC.Com
- Melinda's Corner(Journal entry 4/27/2001)
- The
Digital Get Down Podcast - On The Line 20th Anniversary -
Director Eric Bross *Nterview (11/20/2021)
- All
Pop - *Nsync Forgets About 'Grease' (May 3, 2001)
- MTV
News - 'NSYNC Push Back Tour, Album Release (May 9, 2001)
- Nsynclife
Tripod page - > MSN Chat with Melinda Bell Transcript
(May 17, 2001)
- One
In a Million Angelfire Page - On the New Album Transcript
(Chat date 5/17/2001)
- Entertainment
Weekly - *NSYNC and Dave Matthews Band: The Boys of Summer
(5/18/2001)
- Sunset
Strip Geocities (archived with Oocities) - Entertainment
Weekly.com Q & A with Nsync (5/17/001)
- eBay
listing for Entertainment Weekly Issue #596 (Pub. date
5/18/2001)
- Wikipedia
- PopOdyssey Tour
- Entertainment
Goes Pop TV YouTube Channel - N Sync Making The Video -
Pop - 2001 (originally on MTV 5/29/2001)
- *NSYNC
on BET's 106 & Park (June 21, 2001 video incorrectly
labeled as 11/21/2001)
- Official
*NSYNC Facebook - 106 & Park anniversary post
(Published 6/21/2017)
- Rolling
Stone - N Sync: True Tales of Pop Life (August issue
released in July; web article published 8/16/2001)
- Incredible.nu
- VIBE Magazine - Show And Prove (incorrectly labeled as
June 2001)
- *NSYNC
feature mentioned in the August 2001 issue of Vibe (cover
illustration of Aaliyah, released July 2001). The cover
highlights *NSYNC in a story about crossover pop and
R&B.
- MTV
News - Documentary Traces How ’NSYNC Got ’N The Movies
(8/14/2001)
- VHS
Bubble YouTube Channel - *NSYNC on The Today Show
(8/20/2001)
- Wikipedia
- 2001 MTV Video Music Awards (9/6/2001)
- Discogs
- All-Star Tribute (recorded 9/5-9/7/2001)
- Wikipedia
- Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration (filmed
9/7/2001 and 9/10/2001)
- MTV
News - New Britney, ’NSYNC Songs Get On the Line
(9/10/2001)
- IMDb
- Crossover (TV Special 2001)
- The
Movie Report - Press junket Q&A for On the Line
(10/6/2001)
- One
In a Million Angelfire site - Rosie O'Donnell Transcript
With Lance And Joey!!!
- IMDb - The
Rosie O'Donnell Show Episode dated October 9, 2001
- NSYNC
Pagoda website - On The Line
- Reuters
ScreenOcean - USA: AMERICAN FILM PREMIERE OF MOVIE "ON THE
LINE" PRODUCED BY TWO MEMBERS OF N'SYNC BAND (10/9/2001)
- MDanielle
YoutTube Channel - Lance Bass on Regis 2001 (10/10/001)
- suzi98babe
YouTube Channel - Lance Bass & Joey Fatone - On the
Line Interview
- IMDb
- "MAD TV" Episode #7.4 (TV Episode 2001)
- United
We Stand Concert in Washington D.C. (10/21/2001)
- Sony
Media Newsroom -'Ricki Lake' Fans Get to Hang With Some of
the Boys From *NSYNC ... No Strings Attached! (10/23/
2001)
- livehead16
YouTube Channel - Joey and Lance on Ricki Lake
(10/25/2001)
- Entertainment
Weekly - N' Theaters Now (10/26/2001)
- Jaehak
Kim - 'N Sync’s Lance Bass ‘On the Line’ in His First Film
(10/28/2001)
- Screenwriters
Utopia - October 2001 Script Sales (published 3/22/2004)
- Calgary
Sun - Lance Bass takes fame *Nstride
- Pop
Secret NASCAR commercial (estimated air date 10/27 -
11/2/2001)
- Box
Office Mojo - October 2001
- Box
Office Mojo - Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Box
Office Mojo - Glitter (2001)
- Wikipedia
- On the Line (2001)
- Box
Office Mojo - Bones (2001)
- Box
Office Mojo - Bandits (2001)
- Box
Office Mojo - The Glass House (2001)
- livehead16
YouTube Channel - NSYNC South Beach Benefit Concert
(November 11, 2001)
- Entertainment
Goes Pop TV YouTube Channel - N'Sync 2001 Appearance
(originally on MTV 11/20/2001)
- Fandom
Wiki - 106 & Park 2001 Episode List/2001
- Screenwriters
Utopia - November 2001 Script Sales (published 3/22/2004)
- Musik
Angel YouTube channel - All Stars performing What's Goin'
On LIVE (12/4/2001)
- Wikipedia
- 2001 Billboard Music Awards
- JackieJ10
Tripod page: Now 'N the News (Confirmation of holiday
charity event, 'Girlfriend video preview)
- NSYNC.com
- Melinda's Corner (Journal entry 12/20/01)
- StillNSYNC
YouTube channel - MTV Secret Santa with *NSYNC special
(originally on MTV, 12/19/2001)
- Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology Vol. 4 No. 2, 1966 -
Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-In-The-Door
Technique (Freedman & Fraiser)
- Training
Language & Culture Vol. 3 No. 2, 2019 - Hedging
In Different Types of Discourse (Gribanova &
Gaidukova)
- Journalistic
Text in a New Technological Environment: Achievements and
Problems Vol. 66, August 2019 - Linguistic Hedging
In Interpersonal Communication (Vlasyan)