90s Boybands Recall Watching TRL to Find Out Who Was More Popular Each Day [Video]

If you were rushing home to catch TRL every day, you weren’t the only one.

Members of some of the biggest boy bands of the ’90s and early ’00s appear in the Paramount+ documentary Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands, where they talk about their love (and hate) for MTV’s Total Request Live.

Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees says he’s tried to explain the “interactive” show, where now-wife Vanessa Lachey was once a host (or VJ), to their three kids.

“Fans felt like they had a say,” he recalls. “I’ve tried to explain it to my kids, what it meant to that era of music and that generation of kids but if you were a certain age, it was must-see TV.”

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