Many of the “forgotten” artists I’ve featured over the past three weeks have been teen idols. I suppose that speaks to the fleeting nature of that sort of fame. And while the teens who idolized these young men probably remember them into their old age, the broader culture does not.

Does that spell doom for the boy bands of the 90s? Will The Backstreet Boys be a faded footnote to music fans in the 2050s?

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