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As *NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached’ Turns 20, Execs and Collaborators Look Back
Justin Timberlake was barely 16 when he walked into Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. The aspiring star was recording *NSYNC’s breakout single, “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” in the same room where songwriting legend Max Martin and the late Denniz Pop created some of pop music’s biggest hits. At the time, Andreas Carlsson — who would later help pen chart-toppers like *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” and the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” — was pursuing his own singing dreams, recording a solo record in the room next door.