Taylor Swift inspired 98 Degrees to re-record their music

nme.com:

98 Degrees have revealed that Taylor Swift successfully re-recording and re-releasing her albums inspired them to do the same.In September, the beloved ’00s boyband reunited and embarked on their 25th Anniversary tour, celebrating their tenure in pop music.

After wrapping up the tour last Sunday (October 8), bandmates Nick Lachey, Jeff Timmons, Drew Lachey, and Justin Jeffre spoke to E!

News about what’s next for the group.“We’re actually in the studio now working on a new project,” said Lachey. “We’re gonna re-record five of our classic hits in kind of the re-record/get-your-masters-back move.

And then we’re also gonna have five new songs as well, and a new single coming out at the top of the year.”Timmons added that the band wanted to re-record their music for a while, but there were “battles with the label.”He continued: “So, we thought it’d be natural for us to do this, you know, sort of rerecording of our masters.