Stray Kids Perform *NSYNC Tribute & ‘Chk Chk Boom’ at AMAs 50th Anniversary Special

On Sunday (Oct. 6) night time, the American Music Awards celebrated a part century with the two-hour American Track Awards fiftieth Per annum Particular on CBS. The night featured diverse walks ill reminiscence lane in addition to fresh performances from these days’s largest artists, every one representing a special musical style. For the boy band tribute, Stray Kids collision the AMAs level and delivered essentially the most visually improbable and vigorous efficiency of the night time.

On the outset of the efficiency, fables dangled from the ceiling, every one connected to diverse contributors’ limbs in homage to *NSYNC’s marionette-inspired 2000 American Track Awards efficiency of “Bye Bye Bye.” And it wasn’t only a optic reference – the *NSYNC break collision got here withering over the audio system, with Stray Children striking their spin on its choreography sooner than making a song their very own banger, “Chk Chk Boom.” Wearing dim, every member of the South Korean boy band used to be bursting with power, angle and funky, supported by way of a fleet of alternative dancers. Towards the top in their efficiency, they weaved a little of “Bye Bye Bye” again into the “Chk Chk Boom” combine sooner than wrapping it as much as thunderous applause.

Previous to Stray Children, *NSYNC’s Lance Bass and Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean presented them and spoke at the AMAs’ boy band legacy. “Fifty years — the American Music Awards have been around long enough that a lot of boy bands have grown up with the show,” Bass stated. “Lance and I are proud to be part of that legacy on the American Music Awards,” McLean added. “A boy band legacy worth remembering and even screaming for.”

Sooner than taking the AMAs fiftieth Per annum Particular level, Billboard’s Tetris Kelly caught up with Stray Kids, who thanked their Remains and paid homage to the boy bands who got here sooner than them, together with *NSYNC.