Jeff Timmons of 98 Levels on the group's path to stardom

Jeff Timmons from the band 98 Levels spoke with 8 Information Now host JC Fernandez in a long-form dialog that mirrored on the musician’s decades-long profession. From memorable fan interactions to the affect of the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults on 98 Levels, who had been in New York Metropolis on that day, Timmons does a deep dive into the lifetime of a pop star.

Born of the boy band craze of the 90s and early 2000s, 98 Levels was began by Timmons in 1996 and boasts huge hits like Give Me Simply One Night time (Una Noche), Due to You, and The Hardest Factor. Timmons divulged that the latter wasn’t in style with the members of 98 Levels upon first pay attention.

“They had passed us the demo of The Hardest Thing, and not all of us loved it,” Timmons mentioned. “Our girlfriends had listened to it, and they were like, ‘We like that song.’ So we ended up reluctantly recording that song.”

The Hardest Factor ended up peaking at quantity 5 on the Billboard Scorching 100, and earned the band huge success on the radio and MTV’s Complete Request Stay, a staple in teen life on the time. Timmons mirrored on the phenomenon.

“Once we released some music and made it onto TRL, it was a wrap. Like when you go into Times Square and the whole… block is shut down and you’ve got fans with signs and people are screaming and you literally cannot get out of your tour bus or your vehicle that you’re in… That’s when we started to go, man, we’re starting to get there. It’s starting to catch on,” Timmons mentioned.

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