MTV’s Gideon talked to the guys from *NSYNC following their big night at the Video Music Awards where they took home 4 awards.

Transcript:

Thank goodness we packed the couch big enough. We have all five members of *NSYNC here. The question on everybody’s mind how in the world did you get Michael Jackson to come on stage?

We begged.

The better question how we kept it a secret.

We couldn’t even tell our parent. Friend, family, anybody.

I had heard you guys backed out of playing self-party tomorrow and three days later, are you guys back on the bill?

We have definitely on the bill. It’s a matter of finding time to rehearse and we rehearsed this morning and his show is going to be amazing. We saw the whole thing kind of go down. His show is unbelievable so we’re excited about that as well.

You guys ended up taking home the coveted Viewer’s Choice Award any word on winning that?

Chris: We’re blown away tonight. We had to have a little meeting after everything happened and sit back and look at ourselves and say this has been an unbelievable year. We’re so blessed all this good fortune came our way. We had such a great time with MTV and everything we’ve gotten. We’d never be cocky about this. We want everybody to understand… I wish everybody in the world to feel what we’re feeling tonight.

It feels like your birthday.

We’ll perk up in about a year.

Lance: And we do have to say thank you so much to people online, Fumanskeeto were voting all the time. Nsync.com everybody out there.

Giving it back to the fans. That’s why they love you and give you the viewers choice award

NSYNC continued to get awards last night as they came from behind to beat the Backstreet Boys out for Viewer’s Choice.

Full transcript of acceptance speech:

I saw her on tv. She wanted to hug you for sure.

I really did.

I saw that.

Let’s have a big hand for these fans, man. They made it far up here.

Congratulations on your new show. We did the show and it is amazing. So watch it. Wow. Thank you god.

This is viewers choice, so basically i mean the only people we can thank are the people who ted, all the fans out there. Your voice was heard.

You y’all still awake?

The fans are our life. I mean that’s who makes us and we know that so thank you very, very much. We love you.

Thanks a lot.

NSYNC came on stage for the third time in the night to accept the award for Best Pop Video as Nikki Costa and Sheryl Crow presented the award. Joey thanked his Pop stand-in Wade this time.

Full Acceptance Speech Transcript:

I got to thank somebody real quick.

Wade, wade, come here, wade. Wade was actually… he m man.

He should be- i want to thank him actually. He helped me out because when my leg was messed up, he was there in the video. So if you saw bits and pieces, it was him and it was me.

You’re right. We are going to thank god first off. The man.

We’re going to thank MTV and we’re going to thank our fans.

So?

And everyone we thanked before, we love you so much. We’ll keep it short.

Thanks a lot, guys.

Thank you very much. ( Cheers and applause )

NSYNC’s Acceptance For Best Group Video

September 7, 2001 - *NSYNC won the Best Group Video Award for Pop where Tenacious D. presented the surprised band again with the award. Justin said U2 should have won.

Dirty pop

Okay. Okay. So U2 was robbed this time. Wow. Both friggin’ awards, you can’t even say because we didn’t expect it at all. We can’t thank our management enough, and our tour support everybody from Anthony to Dave.

We have a cheat sheet.

We’re very bad at this so we want to make sure we have everybody Johnny Wright, Dave Brown, all of our bodyguards. We love you. Janet, Soniah, Steve, Wayne Grisham, Wayne Robson, MTV, all the fans, we love you.

Thank you.

Our crew, our stage manager, we thank Michael for coming out on stage with us. That was huge. He just made five fans so happy.

And we also want to thank all the groups out there. We know how hard it is y’all worked. We love you. Peace.

All the nominees, we love you. We have nothing but love for y’all.

Unfortunately the transcript doesn’t indicate who said what, but Justin talked most of the time when Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, and Dream presented them the award.

Thank you.

I think we had no idea we were going to win this.

I think Fatboy Slim was robbed, honestly.

We want to thank Wayne for making a great video and most of all thank our lord up above. The privilege every day we have on this planet.

Man, this is kind of shocking. Our families, Johnny, who is like a second father to us.

Clive. The record company, Barry, our moms, our dads, our families. I think, like they said before, I think it’s really important to celebrate the gift of life. All right. Let’s celebrate the gift of life wade played a big part in this video. Thank you, wade.

I love you.

See y’all later.

Bye y’all.

NSYNC Cancels VMA Afterparty

September 6, 2001 - The New York Daily News reports *NSYNC has cancelled their plans for a Video Music Award after party at the China Club in New York tonight after the tragic death of Aaliyah on August 25. In addition, a source told MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls Lance Bass’ reasoning for not attending any afterparty saying, “MTV is going to have a tribute to Aaliyah. Lance thinks it’s in bad taste to go whooping it up after that.” Bass does plan on attending pre-VMA parties though according to Walls.

NSYNC Plunges Further, Drops To #15 In Charts

September 4, 2001 - R&B Dominated album sales this week as 5 of the top 6 albums were from R&B acts, with Slipknot’s Iowa the only non-R&B act. Aaliyah’s tragic death helped catapult her album sales 800% for the week to land at #1, barely edging Mary J. Blige’s new album, No More Drama.

NSYNC saw further sales erosion as Celebrity sales dropped another 26% for the week with the group clearing 94,208 albums.

NSYNC Hotline Game Due Out November 1

September 4, 2001 - A PC game featuring NSYNC will hit stores November 1. The game is officially licensed by the band and features their own voices and never seen footage of the guys.

Included in the CD:
Five fun games include Quick Change, Bowling, Make-a-Move, Trivia and Charity Challenge
Exclusive video and voice clips of the band
Two modes of play for expanded gameplay
Create and email customized N-Sync greeting cards