Whether they were setting the mood with “I’ll Make Love To You” or getting you through a bad break up with “End of the Road,” it’s safe to say that R&B group Boyz II Men is an essential and integral part of the boy band canon. They are the OGs of buttery, mind-melting a cappella harmonies, but more than that they are, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, the most commercially successful R&B group of all time.
Seeing as they’ve been relatively quiet since dominating the first half of the ‘90s, it might be easy to assume they had either retired or disbanded (heaven forbid). But you know what they say about people who assume: Sometimes they’re wrong. In reality, Boyz II Men has never stopped making music: They spent much of the last decade touring and making cover albums. In the past year, the band has been performing shows at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They also made an appearance on Andi Dorfman’s season of The Bachelorette, where a slew of men made fools of themselves trying to perform one of the band’s classic tunes.
The boys have also been back in the studio, and they are set to release their highly anticipated new album Collide on October 21. Diehard fans are in for an even bigger treat: The group will perform at a free concert on Monday, October 20 at The Americana at Brand to celebrate the album’s release.
Inspired by Boyz II Men’s resurgence, we couldn’t help ourselves—we had to check in on the other boy bands of our tweeny pasts. Read on to see what some of our favorites were up to in their prime and where you can find them now.