n sync to the top of the chart but perlman sued threatening to take the band s name and block them from performing. n sync countersued. reporter: if we separated we would lose johnny wright and our connections and lose our record label and lose all of these things and end up back at square one singing, you know, at the downtown high school. reporter: in the end, lawsuits were settled out of court. right now it s basically about the fans and our music and we re so proud that all of our fans came out here to support us. joo signed to a new record label, justin and n sync went to another record label, no strings attached. bye-bye you may hate me
what it was. it s got every luxury you can imagine. reporter: life for justin in the house? he had already done the mickey mouse club, the difference was during the day time if we didn t have anything to do, justin had to be in the dining room with his tutor taking classes and doing school. reporter: six hours a day, huh? yeah. he would outwork anybody. driven. driven. driven always. but he s one of the hardest working person i know. i like to rehearse. i like to know where every spot on the stage is going to be. i like to know where the camera frames are going to be and i think it always comes out the better because of it. reporter: and the hard work would eventually pay off. after two years of relentless touring overseas, justin and n sync hit it big. reporter: the guys in orlando
called themselves n sync. my mother came up with the name. the first time we sang together, she said you sound really in sync. ding ding ding. justin and his mom moved into a house in orlando. they recorded their music in a secret hideaway nearby. it s almost like we re in the fun house. right? that s kind of what it was. it s got like every luxury you could imagine. life for justin in the house. we had already done the mickey mouse club. the difference was during the daytime if we didn t have anything to do, justin would have to be in the dining room with his tutor, you know, taking classes, doing school. six hours a day? yeah. he would outwork anybody. driven, driven, driven, but he s the hardest-working person i know. the hard work would eventually pay off. after two years of relentless
touring overseas, justin and n sync hit it big in the u.s. with a disney concert special, filling in as a last-minute replacement for the backstreet boys. how can it be it just so happened the guys were in orlando and ready. when that call was made to disney to say, hey, we can fill that spot, they rose to the occasion and went and did it. that was a big moment for us. when i look into your eyes n sync became the new teenage heartthrobs. god must have spent a little more time on you we had a good time. but behind the success, distrust was brewing. between n sync and lou pearlman. when you re getting up at 5:00 in the morning going on the radio and spending 24 hours on the job and someone else is at home going to the steakhouses
and making 75% of the money, all of a sudden it s like, wait, something s got to change. we were generating so much revenue and the stuff. where is all that money? perlman had taken n sync to the top of the charts. in 1999, when the group wanted to search record labels, pearlman sued, threatening to take the band s name and block them from performing. n sync countersued. it was scary that if we separated from lou, we would lose johnny wright and all of our connections, lose our record label, we would lose all these things and end up back at square one and singing, you know, at the downtown high school. in the end, lawsuits were settled out of court. right now it s basically about the fans and our music, and we re so proud that all our fans came out to support us. signed to a new record label, justin and n sync turned their attention to the release of