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Yes! That is Joey Fatone rendered as an angel draped in Christmas lights. You are not having some sort of hallucinogenic reaction to your lunch.

The above angel-Joey image, from this oldie-but-goodie post on Buzzfeed, documenting the most grievous acts of boy band fan art gone wrong, is an illustration (hawhaw) of the fine line between fan and fanatic. Here are a few of the more disturbing, inexplicable and weird artifacts:

Fan-made rendering of Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell.

I seriously just spent an hour of my trying to figure out the connection between Littrell and Luke Skywalker's sister. So at the very least, this one was thought provoking.

Other Backstreet pieces from this collection tend to go for the more celestial angle. For instance, Kevin Richardson as a baby-angel:

And the entire group as winged spiritual beings:

+ Check out all 28 Examples of Bad Boy Band Fan Art (including amateur anime of 'NSYNC and plenty more baby and angel drawings) here.

If you watch REALLY closely and very carefully, it ALMOST seems like Joey Fatone's hitting on the model in this behind-the-scenes video taken at an *NSYNC video shoot back in 2000 -- from the looks of Joey's Manic Panic red streaks, I'd say they were probably shooting the "It's Gonna Be Me" video. And I know -- Joey? Hitting on a pretty girl? Crazy, right? And so subtle!

Oh, and here's some knowledge for you, the girl in the video is model Kim Smith -- Tyson Ritter's longtime girlfriend. She was also in *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" video and Maroon 5's "Wake Up Call."

+ Watch *NSYNC's vintage video after the jump, check out more prom videos, watch Justin make fun of Lance Bass for forgetting the words to "It's Gonna Be Me," and watch JC Chasez at the TRL finale.

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Dodging and weaving through Times Square on a daily basis provides us with plenty of eye candy. This past week we've spotted the Naked Cowboy, Constantine Maroulis and … Joey Fatone, who was standing on a makeshift stage this morning causing screaming girls riding by on double-decker buses to almost fall to their deaths.

Joey must count his blessings every day for the much needed career boost that came from appearing on last season's Dancing With the Stars, leading him to host the popular primetime game show The Singing Bee. But despite being back in the public eye, he's smart enough to know that he should save every penny he's making because -- barring Justin Timberlake having a momentary lapse of reason and reuniting *NSync -- he could find himself back at the bottom of the food chain at any minute … which explains why he was right smack in the middle of Times Square praising Bank of America's "Keep the Change" service that automatically saves the leftover change from debit card purchases. We hope all those coins can buy back his dignity after shilling for the man. Cha-ching!