Primarily visiting North America, the tour supported the band's third album No Strings Attached.

When the tour kicked off, Justin Timberlake received his high school diploma onstage at the Pyramid Arena.

The success of the tour prompted the band to add an additional leg of dates in the United States.

"[citation needed]The band had earlier announced they would join Britney Spears on a co-headlining tour of Europe in October.

Additionally, the band partnered with MSN to give fans exclusive access to newsletters, photos and video footage.

This is followed by Lance Bass welcoming the crowd before slowing things down with a performance of “(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You”, in which the group rises 30 feet above the stage on 5 small platforms.

After the group leaves the stage, a video interlude hosted by television persona Ananda Lewis called Total *NSYNC Live plays (parodying the show Total Request Live), announcing fans are given 4 selections of possible songs that *NSYNC would sing next.

The show continues with Justin Timberlake returning to the stage showcasing some of his freestyle Beatbox skills before the group's drummer begins to upstage him and calls him out.

This is followed by the group putting together a living room setting to slow things down again with two ballads, “I Drive Myself Crazy” and “I Thought She Knew”.

NSYNC then rises out of the floor dressed in midwestern futuristic attire for a performance of “Space Cowboy” featuring an extended dance break.

At the end of the song, the group goes back down into the ground with the band playing an extended instrumental interlude of the chorus.

NSYNC returns to the stage in a brief hospital skit dressed in medical coats taking care of an injured Timberlake before heading into “It Makes Me Ill”.

The stage piece (on a track) elevates and brings the members out to the center of the arena, and the guys sing “This I Promise You” as they get close to the crowds.

The show continues with a large video screen that says "*NSYNC" and the band, dressed in futuristic outfits, perform “Digital Get Down”.

His mother discovered a notebook that contained a detailed plan to kill all five members of the band during their show in Atlanta.

The band faced yet another lawsuit, in December 2000, filed by a Missouri teenaged girl, alleging that she was ‘verbally assaulted’ by Justin Timberlake outside one of their shows.

[26] While waiting to see the band, after their concert at the Chase Park Plaza in Central West End, St. Louis, the teenager states that she was "snubbed" by Timberlake, who dismissively refused to give her an autograph.

The DVD featured an interactive gallery containing pictures of the band during recording sessions, rehearsals and performing on stage.

[59] In August 2000, Iwerks Entertainment announced they were in talks with the band to release a full length concert film in 2001.

The tour received positive to mixed reviews from music critics and fans who praised the band’s energy,[62] vocal talents,[62] and onstage persona.

They bounded around the stage like five Ricky Martins, and stayed choreographically in sync even at 60 yards apart…But the soul is in the voices—and 'N Sync's got 'em…If you weren't convinced they could sing, the a capella doo-wop of ‘I Thought She Knew’ led by hometown boy Chris Kirkpatrick was final proof”.

"[65]Writing for the Orlando Sentinel, Jim Abbott said the band "made the crowd feel at home" during the concert at the TD Waterhouse Centre.

It was an assault on the senses from the moment the five singers were lowered to the stage as human marionettes for the opening ‘No Strings Attached’”.

[67] Jim Farber (New York Daily News) felt the shows at Madison Square Garden were "cliché and contrived".

[68] He explains, "In fact, Tuesday's show proved there certainly are strings attached, though the tugging on NSYNC's post-adolescent limbs is coming not from unseen handlers but from a more insidious force.

That they have an overwhelming desire to placate their youngest fans seemed obvious, since the show conformed to the most worn clichés of current teen-pop".

[68] However, Farber praised the group’s vocals and charm, saying, “Their five-part harmonies really sparkle in the ballads…And their ace a cappella work on ‘I Thought She Knew’ puts them in the tradition of pop's most pleasing harmonizers, from the barbershop quartets through the doo-woppers”.