Twenty-five years after *NSYNC launched its breakup anthem “Bye Bye Bye” on Jan. 17, 2020, followers nonetheless haven’t gotten over the boy band’s personal cut up.
However after the group appeared on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards after which launched the only “Higher Place” from the “Trolls Band Collectively” soundtrack, there was buzz that the group is perhaps reuniting in a much bigger approach for an album or tour.
Since then, nevertheless, *NSYNC has solely appeared on the “Paradise” observe off Justin Timberlake’s 2024 album “All the pieces I Thought It Was.”
“We now have to have a dialog,” Joey Fatone, 47, completely instructed the Publish. “That’s actually what it boils right down to. And we’re gonna hopefully try this quickly. We preserve saying ‘quickly,’ but it surely’s getting the place it’s like both s—t or get off the pot. Let’s be actual.”
And with the twenty fifth anniversary of *NSYNC’s blockbuster album “No Strings Hooked up” developing in March, Fatone thinks that it’s time for “that second of the 5 of us sitting down going, ‘OK, what does this appear like? Can we need to do a tour? Is it only a tour? Is it an album? Is it an EP? Are we not going to do something? Like, what precisely are we going to do?’ ”
Former *NSYNC supervisor Johnny Wright, who now manages Timberlake, additionally doesn’t rule out a reunion sooner or later.
“By no means say by no means,” stated Wright. “I believe that when all issues can decelerate individually for everyone, and there’s a dialog that is sensible, then yeah, it may probably occur. However I’m not saying 100% that it’s going to.
“Some individuals suppose it’s simply as simple as making a cellphone name and hey, the subsequent day we’re within the studio making a file. It’s slightly bit extra detailed than that,” he continued. “However once more, when the planets and the time and every little thing traces up, something is feasible.”
With “Bye Bye Bye” lately trending from a viral dance problem — after the music and its iconic choreography had been featured in “Deadpool and Wolverine” final summer time — the timing does really feel proper for an *NSYNC reunion.
Nonetheless, Fatone stated “it’s a dedication.”
“It’s a massive chunk of time that we must do issues collectively and be collectively. And actually, it’s going to take the time away from our households,” he instructed the Publish.
Though, he added, “I might love my youngsters to see what I did. And I believe everyone else’s youngsters … they’re all inquisitive of what you probably did if you had been younger. And I believe they need to see it.”
So Fatone would say “sure, sure, sure” to getting in sync with Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick once more.
“I can solely communicate for myself proper after I say it will be nice to do one thing,” stated the singer, who shall be becoming a member of the solid of “& Juliet” on Broadway on Jan. 21 for 9 weeks.
“I might like to carry out with my brothers once more. I miss hanging out and enjoying and performing with my mates and my brothers.”