It’s unlikely to have been blared out in Ayia Napa yet it’s no disgrace, either.ĭespite all their experimental talk, *NSYNC didn’t entirely abandon the Swedish hitmakers that helped to put them on the map. One of three Chasez co-writes with the team behind Eurodance outfit Love Inc., “The Two of Us” makes the more tentative foray, with its verses taking on the form of a R&B waltz. So it was a surprise to hear essentially the biggest band in the States adopt the sound not just once but twice.
Other than Craig David’s “Fill Me In,” the two-step garage scene that dominated the UK charts during Y2K never really traveled across the Atlantic. Yet “Do Your Thing” is more filler than triumphant finale. Moss dropping some quite frankly ridiculous bars (“Gotta hump, gotta bump, never sit on a stump/Never quit from the swell of a lump”) over some stuttering electronic beats and that early ’00s R&B mainstay, the harpsichord. Instead of Timberlake beatboxing, this time around we get songwriter J. *NSYNC made one last-ditch attempt to prove that they’re more interesting than the average boy band with a jittery self-empowering anthem which, like its other bookend, throws an unexpected burst of hip-hop into the mix. But the penultimate number is slightly redeemed by an understated chorus which bears a resemblance to Boyz II Men’s final chart-topper “4 Seasons of Loneliness.” It even wastes the album’s only guest star, the one and only Stevie Wonder, on a corny harmonica riff, too. You can certainly picture Chasez sincerely grabbing the air while delivering schmaltzy lines like “I would die for you/Cause I don’t want to live without you.” Produced by Brian McKnight, “Selfish” ultimately sounds more like a 98 Degrees B-side than a pop outfit at the top of their game.Ĭo-written by the group’s vocal coach Robin Wiley, the equally slushy “Something Like You” is also guilty of the eyeroll-worthy lyric that now sounds like a parody from the Lonely Island (“Something keeps telling me that you could be my answered prayer/You must be heaven sent, I swear”). *NSYNC’s claims that they were no longer the cliched boy band once masterminded by Lou Pearlman were slightly undermined by the fact that this drippy ballad could have quite comfortably slotted onto their eponymous 1997 debut. But does it still hold up 20 years on? From treacly love songs to two-step bangers, here are its 13 tracks ranked from worst to best.
In fact, by inadvertently laying the groundwork for Timberlake’s solo career, it proved to be too effective – the quintet would never enter the studio together again. Unlike their forefathers New Kids on the Block’s misguided attempt to go street, *NSYNC’s quest for authenticity didn’t embarrass. “We also wanted to prove that pop music comes in a lot of different flavors. “Our objective was not to be self-conscious and try to make another hit record,” Chasez told Billboard ahead of its 2001 release. “I was like, ‘Man, this track is slamming!” he says.Members of Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC & Boyz II Men Team Up For Las Vegas 'After Party' “’This is going to be the pinnacle.'” So Henson hopped on a flight to Vegas where NSYNC was performing at the Billboard Awards so they could play him “Bye Bye Bye” for the first time. “He was like, ‘No, no, no, you don’t understand you gotta do this song,’” Henson recalls. Henson told Wright he was pursuing acting and no longer choreographing, but Wright wasn’t having it. Henson - whose résumé boasts names such as New Kids on the Block, Britney Spears, and the Spice Girls - was actually on the brink of quitting the industry after losing out on a VMA for his work on Jordan Knight’s “Give It to You” when he got the call from NSYNC manager Johnny Wright. That unforgettable choreography was the brainchild of acclaimed choreographer (and creator of everyone’s favorite 2001 instructional dance VHS, Darrin’s Dance Grooves), Darrin Henson. “It’s funny how things come back to you so easily, but I guess if you did it, you know, five million times, it’s somewhere in your DNA.” “I feel like I’ve taught that dance to about 50 people this year alone,” says Bass, who remembers actually breaking his ankle while performing the routine on SNL shortly after shooting the video. If you don’t know the signature move to the “Bye Bye Bye” chorus, you’re too young to be reading this piece.
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