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I was super in the closet and way too young to even know or care what was happening. Chris Kirkpatrick sat me down and said, “Hey dude are you gay?” No one had ever asked me that. It was a big day for me because it was the first day someone asked me if I was gay. Some I definitely wanna forget! I loved doing the “It’s Gonna Be Me” shoot but we spent way too many hours in makeup. Lance: It’s hard to pick one that was the most fun. It would be a toss-up between Justin and JC. Joey’s got moves that are really good, and Lance did cool stuff. That’s how Joey got in *NSYNC!”Ĭhris: JC started working on back handsprings. He’s such an incredible dancer and he can pick it up in two seconds. If someone dropped the staff or you didn’t get a good throw to somebody else or you just lost your staff it would screw up the whole thing. And there was a part where we all tossed the staffs to each other. We came out like Blue Man Group - these neon-looking people with these neon staffs. We had another one where we worked with staffs for the opening of one of our tours. And we were supposed to be perfectly in sync.Ĭhris: We had a routine where we had these canes, and we had a little ring connected to a fishing line and we had to throw the canes a couple times and they’d come back and we’d catch them. It was the hardest for me to pick up even though it seemed like the simplest. It was way more groovy and so much more smooth. He did “Girlfriend” and the last tour, and he had this different style that we hadn’t been doing.

One of my favorite choreographers was Marty. Lance: There were a lot of dances that tested my patience and made me frustrated. I loved the award show dance routines because when we’d done “Bye Bye Bye,” “It’s Gonna Be Me,” and “Girlfriend” so many times it wasn’t fun with muscle memory. There were a couple of other songs we did during it like “Just Got Paid” with this whole cartoon-y theme.

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For the 2000 MTV Awards we had TV screens for “Bye Bye Bye.” That was really fun. You had to adapt quickly there was no other option.Ĭhris: My favorite routines were for awards shows. I was from a show-tune world and we were all about spirit fingers. To this day, several times a day I hear someone walk by me and go “Bye Bye Bye” and do the hand motion! When I joined the group I was not a dancer. Lance: One of my favorites to perform was “Bye Bye Bye.” Any time a song has an iconic dance move in it like that it’s a beast. We did it for the record label, not for us.

It was on the European album - this big European dance song. I don’t even think it made it to the first American album.Ĭhris: There’s a song called “Riddle” that’s absolutely horrible. We performed it on our first tour and I never felt right singing it. We played around with a little techno in the late ’90s and it was never good. We were just playing around with different styles and songs we thought would be cool.

We were an acapella group so the only sound we knew we loved was Boyz II Men or Az Yet. Lance: Ah there’s so many contenders! When you first start out as a new band, especially when you’re teenagers, you don’t know what your sound is yet. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick reminisced with Vulture about their halcyon days making dirty pop, picking the best and worst and most and least of *NSYNC. Frontloaded with their signature hit “Bye Bye Bye” and the meme-inspiring “It’s Gonna Be Me,” the fivesome created memorable videos, choreography, and outfits to match the bombast of the songs. It heralded their split from their disgraced former manager Lou Pearlman, and with its forward-thinking mix of funk, R&B, and electronic-pop, secured their standing as one of the biggest boybands to ever exist. They shifted 2.4 million copies of the album in its first week of sales alone ( a record only since topped by Adele, 15 years later) and surpassed any other album released in the year 2000. On its cover Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Lance Bass appeared as five puppets on strings, but at the time, the group was at the peak of its cultural control. Twenty years ago this month, *NSYNC released their history-making second album No Strings Attached. Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick reminisce about their halcyon days making dirty pop.