On the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards final night time, viewers had been handled to a tremendous shock when all 5 former members of pop boy band supergroup *NSYNC walked onto the VMA stage.
There have been rumblings right here and there about whether or not or not the “Bye Bye Bye” singers had been planning slightly reunion of kinds, however this shock look positive appears to trace to one thing, doesn’t it?
And Taylor Swift agrees.
After Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick awarded Swift the moon man trophy for finest pop video, she gave a hilariously awkward and completely relatable speech, talking for each millennial watching from their sofa at residence.
“I’m not doing effectively pivoting from this to this,” Swift mentioned, gesturing between the band and her award. “I had your dolls!”
It’s been 22 years because the launch of *NSYNC’s final studio album, Superstar.
The boy band was an unstoppable power within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s with hits like, “Tearin’ Up My Coronary heart” and “It’s Gonna Be Me.”
The group went on hiatus in 2002 and have solely appeared collectively a handful of instances since then. The 5 of them final carried out collectively on the 2013 VMAs throughout a Timberlake efficiency.
On the VMAs, Bass even handed Swift a beaded friendship bracelets, a preferred development from her Eras Tour exhibits — which is an homage to the road in her track, “You’re On You’re Personal Child,” during which she sings, “Make the friendship bracelets/Take the second and style it.”
She then mentions the thought that was on everybody’s thoughts: are these 5 males as much as one thing?
“I like, what, like, are you doing one thing? What’s gonna occur now? They’re gonna do one thing, and I must know what it’s!” she exclaimed. “You guys are pop personified. So to obtain this out of your golden pop palms is absolutely ― it’s an excessive amount of.”
Her quizzical appears and suspicions are principally seemingly spot-on, particularly coming from the queen of easter eggs.
Swift was as soon as once more “millennial triggered” when she accepted one other award. This time, from Nelly Furtado and Timbaland. Swift gushed about Timbaland and Furtado’s presence, asking if the duo had been goning to “do one thing” collectively.
The “Promiscuous Woman” duo did, the truth is, do one thing collectively as they launched “Hold Going Up” with Timberlake every week prior.
Right here’s to a wonderful mix of pop nostalgia and fashionable music making.
