Last Tuesday, I woke up to my twitter timeline full of "rumors" of an *NSYNC reunion. It was rumored to happen during the MTV VMAs, when Justin Timberlake is supposed to win a special award. At first I thought it was funny, because they were mostly on *NSYNC fan sites, citing one source. As the week went by, and the event came closer, more and more entertainment "news" outlets were reporting it. No one from their camp denied it, and then they took the
@NSYNC twitter handle (they previously had @realNSYNC as their "official" but unverified handle), and sent out a tweet:
That's when I started to believe. I mean, why bother with the Twitter thing if they're not doing anything. Yes, part of me thought they would tweet "LOL NOPE" during the VMAs, but it's very unlikely. Whoever leaked this story (I'm assuming MTV) did their job well; I had no idea that the VMAs was yesterday until this happened.
The night came, I recorded the show because I wouldn't want to have to go through the whole show; I just wanted to see Justin, and maybe *NSYNC. I skimmed through the show, and got super excited when Jimmy Fallon went on stage. I missed the reports that he was presenting Justin's award, but it had to be him, right?
When they said Justin Timberlake was scheduled to perform, I wasn't expecting a ~15 minutes set! I've watched his performance a few times, but I still can't name all the songs he did in his medley. He started the show with "Take Back the Night" and he brought life to the event, turned it into a dance party. He did a little dance break in the middle of his set, and then the intro to "Pusher Love Girl" started while he walked to a different stage in the arena. He had been moving around the stages, involving all sides of the audience. As he reached the stage, four men were lifted from under the stage, and there they were. Justin noted "you asked for it" while joining his former bandmates. And then this happened:
I really wished they got the audio right. They sang the hook from "Gone" and I didn't even hear it the first time around. Then during "Girlfriend" JC had to almost scream his part of the verse. It was short, but it was definitely sweet. It's nice to see that a decade later, Lance is still the worst dancer in the group. The guys were lowered into the stage, left the way they came. Justin closed the performance with "Suit & Tie" and "Mirrors" before receiving his award from Fallon. He thanked his manager, his folks, and shared the award with *NSYNC (although he'd like to keep it in his house).
JC called in Ryan Seacrest's radio show earlier today to talk about the performance. He said that Justin was the one who called a few days (!) earlier and said that he's getting this award, and since their career started on MTV, he asked if the group wanted to do a little something to commemorate that part of his career. And JC said that if your friend called, you wanna be there for him, and that's why they did it. I just love these guys so much. Still. I think the call and when the rumor started happened pretty much around the same time. Great PR from MTV.
And throughout the night, my Twitter and Tumblr basically exploded with *NSYNC stuff.
After the jump, a bunch of stolen pictures, super short Tumblr GIFs, maybe even videos from the night.
I'm about to sink any street cred I may have with the cool kids or as a classical music major (or as a straight guy for that matter), but I like Nsync. I think they were incredibly talented and I still enjoy their music.
