Taylor Swift accepts the Best Pop award for “Anti-Hero” introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and JC Chasez onstage through the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. Noam Galai/Getty Images
‘NSync made their followers’ desires come true when all 5 members of the boy band — Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick — reunited on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, September 12.
The males reunited to current the primary award of the night time, Best Pop Video. “Over 20 years in the past, we had been simply youngsters once we gained Best Pop Video for ‘Bye Bye Bye,’” Chasez mentioned. “It was our first VMA and it meant the world to us.”
Bass added, “Quite a bit has modified during the last twenty years, however one factor stays fixed: a inventive, boundary-pushing video leaves an enduring mark for many years.”
Fatone thanked MTV and the followers earlier than transitioning into the nominees. Timberlake opened the envelope to announce the winner.
Taylor Swift accepts the award for Best Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, onstage through the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP by way of Getty Images
“And the VMA goes to the unstoppable Taylor Swift,” Timberlake introduced. The “Anti-Hero” singer hugged every member of the band — with Bass even giving her some friendship bracelets — which left Swift admitting that she had a tough time specializing in the award with the long-lasting boy band on stage.
“I’m not doing properly pivoting,” Swift mentioned. “Like, I had your dolls. Like, are you doing one thing? What’s going to occur now? They’re going to do one thing and I have to know what it’s. You guys are pop personified and to obtain this out of your golden pop palms is — actually, it’s an excessive amount of. Thank you for the friendship bracelets.”
Taylor Swift accepts the award for Best Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Justin Timberlake, onstage through the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP by way of Getty Images
The group sparked rumors that they would seem on the VMAs after Timberlake, 42, Fatone, 46, and Bass, 44, had been all noticed individually in New York City on Monday, September 11. Chasez, 47, was additionally seen on a non-public airplane, whereas Kirkpatrick, 51, posted a 9/11 tribute of a New York City Fire Department truck in Manhattan.
The reunion comes a decade after the 5 authentic members of the band carried out collectively for the final time — in August 2013, they teamed as much as sing a medley of hits as Timberlake accepted the Video Vanguard Award on the VMAs. More not too long ago, Chasez, Bass, Fatone and Kirkpatrick joined Ariana Grande for her set at Coachella in April 2019, performing “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” and “Tearin’ Up My Heart.” Timberlake was not current for the Coachella reunion due to a scheduling battle.
‘NSync is rumored to be releasing new music quickly for the primary time since 2002. Fans have speculated that Chasez, Bass, Fatone and Kirkpatrick could have shock roles in Timberlake’s upcoming animated movie Trolls Band Together, which is ready to return out in November, and so they imagine the group recorded a music for the soundtrack.
Taylor Swift accepts the award for Best Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, onstage through the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP by way of Getty Images
The trailer for the third movie within the Trolls franchise has hinted at a boy-band theme, as Timberlake’s character, Branch, was as soon as in a gaggle referred to as BroZone along with his brothers. “Branch, we’re out of sync,” Floyd (Troye Sivan) tells his brother within the teaser. “We’ve gone from boys to males, and now there’s just one route for us to go: to the again streets.”
As for a possible ‘NSync reunion tour, Bass instructed Billboard in February that he would “by no means say by no means” to the likelihood. “I believe it simply needs to be the precise time; all of us should be impressed within the second,” he mentioned. “But I do suppose the world wants one thing once more from ‘NSync.”
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He added: “I at all times really feel dangerous that there was no ending, as a result of we didn’t have a ultimate present, we didn’t have a ultimate tour, as a result of we didn’t comprehend it was the ultimate days. I believe we owe it to the followers to provide them one thing in some unspecified time in the future. I simply hope it’s earlier than I’m 80 years outdated.”
‘NSync shaped in 1995 and launched 4 albums and a string of hits, together with “It’s Gonna Be Me,” “Bye Bye Bye” and “Pop.” After the band took a hiatus in 2002, Timberlake went on to have a profitable solo profession, and the group disbanded for good. Chasez has since labored as a songwriter and producer, Fatone turned a tv host, Bass pursued podcasting, appearing and activism, and Kirkpatrick turned a producer, voice actor and TV persona.
