‘NSync Reunites at the 2023 VMAs, Taylor Swift Has Questions

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Taylor Swift accepts the Finest Pop award for “Anti-Hero” introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick and JC Chasez onstage throughout the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.
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‘NSync made their followers’ goals 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 lads reunited to current the primary award of the night time, Finest Pop Video. “Over 20 years in the past, we have been simply youngsters once we gained Finest Pop Video for ‘Bye Bye Bye,’” Chasez stated. “It was our first VMA and it meant the world to us.”

Bass added, “So much has modified during the last 20 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.

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Taylor Swift accepts the award for Finest Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, onstage throughout the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023.
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“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 enduring boy band on stage.

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“I’m not doing properly pivoting,” Swift stated. “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. Thanks for the friendship bracelets.”

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Taylor Swift accepts the award for Finest Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Justin Timberlake, onstage throughout the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023.
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The group sparked rumors that they would seem on the VMAs after Timberlake, 42, Fatone, 46, and Bass, 44, have been all noticed individually in New York Metropolis on Monday, September 11. Chasez, 47, was additionally seen on a personal aircraft, whereas Kirkpatrick, 51, posted a 9/11 tribute of a New York Metropolis Fireplace Division 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. Extra lately, 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 Coronary 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. Followers have speculated that Chasez, Bass, Fatone and Kirkpatrick could have shock roles in Timberlake’s upcoming animated movie Trolls Band Collectively, which is ready to come back out in November, they usually imagine the group recorded a music for the soundtrack.

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Taylor Swift accepts the award for Finest Pop Video, introduced by (from L) Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, onstage throughout the MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023.
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The trailer for the third movie within the Trolls franchise has hinted at a boy-band theme, as Timberlake’s character, Department, was as soon as in a gaggle referred to as BroZone together with his brothers. “Department, 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 course 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 chance. “I feel it simply needs to be the best time; all of us need to be impressed within the second,” he stated. “However I do assume the world wants one thing once more from ‘NSync.”

He added: “I at all times really feel unhealthy that there was no ending, as a result of we didn’t have a remaining present, we didn’t have a remaining tour, as a result of we didn’t realize it was the ultimate days. I feel 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 previous.”

‘NSync fashioned 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 character.