Followers have waited 20 years for an *NSYNC musical reunion, and the day has lastly arrived. Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass got here collectively on Friday (Sept. 29) for the discharge of their upbeat new single, “Higher Place.”
“I don’t thoughts that the world spins sooner, sooner, sooner / Simply let me take you to a greater place,” the boy band sings within the music’s breezy refrain. Forward of the monitor’s launch, JT took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes look of the group within the studio recording collectively. “So many stars aligned and that’s why I hit y’all and was like, ‘Hey, one thing got here up,’” Timberlake is heard telling his former bandmates within the clip. “If we do that music, it’s a love letter to our followers. I’d be honored to have the group on this music.”
The music marks *NSYNC’s first musical launch since 2002 (when the Neptunes remix of “Girlfriend,” that includes Nelly, arrived) and it comes simply weeks after the group stepped onstage collectively on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards to current the award for greatest pop to Taylor Swift for “Anti-Hero.” The group final took the VMAs stage in 2013, for Timberlake’s Video Vanguard Award medley efficiency.
Hearken to *NSYNC’s “Higher Place” under.