Joey Fatone is in a superb place with Justin Timberlake and the remainder of his NSYNC bandmates however admits that he felt blindsided by one side of Timberlake’s rise to solo famous person standing.
In a brand new interview with Yahoo Leisure, Fatone mirrored on that breakup interval within the band’s previous and the opportunity of not only a reunion however a brand new album following the discharge of NSYNC’s new Trolls Band Collectively track, the group’s first new single because the mid-2000s.
“I used to be not blindsided by the breakup. I used to be extra blindsided so far as him popping out with music and never realizing that he was going to go and do an precise album-tour factor,” Fatone mentioned about his preliminary response to Timberlake’s departure. “It was extra of, ‘Hey, I’m going to do some music, after which we’ll get again collectively.’ That’s what that was.”
Fatone added that whereas it has taken time to see this, he ultimately realized that what had occurred wasn’t a lot the doing of his former bandmate because it was his report label. “It wasn’t him — it was the report firm. If it was him, then I’d perceive it,” he defined. “Whenever you’re youthful, you assume it’s that individual. However you then have a look at the entire greater scheme of issues, and also you go, ‘Oh, that’s why I wasn’t there for that.’ That’s the enterprise. OK, I get it.”
The TV host, Broadway star and singer mentioned that he felt assured the band was nonetheless collectively within the gear-up to Timberlake’s 2003-04 Justified World Tour.
“We thought he was simply going to exit and simply come again after the tour,” Fatone recalled. “I used to be like, OK. However then when he went on tour after which issues began going, I used to be like, ‘All proper, I’ll go do Broadway.’”
Regardless of that preliminary feeling of being blindsided, Fatone shared he’s in a greater place with Timberlake and the remainder of the band. “I’m at all times in a greater place. I don’t learn about [my bandmates]; I can’t communicate for them. However I’ll communicate for myself,” he mentioned.
The band’s much-talked-about reunion, which noticed them current Taylor Swift with a VMA honor final month in New York, sparked rumors in its lead-up that the group would possibly carry out once more collectively. They in the end didn’t, with some contemplating it a missed alternative. NSYNC agreed, based on Fatone.
“Belief me, all of us did,” he mentioned. “With the powers-that-be, we couldn’t in the meanwhile. However I hope and pray that there might be a time that we’ll have the ability to carry out that track for everyone.”
As for whether or not followers can count on them to drop a brand new album anytime quickly, Fatone mentioned followers ought to pump the breaks.
“That takes time,” he defined. “If you happen to’re doing a complete album, you’ve received about 13 or 14 songs, you then need to do about in all probability 30 or 40, since you don’t know which of them you actually need to decide. And now you’ve received 5 different guys that received to determine what’s occurring. That’s simply the music itself — then you bought to determine a tour.”
Nonetheless, Fatone is just not ruling something out fairly but. “You by no means know. I can truly say, ‘You realize what? That’s a risk — ’25, that’s a risk.’ However, there’s 4 different guys I’ve to speak to about that.”
