*Another* bit of JC press...kinda.

[foxmonkey]

Read it here, or here.

JC gives info on plans for an NSync Christmas album in 2004, and the article mentions Justin's latest comments in Rolling Stone.



'N Sync Will Reform, Says JC Chasez
December 19, 2003

'N Sync singer JC Chasez insists the boyband will reunite for a Christmas album next year despite bandmate Justin Timberlake's claims he has no interest in going back.

Chasez - who releases his own debut solo album in January - claims the five-piece will return to the studio next Spring to record tracks for the comeback LP

But Timberlake, who has shot to fame as a solo artists since the Girlfriend group took a sabbatical last year, recently dismissed plans to reteam with Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and chris Fitzpatrick - because he makes better music on his own.

In an interview earlier this month he said, "I think that whole time I was living in some small shape of oblivion. I thought, 'They're just putting that teen-pop label on us because they don't understand.'

"I look back now and realise that that's exactly what it was. I've had some of the greatest experiences with those guys, but do I think that what I've done with Justified is 10 times better than anything 'N Sync has ever done? Yes I do."

Comments

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

I ended up not being mad at him, but cringing for him, after I read the whole article. It was like 'Own your own past, man!'. Sure he thinks his latest work is his best, it's a sad day for any artist if that's not true, but the all my past work was trash and I was crazy for thinking anything else stuff I thought was just sad.

And if I took his quotes literally, I'd think he was kind of delusional. There just isn't that much difference between Bye Bye Bye and Rock Your Body. Neither of them are particularly adventurous musically or lyrically; they are both upbeat, dancy, catchy pop tunes. You can think one of them is better than the other, but exponentially different in quality? I think not. Pop was far more adventurous than either of them.

If he really thought his stuff was '10x better than anything Nsync ever did', I wouldn't have much hope for his future records, because his critical faculties would be pretty clearly on crack, but I don't think he was particularly serious. I think he was just doing that trying to fit in thing that got him in trouble more than once during his tour of radio stations when LILY came out. RS wants to hear that yeah, all the boyband stuff was crap, so that's what he tells them.

[xphile101.livejournal.com]

RS wants to hear that yeah, all the boyband stuff was crap, so that's what he tells them.


Exactly -- you have to think of your intended audience when you read the quote. The quote (while read by us fans) was not really intended for us. It's intended for RS readers, who typically despise *nsync and grudgingly enjoy Justin. If anything, those readers' appreciation of him probably went up after reading the article.

but the all my past work was trash and I was crazy for thinking anything else stuff I thought was just sad.

Did he really say (or imply) that all of it was trash, though? I honestly read the article very quickly while at work, and haven't seen it posted online, so my memory is slightly sketchy.

My understanding was that he thought he was crazy for trying to deny to himself that their music had anything like a social conscience. Not that pop is bad, but he was trying to trick himself into thinking that they weren't your typical pop group. (Which, I suppose, you could argue that they were or they weren't. But this is a long comment already, so I'll stop.)

(If I had produced the first *nsync album, I would be really embarassed, too. With the exception of maybe one or two songs, that whole album is not so much wonderful.)