*NSYNC Reunite For Trolls Song, Better Place

*NSYNC’s reunion tune is lastly right here! Hypothesis concerning the iconic ’90s boy band reuniting has had followers freaking out since August when Leisure Tonight reported that the upcoming “Trolls Band Collectively” film would possibly get the band again collectively. Lower than a month later, the rumors had been confirmed with a brand new Trolls trailer.

The third installment of Dreamworks’ Trolls franchise, which hits theaters on Nov. 17, sees Justin Timberlake’s character, Department, reunite along with his former boy band brothers from childhood. Within the movie preview, which dropped on Sept. 14, Department’s boy band identify is revealed to have been “Child Department” and reveals that the band will carry out *NSYNC’s traditional 1997 hit “I Need You Again” in some unspecified time in the future. The trailer additionally teased *NSYNC’s “Higher Place” tune — their first in over 20 years — which lastly dropped on Sept. 29.

Earlier than the tune was launched, Timberlake posted a brief featurette of the members of *NSYNC recording “Higher Place” within the studio, trying as comfy as ever as they stepped again into boy band territory.

*NSYNC’s official reunion brings months of rumors and teasing from the band members to an finish. On July 24, Lance Bass poked enjoyable at reunion hypothesis on TikTok, captioning a video, “Me staring on the incoming name from my supervisor after I made one other joke on TikTok about *NSYNC getting again collectively.” JC Chasez additionally teased a attainable reunion in an Aug. 16 video for his Meow Combine marketing campaign. When requested if he obtained some inspiration from Tabby 5, he responded, “I believe working with the Tabby 5, it has left me eager about different boy band ventures. You by no means know what may occur.” And let’s not neglect that for Chasez’s forty seventh birthday in August, Timberlake posted a snap of him and his former band member within the studio on his Instagram Tales.

Moreover, Timberlake, Chasez, Bass, and the remaining members of *NSYNC (Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone) appeared on the 2023 VMAs on Sept. 12, the place they offered the award for greatest pop. Taylor Swift gained the award and stated what everybody else was pondering in her acceptance speech: that *NSYNC had to be planning one thing huge. And, in fact, they had been.

Instantly after the band offered the glory, the VMAs went to a business break, and a brief trailer for “Trolls Band Collectively” aired. Whereas the trailer’s music started with Timberlake’s 2016 Trolls hit, “Cannot Cease the Feeling,” it swiftly transitioned into lyrics like “Take you to a greater place,” which we now know is from *NSYNC’s new tune.

After their VMAs second, Timberlake posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) of the group driving in an elevator, harking back to scenes from their 2000 “Bye, Bye, Bye” music video. “So 5 guys stroll into an elevator,” he wrote alongside the clip. The official Trolls account reposted the video as properly.

Whereas *NSYNC’s new observe has lastly arrived, it is nonetheless unclear if they’re going to movie a music video or carry out the tune stay. For now, we’ll simply have to attend and see. However within the meantime, take heed to *NSYNC’s “Higher Place” tune forward.