![Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick and Justin Timberlake of NSYNC attend the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1677096193-H-2023.jpg?w=1024)
NSYNC on the 2023 VMAs
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The boys are again.
After taking the stage on the 2023 VMAs, NSYNC has launched their first single, “Higher Place,” since Justin Timberlake left the band 19 years in the past.
The music was launched on Friday as a part of the soundtrack for Trolls Band Together, the third movie within the animated franchise starring Timberlake and Anna Kendrick.
The most recent installment follows Kendrick’s Poppy and Timberlake’s Department, who are actually formally a pair. When Poppy finds out about Department’s secret previous as a member of her favourite boy band, BroZone, she helps convey Department and his 4 brothers Floyd (Troye Sivan), John Dory (Eric André), Spruce (Daveed Diggs) and Clay (Child Cudi) again collectively.
NSYNC, which additionally consists of Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone, introduced they were reuniting for the music in a video shared on Timberlake’s social media accounts on Sept. 14. The clip sees the band’s former frontman strategy the others with a request they work collectively on a music for the movie.
“That’s the primary NSYNC music completed in 23 years,” Bass says on the finish of the video, to which Timberlake replies, “Hear, man, I really like you guys. That shit is … that shit is epic, man.”
The favored boy band reunited at this 12 months’s VMAs to current the very best pop music video award to Taylor Swift for “Anti-Hero” 20 years after they took dwelling the identical prize for “Bye Bye Bye.”
NSYNC rose to superstardom within the late ’90s and early 2000s with hits like “Tearin’ Up My Coronary heart,” “It’s Gonna Be Me,” “This I Promise You,” “Girlfriend,” “Pop” and extra.