NSYNC reunited ultimately night time’s MTV Video Music Awards, blowing away audiences and Taylor Swift, who had her personal massive night.
Ain’t no lie, pop boy band NSYNC reunited ultimately night time’s MTV Video Music Awards, giving the primary award of the night time, Greatest Pop Video, to Taylor Swift.
Taking the stage early on, NYSNC — Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, JC Chasez, and Chris Kirkpatrick — have been greeted with a convincing reception. On the mic, Chasez stated, “Over 20 years in the past we have been simply youngsters after we gained Greatest Pop Video for ‘Bye, Bye, Bye,’…It was our first VMA and it meant the world to us.” NYSNC would win the award twice, taking house the Moonman the yr after for, appropriately sufficient, “Pop”.
Lance Bass added, “Loads has modified over the previous twenty years however one factor stays fixed, a inventive, boundary-pushing video leaves an enduring mark for many years.” After naming the nominees, NYSNC introduced Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” as that night time’s winner; that is Swift’s second win within the class.
Upon accepting the award, Swift requested what a lot of the viewers was interested by NYSNC: What now? “I had your dolls…Are you doing one thing? What’s going to occur now? They’re going to do one thing and I must know what it’s. You’re pop personified and to obtain this out of your golden pop palms it’s an excessive amount of.”
Contemplating what NSYNC (and Backstreet Boys, however we didn’t see them handing out something to Ice Spice…) did for boy bands within the late ‘90s, it’s no surprise that Swift was so blown away by their presence. With file gross sales round 70 million, a number of Grammy nominations and their very own assortment of MTV VMAs, NSYNC stays one of the crucial iconic bands of its sort. Following their 2007 breakup, the boys took their very own routes, with essentially the most profitable member being Justin Timberlake, who has had a reasonably constant film profession since.
With or with out NYSNC, Taylor Swift was the true winner ultimately night time’s MTV VMAs, taking house 9 awards out of 11 nominations. That makes her the second-biggest winner in any single night time within the present’s historical past, behind solely Peter Gabriel’s 10 again in 1987 (sure, the “Sledgehammer” video was that good). In the meantime, Swift is setting information on the cinema entrance, as her upcoming live performance movie broke AMC’s pre-sale information set by Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling.