Katherine: Specifically, he’s selling soda pop (LOL GET IT) to a lady: “I’m talking to you, sassy girl!” Actress Sandra McCoy presumably made it to casting because she was once in a girl group (it got so little traction I can’t even find its name), but she’s really here because she looks oddly like Jessica Biel.Ĭrystal: I was a Justin girl, obviously, and god, this was right before peak-Justin:Ĭrystal: Hair is already correct. We’ll try to go through them as we go along, but starting off, Justin is “starring” in some obnoxious fake commercial, some weird sign of his future SNL-obsessed days. There is so much weird foreshadowing about the futures and future careers of the members of *NSYNC hidden within this video. Really.Ĭrystal: Should go without saying, but because this song is SELF-AWARE, the video is absolutely nutty. But here it’s a megaclub, the portal to which is located inside a bowl of Alpha-Bits in Stepford-suburban Orlando. He’s done this for yonks and knows all sorts of trivia, like the gonzo pop stage being, during one lifetime, the stage for the munchkin scene in The Wizard of Oz. Katherine: Wayne Isham directed this video if you see a video and don’t know who directed it, assume Wayne Isham did. This is a place where the Making Of is worth watching, if only to see this tandem duckface: We also mention Wade because he also fills in for Joey Fatone during some of the wide shots here, as Joey hurt his leg on a trap door while filming. Katherine: Though if you watch the nine-part Making the Video feature on YouTube (each part is only 2 minutes, don’t worry) everyone involved is remarkably cagey about what “co-written” means exactly: “He’s perfect for the… choreography. Katherine: THAT DID NOT HAPPEN THAT IS TRL FANFICTIONĬrystal: The song was co-written by Wade Robson, who is supposedly partially responsible for being the other dude in the subject of this classic. “I know someone.”Ĭrystal: Katherine literally gchatted this to me this morning and I said “It’s too early for fanfiction” and she went “ayyyy lmao.” The bodyguards’ nickname for him is Hollywood. The Jedi War! I’ll wear prosthetics and everything!” “How bad do you wanna be in that?” Lance said, seriously. Man, I’d love to be in that!” JC said, just dreaming. “Aren’t they filming 3 at the same time?” Lance said.
“Jada Pinkett’s gonna be bad in Matrix 2,” JC said. This is a tangent, but the following is either a quote from the Rolling Stone article or a quote from fanfiction, and I am not going to tell you which: note: The only other non-scraped use I could find of the phrase “frackle-stutter” is an old Dallas Observer piece on… “Pop.” So either it predates the internet or BT literally just pulled this particular phrasing out of his ass.) Specifically, “Pop” was produced by BT, best known in the Katherine Canon(™) for his Tori Amos collab “ Blue Skies.” The track he was going for, apparently, was his own “ Hip Hop Phenomenon” and his signature “like, Max Headroom-style frackle-stutter edits,” audible in the song and visible in the video editing. Katherine: When Celebrity was released, teenpop was massive and had massive amounts of backlash, so to promote the album ‘N Sync went hard on the “sudden artistic credibility” angle, as most boy bands eventually do if they live long enough: carefully placed magazine features, new, moderately more arty (though still commercial) producers. Except before those.Ĭrystal: I always feel as though I am behind my music writing peers to appreciate pop culture, but even as a kid with limited access to radio/music videos, I loved “Pop.” Even at some young age, I was already a huge dork who appreciated it when pop went self-aware. Katherine: “Pop” is a fun/frustrated/frickin’ ridiculous piece of heavy meta-pop imagine “Best Song Ever” filtered through any number of blogpoptimist sensations, yr Annies and such, that define pop as a genre and a fighting point. Katherine: It took us 14 entries, but we have finally arrived at that pop perennial: the boy band. There should be a mashup between this song and uptown funk From the comments section: bruno mars is trying to bring back this funky sound again but *nsync does it better.
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