Joey Fatone on Which *NSYNC Song Should’ve Been a Bigger Hit (Exclusive)
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- Joey Fatone looks back at *NSYNC’s biggest moments and shares which song he thought fans would like more when it first dropped
- Fatone, who is currently in Broadway’s &Juliet, also tells PEOPLE about some of the band’s more grueling moments on music video sets
- Fatone is partnering with Red Lobster to celebrate its new $19.99 3-Course Shrimp Sensation
Joey Fatone appreciates all the love fans have shown *NSYNC over the years.
In a conversation with PEOPLE about his partnership with Red Lobster to celebrate the brand’s new $19.99 3-Course Shrimp Sensation, Fatone reveals the one song that didn’t get as much appreciation from fans as he’d hoped.
“The one that’s always a banger and always fun for me, I think it was a good song that’s like a B-side, is ‘It Makes Me Ill,’ ” he shares of the song, off of 2000’s No Strings Attached.
“It’s a good song, I think, that’s always a fun song to do or even listen to and stuff like that, and it should have been maybe been out more on the forefront. But hey, can’t have all the bangers out like that, can we?” he says with a laugh.
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Fatone is proud to have “told stories” with the songs *NSYNC put out into the world.
“The concepts of the videos back in the day, which … People still shoot videos, but it’s not the way it used to be back in the day,” he explains.
With nostalgia for the ’90s as hot as ever right now, Fatone is excited to see the return to some of the more playful attitudes that marked the turn of the millennium.
“People are starting to come back to doing fun and entertaining and very sometimes comical music videos and commercials again, like the Red Lobster that we’re doing right now,” he says. “It’s great. It’s awesome.”
As for his favorite music video to make with his *NSYNC bandmates Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, Fatone says that it was also “the most grueling one.”
“For ‘It’s Gonna Be Me,’ when we were dressed up as those little dolls, we were in makeup literally 24 hours, but it was just really cool because we had different things that were really life-size. There was these shelves that were in the video and it looks like it was all green screen, but no, they were real shelves,” he explains.
“There was a real, live bug Beetle car in a box, and so was the motorcycle. So it looked like it was a kids’ thing, but we were really in it.”
