Twenty-five years after *NSYNC released its breakup anthem “Bye Bye Bye” on Jan. 17, 2020, fans still haven’t gotten over the boy band’s own split.
But after the group appeared at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards and then released the single “Better Place” from the “Trolls Band Together” soundtrack, there was buzz that the group might be reuniting in a bigger way for an album or tour.
Since then, however, *NSYNC has only appeared on the “Paradise” track off Justin Timberlake’s 2024 album “Everything I Thought It Was.”
“We have to have a conversation,” Joey Fatone, 47, exclusively told The Post. “That’s really what it boils down to. And we’re gonna hopefully do that soon. We keep saying ‘soon,’ but it’s getting where it’s like either s—t or get off the pot. Let’s be real.”
And with the 25th anniversary of *NSYNC’s blockbuster album “No Strings Attached” coming up in March, Fatone thinks that it’s time for “that moment of the five of us sitting down going, ‘OK, what does this look like? Do we want to do a tour? Is it just a tour? Is it an album? Is it an EP? Are we not going to do anything? Like, what exactly are we going to do?’”
Former *NSYNC manager Johnny Wright, who now manages Timberlake, also doesn’t rule out a reunion in the future.
“Never say never,” said Wright. “I think that when all things can slow down individually for everybody, and there’s a conversation that makes sense, then yeah, it could possibly happen. But I’m not saying 100 percent that it will.
“Some people think it’s just as easy as making a phone call and hey, the next day we’re in the studio making a record. It’s a little bit more detailed than that,” he continued. “But again, when the planets and the time and everything lines up, anything is possible.”
With “Bye Bye Bye” recently trending from a viral dance challenge — after the song and its iconic choreography were featured in “Deadpool & Wolverine” last summer — the timing does feel right for an *NSYNC reunion.
Still, Fatone said “it’s a commitment.”
“It is a big chunk of time that we would have to do things together and be together. And honestly, it’s going to take the time away from our families,” he told The Post.
Although, he added, “I would love my kids to see what I did. And I think everybody else’s kids … they’re all inquisitive of what you did when you were young. And I think they want to see it.”
So Fatone would say “yes, yes, yes” to getting in sync with Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick again.
“I can only speak for myself right when I say it would be great to do something,” said the singer, who will be joining the cast of “& Juliet” on Broadway on Jan. 21 for nine weeks.
“I would love to perform with my brothers again. I miss hanging out and playing and performing with my friends and my brothers.”
