Justin Timberlake makes fun of himself for pronouncing ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’

Justin Timberlake gets a little excited.

The 43-year-old Grammy winner shed light on his mispronunciation of the title line of *NSYNC’s 2000 smash song. it’s gonna be Me And how it gave birth to many it’s gonna be May memes in a video posted on social media on Tuesday.

“What is a word that you once mispronounced and that word still bothers you today?” asked influencer @umgabi in a TikTok video, to which Timberlake amusingly replied in the accompanying video, “Um… ‘Me.”

Several videos of the boy band members’ unique renditions of the song’s phrase “Me” were circulated by *NSYNC fans decades ago. The footage was combined with the images sexyback Singers in diverse settings.

His bandmate Joey Fatone recently revealed people magazine The group texts back and forth in the *NSYNC text chain, and exchanges “It’s Gonna Happen”.

“There was a meme that was like Justin looked like he was wearing something from the Night’s Watch from Game of Thrones and I sent him one of those,” he said.

“It was really fun. Every once in a while, one of us would find a good one and we’d send it on the group text,” said Fatone, 47, who clarified the meme was “not a thing at all.” . Initial release of a chart-topping song*NSYNC No strings attached album,

“It was just, ‘This is gonna be me.’ When you sing it, it sounds a lot harsher if you’re trying to say, ‘This is going to be a lot.’ It doesn’t sound very good to the ear,” he said. “So when we pronounced it, [producer] Max Martin came up with the idea of ​​saying, ‘It’s going to be May.’ But we never knew it was going to grow and become its own thing. And every year you get crazy stuff. But this is hilarious. And we can accept it.”