'N SYNC: 3 to 2

'NSYNC: 3 to 2

'N SYNC: 3 to 2

Got this from Dansie at the Oh My Lance! List (she's not sure where it came from either):

Being a member of what many are now calling "The Biggest Band in the World" can not possibly be considered a bad thing can it? There are millions of girls in love with you and even more millions of dollars in your pocket, so what could in any way suck about that? Well what if you are Joey Fatone or Chris Kirkpatrick of the mega-famous pop act Nsync and the only thing you see when you open a magazine with your group on the cover is the smiling face's of your three other band mates. First off that is not to say that Joey and Chris are not somewhere in the pictorial of the quintet they just aren't in the pullout posters.

After the release of the Orlando-based group's fourth studio album critics made fans quite aware that the album entitled Celebrity should have been more appropriately titled "Timberlake, Chasez and Three Other Guys." Celebrity is by far an album that shows that there are some leadership reigns in Nsync and by the sound of it, those reigns are being pulled by Justin Timberlake 20, and 24 year-old JC Chasez. The two are the only ones responsible for lead vocals on all of Celebrity's 13 tracks, with the remainder of the band Fatone 24, Kirkpatrick 29, and Lance Bass 22 to fill in the background with remarkable but genuinely underused harmonies. This is no new news to longtime Nsync fans who have come to realize that no matter how long they beg and scream for the other three to take the mic solo, it just isn't going to happen so they have given up and have gotten used to it. However, it seems that there might be more unequal power in the Nsync camp then just the handling of lead vocals. In fact when you look at things from a reporters, photographers, marketers, or even a fans point of view you
might see that in a band of five members many people only see three.

That is right I said three. Don't be fooled by the fact that Lance Bass was labeled by the critics as one of those "Other Guys", he is in fact one of the "IT" guys in Nsync. A few years back when Nsync was literally the new kids on the music block, Bass was stated by Rolling Stone magazine as being "the one you forget is even a member", but times have changed. They have changed so much the when the same magazine released separate covers featuring each member that Bass's soloed cover was produced in the same quantity as those featuring Chasez and Timberlake. In numbers terms that is roughly double of those covers produced featuring Fatone and Kirkpatrick. So why has Lance Bass suddenly become so marketable in a group that just a small time ago only had two standouts? That answer is quite simple: in teenager terms Lance became a hottie. No longer the group shy guy, Bass has become a full on celebrity sex symbol. Combining his natural good looks, with southern charm, designer clothes, laid back personality, brains, and a hardcore sense of business that could make Donald Trump seem amateur Bass has stepped into the forefront and has left the other two behind in the background. Bass owns a successful music management company and a burgeoning film production company, which will see it's first film released this fall with none other than Lance himself playing the lead. Although Joey Fatone will co-star in the Miramax film all eyes will most likely once again be on Bass, but than again what else is new.

For now it seems that Fatone and Kirkpatrick are seated safely in the backseat of the Nsync roller coaster. For whatever reason they see no reason to complain that a recent issue of YM magazine featuring the group felt compelled to use only Timberlake, Chasez and Bass in full page (easy to hang as posters) pictures, and left the other two to be featured in small, bottom of the page of article shots. They obviously have no beef with that fact that the 2002 Nsync calendars are being sold in only four ways: a group, a Justin, a JC, and a Lance. They must not seem to mind that more 8" by 10" pictures sold at the group's Pop Odyssey tour feature multiple shots of their three friends but only one or two of them. So I guess all in all, if they don't mind than why should anyone else. Maybe being in the "Biggest Band in the World" is just enough.

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