Predicto

It’s 2009, so you know what we need? The reunion of a uber-popular boy band from the nineties!

You see, Lance Bass told Billboard.com that he still hopes to reunite the group one day. And somehow he thinks that Justin Timberlake would be interested. Oh Lance, how adorably  naive!

Justin Timberlake has zero impetus for returning to the band that launched him into superstardom and relegated his bandmates to reality shows and failed solo projects. I’m sure he likes those other guys well enough, but I can’t imagine JT is so loyal that he would want to do those “Bye Bye Bye” dance moves ever again in his lifetime.

I bet Lance, Chris, JC and Joey will eventually reunite without Justin simply because they have nothing else to do. The question is, will they do so in 2009? 52% of the the Predicto Mobile community believes that ‘N Sync will reunite without Justin Timberlake this year.

Here’s the thing: boy band reunions only work if all of its members have flailing careers to resuscitate. Take the New Kids on the Block. None of those guys were too famous to rejoin the band to make some extra bucks, so they were all equally committed to singing the old hits and pretending they still liked each other.

If one of them didn’t show up (especially one of the “heartthrobs” like Joey or Jonathan) then nobody would give a crap about hearing four middle-aged men keening “Please Don’t Go Girl.”

The one exception? Recruit another boy bander to take Justin’s place! Someone unexpected and awesome, like former New Edition frontman Bobby Brown. Now that would be worth seeing!

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