It’s gon na be May! Wait, May is at the moment proper right here, subsequently is the preliminary of the May memes this month. (May the 4th be with you is awaiting its galactic flip.) A selected * NSYNC monitor is again in memedom for a day or two, previous to vanishing for a further yr.
It’s Gonna Be Me is successful monitor launched by younger boy band * NSYNC again in 2000– 25 years in the past thisMay In it, vocalist Justin Timberlake does probably not sing, “It’s gonna be May,” moderately, he sings, “It’s gonna be me,” but his Tennessee accent and the spin he locations on phrases make it look like he charges within the yr’s fifth month.
So yearly, proper previous to it’s gon na be May, the * NSYNC video clip obtains a spike in YouTube sights, and the memes start flying. In 2014, additionally after that-President Barack Obama joked about it on Facebook, sharing an image of himself and Timberlake.
‘Memes last permanently’
Members of * NSYNC only in the near past spoke about the meme on NBC’s Today.
“‘It’s Going to Be May’ time is always the gift that keeps on giving,” said bandmember Lance Bass.
Bass credit score scores the younger generations for sustaining his monitor lively.
“It’s the kids out there. They’re doing it,” Bass said onToday “I mean, memes last forever. Thank goodness. Who knew 25 years from now so remembered out of the way Justin pronounced ‘me’? Thanks, Justin!”
Timberlake himself has really joked relating to it. On the final day of April 2020, he tweeted a photo of his COVID-masked self with the “It’s gonna be May” subtitle.
“Thanks for this, Internet,” Timberlake created within the tweet.
Spring Summer 2020. Thanks for this,Internet pic.twitter.com/I3mdWPTjiN
— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) May 1, 2020
The memeing of the quote dates back to a 2012 Tumblr post, and it seems all set to advance as prolonged as there are Mays.
