It is gonna be Might! Wait, Might is already right here, and so is the primary of the Might memes this month. (Might the fourth be with you is awaiting its galactic flip.) A sure *NSYNC tune is again in memedom for a day or so, earlier than disappearing for an additional yr.
It is Gonna Be Me is a success tune launched by boy band *NSYNC again in 2000 — 25 years in the past this Might. In it, singer Justin Timberlake does not really sing, “It is gonna be Might,” as an alternative, he sings, “It is gonna be me,” however his Tennessee accent and the spin he places on the phrase make it sound like he is welcoming within the yr’s fifth month.
So yearly, proper earlier than it is gonna be Might, the *NSYNC video will get a spike in YouTube views, and the memes begin flying. In 2014, even then-President Barack Obama joked about it on Fb, sharing a photograph of himself and Timberlake.
‘Memes final ceaselessly’
Members of *NSYNC just lately spoke in regards to the meme on NBC’s At the moment.
“‘It is Going to Be Might’ time is at all times the present that retains on giving,” stated bandmember Lance Bass.
Bass credit the youthful generations for holding his tune alive.
“It is the children on the market. They’re doing it,” Bass stated on At the moment. “I imply, memes final ceaselessly. Thank goodness. Who knew 25 years from now so remembered out of the way in which Justin pronounced ‘me’? Thanks, Justin!”
Timberlake himself has joked about it. On the final day of April 2020, he tweeted a photograph of his COVID-masked self with the “It is gonna be Might” caption.
“Thanks for this, Web,” Timberlake wrote within the tweet.
Spring Summer season 2020. Thanks for this, Web. pic.twitter.com/I3mdWPTjiN
— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) Might 1, 2020
The memeing of the quote dates again to a 2012 Tumblr publish, and it appears able to proceed on so long as there are Mays.
