Repair Your Torn-Up Heart With These 25 Secrets About ‘N Sync

<div></div> <p>2. The One That Got Away</p> <div data-testid="segment-text-only" readability="102.26878612717"> <p>But wait, Lance wasn’t the first fifth member of ‘N Sync!</p> <p>That role was originally played by <strong>Jason Galasso</strong>, who had known Fatone from choir in their high school days and was dabbling in the singing-group arts when he got a page (1990s, FTW) out of nowhere from his old acquaintance. Coincidentally, he also knew Chasez because, as Galasso <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSuXeeRAqv0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained on <em>The Digital Get Down</em></a> podcast in 2019, he “used to kind of hang out with <em>The Mickey Mouse Club</em>” stars like <strong>Chase Hampton</strong> and <strong>Keri Russell</strong>.</p> <p>After they “locked in perfectly” on a rendition of <strong>Boyz II Men</strong>‘s “End of the Road,” that was it, he was in the as-yet unnamed group. “I remember I’m like, ‘Dang, Justin’s young!'” he recalled. “But then I heard him sing, I’m like ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter how old he is, he can sing his butt off.”</p> <p>At the same time, however, the bass singer was also in a three-man group called Unreal, “so I’m still trying to decide, you know, what I want to do, what direction I want to go in as far as which group I want to go with,” Galasso, who’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jasongalasso72/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the mortgage loan business</a> these days, recalled. “Because I remember, the first time Lou Pearlman brought over some music, he was thinking about the type of music that we would be doing, and I come from an R&B, hip-hop background. That’s my love, my heart, my soul.”</p> <p>So when Pearlman came over with “this European-style techno, I was just like, ‘Hmm, okay.'” So, he went ahead and traveled with the other guys in Unreal to Atlanta to cut a demo, which he thought turned out great.</p> <p>Meanwhile, ‘N Sync was starting to fashion a look and they were talking about putting a showcase together for Disney’s Pleasure Island. They even took a field trip to <strong>Shaquille O’Neal</strong>‘s house to check out his home studio in Orlando, but they had not yet recorded any music. And, more consequentially for Galasso, they hadn’t yet signed any contracts.</p> <p>Pretty soon, both groups were trying to get him to sign. Galasso said he took the dueling contracts to a lawyer and, while the deal with the trio was pretty standard issue, Pearlman had himself written into the ‘N Sync contract as a sixth member, and that contract was “thick as a phone book.” He felt that the other members of ‘N Sync were more gung-ho than he was about the deal—which was true, because they all proceeded to sign it, whether they truly understood what it entailed or not.</p> <p>So Galasso ultimately went with the group that wasn’t ‘N Sync.</p> </div> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/entertainment/2021/08/08/repair-your-torn-up-heart-with-these-25-secrets-about-n-sync/">Repair Your Torn-Up Heart With These 25 Secrets About ‘N Sync</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/entertainment">Patabook Entertainment</a>.</p>

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