Justin Timberlake’s world tour might’ve hit a snag, but that doesn’t mean that his former *NSYNC colleagues can’t thrive. The boy band’s totemic 2000 smash “Bye Bye Bye” recently reentered the Billboard Hot 100 after soundtracking the Deadpool & Wolverine opening credits, and now group member JC Chasez is getting ready to release his first album in two decades. Naturally, it’s a musical theater concept album inspired by Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
Fun fact: In between his time on The Mickey Mouse Club and *NSYNC, JC Chasez was part of a Universal Studios Florida live show called Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue — playing Dracula, not Frankenstein’s monster. But Frankenstein is the Universal monster that Chasez will sing about on the new album Playing With Fire. Billboard reports that Chasez and songwriter/composer Jimmy Harry have teamed up to make a record built around the original 1818 novel Frankenstein. The project reportedly started after Harry showed Chasez a theatrical adaptation written by his later mother, playwright Barbara Field, and the album takes the form of a conversation between Victor Frankenstein and the creature that he created.