It is gonna be Could! Wait, Could is already right here, and so is the primary of the Could memes this month. (Could 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 one more 12 months.
It is Gonna Be Me is a success tune launched by boy band *NSYNC again in 2000 — 25 years in the past this Could. In it, singer Justin Timberlake does not really sing, “It is gonna be Could,” as a substitute, 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 12 months’s fifth month.
So yearly, proper earlier than it is gonna be Could, 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 Facebook, sharing a photograph of himself and Timberlake.
‘Memes final endlessly’
Members of *NSYNC just lately spoke about the meme on NBC’s At the moment.
“‘It is Going to Be Could’ time is at all times the reward that retains on giving,” mentioned bandmember Lance Bass.
Bass credit the youthful generations for holding his tune alive.
“It is the youngsters on the market. They’re doing it,” Bass mentioned on At the moment. “I imply, memes final endlessly. 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 photo of his COVID-masked self with the “It is gonna be Could” caption.
“Thanks for this, Web,” Timberlake wrote within the tweet.
Spring Summer time 2020. Thanks for this, Web. pic.twitter.com/I3mdWPTjiN
— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) May 1, 2020
The memeing of the quote dates back to a 2012 Tumblr post, and it appears able to proceed on so long as there are Mays.
