It’ll be a meme: Justin Timberlake’s iconic May Joke turns 25

Quick, what month will it be? It’ll be May. And it’s time for a particular *nsync song to become a meme you can’t get away with.

It’s Thand Bee Me is a hit song released in 2000 by Boy Band *nsync. In it, singer Justin Timberlake doesn’t actually sing “It’ll be May,” instead “It’ll be me,” but his Tennessee accent and the spin he places on that word sound like he’s welcoming for the fifth month of the year.

So every year on April 30th, the day just before May, *nSync videos get spikes in YouTube views and memes start flying. Even then President Barack Obama in 2014 I made a joke on Facebookshare photos of yourself and Timberlake.

“Memes last forever”

Recently *nsync members We talked about the meme NBC’s today.

“The time will be May,” said band member Lance Bass.

Bass praises the younger generation to keep his songs alive.

“It’s the kids there. They’re doing it,” Bus said today. “I mean, Memes will last forever. Thank you. Who knew 25 years later, did you remember Justin pronounced “I”? Thank you, Justin! ”

Timberlake himself jokes. The last day of April 2020 He tweeted a photo of his co-masked self “It’s going to be May,” captioned.

“Thank you to the internet,” Timberlake wrote in a tweet.

Quote Memes Going back to the 2012 Tumblr postand as long as May is there, it seems he’s ready to continue.