Thank Dallas Austin For JC Chasez’s Solo Breakout

With JC Chasez delivering lyrics about one-night stands, threesomes and masturbation, the *NSYNC star was cautioned on the approach by his label at Jive. “You know you’re going to scare a few moms with this music,” JC recalled an executive at the label telling him. “But I said, ‘If I want to make another *NSYNC record, I’ll make another *NSYNC record.” The singer tells Neil Strauss that he hadn’t planned on a solo album, but after bandmate Justin Timberlake’s solo success, producer Dallas Austin suggested he too test the solo route. “I said, ‘J is doing his thing; I just want to chill’,” Chasez recalled. “Then Dallas sat down with me and said, ‘Why aren’t you doing a record?’ I said, ‘I was just getting used to living again’.”