JC Chasez on 'America's Best Dance Crew'
In anticipation of the June 19 second season premiere of Randy Jackson's MTV reality show America’s Best Dance Crew, our Reyhaneh Fathieh chatted with show judge and former 'NSync-er JC Chasez about dance, a boy band reunion, and, of course, famous bandmate Justin Timberlake and his troubled ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. Read more below for the full report on JC, and be sure to catch the show's live casting special tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET on MTV. This season, viewers can vote on which dance crews makes the cut.
A lot of people are calling you the Simon Cowell of the show. I was surprised to find you in that role because you were always the nice, quiet one in 'NSync.
I’m totally nice and quiet. That’s the thing, everybody says I’m mean, but I’ve never said anything mean. It’s just that I’m not going to sit there and say it couldn’t be any better. That’s the way we were in 'NSync. We were always looking to get better, so literally every night after the show we would critique ourselves. We would have our video crew give us a tape of the performance and then we would watch it and critique ourselves. So, when I’m giving critiques, I’m doing it because I want it to be better, but I’m not going to tell somebody something that they can’t do. The only thing I’m going to critique is something that they can do. It’s about reaching your maximum potential. I’m not trying to tear anybody down. I’m trying to bring out the best in them.
It seems to me that dance is becoming more and more important for a performer, like if you’re a straight-up singer you don’t have the full-package. Do you think the emphasis on dance is pulling away from the music?
Not at all. That style has been around for ages. You could say that dance is more important than it was, but I don’t feel that way. I think it might have fallen out of the spotlight for a little while, but it’s always been there. If you wanna go earlier, you can talk about Motown, you know they always had dance routines in all their performances. And you push along to the early days of pop, and the biggest star was a dance performer, Michael Jackson, and then you have Janet Jackson. And then you have Madonna. So I don’t think dance has ever not been prevalent. There’s plenty of artists out today that are huge artists that aren’t dance artists. We seem to be drawn to that aspect a lot. Today’s dance artists, I’d say are between Usher and Justin and Chris Brown and Rihanna. But at no time I would say it was missing.
You wrote and produced for the Backstreet Boys with the track 'Treat Me Right'—what was that like? Was it like crossing into enemy lines?
Not by any means. A.J. (McLean) and I have become friends over a period of time. I met him for coffee one day and we hit it off. At that time he was working on the Backstreet record, so he said, "Listen do you want to write something?" And I said, "That’s up to you man, you’re gonna have to talk to your buddies about that. I’m totally cool for it, I have no beef. I don’t want it to be about egos clashing or people being uncomfortable. I’m not about uncomfortable or confrontational situations." He said, "I’ll talk to them." And when he did, they all gave the thumbs up.
Do you think 'NSync will ever reunite? There have been some impossible reunions, like NKOTB, Led Zeppelin…No, because the thing is, it had its place in time. I know we made a lot of money but we didn’t do it for the money. We did it because it’s what we were passionate about and it’s what we love to do. When we hit the phase where our imagination and our passion started wandering, that’s when we knew it was time to do those things. It’s part of growing. We’re now pursuing the passions that drive us. I’m all for people doing what turns them on as long as they’re not hurting anyone.
Britney and Justin seem to have very similar backgrounds, same kind of childhood, same kind of history leading up to things…
[Interrupts] I totally disagree with that because everybody’s home experience is very different from the next. No two families function exactly the same and no two perspectives are exactly the same. Even if you grow up in the same family, you’re different than your brother and sister. Growing up in the same household, one sister can be the wild child and the brother can be straight-laced. I think individuals experience things differently, so I will never say that people grow up the same, especially if they grew up in different households. And, one, it is issues of being a female and being a male. That’s two different perspectives there. She’s experiencing life as a woman, he’s experiencing life as a man, that’s a vast difference. Snoop Dogg didn’t grow up like Madonna but they’re both artists
Source: USA Weekend Blog
A lot of people are calling you the Simon Cowell of the show. I was surprised to find you in that role because you were always the nice, quiet one in 'NSync.
I’m totally nice and quiet. That’s the thing, everybody says I’m mean, but I’ve never said anything mean. It’s just that I’m not going to sit there and say it couldn’t be any better. That’s the way we were in 'NSync. We were always looking to get better, so literally every night after the show we would critique ourselves. We would have our video crew give us a tape of the performance and then we would watch it and critique ourselves. So, when I’m giving critiques, I’m doing it because I want it to be better, but I’m not going to tell somebody something that they can’t do. The only thing I’m going to critique is something that they can do. It’s about reaching your maximum potential. I’m not trying to tear anybody down. I’m trying to bring out the best in them.
It seems to me that dance is becoming more and more important for a performer, like if you’re a straight-up singer you don’t have the full-package. Do you think the emphasis on dance is pulling away from the music?
Not at all. That style has been around for ages. You could say that dance is more important than it was, but I don’t feel that way. I think it might have fallen out of the spotlight for a little while, but it’s always been there. If you wanna go earlier, you can talk about Motown, you know they always had dance routines in all their performances. And you push along to the early days of pop, and the biggest star was a dance performer, Michael Jackson, and then you have Janet Jackson. And then you have Madonna. So I don’t think dance has ever not been prevalent. There’s plenty of artists out today that are huge artists that aren’t dance artists. We seem to be drawn to that aspect a lot. Today’s dance artists, I’d say are between Usher and Justin and Chris Brown and Rihanna. But at no time I would say it was missing.
You wrote and produced for the Backstreet Boys with the track 'Treat Me Right'—what was that like? Was it like crossing into enemy lines?
Not by any means. A.J. (McLean) and I have become friends over a period of time. I met him for coffee one day and we hit it off. At that time he was working on the Backstreet record, so he said, "Listen do you want to write something?" And I said, "That’s up to you man, you’re gonna have to talk to your buddies about that. I’m totally cool for it, I have no beef. I don’t want it to be about egos clashing or people being uncomfortable. I’m not about uncomfortable or confrontational situations." He said, "I’ll talk to them." And when he did, they all gave the thumbs up.
Do you think 'NSync will ever reunite? There have been some impossible reunions, like NKOTB, Led Zeppelin…No, because the thing is, it had its place in time. I know we made a lot of money but we didn’t do it for the money. We did it because it’s what we were passionate about and it’s what we love to do. When we hit the phase where our imagination and our passion started wandering, that’s when we knew it was time to do those things. It’s part of growing. We’re now pursuing the passions that drive us. I’m all for people doing what turns them on as long as they’re not hurting anyone.
Britney and Justin seem to have very similar backgrounds, same kind of childhood, same kind of history leading up to things…
[Interrupts] I totally disagree with that because everybody’s home experience is very different from the next. No two families function exactly the same and no two perspectives are exactly the same. Even if you grow up in the same family, you’re different than your brother and sister. Growing up in the same household, one sister can be the wild child and the brother can be straight-laced. I think individuals experience things differently, so I will never say that people grow up the same, especially if they grew up in different households. And, one, it is issues of being a female and being a male. That’s two different perspectives there. She’s experiencing life as a woman, he’s experiencing life as a man, that’s a vast difference. Snoop Dogg didn’t grow up like Madonna but they’re both artists
Source: USA Weekend Blog
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