JC Chasez is back with playing with fire 20 years after their debut album. The singer talks about how the concept for his latest work was constructed, a possible *NSYNC reunion, a duet with Christina Aguilera in the future and more!
Rebeca Millzoff:
I'm Rebecca Millzoff. I'm the executive editor of the magazine here at Billboardand today I'm here with JC Chasez.
JC Chasez:
Hello.
He has an album out today, playing with fire in Center Stage Records. Not what you would expect from JC.
It's a different kind of thing. playing with fire is a musical I co-wrote with my writing partner, Jimmy Harry. When you make a musical, it takes a long time and we decided to release a concept album of the music from the musical, and it's all based on the work of Mary Shelley. frankenstein. We were wondering what we were going to work on next. We were trying to generate ideas. Do you know what would be interesting? We knew we wanted to write a musical, but we didn't know what yet; in fact, we came across a paper that Jimmy's mother wrote. Her name is Barbara Fields and she wrote a play that was performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis called Playing With Fire.
An important off-Broadway theater for people who don't know it.
Yes, I was able to look at the material that you shared with me and I was totally impressed by the way you framed the story of Mary Shelley, the architecture that you implemented to communicate some of the themes and emotions that we talked about. And we said, well, why don't we start with a song and see if there's something there? And from there, we wrote the first song, which is “How Do You Sleep.”
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