8 Embarrassing Adult Re-Inventions From Famous Musicians

7. JC Chasez

As mentioned in the introduction, Justin Timberlake is a great example of someone who transitioned spectacularly from teeny-bopper music to grown-up sounds. His N*Sync bandmate JC Chasez was not so fortunate. He's the middle one, in case you've forgotten. N*Sync were huge back in the late 90s-early 2000s, with catchy tunes like Bye Bye Bye and Tearin' Up My Heart. They rivalled the Backstreet Boys in terms of worldwide popularity and even had one of their members train to go into space (Lance Bass, though his mission was cancelled). The band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2002, and probably due to the success of Justin Timberlake's solo career, that became a definite hiatus. JC Chasez decided to try and have a solo career of his own, releasing the album Schizophrenic in 2004. What makes this an embarrassing attempt at trying to be grown-up is that he released a song called ADIDAS, which you may recognise as being a very clever acronym for All Day I Dream About Sex. Maybe it would have been clever if the metal band Korn hadn't had the same idea back in 1997. But the really embarrassing thing here was the video: JC trying to be a rock star, salad being tossed, rockets launching, goats being milked, buildings collapsing, and what looks like Nicolas Cage prancing around in a policeman's uniform (though that should automatically make it awesome). Yes, I did rewatch the video and yes, the song is going to be stuck in my head forever.