Let The Tour Begin
Graphic: "First Day of Tour". Shots
of guys on their bus. One of the beds is covered in leopard print with
a tiger striped pillow. Wow. Even though they're millionaires, these guys
never refuse the right to be tacky. Chris and Justin talk about how they
like traveling. "Your body gets tired," explains Justin, as he commits
pronoun fraud. "There's nothing like a good night's sleep on the bus, and
I know that sounds weird to a lot of people," says JC, "but man that bus'll
just rock you to sleep."
The guys walk through the airport, and
JC waves to the screaming fans. Justin is wearing a do-rag. That boy is
just wrong. He gets even more wrong in the next few seconds of the video
as he says "the most important thing about touring is getting to see the
looks on each and every one of your fans faces." Justin, I don't have any
fans. YOU have the fans. When I send Lance my English textbook for his
birthday, make sure you take a look at it, too.
Joey talks about how he doesn't even
think about his celebrity. "To me, I'm a normal person doing a job that
I love." Joey negates the "normal person" remark by dancing in an elevator.
On the tour bus, Chris holds up a postcard and says "this is where we are
right now. Oh my gosh, Seattle's on fire! Somebody do something!" as he
holds a lighter in front of it. Justin laughs cutely and calls Chris weird.
JC, Joey, and Lance are about eight
miles outside of Tacoma on their bus and Lance comments that there are
some fans following them. "You'll hear a little nice screaming every once
in a while. That's the scariest part though. The things that scare us the
most on the road is the fans following us from city to city... they get
distracted 'cause they're near the bus and they could have wrecks." With
a grin, he adds "...so if you're thinking about following us on the tour
bus, please don't." JC laughs.
Shots of the Tacoma dome. JC says, "When
you sell tickets the first day, then you're excited because you can bring
the show to those people man. You're like, 'Yeah, done deal, we're gonna
come rock a show for you guys!'" Shots of screaming fans running outside
the bus. This part irritates me because I'm not really one for writing
*NSYNC on my forehead or chasing a bus and screaming. I'm more like the
"flirt with the cute roadie (hey Blane) in the hotel bar and see if he
can get me floor seats" type of girl. The guys laugh with the fans and
Justin makes a spazzy motion. Chris yells, "You're on MTV!"
Graphic: "6 Hours Before Show". Joey
says they're gonna do soundcheck in a minute, then waves his hands around
like a magician on crack. Back outside, the fans are excited. They write
*NSYNC on their foreheads. Some girls came 2700 miles from Tampa to see
them because all the shows down there were sold out. Some girl wants to
win tickets and she'll eat a slug to get them. Gross. I would so
not eat a slug to get *NSYNC tickets. You've got to be kidding me. Why
would they even bring a slug to the concert in the first place? This whole
slug-eating thing is just confusing.
Graphic: "4 Hours Before Show". The
guys are soundchecking "I Thought She Knew", and it doesn't sound too good.
Lance is wearing a tight orange shirt that looks really good on him. The
song ends, and Justin shakes his head and says something that the microphone
didn't pick up. I'm not sure, but I think one of the words he says is "horrible".
Aww, it wasn't that bad.
Graphic: "2 Hours Before Show". Justin
says, "What we're about to do now is we're gonna go into a meet and greet."
"We meet 'em and we greet 'em," adds Chris helpfully. "JC's always late,"
says Joey. Lance says, "He's known for being the last one everywhere. Shot
of JC coming towards them riding a scooter. Justin sees him coming applauds
his entrance sarcastically. JC pops a wheelie on the scooter.
The guys walk into the meet 'n' greet
and Chris says "watch this... it's gonna make me look really tough" and
slams the bike he was riding into the wall. Hah. In an interview, Joey
says "It's great to see so many people are interested in what you do."
I slam my head into the wall because now Chris is the only one who hasn't
messed up the pronoun thing that irritates me so much.
Time-lapse shot of fans coming into
the Tacoma Dome. Joey and JC are hanging out in their dressing room. Graphic:
"47 Minutes Before Show". Let me make an important note here: Joey is playing
with a peacock feather and wearing a Strawberry Shortcake shirt. Okay,
I lied... that's not a really important note... but it's just SO weird.
"Let me explain something to y'all," JC says, "an artist's dressing room
is like their home. How the HELL did y'all get in here? You guys broke
the rules, man." Joey calls security and the security guard plays along
and kicks the MTV camera crews out, even ramming the lighting guy into
a pole and then the door. Hahahaha.
Chris in his interview chair says that
they have to get a hackey before they go onstage. Graphic: "14 Minutes
Before Show". JC is all dressed in his No Strings Attached gear and is
riding a scooter in the hallway. "I'm usually the first dressed so I have
to wait about five or ten minutes for everyone else to get ready." But...
wait... I thought Lance and Justin said you were always late? So confusing.
JC scoots down the hallway to where Anthony Giordano (remember him? stage
manager? scary lookin'?) is standing. "Anthony doesn't let us run late,"
JC says. Anthony shows us his watch and says it's the official *NSYNC time.
"We're not late. Ever," Antony says. JC tells the camera, "He'll beat us."
Antony jokingly punches JC in the arm. "Sorry sir!" JC says. Ha.
Chris explains that to get a hackey,
they stand in a circle and all five of them have to kick it before it hits
the ground. [Note: Sarah has told me that it's actually called a "hack,"
not a "hackey." These boys, I tell ya.] "It's delayed shows before," he
says. Graphic: "9 Minutes Before Show Starts." Shots of the guys hackeying.
Lance is pretty good. Joey kinda sucks. JC says, "You'd think after four
years, we'd have it down to a science. (Slight pause.) We suck."
The guys all kick the hackey, and then head backstage.