N-Sync Gone Originally Penned For Michael

In an interview with Ryan Seacrest – Justin Timberlake had this to say about potentially working with the King Of Pop:

“Interestingly enough, there were songs on the last *NSYNC album…one song in particular, ‘Gone,’ originally I wrote that song for Michael. I’ve always been a big fan of him and I think back to… it made me reminisce to the times he performed at the VMAs with *NSYNC, where we performed at Madison Square Garden with him, and the numerous meetings I had had with him in the past just about music.”

So why didn’t MJ record ‘Gone,’ which went on to become one of *NSYNC’s biggest singles? “I don’t know if he just never heard the record, couldn’t get it to him… or he heard it and maybe didn’t want to record it,” Justin jokes. “I kind of got word that he had never heard the record.”