Why JC Chasez won’t release new music

“We want you to come back,” JC.

Chris Kirkpatrick’s heart is torn at the reluctance of his good friend and bandmate * NSYNC, JC Chasez, to release new music.

“I don’t know what hesitation is,” says 50-year-old Kirkpatrick.

“I don’t know if he had a bad taste in his mouth from his first record or something, but I know he has a bad taste in his mouth from something and it just won’t go off no matter what.”

After the boy band was suspended indefinitely in 2002, Chasez released his first and only solo album “Schizophrenic” in 2004.

The record reached 17th on the Billboard 200 in the first week of the chart, but then dropped from 65th to 82nd in the second week.

Chasez, now 46, never released his second solo album, and nearly two decades later, social media users are still clamoring for his return.

“I just want to live in a world where jc chasez is a world icon that it should be” one fan tweeted in September.

Meanwhile, the Danny Pellegrino podcaster he wrote on Twitter earlier this year, “❤️ I need to come back to JC, or at least the golf line for Macy’s.”

Kirkpatrick tells us that Chasez is “aware” of a social media campaign that is pushing him to re-release new music and adds that he, too, is trying to encourage his former bandmate.

“I’m begging him, I’d like to hear a recording from him,” she says. “I would like to be [on it] … just put me on a background or two in your record, you know? But he will do it when it is ready.

Kirkpatrick notes, however, that he has no plans to release solo music either.

“I think my time is up,” admits one’s father, adding that he now prefers to write for other artists. “We had a team run and if the team comes back, sure you know we’ll all sit down and talk about things this way.”

However, Kirkpatrick only returned to the spotlight last week when he appeared in Season 8 of The Masked Singer.

When asked which * NSYNC member he would nominate next to appear at the vocal contest, Kirkpatrick replies to Page Six that it would be an “easy” decision.

“It’s easy. JC Chaseza,” she says. “JC has to be on this show, and I’ll probably get a text later saying,” Dude, stop putting my name there. “

Kirkpatrick adds, “When they ask me this question, the answer is simple. I’d like to hear him on that. I am still, you know, 30 years of friendship, closer to him than my brother, and still consider myself his fan. “