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Lance Bass' Book: Our Review

November 01, 2007

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20071101_lance_320x240.jpgHalfway through Lance Bass' "Out of Sync" – some photos yanked from the Bass family albums show us a blond eight-year-old in a “SpaceCamp” t-shirt, wearing awkward sunglasses. These photos are standard memoir fare, and almost always a relief to find. By the time we reach them, Lance and the boys have just signed with a new label, leaving behind the evil empire of Lou Perlman.

Around the same time, Lance recounts his first bold move with a dude, in a way that is surprisingly mum.

Wait. Hold up. We're not going to read graphically about the blond kid from *NSYNC losing his manginity in a seedy hotel room? We're going to instead have to read about... What? Astronaut training? No way, man...

I had previously considered Lance to be flighty and a little plastic, but his memoir begs the question -- if your boyhood dream of being accepted and loved by millions of screaming fans had been realized – would it make you more interesting? Would it have helped any of us overcome the crippling terror that came with realizing we were gay teenagers in an age before even “Ellen?” Or would it have afforded us the opportunity to shoot for the thing we really wanted? Getting blasted into space, say…

Reviews of “Out of Sync” have taken Bass to task for writing a memoir before the age of thirty, for dwelling too much on the music industry, and for generally not telling us whether or not Reichen was, you know, stacked.

Make no mistake, the book is a little bit awkward, and there is the faint whiff of the same *NSYNC hype it was always hard to understand in the first place. One gets the feeling that Lance has not yet figured out how to break free of the world of pop music, other than the fact that he was outed last year, and then offered a book deal.

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