It turns out the boy band wasn’t as “NSYNC” as we thought.

It turns out one of our favorite boy bands of all time might not have been so “‘NSYNC.”

In a recent inteview with The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Timberlake finally spoke out about why he told the other four members of *NSYNC “Bye Bye Bye,” back in the early 2000s, when they were still topping the charts (and our hearts, TBH).

We were on a stadium tour, and I just felt like the whole thing was too big,” he explained. “It started as a fun snowball fight that was becoming an avalanche.”

If you remember, the group never ~officially~ broke up. In 2002, the five members, including Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick, announced that they were taking a hiatus, but they never actually recorded together again. It wasn’t for another five years that Bass confirmed that the group was definitely done.

“Also, I was growing out of it,” JT went on. “I felt like I cared more about the music than some of the other people in the group.” (Uh, what?!) “And I felt like I had other music I wanted to make, and that I needed to follow my heart.”

And follow his heart he did. We might never know who JT was casually, real-life subtweeting in his interview, but no matter what, ‘NSync will still have our hearts “Until The End Of Time.”