The dance, the body of the dance, so that was all hot, hitting, hardcore, syncopated movement.”įilming of the music video was on the horizon, and Henson headed back to Los Angeles to rehearse with the guys at Alley Kat Studio. “So that’s the actual lineage of how ‘Bye Bye Bye’ was created in terms of that chorus aspect. The ‘bye bye bye’ meant you can stop talking, it’s done, we’re done, it’s absolute, everything’s over. “The ‘bye bye bye’ is the talking puppet hand - so that actually was another thing in New York that we used to do. So the ‘ain’t no lie’ (lyric) is the power fist,” Henson told TODAY. (Admit it, you’ve tried to zombie walk like Michael Jackson in “Thriller” or hand wave like Beyoncé in “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” or strike a pose like Madonna in “Vogue.”) For “Bye Bye Bye,” that’s the “puppet hand” along with the fist-bumping step. Of course, when reaching into the vault of top dance tracks, each one has a single infectious move that’s learned and repeated by everybody. “With ‘No Strings Attached,’ the puppeteering aspect of it just worked.” “There is a part of popping called ‘puppet’ that was very well known to me,” he said. Henson said he turned to a street-dancing technique, popping and locking, when coming up with the footing. “I just stood with the choreography, lingering, working on it, putting body to song,” he said. He then headed to Las Vegas, where ’N Sync was performing at the Billboard Music Awards, to get cracking on the steps he wanted to incorporate into the video. “Johnny sent me the music, and I was like, this is hot, this is so hot,” Henson told TODAY. Then he got a call from ’N Sync’s manager at the time, Johnny Wright. At the time, Henson, who hails from the Bronx in New York City, had lost out on an MTV Video Music Award for choreographing Jordan Knight’s “Give It to You” and was just about to throw in the towel with dancing. Henson told TODAY that it all started in 1999 when ’N Sync, having just parted ways with Lou Pearlman, the late music mogul-turned-con artist who founded the band, was starting a new chapter and looking to kick it off with something big.
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