JC Chasez goes to the 30th yearly Elton John HELP Foundation 94th Oscars Viewing Party in Los Angeles, California on March 27, 2022. MICHAEL TRAN/AFP using Getty Images
As a long time songwriter, musician and musical comedy fanatic, JC Chasez recognizes the power of a great tale that strikes a psychological chord.
That’s why he was knocked down when his buddy and Golden Globe- winning artist Jimmy Harry revealed him a staged adjustment of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein by his late mom, dramatistBarbara Field “What I found really appealing and very inspiring about the piece is her ability to make it more direct and accessible in terms of the emotion,” the * NSYNC celebrity informsBillboard “It wasn’t just about a big monster and this kind of, like, growling thing that I initially had the impressions of in films and when reading Frankenstein. I guess I was just young, and just didn’t really have the time to settle in and really dig into the material. Recently, I was able to spend some time with the material and really get a good read and a good understanding of how emotional it was.”
From there, Chasez and Harry took the tale’s styles of love, obligation, loss and the human problem and funnelled it right into a significant imaginative task: a 16-track musical comedy principle cd called Playing With Fire, which contributes to Fields’ staged adjustment that initially composed as a play and not a music. “I was a little bit apprehensive at first. It’s like, you start messing with somebody family,” Chasez claims with a laugh of musically developing off of Harry’s mom’s task.
JC Chasez and Jimmy Harry Michael W. Abbott
Chasez swept aside those nerves quickly sufficient, as Playing With Fire is, in a great deal of means, an end result of the super star’s imaginative abilities. In enhancement to creating the task, Chasez additionally provides his vocals to a variety of tracks on Playing With Fire, along with vocalists Cardamon Rozzi andLily Elise The cd notes his initial significant music task because his 2004 solo cd,Schizophrenic “Playing With Fire touches on almost everything that I like,” he gladly confesses. “I love a good sci-fi film, so you get that aspect, and I love how music can make you so emotional in a different way. Obviously, I love pop music, so I love the fact that you can sing and dance together in musical theater. It was just a great opportunity to bring all of these things that I’ve really enjoyed together into one space.”
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Furthermore, he was happily amazed at just how a centuries-old tale discuss styles that still exist today, adding to simply exactly how unifying the human experience is– also if Frankenstein’s beast isn’t human, in itself. “Shelly was communicating these points hundreds of years ago that we’re still wrestling with today. I was just going, ‘How did you know?’ How did she write something that is so appropriate for now and then? Then, how did Barbara Fields make this so accessible to me? I felt like I had a direct line to the emotions that Shelly was trying to convey because of the way that Barbara framed it.”
He proceeded, “When we first started writing, we thought that this is about humanity, technology and the dangers and the morality of ‘Just because you can create something, should you?’ We’re still dealing with all of these for questions with encountering different technologies and AI and all that. We were tinkering with the idea, but we started becoming interested in the way Barbara framed it, as a conversation between the creator and his creation, which we framed as a conversation between a father and son getting to the bottom of their issues, their denials, their neglect and the consequences of those things.”
Ultimately, Playing With Fire is a tale of development and genuine link, and according to that, Chasez has aspirations for the task to get to as lots of people as feasible. “This is the beginning of a journey to make something that will hopefully end up on a stage that people can sing live every night and communicate to audiences,” he claims. “That’s why this technological discussion is so relevant now. I love the fact that real people will be singing these songs. I want it to connect to humanity.”
Playing With Fire is out using Center Stage Records onOct 25.
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