Some Girls (Dance with Women)

JC Chasez's solo debut remains one of the more genuinely strange artifacts of early-2000s mainstream pop, and this track is a useful entry point into why. The production leans into glam-rock energy filtered through a Max Martin sensibility — guitars that actually cut, drums with real weight, a chorus designed to be shouted rather than harmonized over. The subject matter has a knowingness about it, exploring the specificity of wanting someone who performs their indifference publicly — the kind of person who moves through a room as though they're aware of being watched. Chasez's voice had always been the most technically accomplished in *NSYNC, and here it operates in its higher range with a kind of theatrical urgency, not quite rock and not quite pop but somewhere in the gap that the mid-2000s kept opening and rarely managed to fill well. The song belongs to an era when boy-band graduates were trying to prove they could be taken seriously on their own terms, and this one actually makes the argument. It's a song for a playlist that's supposed to feel slightly reckless.