--- title: Justin Timberlake Shares It's Gonna Be May Meme Tweet description: The "It's Gonna Be Me" singer sent out a reminder of the changing of the month, in a nod to the "It's Gonna Be May" meme he stars in. canonical: https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-01T21:55:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:14.722Z og:title: Justin Timberlake Kindly Reminded Us That It's Finally May og:description: He brought back the meme that never gets old og:url: https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Timberlake Kindly Reminded Us That It's Finally May twitter:description: He brought back the meme that never gets old twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Justin Timberlake Just Reminded Everyone That He's Responsible for the 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme > Sponsored content. 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In a casual tweet, the former \*NSYNC superstar (and current solo superstar) sent a reminder to the internet about the changing month. To this day, he’s still doing it. “YOU ALREADY KNOW,” he captioned this year’s reminder with a video on Instagram. [It all harkens back](http://time.com/4753087/its-gonna-be-may-justin-timberlake/) to the way that a young Timberlake pronounced the line “It’s gonna be me” in the hit boy band song of the same name, which was initially released in 2000\. In recent years, it’s come back into vogue as a meme, with everyone from [President Obama](http://time.com/84527/barack-obamas-facebook-page-joins-its-gonna-be-may-meme/) to Timberlake himself having fun with the silly pop culture standby. This year was no exception. > [](https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/859152083714551810) To which most fans applauded his ability to poke fun at himself. > [](https://twitter.com/TribecaSL/status/859153295717412869) > [](https://twitter.com/RiskyBusinessMB/status/859156261555683328) > [](https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/859153923969474560) > [](https://twitter.com/indigo%5F15/status/859152558035750912) In a further celebration of the meme that never dies, even the official handle of \*NSYNC itself gave a shout out to the all-important date. While it’s unclear just who was behind this particular message, it’s obvious that the whole group remains happy to have created such a lasting article of pop culture ephemera. > [](https://twitter.com/NSYNC/status/858890295525740545) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/"},"headline":"Justin Timberlake Just Reminded Everyone That He's Responsible for the 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme","datePublished":"2017-05-01T21:55:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:14.722Z","description":"He brought back the meme that never gets old","url":"https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4762393/justin-timberlake-may-meme-tweet/","name":"Justin Timberlake Just Reminded Everyone That He's Responsible for the 'It's Gonna Be May' Meme"}}]}] ```