This year’s MCU sequel Deadpool & Wolverine has quickly become a critical, box office, and pop culture hit, with its influence now bleeding into the music world as NSYNC’s 2000 pop hit “Bye Bye Bye” has climbed its way to the top of the charts. The song plays a big part in the crowd-pleasing opening sequence of Deadpool & Wolverine, which finds the Merc With a Mouth violently dispatching a group of Time Variance Authority officers. Alongside the bloody brutality, the sequence also finds Deadpool partaking in a solo dance sequence inspired by the boy band moves of NSYNC.

Clearly, Marvel fans cannot get enough of the song (with many no doubt reenacting the viral dance) as “Bye Bye Bye” has now entered the global top 20 on Spotify and the top 40 on iTunes. Not only that, the official NSYNC YouTube channel has even renamed the track “Bye Bye Bye (From Deadpool & Wolverine),” with director Shawn Levy taking to social media to celebrate the song’s revival.

Released more than two decades ago, “Bye Bye Bye” was a huge success at the time, getting to #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and receiving a Grammy nomination in 2001 for Record of the Year. It is considered something of a pop music classic, and has appeared in the world of Marvel before, featuring in 2003’s X-Men 2. While, in that instance, it irritated Wolverine no end, Deadpool fans evidently cannot get enough.

Did Ryan Reynolds Perform That Impressive Dance Routine?

While the dance routine featured in the movie is very Deadpool, it was not performed by Ryan Reynolds, who recently revealed who was behind the mask at the time, heaped praise on their talent, and thanked them for “services” (via With Ashley & Co.).

“Well, thank you. Confession for you… a lot of people don’t know I can sing and move well, but that is actually the first lie I’ll tell today. A guy named Nick Pauley is the guy that choreographed, and I mean he’s doing a lot of the moves that have been established previously by NSYNC. If it looks like the person who’s dancing doesn’t have arthritis, that’s him. There’s the moments where, you know, there’s a bit of a pop and lock, except the pop, the pop really pops, like it cracks. And the lock will not unlock. So yeah, I would do anything I could to free myself up. But yeah, I will hang on Nick Pauley’s talent. I will hang my hat on his talent there and thank him for his contribution and services.”

Related The 12 Best NSYNC Needle Drops in Movies and TV Series, Ranked From “Bye Bye Bye” to “It’s Gonna Be Me,” disco the top NSYNC needle drops that had us singing along! See if your favorite made the list.

Directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay he wrote alongside Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells, Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as Deadpool and Wolverine, respectively, and finds the pair joining the MCU after being tasked by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) with a new mission. A mission that will see them travel across the madness of the multiverse. The rest of the cast including Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, and a whole host of crowd-pleasing cameos.

Deadpool & Wolverine
is out now in theaters.