Until Yesterday
JC Chasez
Jive

To date, JC Chasez's post-'N Sync career has met resistance due to a bagful of musical tricks that attempted to cast the singer as a hip-hop aficionado to less-than-convincing effect. "Until Yesterday" marks a dramatic change in his musical approach, with a minor-chord-driven Beatles-esque meets "Rocky Horror" track about discovering your girlfriend is pregnant with another man's kid. It doesn't hurt that former groupmate Justin Timberlake co-produced and co-wrote the track, giving Chasez newfound cachet. He remains a fairly nondistinctive vocalist, but "Yesterday" is a head-turner that could pave the way to a formidable new identity down the hitmaking highway.

—Chuck Taylor

Billboard.com