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Justin Timberlake reveals that the NSYNC hit "Gone" was originally written for Michael Jackson, and shares the story of turning down Michael's request to turn it into a duet: “He goes like, 'I heard this song called "Gone" and I understand you wrote it for me.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, yeah, I did. And now it's an *NSYNC record.' He said, 'I really like this song, and I think it should be a duet for the two of us.' And I was like, 'It's out.' And he said, 'Yeah, I don't care. 'But it turned into this interesting conversation because he said, 'I would like to recut it between the two of us... he wanted to put the record out as he and I.' And I felt someway about that because we already have this record as an *NSYNC record, so we went back and forth about it. I asked, 'Could it be another version? ' I'm like trying to figure out how to answer Michael Jackson without being like, 'Sure, whatever you want.'And he was like, 'No, no, I want this to be a song between you and I.' And I respectfully said, 'I hope we can do something down the road, but I can't turn my back on what I committed to the fellas.'” (🎥Complex/ YouTube)