This was speculated about for a long time that that's how it went down. But some JC fans were told that JC didn't know *NSYNC was over until after Schizo came out, which was why he did Schizo the way he did at the time he did. He was still writing songs for *NSYNC, who cares what the label thinks when he's putting out one solo album and then going back to *NSYNC?

It kind of sucks that it went down that way, but whatever live and learn.