I'm not made JC never made it. I knew that was never going to happen back in the day. JIVE put their money behind Justin.

I do agree with Scriptgirl that his best was with Pharrell. Justified is still my favorite album, I think Pharrell and JIVE had issues so he couldn't work with him anymore.

FutureSex/LoveSounds remains the best Prince album since Lovesexy, and The 20/20 Experience is a solid listen.

You all are nuts.

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didn't Jive fold?

Hates gonna hate the Mirror video. its gonna be everywhere.

Today was my roomies birthday and we had some Japanese spaghetti and cake.

Damn cake was so good... hmmm damn that cake was like sexual love in my mouth hmmm damn good cake.

Gunsnhalen said:

Today was my roomies birthday and we had some Japanese spaghetti and cake.

Damn cake was so good... hmmm damn that cake was like sexual love in my mouth hmmm damn good cake.

You know that gonna be the next PSB video.

lazycrockett said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Today was my roomies birthday and we had some Japanese spaghetti and cake.

Damn cake was so good... hmmm damn that cake was like sexual love in my mouth hmmm damn good cake.

You know that gonna be the next PSB video.

All it needs is Neil is some weird hat and Chris on a feathery keyboard and it's golden

It's his voice that gets me. I agree there's no depth to it. No vibrato, just one long annoying whine. I feel the same way about a lot of the current "blue eyed soul" singers, not that he's soulful in the slightest. George Michael he is certainly not.

F#%k Tremblerfake.

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He's the American Dream, came from pageants, Disney and a boyband (although he wants everyone to forget that )...

I admit as a MJ fan I thought it was just an insult to Michael to label JT as the new KOP. That's when MJ was living. But, silly King & Queen titles aren't that important. Time can only tell who will stand the test of it. But it just seemed like the media was having a dig at Michael while reporting Justin as the new version of him. I heard people calling it racism, but Madonna's getting it too now with Lady Gaga. The critics just love to deminish the big artists, make it seem like they're hasbeens (all the while they're outselling the new stars of today lol).

I think it's Justin's ego and especially his front to try and erase this:

from peoples memories that annoys me the most. I do like Pusher Love Girl (the only song I've heard off his new record, other than the singles). I have his other two albums, probably will get this one eventually too.

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Terrib3Towel said:

Ok guys, let's forget about his new album and single right now. This has been on my mind for YEARS.

Why does the music industry continue to kiss Timerlake's ass? It's annoying.

My main issue is that his last album came out 6 fucking years ago, SIX. I remember when "Sexy Back" "What Goes Around..Comes Around" and "My Love" had first come out. I'm not gonna like, they were nice songs and I liked them. But why the hell does the radio still play them like they came out fucking yesterday? They were ok songs, but nothing great. The songs I just mentioned plus "Rock Your Body" and "Cry Me a River" are on regular rotation. WHY?

As soon as I heard about him working on a new album I KNEW the radio would play the hell out of singles even if they sucked. And I'm sorry, but Suit and Tie is hot ass. The only part I like on it is Jay-Z's verse.

He has an extremely annoying high-pitched voice, his voice has no kind of dept or range. And he can't dance, he might have a little bit of rhythm but he is NOT a natural dancer and he's very stiff in the hips. These are FACTS.

So what's the damn obsession? My only guess is that he is a white guy doing more R&B-type music, which makes him special. Kind of like Michael McDonald/Doobie Brothers. This type of thing isn't new in the music industry. I've noticed that throughout music history when a artist does music outside of their "norm" they get a lot more exposure. Like a Female (Chaka) or white people (AWB) doing funk music in the 70s, for example. But STILL timberlake is mediocre as hell to me. Nothing special about him.

Oh, and his acting SUCKS. Who the hell gave him those roles? Dude is TRASH on the big screen. It's sad how decent actors/actresses wait years for their big break and this asshole gets big film roles form the jump? Why? Are people really rushing to the theatres for a Justin Timberlake film? REALLY?

Oh yeah, and his SNL skits were ass.

I don't get the hype. His album will probably debut and #1 and stay there for 5 weeks. Big fucking whoop. Half those sales will be the record label anyway.

You guys know me by now, I don't give a shit about who the media hypes up nor do I give a shit about 95% of what's on Hip-Hop/R&B radio today. But it has always baffled me why JT is always regarded as so great. WTF has he even done? Dude has always been "just ok" for me. Just another Beyonce, Rihanna, Gaga, Britney, Katy Perry or Ke$ha to me.

OK, rant over.

I feel your frustration. But as I said in the other thread, I too anticipated his hype machine to go into overdrive. You know all of it is by design by his label, co-sponsors, and his team in general to ensure those big numbers they want us all to be talking about this time next week. Sucks but that's just the way it is.

lazycrockett said:

I honeslty dont get why there is so much JT hate on this board.

Its not like he has a huge fan base here going on and on bout what an amazing musical genius he is. You have maybe a hand full of people are saying hes good and some tracks are decent. Thats it.

Yet the haters are just frothing at the mouth bout a new record, going on and on bout how horrible of a person he is, how he steals from everyone else and how dare a white boy sing r&b.

Bizzare world.

Say that shit.

Cuddles said:

babybugz said:

That's what makes me shake my head the most. I notice that some people really take offense to him being successful. You don't have to like him but some really go overboard with it. There is a difference with not being a fan and just plain obessive hate over him I was an Nsync fan first and I do notice most Nsync fans are mad that he made it instead of JC. JC was the better singer no doubt and I really wish he had a successful solo career as well but you can't blame Justin for that. I hate how Justin shades his boyband past though, really annoyed at him doing that lately. And then the other reason people (mostly black people) don't like him is of course because of the superbowl. I was pretty netural on that since i'm a janet fan and justin fan and really felt it was a stunt gone wrong.

i don't understand why anyone would be so involved over any of it to form any kind of opinion.

lazycrockett said:

i thought this was the cutest shit last night.

Justin makes decent music and he seems to be a very ambitious person.Nothing wrong with that.There are many other "artists" on the charts right now who are much more annoying and much more overexposed than Justin

purplethunder3121 said:

Sing it George!

scriptgirl said:

I'm not made JC never made it. I knew that was never going to happen back in the day. JIVE put their money behind Justin.

And at the end of the day, that's what it all boils down to. We have all seen people with ZERO talent become mega-selling multi-platinum superstars while people with actual singing ability go unnoticed. It's all about the record label and management. Talent has nothing to do with success in the music business.

I have never been a Justin Timerlake fan and I can't name a single song he's ever recorded. What little I've heard him sing, I consider him to be an average singer. However, based on what I've heard of many of the male artists who are selling big today, I will take Justin over most of them any day.

He seems like a genuinely nice guy I don't know why so many people have it in for him

The "music industry" kisses his ass because he kisses theirs.

As it says in the article on the other thread, "JT: Biggest Male Pop Star of This Generation," he is not a rebel. He is music business' dream, because he cooperates. He does whatever it takes - he will go on every show, do every commercial, play every music festival ... look, he's all over the place promoting this album! He does it all with a smile on his face. He's not creepy or sullen, "I'm a tortured artist" or "I'm a slave," and he doesn't appear to be on drugs.

I don't hate Timberlake. As some others have said, FSLS was the best Prince album of the last decade. No, he's not innovative or a master musician or master showman, but he presents the music in a nice youthful bod and with fun.

If he did "Breakfast Can Wait" or "Incense and Candles" or "Satisfied" or etc., those songs would have been big hits for sure! There would be cool, youth-pleasing videos to go with them, they would be promoted. Everyone would be surprised that Prince wrote them, and then he'd have a revival too.

It's like some of the hate for Bruno Mars (who's kind of like JT, new generation of pop star, recyling old sounds and not rebellious) - he's not inventive, yes "Locked Out of Heaven" sounds just like a Police song, but Police doesn't exist anymore, so to sound like Police is a compliment really and when it comes on the radio I don't turn the channel. It's good. It is what it is.

Same with JT's songs and performances.

I've said it in numerous threads...I like a lot of the beats in his songs, but I don't like his voice and at best would call him a mediocre music talent. He's not horrible, but certainly nothing special and would not sound good without good producers. Nothing in his lyrics is groundbreaking or definitive of a generation either. He has songs about hooking up, breaking up and bragging about how good/hot he is. I never found him sexy personally but anyway what is so praiseworthy about his work?

thebongobaron said:

He seems like a genuinely nice guy I don't know why so many people have it in for him

that's not what I've been reading/hearing for years.

Shard said:

I've said it in numerous threads...I like a lot of the beats in his songs, but I don't like his voice and at best would call him a mediocre music talent. He's not horrible, but certainly nothing special and would not sound good without good producers. Nothing in his lyrics is groundbreaking or definitive of a generation either. He has songs about hooking up, breaking up and bragging about how good/hot he is. I never found him sexy personally but anyway what is so praiseworthy about his work?

thebongobaron said:

He seems like a genuinely nice guy I don't know why so many people have it in for him

that's not what I've been reading/hearing for years.

Your description fits most of the popular music industry today. All bland, nothing special. JT is just more popular that most for some reason.

I have never heard anything about Justin being nice in any capacity. He was working with a children's hospital charity-might have been Shriners-and they said Justin never showed any interest in the charity unless they were cameras around and he basically had to be forced to perform his role with them. Not a good guy at all.

He sucks. Horrible vocal tone, terrible dancing, lame songwriting full of cliches. Straight up garbage.

thebongobaron said:

He seems like a genuinely nice guy I don't know why so many people have it in for him

Yeah, like how he left Janet to take all of the heat during "Tittygate", right? Real nice...and sooo genuine.

lazycrockett said:

^But no one on here is refuting anything that anyone negative is saying. No one on here is arguing that JT is the second coming. Yet people continue to start JT threads to knock him.

Because people don't like the overexposure he gets in terms of radio, tv, magazines and overall attention he gets. The way the media talks about is almost as if he was the new MJ, I still remember when they were calling him the new king of pop back in 07-08 and they are still trying to make him this iconic figure, which he isnt... Also I just get surprised how people seem to embrace him so openly, when he said he was done with music and wanted to concentrate on becoming a good actor... Personally I've never liked his personality based on his interview in which he seems pretty fake... I like his music though, but he isn't all that...

BlaqueKnight said:

thebongobaron said:

He seems like a genuinely nice guy I don't know why so many people have it in for him

Yeah, like how he left Janet to take all of the heat during "Tittygate", right? Real nice...and sooo genuine.

Yeah, even he has said since then that he regrets his response to that situation. Too little, too late if you ask me. He know he punked out and successfully saved his own ass within a week's time. He went on to make his appearance at the Grammys that year after kissing their butt with a 2nd or 3rd apology. It paid off though because the Grammys went out of their way to contribute to the hype machine of the great "Return To Music of Justin Timberlake" during this year's awards.

Oh let's not forget how when Michael Jackson was going through the ringer while alive Justin was ghost (no pun intended). Only now that Michael is gone and popular (safe) again, he's singing renditions of MJ and J5 songs. GTFOH with that. He's the definition of a fairweather friend.

Oh yeah, the recent bad joke he pulled at the expense of those homeless dudes for a wedding gift/joke for his reception party. Real classy dude.

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