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I’m not going to type the entire article but I’ll give you the highlights.
Grad Tidings: Can Christina, Justin, and the blond BSB guy finally say bye, bye, bye to teen pop?
The overall message: We’ve had our moment. Where are we going now? Anywhere but Disney world…
Aguilera’s video for her new single, “Dirrty,” which presents her as the world’s skeeziest reptile woman, was her first declaration of independence from the teen-pop ties that supposedly bound her…
No such torment, at least on the surface, for Justin Timberlake…His smooth falsetto is an easy fit for the slinky quirks and rhythmic accents of the Neptunes and Timbaland, who produced the bulk of the album. Thanks to them, Justified is a cohesive and fairly lean work, especially compared to Stripped or ‘Nsync’s last two albums…Homages to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder abound; in some ways, Justified is the ultramodern R&B-pop hybrid Invincible failed to be…”Cry Me a River” is a haunted, pained farewell, a genuine stunner that should leave Timberlake’s fellow ‘Nsyncers concerned that he truly may not need them anymore…
Compared with Aguilera and Timberlake, Nick Carter is a classicist. None of their lofty ambitions for him- on Now or Never, Carter brings new meaning to the phrase “kicking it old school” by keeping the boy band sound alive…Carter just wants sugar-pop kicks…It’s fluff and he knows it, and he scores points for lack of pretension.
Final Verdict:
Now or Never: C
Stripped: C+
Justified: B
Grad Tidings: Can Christina, Justin, and the blond BSB guy finally say bye, bye, bye to teen pop?
The overall message: We’ve had our moment. Where are we going now? Anywhere but Disney world…
Aguilera’s video for her new single, “Dirrty,” which presents her as the world’s skeeziest reptile woman, was her first declaration of independence from the teen-pop ties that supposedly bound her…
No such torment, at least on the surface, for Justin Timberlake…His smooth falsetto is an easy fit for the slinky quirks and rhythmic accents of the Neptunes and Timbaland, who produced the bulk of the album. Thanks to them, Justified is a cohesive and fairly lean work, especially compared to Stripped or ‘Nsync’s last two albums…Homages to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder abound; in some ways, Justified is the ultramodern R&B-pop hybrid Invincible failed to be…”Cry Me a River” is a haunted, pained farewell, a genuine stunner that should leave Timberlake’s fellow ‘Nsyncers concerned that he truly may not need them anymore…
Compared with Aguilera and Timberlake, Nick Carter is a classicist. None of their lofty ambitions for him- on Now or Never, Carter brings new meaning to the phrase “kicking it old school” by keeping the boy band sound alive…Carter just wants sugar-pop kicks…It’s fluff and he knows it, and he scores points for lack of pretension.
Final Verdict:
Now or Never: C
Stripped: C+
Justified: B
