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Rolling Stone is out on Friday (?) so there's really no need to type the whole article but here are some parts that stood out for me for various reasons.
Lynn on confidence
"At the VMA's, when he won the award [for Best Male Video] and Eminem and 50 Cent stood up to applaud, that left such an impression on him," she says. "That was respect from a part of the industry that had dogged the boy-band thing. Not that he's ever been lacking in confidence - because the child would argue with God - but I think it's made him feel more confident."
Justin on SARSock
It wasn't all smooth sailing for Timberlake this year. When I ask whether he would change anything that happened in 2003, he laughs and says, "The SARS concert in Toronto. That was really tough for me to go through."..."But when Mick Jagger asks you to come do a benefit concert, do you say no? And then he says, 'I want you to do "Miss You" with me, as well.' I'm like, 'Are you kidding? I might actually spontaneously combust if I get to grace the same stage with you. I might actually shoot a wad into the crowd.'"
Justin on 'Nsync/teen pop then and now
But if little Justin had such varied tastes in music, you wouldn't know it from the music he made with 'Nsync. "I was so anxious to be involved with music," he says. "Not that I'm speaking badly about anything I've done, but I just didn't know any better."
The million-dollar question, then, is whether Timberlake will stay on his own, or go back to the boy-band thing. Since he began work on Justified last year, he has cagily avoided discussing how his solo career might affect the future of 'Nsync. He has tended to say, diplomatically, that "those guys will always be my brothers." OK, so JC Chasez had a minor radio hit with "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)," and Joey Fatone was adorable in his small role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Lance Bass, like, tried to go into outer space or something,and Chris Kirkpatrick - wait, which one is he again? There is no doubt that Timberlake has outgrown 'Nsync. Even he seems to be aware of it now.
"I think that the whole time [with 'Nsync], I was living in some small shape of oblivion," he says. "I thought, 'They're just putting that teen-pop lable on us because they don't understand.' I look back now and realize that's exactly what it was. Like, why did I think it was something else? WHen I realized that, I did two things. One, I said, 'I don't want to do teen pop again.' And two, 'I don't want to ever not realize something for what it is.' I wasn't able to look at the bigger picture and realize that there was this whole thing going on, this whole movement, like, Disneyworld is taking over. And looking back on it now, how fucking frightening is that? I've had some of the greatest experiences with those guys, but do I think that what I've done with [Justified] is ten time better than anything 'Nsync has ever done? Yes, I do. But I'm a cocky bastard."
That's about as straight forward as it gets.
Lynn on confidence
"At the VMA's, when he won the award [for Best Male Video] and Eminem and 50 Cent stood up to applaud, that left such an impression on him," she says. "That was respect from a part of the industry that had dogged the boy-band thing. Not that he's ever been lacking in confidence - because the child would argue with God - but I think it's made him feel more confident."
Justin on SARSock
It wasn't all smooth sailing for Timberlake this year. When I ask whether he would change anything that happened in 2003, he laughs and says, "The SARS concert in Toronto. That was really tough for me to go through."..."But when Mick Jagger asks you to come do a benefit concert, do you say no? And then he says, 'I want you to do "Miss You" with me, as well.' I'm like, 'Are you kidding? I might actually spontaneously combust if I get to grace the same stage with you. I might actually shoot a wad into the crowd.'"
Justin on 'Nsync/teen pop then and now
But if little Justin had such varied tastes in music, you wouldn't know it from the music he made with 'Nsync. "I was so anxious to be involved with music," he says. "Not that I'm speaking badly about anything I've done, but I just didn't know any better."
The million-dollar question, then, is whether Timberlake will stay on his own, or go back to the boy-band thing. Since he began work on Justified last year, he has cagily avoided discussing how his solo career might affect the future of 'Nsync. He has tended to say, diplomatically, that "those guys will always be my brothers." OK, so JC Chasez had a minor radio hit with "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)," and Joey Fatone was adorable in his small role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Lance Bass, like, tried to go into outer space or something,and Chris Kirkpatrick - wait, which one is he again? There is no doubt that Timberlake has outgrown 'Nsync. Even he seems to be aware of it now.
"I think that the whole time [with 'Nsync], I was living in some small shape of oblivion," he says. "I thought, 'They're just putting that teen-pop lable on us because they don't understand.' I look back now and realize that's exactly what it was. Like, why did I think it was something else? WHen I realized that, I did two things. One, I said, 'I don't want to do teen pop again.' And two, 'I don't want to ever not realize something for what it is.' I wasn't able to look at the bigger picture and realize that there was this whole thing going on, this whole movement, like, Disneyworld is taking over. And looking back on it now, how fucking frightening is that? I've had some of the greatest experiences with those guys, but do I think that what I've done with [Justified] is ten time better than anything 'Nsync has ever done? Yes, I do. But I'm a cocky bastard."
That's about as straight forward as it gets.
