I swear, there was a time when we liked Justin Timberlake. Here’s how sexy left and never came back.
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2017-2018 was a bad year for the preestablished pop stars. Justin dropped a dud, Katy Perry dropped a dud, Eminem flopped. It was like we got a changing of the guard. All of a sudden new pop power players emerged.
You know, Justin being shirtless with a big ol' cross tattoo on his arm and a skin head while stuff is burning in fields around him is evoking the south but uhhhh not in the way he's intending here
Storytime: when I was a wee child, I lived in southern Louisiana. After Katrina, it was cheap for production companies to work there, so the movie industry in the area really starting kicking into high gear. I lived in a silly little nowhere town next to a slightly larger city. My silly little town became a shooting location, with some vacant storefronts converted to look like a roadside motel. It was said to be an indie flick about a father-son relationship, the son being played by none other than Justin Timberlake. I never saw him, but since this was one of the earliest Louisiana movie projects, people were naturally curious. However, word soon got around that, while dining at a local Mexican joint, JT went beyond the "give me normal human space" quota. Based on hearsay, he asked for even the wait staff to stay far away from him – basically a full-on "keep the commoners away". No body was too fond of him afterwards
thank you so much for this trainwreckords episode, todd!
but now, when are we getting the next one hit wonderland episode? let me give you ideas :
fountains of wayne-stacy's mom
andrea true connection-more, more, more
kevin rudolf-let it rock
the korgis-everybody's got to learn sometime
john fred & his playboy band-judy in disguise (with glasses)
tracy ullman-they don't know
merill bainbridge-mouth
yvonne elliman-if i can't have you
alexandra stan-mr saxobeat
eamon-fuck it
zager & evans-in the year 2525 (i think you should do this one as this year's spooktecular special ohw episode)
I remember the album came out in February and by May of the same year nobody even remembered it anymore.
"… in the top 3 defining flops that happened during my career…"
Witness has to be one. My only guess as to the other is the Pretty Awful & Utterly Lambasted Album… although I'm not sure that really be called a flop when the previous one was more of a fluke, but it certainly tanked hard.
I prayed for this to this happen.
I’ll never understand why he tried going back to his “roots” or some crap by doing some “I’m from Appalachia” bs. When he’s literally from Memphis where he could’ve teamed up with 3-6 and probably would’ve killed it. Like think about how nice it would’ve been for Paul and J to produce and feature on a JT album and bring back that entire moment from rap history for at least a couple months. Instead he was so bad at the country/folk thing he even made Stapleton suck on a song. And for that I’m the most angry at him lol
Justim Timberlake: Say Something
Cop: You have the right to remain silent.
😂😂😂 he may have came from the country but he hasn't been country in over 35 years. He's a city boy now. He's been a city boy for a long time😂😂
Any chance we'll see a "Pop Song Review" on "Ulterior Motives" by Christopher Booth, now that it's been found?
I have never liked this man. And yes I was rooting for his downfall. And what a downfall it is to witness.
Can we get a one hit wonder for Bubba Sparxxx and his song ugly
Its so funny. "Man Of The Woods" happened in the background in New Zealand.
Not having heard any of the songs, only the name, I didn't think appalachian, or country. I thought "hermit".
Not having seen any promotional material or heard any songs, I'd assumed he'd grown his hair out, had a scraggly beard, and wore rags. I didn't look into it, but I thought it was a brave move on his part.
Time to do a long residency in Las Vegas, make a lucrative living doing 15 shows a week, and having his face plastered on billboards all up and down I-15. Just like Britney Spears and Katie Perry and Wayne Newton before him. Hopefully Timberlake takes it a little easier on the plastic surgery.
"He made his career off of appropriating Black culture"
I'm no JT defending but girl, your closest thing to 'black culture' was the line at Chick-fil-A.
Talk about a trainwreckords, this is the first time I'm even hearing about this album 😄
The Man of the Woods music video looks like it was filmed in a Cabela’s store.
His tour has been sold out and you’re scared to show your face.
So I lived through the boy band era as a middle school girl who 1. was not straight and 2. listened to classic and prog rock, and I can't tell you how insufferable it all was. So when JT broke out when I was in high school, there were some solid jams but they always sounded a little "off" to me – like a teenage boy wearing his dad's suit to a school dance. Like, producers and writers made songs that were too good for him, but he was A-list, had name recognition, and a lot of talent and skill, so they let him do it. "Sure, little Justin, you can sing the song!" …needless to say I never thought he was the arbiter of "cool" Todd declares he was in this review
Todd timing is always right. Cant wait for Pop song review of Woman's World.
And its so crazy cause omg… FutureSex LoveSounds is such a good timeless album. Was fresh in 2006 as is fresh today.
Is that really Britney Spears at 2:09? I don't think it looks anything like her.
I am so glad I stopped listening to Music after 2000. I only listen to 1975-2000 music. When MTV stopped showing videos I grew up, cut my hair, got a 401K, had kids and no longer vote Democrat. Bad Boy Bill to Jim Croce to Ice Cube to Metallica to Beck to House of Pain, you can keep your woke snowflake whiney clap trap, I will keep listening to the good stuff.
excuse me, Bilmuri brought country back, let's be real here
Awesome man thank you
I think he axed his career
" He's a lumberjack and that's ok ….
Yeah, music is weird. So tell me more about these sassy Dr. Pepper baked beans!
I saw him in concert last minute in 2019 because there were extra tickets from a rescheduled show and it was pretty fun i mean mostly a bunch of millennials dancing to sexyback but the man of the woods section was SOOOOO boring. They changed up the set to like a campfire thing and the vibes were just so off.
Still anticipating Limp Bizkit’s “Results May Vary” for Trainwreckords aka “The Album that Killed Nu Metal” because by the time RMV came out in 2003, the music industry was sick and tired of the aforementioned genre and Fred Durst’s schtick after Limp Bizkit reached their peak with “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water.” Wes Borland leaving prior to the recording of RMV didn’t help either. After Nu Metal died following 2003, Emo jumped in and bands such as My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco dominated the mainstream rock charts in the mid to late 2000s.
He killed it with the 20/20 experience and then boom man of the woods and he was never heard from again
Guy was never cool. Ever. Not sure what the rest of you were ever seeing but I chalk it up to mass formation psychosis
Todd, if you are planning to tackle Timbaland's downfall, you gotta talk about Shock Value II.
Sure, that thing had hits, but it's way weaker than the original Shock Value.
Plus, you get to talk about Carry Out again! Yay! 😀
25:44 this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It legit put me on the ground laughing. Kelso never had a line this good.
I hadn't heard of 'Supplies' before this video and now 'Supplie-ie-ies' is stuck in my head. Thanks Todd!
I can't believe how long ago 2018 feels, let alone early February that year when we still didn't know how big 2018 would be for Marvel!
27:42 i had to pause to laugh at this when you said it and then just mumbled it to myself on and off through the rest of the video. future hard jeopardy question jessica biel. lmao. lol.