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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:13 AM
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Justin Timberlake: "Sexy Back"
I dunno, but I think the music (and the video) are a little lame. I think he's trying too hard, if you ask me. You be the judge. :P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgtmETjMT7Y
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:18 AM
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1. You just don't know how to act.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:33 AM
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4. And what was it with the explosion at the end?
He seemed to be implying a French Assassin thang.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:25 AM
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2. this song makes me wish I was about 27 on the dance floor
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 02:25 AM by idgiehkt
in the gay bar. Damn.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:28 AM
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3. Yeah? You like it?
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:35 AM
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5. it's definitely
a 'shakin your thang on the dance floor' kind of song.

It always makes me think of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album for some reason. Like,

Don't Stop til You Get Enough and songs like that, I guess because it has a disco sound to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq0PFb34Cjk
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 02:43 AM
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6. Now that's just FUN!
Maybe Justin needs to start getting plastic surgery so he can look like MJ's dark, freakish clone. ;)

Kidding! :hi:
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:13 AM
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8. Me too.
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I like it. Him being an ex-teeny bopper heart throb guy.....
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Bryan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:11 AM
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7. It's brilliant marketing
Filling a need that no one knew was there. Who knew sexy was in decline?* Regardless, here comes Timberlake to reassure an anxious public that they no longer have to go without sexy, because he's got enough for everybody. It's very canny.



*In fact, leading sexy indicators haven't budged in six months, and sexy as a proportion of GDP has seen year-on-year growth.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:14 AM
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10. ....
:rofl:
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:14 AM
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9. You have to think of JT's music as club music.
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 11:14 AM by janesez
It's not meant to be played on the radio. It's meant to dance your ass off to. The bass line, the insistent chorus, it's totally infectious. The lyrics are unimportant. When you're in a club and this comes on, you will shake your ass, that is guaranteed.
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:36 AM
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13. You are right and I love the song and the album.
Everytime I hear it I dance my ass off, particularly at clubs. Honestly, it's one of the best songs to dance to in a long time.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:01 PM
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20. You mean, meant to be clubbed BY it?!
(makes sense to me...)
:rofl:
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:05 PM
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21. Bah. If I'm in a club and Daft Punk comes on, I'll dance...
if Justin Timberlake comes on, I'll get a few shots of whiskey and sweat a while on a barstool.

Like I said downthread, J.T.'s new album is the record James Brown would have done had he been a virgin.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:34 PM
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28. Oh, I don't know.
I think people from "our" generation (I'm using that term because we seem to be from the same era music-wise, according to the other thread) tend to dismiss new pop music because we think it's weak. However, I know I was dancing my ass off to Michael Jackson back then (maybe you weren't). I've always liked pop music, and I think Justin Timberlake does it very well.

When his first album came out, a rapper (can't remember if it was Method Man or Redman) said, "If you say you ain't like Timberlake's new record, you lyin'." Hee!
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:40 PM
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31. I think his first album, Justified, was ok.
I don't know if we're the same generation. Probably pretty close, but I was in first grade or so when Thriller came out.

And while I dig music of the 70s and 80s, I gotta stay up on the new stuff. It's my job (I write a music column for a livin').

As far as new music is concerned, I gave Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood album of the year cred for 2006. But Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Neil Young were also on my Top 10, so what the hey.
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Corgigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:23 AM
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11. It reminds me of this video
just not as well song..or the singer as hot

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tZeZhgi99_s
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:14 PM
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14. that my FAVORITE George Michael song
you are right about how they are both singing softly. And George Michael eventually came out, so....;)
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:54 PM
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17. See, I just don't get the same vibe from Justin as I did George.
I think it's because George's song told a story, or at least tried to.

Here's Justin:

I'm bringing sexy back. Sexy back. SEX! Yeah, babe. Sexy back. Oh yeah.....

Then: :nuke:


:rofl:
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:18 PM
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23. I have to admit
I've always found it ridiculous that he is a sex symbol. Probably the folks that were his age or younger when he broke are probably the ones that feel that way. To me he still looks like an overgrown kid, like Doogie Howser with a beat box or something. So it is a little ridiculous for him to be singing the lyrics "I'm bringing sexy back..."; you're like "back"? LOL.

But hey, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it. And you are right, the song doesn't really go anywhere. It kind of reminds me of Britney's "Toxic".
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:25 PM
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24. Here's Britney's "Toxic"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PGs7O3cPzy0

And I have to say, this does more for me, and I'm the most heterosexual woman on the planet! The music and the video are much more interesting than Justin.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:29 PM
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26. That song isn't entirely bad, I must admit...
It's simple, but effective.

Though when it comes to onscreen kissing, Olivia Newton-John did it better in "Physical" (1981)
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:39 PM
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30. Ahhh yes. Olivia...
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 01:45 PM by Writer
here's what I got from this video:

Sweatband - Check
Horrible leotards - Check
Aerobics with a room of sweaty fat guys - Check
The sudden appearance of oiled male dancers - Check
Two of the oiled male dancers walking away together, holding hands - Check (progressive for 1981, if I may say so myself)
Man who looks like Carrot Top on steroids - Check

I dunno. This one was a little gross to me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1MnG9WrHjGo
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:30 PM
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27. yes
I was a big Alias fan so I loved that video. I don't understand Justin's appeal at all. I guess because he looks so young he should be illegal. You know, it's really strange, but back when I was growing up, a song like this (Sexyback) would have been sung by someone like Prince. It's weird that someone so middle class/scrubbed clean has the kind of sex symbol status Justin does.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:42 PM
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32. Now Prince would have done that song some justice...
not Doogie Howser, lounge singer. ;)
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:26 AM
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12. Stupid song and video, but...
I could watch him all day. :evilgrin: :loveya:
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:30 PM
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15. It's a GREAT song to dance to
but I'd never listened to the words before. Not inspiring.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:53 PM
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34. Hey Chicky!
:hi: :hug:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:44 PM
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16. A 5 year old on a Target brand synth keyboard would do just as well. Also,
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 12:52 PM by HypnoToad
this is a far better, more talented, and much more socially conscious song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_aW2Vw85vs
(pretend Justin is singing it...)

Also of some relevance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64LVWvOH6M

:yoiks:
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:57 PM
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18. The whole album seems like an album written about sex by a person who hasn't had any n/t
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:00 PM
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19. Oi! I didn't write it!
*snort* :spray:
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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:17 PM
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22. "A Special Christmas Box" is so much better.
Edited on Thu Jan-04-07 01:17 PM by slj0101
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s7cPtDLLPnw
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:27 PM
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25. More like 'Justin Timberlake: "Dime-per-dozen Hack"'
:rofl:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:38 PM
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29. The Video Got Me
kind of hot!

but that isn't difficult to do

:rofl:
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:43 PM
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33. Tell me, Southpaw.
Was it the go-tee? It was the go-tee, wasn't it?
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 01:53 PM
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35. Naaahhhh
it was the girl getting dressed

and just the you know, the whole thing

the go-tee helped ???

:shrug: :evilgrin:

Maybe I'm just h o r n..

never mind
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