Post by mecca on Mar 12, 2007 10:05:39 GMT -5
Peace-
I found this interview from last year of Justin Timberlake from Rolling Stone. I only posted the first part. Well it speaks a little on "musical" background. I see the whole Elvis thing constantly repeated. Generally it really vexes me when a lot of these "artists" don't give respect due. I don't know in his case because I don't listen to his music like that. However what went down with him and that Janet situation said enough. I was straight.
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Justin Timberlake Revs Up His Sex Machine
Prepping for the release of "FutureSex/LoveSounds," he's ready to get down (and stoned) again
AUSTIN SCAGGS
Sitting next to me at Justin Timberlake's show at Amsterdam's Paradiso, front and center on the balcony, is Timberlake's mom, Lynn Harless. She's waving a skinny cigarette in one hand - sparked with a cow-shaped lighter that shoots flames out of both nostrils - and clutching a fresh Heineken in the other. Every now and then, to cool down, she'll whip out a hand-held electric fan, which offers a multicolor circular light show when the blades are spinning. "How many other moms you know with a rave in their purse?" she asks.
Timberlake, 25, is playing a club gig with his twelve-piece band to prep the faithful for the release of FutureSex/LoveSounds (he chose the title, he joked the day before in Paris, because Purple Rain was already taken). The sound is big enough to fill an arena, and his guitarist gets plenty of room, pushing the harder funk into rock territory. In the middle of "Like I Love You," Timberlake bashes out the riff to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Before he plays his new single "SexyBack," he says, "This song is from my new album. If you don't like it, fuck you." Harless sings along to her boy's smash at the top of her lungs.
She gave birth to Justin when she was just twenty. Both of them told me, at different points, that they "grew up together." While Timberlake is singing, dancing and sweating through his suit pants on the stage below, she screams in my ear: "When Justin was a little-bitty baby, like three or four months old, we'd sit him in those seats, like a car seat, on the kitchen counter. He'd kick his legs to the beat of the music. We'd change the music and he'd kick his legs to the new beat. We'd say to our friends, 'Dude! Look at this!' He was like a little toy."
Lil' JT didn't get his rhythm from Mom, though. Lynn credits his biological father - whom she calls the "sperm donor" - for genetically instilling in her boy perfect rhythm and perfect pitch. Randy Timberlake played bass and sang the high harmonies in a bluegrass band with Lynn's brother. (Lynn raised Justin with her husband of twenty-two years, Paul Harless, a banker who gave Justin his sense of humor and his unflappable demeanor.) "We were coming home from a bluegrass festival in Mississippi with my brother and sister-in-law in a freakin' Winnebago," Lynn tells me, "and all of a sudden my brother said, 'Is anyone listening to him? He's singing f**k**g harmony parts!' Justin was adding a harmony to the songs on the radio. He was freakin' two!"
Timberlake honed his singing skills in church while growing up in Millington, Tennessee - a town so small it actually had a general store - and his granddad taught him a few guitar chords. Before long, at age ten, he made the pilgrimage to Orlando, Florida, where he sang Top Forty hits and performed sketch comedy on The New Mickey Mouse Club. Even among future celebs like Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell and JC Chasez - most of whom, at one point or another, spent a night on Lynn's sofa - Timberlake stood out. At fourteen, with 'NSync, he signed his first record contract, and he immediately turned into a little punk-ass. "I thought I was the coolest guy," says Timberlake. "You couldn't talk to me. Nobody could tell me anything, or I'd be like, 'Bitch! I have a record contract!' " That attitude extended to life on the road with 'NSync. "I think I used up all my lives as a teenager," he says. "It's always more impressive, you know, drinking when you're not allowed to do it. These days, I try not to burn the candle at both ends."
I found this interview from last year of Justin Timberlake from Rolling Stone. I only posted the first part. Well it speaks a little on "musical" background. I see the whole Elvis thing constantly repeated. Generally it really vexes me when a lot of these "artists" don't give respect due. I don't know in his case because I don't listen to his music like that. However what went down with him and that Janet situation said enough. I was straight.
*************************************************
Justin Timberlake Revs Up His Sex Machine
Prepping for the release of "FutureSex/LoveSounds," he's ready to get down (and stoned) again
AUSTIN SCAGGS
Sitting next to me at Justin Timberlake's show at Amsterdam's Paradiso, front and center on the balcony, is Timberlake's mom, Lynn Harless. She's waving a skinny cigarette in one hand - sparked with a cow-shaped lighter that shoots flames out of both nostrils - and clutching a fresh Heineken in the other. Every now and then, to cool down, she'll whip out a hand-held electric fan, which offers a multicolor circular light show when the blades are spinning. "How many other moms you know with a rave in their purse?" she asks.
Timberlake, 25, is playing a club gig with his twelve-piece band to prep the faithful for the release of FutureSex/LoveSounds (he chose the title, he joked the day before in Paris, because Purple Rain was already taken). The sound is big enough to fill an arena, and his guitarist gets plenty of room, pushing the harder funk into rock territory. In the middle of "Like I Love You," Timberlake bashes out the riff to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Before he plays his new single "SexyBack," he says, "This song is from my new album. If you don't like it, fuck you." Harless sings along to her boy's smash at the top of her lungs.
She gave birth to Justin when she was just twenty. Both of them told me, at different points, that they "grew up together." While Timberlake is singing, dancing and sweating through his suit pants on the stage below, she screams in my ear: "When Justin was a little-bitty baby, like three or four months old, we'd sit him in those seats, like a car seat, on the kitchen counter. He'd kick his legs to the beat of the music. We'd change the music and he'd kick his legs to the new beat. We'd say to our friends, 'Dude! Look at this!' He was like a little toy."
Lil' JT didn't get his rhythm from Mom, though. Lynn credits his biological father - whom she calls the "sperm donor" - for genetically instilling in her boy perfect rhythm and perfect pitch. Randy Timberlake played bass and sang the high harmonies in a bluegrass band with Lynn's brother. (Lynn raised Justin with her husband of twenty-two years, Paul Harless, a banker who gave Justin his sense of humor and his unflappable demeanor.) "We were coming home from a bluegrass festival in Mississippi with my brother and sister-in-law in a freakin' Winnebago," Lynn tells me, "and all of a sudden my brother said, 'Is anyone listening to him? He's singing f**k**g harmony parts!' Justin was adding a harmony to the songs on the radio. He was freakin' two!"
Timberlake honed his singing skills in church while growing up in Millington, Tennessee - a town so small it actually had a general store - and his granddad taught him a few guitar chords. Before long, at age ten, he made the pilgrimage to Orlando, Florida, where he sang Top Forty hits and performed sketch comedy on The New Mickey Mouse Club. Even among future celebs like Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, Christina Aguilera, Keri Russell and JC Chasez - most of whom, at one point or another, spent a night on Lynn's sofa - Timberlake stood out. At fourteen, with 'NSync, he signed his first record contract, and he immediately turned into a little punk-ass. "I thought I was the coolest guy," says Timberlake. "You couldn't talk to me. Nobody could tell me anything, or I'd be like, 'Bitch! I have a record contract!' " That attitude extended to life on the road with 'NSync. "I think I used up all my lives as a teenager," he says. "It's always more impressive, you know, drinking when you're not allowed to do it. These days, I try not to burn the candle at both ends."
