Justin Timberlake ‘retired’ by fans after album, tour flop
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Bye bye bye
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Red Rocket let’s fucking go !!!
Just saw this couple days ago! Unexpectedly amazingly acted movie! Really nailed white trash culture.. no offense to white trash.
Cry me a river
What goes around comes back around
Cry me a river
The cost of licencing his songs must be at an all time low, Tony
He sold his catalog 2 years ago.
Real glass
MY scapegoat
Flatlining
This is my favorite gif of all time, what do you type into the search bar to find it?
I remember seeing the full video on youtube like 15 years ago. I wish I could find it again, the gif never fails to make me laugh
Supa Hot Fire - The Rap Battle on Youtube
One must never forget the legend of Supa Hot Fire
Easy to find. Just search Supa hot fire as that’s his not a rapper name.
“Rap battle” brought it up for me just now
For those of you who also play Destiny:
https://images.app.goo.gl/chmaynPxVRBZ5kyG8
The ScapeGOAT Jack Perry would say
Now I'm imagining Drew McIntyre trying to find some escapism in the world of pop culture only to bump into CM Punk memes 😂
REAL GLASS!
Cry me a lake
Laughs in Janet Jackson
I hope she’s having a great night
Her tour still going strong!
I just bought tickets for her Amsterdam show. Can’t wait!
Because she has real talent. Something JT does not have.
I guess you could say what goes around…comes around?
I still find it wild that this woman knew nothing about hot Cheetos?!
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Omg your flair...Tessa and Scott ❤️❤️❤️
thas the en?
Will NOT miss him much.
What goes around comes back around, I guess?
He already knew he’ll get backlash for having treated Britney Spears like shit. Probably why he sold his catalogue for $100 million prior to (or around the time) Britney getting fully released from her conservatorship.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/26/justin-timberlake-sells-song-catalog-for-100m-to-fund-backed-by-blackstone.html
Edit:
Was selling the catalogue a complete coincidence? I think not.
to be fair around that time the music industry sort of shifted focus from discovering new artists to rehashing prior hits. I read a really wild article a few years ago about a music rep who used to represent famous artists but now spent his time representing discographies.
like all industries music has become risk averse and it's not worth taking a chance on an artist who might flop when you can just put out a guaranteed hit. the recent resurgence of older songs (like the "take me home country road" song) isn't always organic and in many cases is due to representatives like that one getting the song in movies, in ads, and back in the public consciousness. if you start paying attention you'll notice some more covers and a lot more sampling happening too. not trying to say JT isn't shady but there's a lot going on in the music industry right now and he's not the only one who has sold his discography in the past couple years
I’d love to read this if you could share a link!
I know nothing, but this sounds right so I'm going to believe it.
ive noticed this thing where a certain old song will start getting played on the radio stations all of sudden. i used to think it was that the royalties must have been at a discount.
Justin Bieber sold his catalogue for a shit ton of money as well. $200M I believe?
He's really young to sell his catalogue. Most big acts wait until close to retirement. He knew his star would only fall now so he sold before the deal was much worse.
But a lot of acts sold in 2021-2022, I'm guessing their financial planners feared a post-covid recession and advised a "now or never" situation. The wealthy exist in a class so far removed from us. Their advisors can forecast the future and get the best deals for them, while the working class live paycheck to paycheck and hope they don't go bankrupt from a big surprise medical bill.
Nah that’s status quo for the music industry. Really selling a catalog in less than a year would be very difficult.
His Future Sex Love Sounds tour was the first concert I ever went to. I could not give a flying fuck about him now. Remember that slew of movies where they tried to make him a movie star?? Byeeeee
you mean you didn't appreciate hits like The Love Guru and Yogi Bear?
Hollywood trying so hard to make him happen yet he won't ever happen. He is always got outshoned by anyone in whatever movies he's in
He was good in The Social Network, surprisingly, but that's probably because of Fincher.
Because he was just playing himself basically lmao
Because he was playing an insufferable prick, which doesn’t seem to be that far from the truth of his own life. No wonder he pulled it off. (Justice for Andrew!Saverin, the real one is a tax-dodging parasite like his buddy Zuck)
Fincher actually didn't want to cast him. But he gave an excellent audition. Fincher still didn't want to cast him, so he made him audition again and again. Every time Timberlake was excellent. So finally Fincher relented and cast him
Source: director commentary for the film
Bro Cillian Murphy was so much hotter in In Tome than Timebrlake could ever hope to be.
And it's crazy because you could see the difference between the two
One looks like a carefully manicured visiage
The other looks like a blue collar 9 to 5 guy
And the schlub is killing the fucking game
Idk how Cilian is beating the fuck out of JT but I'm fucking here for it
He was good in Alphadog
Except pop star
He peaked with Model Behavior
Model Behavior really did go above and beyond as a Disney Channel Original Movie….. god bless
And it gave us Daniel Clark, one of my biggest preteen crushes.
they could never make me hate model behavior 😭
Omfggg you just unlocked a core memory!! Thank you!!!
omg the chokehold that movie had me in
I didn't have cable at the time and took a whole ass trip to my grandparents just to watch the premiere of this movie on the disney channel
Are we just going to pretend like The Social Network and Inside Llewyn Davis aren't on the list?
Two of my favourites, can we please respect Oscar Isaac more in general?
I legit liked him in Inside Llewyn Davis. He played the good natured oblivious idiot character really well. It was such a great foil to Oscar Isaac's painfully self aware prick character.
Its crazy to think Justin had a supporting role in one of the best movies about being a 60's musician ever made. I can't remember a celebrity falling this hard without some crime attached to it. He went from acting in big productions and being this SNL sweetheart to more or less hated as Britney's abuser seemingly overnight.
Friends with benefits and bad teacher are still good though
Outside of Alpha Dog and Inside Llewyn Davis, that is a ROUGH list. He should have fired his agent a long time ago.
The problem wasn’t his acting which has always been mid at best as there are plenty of awful actors who can get work (Gadot anyone?). He isn’t an interesting looking person. He is conveniently good looking but his face doesn’t have much character. He’s forgettable as an actor but his face fits music. Maybe he’ll have better luck when he ages more. But he won’t have much luck when he still looks like a generated Sim character.
I really liked the premise of In Time, but it was poorly executed.
Wow Love Guru was later than I would have guessed.
There’s a lot of good movies on this list tho
He’s amazing in the social network. He is playing a piece of shit in that movie though lol. Haven’t liked him in anything else.
Amen. One of the many highlights of one of the best films of the century.