On the subject of Timberlake, and utter bewilderment

[pensnest]

Am I going completely mad? I *swear* I was listening to track #11 on 20-20 pt 2, and it was a rather lovely little song with actual melody and actual singing, about having a pair of wings and flying away, and I clicked on it to listen again and it is a completely different song now. I—what? What?

What?

Seriously—a Timberlake song I want to listen to again has disappeared into the ether. What. The. Hell?

Am now thoroughly unsettled.

ETA: ah, right. Hidden track. Hidden track I cannot extract and play on its own, or buy as an individual track from iTunes. Screw it. I'll listen to it on YouTube in future, if I can be bothered. Why does anybody do this?

On (more or less) the subject of J Timberlake, there is a school of thought that says he should give up acting with which I cannot wholeheartedly disagree. I thought he was superb at the VMAs thing, and it seems a pity, really, that he hasn't been touring as a singer for such a long time when he's good at that. Not that his music is My Thing, at all, really, but still. Acting-wise, I quite enjoyed that rom-com he did, and I have fond memories of watching The Social Network at Camp, with outi bellowing "Douche!" every time 'Sean Parker' was onscreen. (I'm not entirely convinced he was acting in that role anyway.) Otherwise, I have to admit I haven't seen most of his acting roles, they've tended to be in films which are utterly devoid of appeal to me quotient, so I don't feel entirely qualified to judge whether he's any good or not... but he *is* good in concert.

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[pensnest]

'Pair of Wings' is easily my favourite track on the album. Sadly, it remains true that what Justin is doing musically these days just isn't my thing, generally speaking. I don't like the balance between melody and production—that, incidentally, is why my favourite Nsync album was No Strings, not Celebrity.

But I was listening and doing something else, which is why I didn't realise I was hearing two tracks instead of just one... I had heard of hidden tracks, but I didn't realise people still did that stuff, I thought it went out in the '70s! (Ahem. I don't buy a lot of modern music.)

I tend to find that the same thing happens with the films that Justin is in - he does a lot of films that simply don't appeal to me at all. I've long thought he would be really good in rom-coms, something light and fluffy, because he's so good on SNL, and I thought he was fine in - wait, it'll come to me - 'Friends with Benefits'.

He's famous, and he's also in the "love him or hate him" category for a lot of people, so he comes in for a lot of abuse. But then, he does do some very dubious things on occasion, so it doesn't surprise me one bit.

[kira-j.livejournal.com]

No way! We're definitely on the opposite ends of the spectrum here lol. Celebrity's my fave nsync album! I agreed with all the single choices too!

I read recently that he would love to play a villain like Riddler!!! I WOULD DIE OMG CAN YOU IMAGINE??? I remember getting so mad at trumpeterofdoom for imaginary casting him as two face!

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

I need to send that girl a fruit basket!

[kira-j.livejournal.com]

LOL trumpeterofdoom forever right about everything ^_^