Justin Timberlake in 2013

I hate to say it but I've had "mirrors"' chorus in my head since this morning...

There's also a career similarity, a similar personality as well, between Kobe Bryant and JT.

you're gonna have to expand on this one

the stretch from "don't hold the wall" to "let the groove in" is heavenly

is the sample on "tunnel vision" meant to sound like it's saying "i know she lies"?

it's a vocal sample going "i know you lie"

yeah it's just weirdly at odds with the song's sentiment

yea other than like phenom @ a young age or something? i dont see a kobe/jt parallel @ all

i thought it was "i know you like"

yeah i think it's "i know you liii-i-ke it" now that i listen closer

you're gonna have to expand on this one

Okay, fair enough. This was a drowsy night thought but when I thought about it the comparison held up.

Ages: Kobe is 34, Justin is 32
Both have child-star or child-actor qualities. Kobe is the son of Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, a former LA Clipper. Since he was little he's been a basketball prodigy and grew up believing that he would be a super star one day. Justin was a child actor on the Disney Channel and has always had child-actor precociousness about him. Neither one stumbled on their career ambitions but both were raised, almost from birth, to excel in their fields.

Breakout year for both was 1996 (Kobe entered the NBA Draft, and 1996 was the first year NSync charted)

Both had a squeaky clean image that they abandoned. Kobe in 2003, after his rape case (previously he smiled for magazine covers -- now he scowled and got some tattoos). Timberlake tried, some might even say successfully, to act tougher and more like le bad boy circa 2002, with his album Justified. The Jackson Jackson half-time show nipple scandal -- a kind of rape (of the innocent).

They both "broke up the band" so they could finally receive all the glory for themselves. Kobe getting Shaq traded in 2004 so he could chase scoring titles (which he wouldn't have been able to do with O'Neal as a team-mater), and Justin in 2001 by going solo and ending N Sync.

Those are a bunch of side-by-side comparisons that are hard to disagree with, but I have criticisms that are obviously more subjective. Kobe and Justin's squeaky clean personas never fit either one of them. They're both incredibly hard workers whose ambitions were always greater than their talents (though they're both obv talented). Kobe should've played more like a SF earlier in his career rather than try to be like Jordan, a SG. Timberlake's on-screen presence is always bizarre and his comedy is always forced. Kobe is a ball hog, Justin is a camera hog. Kobe has his kind of hilarious "psychopath" face that he makes when things are getting intense out there, Justin has his male model lust face. Both are forced. Neither dude is ever subtle ("Call me the Black Mamba -- that's my new nickname")

And Kobe has done everything he can to make people compare him to Jordan. Timberlake wanted everyone to compare him to Michael Jackson. the effort was always obvious

To underscore Kobe Bryant's child-star personality: he has no conception of money. If you're his bodyguard, or in his Kobe posse, and you're hungry-- want to run into McDonalds -- Kobe will hand you a $100. "Kobe, I want an iPod" you'll ask, and he'll just hand you $100. "But Kobe, an iPod is worth $200-$400" and he'll just say "Oh, here you go," and give you three more Ben Franklin sheets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9QVNbUPzgM

timberlake is actually p capable @ comedy imo

i honestly dk abt how all n'sync ended but if jt's ego was involved or w/e then i truly think hes outgrown it & seems p well adjusted now

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse, Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater!

a lot of that conjecture about kobe is completely off-base fwiw.

Assuming you guys don't want to hear my Chris Kirkpatrick-Derek Fisher analogies.

I just heard "let the groove in" : it's very good ! love the... groove !

i enjoyed the last 'history of rap' on Fallon, mainly for JT doing "All Good Everything" with "don't believe me just watch jimmyjimmyjimmy"

Uh, I don't think Nipplegate is comparable to rape.

Janet Jackson's nipple raped the minds of America's children.

the hits medley on Fallon is fire. i love a huge, expensive, well-rehearsed pop band.

Cry Me A River!

yeah that medley was awesome. Fully on the JT train now. Ignore my earlier statement re new album boringness - I am in lurve & On. Board.

the horns sounded fantastic on some of those tracks

yeah that was a mighty backing band

Why N Sync only spawned one star.

JC was awesome when I saw him tour behind that album.

that whole article should just be those 2 pictures and the caption "this is what JC's hair looked like when he launched his solo career"

lol otm

omg yes

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✞ Only God can judge me ✞

That's bullshit (yeah I'm addressing you and your fake accounts).

JC only never made it because he never made a pact with the new world order. All these illuminati filth enablers will rule the world, but will burn in hell. JC is better left out of this insidious industry, while his peer JT will have to sacrifice his love life (Britney) for his career (Cry me a river). This is truly a disgusting world †

This is truly a disgusting world †

Wow. It's not that I doubt Joey Fatone knows what he speaks of re: NWO, but you just wonder about the timing.

ok that's hilarious that JC is writing Backstreet Boys songs now

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/49987-uestlove-says-justin-timberlake-will-release-a-second-volume-of-the-2020-experience-this-year/

"i admire the balls it took to make this record. cause he coulda easily urshurd his work in and made diplo his teddy riley to 20/20's dangerous instead of sticking with timb's Quincy. feel me?"

otm

jc found his true calling as a judge on america's best dance crew

off the air now isn't it?

that is horrible news. i thought they were casting the next season soon.

heard the record at a friend's house today, sounded better than i expected but i still gotta sit down with it one-on-one.

most of the record is in my head more or less all of the time now

the stretch from "don't hold the wall" to "let the groove in" is heavenly

otm

http://i.imgur.com/bsliywu.png

He didn't discuss the music much.

so...how is that JC album?

waited til today to listen to this in full

'mirrors' remains amazing

because that billboard article makes it sound kind of amazing

xp

one of the great lost singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cNRd7lUBrk

is that the one cowritten with JT?

according to a quick google search, yeah