No Rock And Roll Fun

SHIVER, IT'S TIMBERS: Justin Timberlake tells all about his music to BBC News. It is, of course, sadly hilarious. Asked about tabloids reporting his love life, he spurtles< font color=purple>"It's real hard having your private life written about and speculated on by total strangers but as I've grown up I've learnt to not let it bother me and to concentrate on my music. People will write and believe what they like but as long as they appreciate me musically, that's all that counts." Mmmm. Is this the same Justin Timberlake who recently traded Britney Oral Sex tales for plays of his dreadful single?
And what advice for young people, Timbers - what should they do? "I think it's important to follow your dreams and obviously most importantly to believe in yourself. " Right. Shagging the most famous female star of her generation is a big one, too, though, isn't it? If Timberlake is hoping the BBC are going to be a staging post in his route away from the shadow of Ms Spears, he's going to have a cow when he reads the piece - there's three photos; two of him and Britney; the other is of Chris Martin. And the standfirst starts "Justin Timberlake - the man formerly known as Britney Spear's boyfriend..." It must be a cold life - when most people sit at home wishing they could be lapping at Britney's Spears inner thigh, it's a pipe dream. When Justin does it, it's a rememberance of things past. And everywhere he goes, no matter how much he wants to talk about his new song - ((Just a guy, chilling out, hanging with his friends, I wanted to keep it real and focus on the dancing and club vibe.) - he still gets played as 'Britney's ex makes a record; description makes it sound like a Budweiser ad' as the result. Apparently, he's fronting up some anti-drink driving campaign, and he falls into the usual sleb trap there, too: "I really hope it makes a difference. I feel that if we can change one person's views or save at least one life then it will have been a success." really? You're putting in all this time , other people are pouring money into the campaign, and your only target is "changing one person's views?" If that's really all you wanted to do, why not take the cash, go down the nearest city centre, and say to the first guy about to climb into a car on a pub carpark "We'll buy your car off you; you get a taxi instead." Surely, if you're bringing in a person with a high profile (you have, after all, seen Britney's innards) and buying up media space, the very lowest aim should be to change hundreds of people's attitudes - otherwise why bother with a mass media campaign at all?