The whole idea of artists having to use the hashtag blacklivesmatter in order to make RnB music is ridiculous. I especially can't take this from Cosmo.
The idea of him collecting and dropping black talent is a joke. His band has been primarily black for the last decade and his main collaborators have remained Timberland and Pharrel, he done a joint tour with Jay and contributed a fair bit Beyonce's Self Titled because of a closeness. These think pieces always trying way to hard, just call him out for the tone deaf "we're all the same" response and leave it at that.
"He's been using blackness as a convenient set dressing for his entire career. " Except he hasn't for over a decade, he dropped the "urban" look after the Justified era back in 2003, a time when it wasn't deemed culturally insensitive by the vast majority of blacks & liberals, its was simply trendy.
In the full article, it even talks about how artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake are heavily-inspired
by Michael Jackson, but it's only Justin Timberlake that ends up on Michael Jackson's latest album.
...Vin
lmao granted Chris Brown doesn't deserve to get anywhere near Michael or his legacy, and granted also that Usher went thru a phase of making low key garbage EDM music, he's still the all around best male entertainer in the biz right now IMO !!
please #BuyCrashOniTunes and #StreamCrashOnAppleMusic everyone
Black people in Flint still don't have clean water yet they worried about freaking Justin Timberlake. Identity politics is a fraud. It only pushes us backwards instead of moving us forward where we need to be.
I was going to say that he just was misunderstood... but then I remembered how he handled the whole "Cry Me A River gate", Britney exposed him.
Justin Timberlake tried to play the victim after his "sweet soul" smugness brought on a wave of critics. Then all of a sudden he claims he was "misunderstood" for his obliviousness. And let's all not forget how Justin Timberlake was racist and disrespectful, live on stage, to Rihanna's mother as he tries to make the Caucasian crowd laugh by doing a Barbadian accent.
Was he "misunderstood" then, too?
Justin Timberlake has always been that annoying, out-of-touch white guy. Never understood
why the Blacks supported him. But that support is over now. Better late than never, I guess.
Justin Timberlake tried to play the victim after his "sweet soul" smugness brought on a wave of critics. Then all of a sudden he claims he was "misunderstood" for his obliviousness. And let's all not forget how Justin Timberlake was racist and disrespectful, live on stage, to Rihanna's mother as he tries to make the Caucasian crowd laugh by doing a Barbadian accent.
Was he "misunderstood" then, too?
Justin Timberlake has always been that annoying, out-of-touch white guy. Never understood
why the Blacks supported him. But that support is over now. Better late than never, I guess.
Justin Timberlake tried to play the victim after his "sweet soul" smugness brought on a wave of critics. Then all of a sudden he claims he was "misunderstood" for his obliviousness. And let's all not forget how Justin Timberlake was racist and disrespectful, live on stage, to Rihanna's mother as he tries to make the Caucasian crowd laugh by doing a Barbadian accent.
Was he "misunderstood" then, too?
Justin Timberlake has always been that annoying, out-of-touch white guy. Never understood
why the Blacks supported him. But that support is over now. Better late than never, I guess.