It's official-Justin Timberlake has FLOPPED

No album that hit #1 and spawned two top-10 singles can be described as a flop.

R1 people called Lady Gaga's "Art Pop" and "Joanne" flops but they both got to #1 as well. She didn't get any #1 singles though. Timberlake's recent singles are flopping

Well at least he flopped something. His dick is probably so small it can't flop.

Yes, r3. I'm sure you know that from personal experience.

He’s no Tony Bennett.

In today's age, I don't know if top 10 really matters as much today since single sales are so powerful Id expect anything under a top 5 hit to be underperforming. Getting a number one album spot is super easy these days for anyone with mild name recognition, good PR, and a calendar.

An artist of his caliber should be performing better, but I guess this is long overdue karma. I'm happy, because he received way to much praise for the deathly bore that was his 20/20 album, what garbage. Oh and the black audience and some whites are done with him so his movies sales will take some hits.

I suggest Justing move to a nice streaming comedy show to revive his image.

Bruno Mars has replaced him.

This is definitely a flop.

Bruno Bruno Bruno!

Best Super Bowl Halftime Show Evah!

Do you think Bruno is better in bed?

A #1 album can be a flop. Janet's Unbreakable album went to #1 but it was still a huge flop.

Of course Justin's flop album has already sold more copies in a couple weeks than Unbreakable has to date. So Justin isn't as big a flop as Janet.

r11 that's fine since Janet is almost a decade and a half older than him and did her thing in the 90s Without Nsync, which he has tossed aside, his career doesn't even touch Janet's. Hell, Justin Bieber has a more relevant career at 23 than JT.

Fuck Justin Timberlake. Has-been wanker.

Janet Jackson has timeless music. Nobody will remember Justin Timberlake in 20 years.

I love that he will always be remembered as that white man that publicly disrespected a popular black woman in her time of need. He and his hillbilly classics can fuck themselves.

Are the Deplorables out there buying his music? I thought he was trying to appeal to them as a fellow white man of the woods.

R14 People will at least remember NSYNC v BSB, that he was the breakout member from it, and Sexy Back, but not much beyond that, especially since his acting career flopped too.

Hey Britney, how did your last album do?

That's what I thought.

I am the Earth Mother and he is a FLOP!

Oh gosh, Sexy Back was one of the weakest songs on that rather good album. I didn't get the hype. Now My Love used to be my jam.

So many nobodies not even trying throwing shade on the limitations of those trying.

Cry Me A River is pop perfection, will give him and Timberlands props for that hit.

Nothing ever topped that, R22. I wonder why.

Does he have a medical condition that has led to the bug eyes of the recent years. He didn't have them before.

r23, it's hard to top perfection.

I like him best on SNL. "Dick in a Box" is my second favorite after "Cry Me a River." And he's genuinely funny in that venue.

he been coasting on bad muzik for long time

boring fug

R16 "Say Something" is still top 10 on itunes but that's solely due to Chris Stapleton's popularity. If Timberlake had not featured him on it, it would probably be tanking as badly as "Filthy". "Say Something" has dropped dramatically on the hot 100 though

[quote]Do you think Bruno is better in bed?

Too coked to get it up.

R29 = Justin (projecting)

R24, it’s what happens when you get married to your beard and all you can do for years is just stare at other guys.

Janet Jackson blows.

Hey Britney at r33, what are you laughing at? Did your brain start to ooze out of your ears again?

Bruno Mars is a monkey.

What will JT's next era be like since this white trash era flopped?

[quote] No album that hit #1 and spawned two top-10 singles can be described as a flop.

Yes it can. Chart placing without sales is a flop.

Justin is not aging well. His hair style and taste in clothes, dreadful. He is yesterdays news.

Justin is very obviously on drugs.

Who is his core audience these days? Those girls who were into N'SYNC and who propelled his solo career to success have all grown out. They are probably suburban fraus who've graduated to Adele and Sam Smith. He's now in a similar position that Britney was in 7-8 years ago: the record is initially doing OK following a reasonably successful lead single with some guest star du jour on it and then in a few months nobody talks about it any longer.

[quote] Janet's Unbreakable album went to #1 but it was still a huge flop.

Uh, but Miss Jackson didn't promote her album and was independent. It didn't matter. Albums are merely marketing tools. Her album was a critical smash and seen as a return to form. It did was it was supposed to do for it.

Justin doesn't have many albums under his belt or many hits. He's also long in the tooth. He's like Christina Aguilera. He wasn't smart when it came to his career. You can't just disappear for years on end and expect to come back on top.

You can get a #1 single with as little as 25 thousand sales and a tiny bit of airplay.

A few hundred thousand for an album is great these days. It's not 1979 where you could sell two million records and not hit the top ten.

Vegas is waiting...

R49 his ego is so big he thinks he still could. In the past it was OK. There were several years between his other albums but the public still ate it up. The first signs of floppage happened when he released 2 albums in 2013. The first one did very well and that's when he was being heralded as the "prince of pop". The second album sold pretty well but the singles didn't chart as well. Then he got that #1 song in 2016 from that kids' movie but this album is further proof of his decline.

I

R47 White people who want black music without having to listen or look at a black person.

R51 About a year ago he and Gaga were rumored to be in the talks for a run on Vegas. Well now Gaga has one, Justin doesn't, and Justin made a remark about how you go to Vegas when your career dies. I can believe he is petty enough to be salty about not getting a Vegas residency and getting easy money without moving like Britney and Celine are.

I'm loving this black hip-hop wannabee punk ass bitch's downfall. I've been waiting for it for a long time; too damn long. Good fucking riddance; truly one of the most overrated entertainers that ever lived.

I think you're wrong!

Speaking of being wrong, I cannot believe that in 1979 (or any other year for that matter) that a recording could sell 2 million copies and not be in the Top Ten! Were you exaggerating perhaps?

R48, so it was supposed to flop and kick off a flop tour? OK.

R57, I don't know for sure, but it's possible. The 70s started the era of huge blockbuster album, and 1979 had Off the Wall, 52nd Street, Tusk, The Long Run, Bad Girls, Breakfast in America, etc. All of those albums went multiplatnum.

[quote] Best Super Bowl Halftime Show Evah!

Uh, no.

Threads like this remind me that most of this board really is over 40 or has very little idea how things go in the music business today.

I don't say that to be ignorant, but many don't understand that many records used to sell in a week what current records might sell EVER.

r57 there are one and two-hit wonders from the 70s and 80s who invested well enough to STILL be living pretty comfortable lives. Record sales in those decades were huge, and the money a person could make in the music business was insane.

Case in point: When Donna Summer died in 2012, she was worth $75 million, even though she hadn't had a big hit song in a more than two decades.

R60, true. The top albums of the last few years have sold 2-4 million total units (hard copied, digital, streaming, etc. combined). 20 years ago that would be a flop for any well known artist.

The last legit blockbuster album was Adele's 25 in 2015. No one has sold anything close to that in a decade, except Adele herself with 21.

NOOOO! I just want him severely demoted to lower middle class status. I want to see his pot belly lower middle class ass perform "I'm bringing sexy back" and my local festival.

R63 sadly I don't think he'll ever fall that far. He's got to be loaded too so he wouldn't have to perform again if he didn't want to

Welcome to Datalounge Janet at r54 !

Justin took a break from music because he thought he would be a movie star

op = janbot, overflowing in her panties

He is bringing boring back.

His CD has dropped to #50.

F L O P.

The chart position obsessive stans are so OVAH.

when will him and Jessica come out

be good fer their career huh

how do his concerts do?

that's how they make their $

Justin's day has come and gone. He should just bow out gracefully. That's the problem with some of these entertainers. They don't know when to hangem up and stop making new music for the public and just tour every few years. They have plenty of money so their definitely not lacking there. Just go and enjoy you're life, family/friends, and wealth. And give back since so much has been given to you.

That's how it should be done. I'm talking musicians specifically. Actors are fine. It's musicians who don't know when to step down.

Case in point Madonna!!!

what a nasty thread. i'm outta here.

To R74 -

Oh Justin, don't leave...

I have his Man of the Woods and the tracks on the second half are the really good ones. He should have released a couple more of those as singles. "Breeze Off the Pond" is the best one and would be a big hit but of course it is more laid back and traditional pop than "Filthy" or "Supplies."

Justin owns a high end Chuck E cheese type of place. A place where the rich can get drunk and pawn off their kids onto lowly paid wait staff to bore them. They do not have any jumping toys or jungle gym toys, like in a park. It is very weird. And yes, mommies and their personal asst are drunk at lunch time.

You can’t ask for a bigger promotional platform than headlining the Super Bowl in advance of the new album. Which all but guaranteed opening at #1. But the actual sales volume was small relative to his stature and the roll out. I think the whole “Man of the Woods” aesthetic was really a turn off, especially when the music was ultimately more of the same from his solo catalogue. No big evolution. So he should fire the creative director immediately. He’s also just entering that weird part of a career where he won’t notch huge sales anymore. He’s in commercial limbo and it’s not gonna get prettier from here. He thinks his talent is far bigger than the reality. He’s not Michael. Or Prince. Or George Michael. I could keep going...

I love that he went from having the most hyped up new album to being the most quickly forgotten big flop of the year lol LOVE IT

I see the enemies of Janbot's enemy are Janbot's friends

[quote]You can’t ask for a bigger promotional platform than headlining the Super Bowl in advance of the new album.

Headlining the World Cup in advance of a new album, which is what Ricky Martin did in 1998 and look where that got him... let his career live for another few years when new latin pop stars were starting to emerge in the late 90s to mid 00s.

HA HA HA HA losers!

My album is SURGING again on super STRONG sales!

It jumped from #50 to #49.

I'm back, bitches.

How many times platinum is it now?

He should just reinvent himself with a redneck/hillbilly)white trash image. It worked for Rob Zombie for the last 25 years and he also kicking ass in the movie business too (as a director)

He was hoping to get some pop-country hits and claim to be a musical chameleon who is always successful. but FLOP FLOP FLOP no one really cared. He got a moderate hit with that Chris Staples singer but that's it. So glad his days of getting #1s are over.

He could have had thousands of additional sales if he would have done right by Janet and brought her out for the SB. I was livid that he had the nerve to even sing that song during the show. He would have received brownie points for bring out Nsync, but he decided on a kamikaze mission and ended up killing this album's momentum.

^ He really is incredibly arrogant and an asshole. He treated Britney like shit way back when and when she was going through her mental breakdown and getting torn apart by the media. And he's the one who keeps poking at her when she's trying to live her damn life and she doesn't even mutter a word about him, because he knows he got more out of the relationship than she did.

Excuse me, but didn't Britney bitch break up with him?

He has two dates at the Forum here in LA. Let's see if he is sold out.

There are seats left, but he sold well today

He's now a nostalgia act.

Timberlake was so fucking hot in his heyday, which lasted like a decade. But no one stays young forever, and like they say getting old sure beats the alternative. Which makes you wonder what point r36 and r38 think they’re making.

R84 is clearly new to the DL, or at least to the Timberlake threads.

R87, please, they both got something out of the relationship. And her breakdown happened long after they broke up.

Justin Timberlake was never hot. He's always looked like backwoods white trash, which is what he basically is.

Yeah but the sort of backwoods white trash that’s really fun to assfuck

Yo yo yo bitches! My album is now #55.

and for no reason yesterdya, Timberlake was on Ellen for a full hour...

I saw some of that R96. They must have have fire extinguishers standing by because Jussy was FLAMING

Personally I think his stuff is boring but he's 37, he's had a huge career the last 20 years, he's supposedly worth $225 million, and his tours always sell out. I'm sure he'll be around for awhile ...

dat pig he done married has brung him bad luck huh....

But I bet he has good feets.

[quote]He could have had thousands of additional sales if he would have done right by Janet and brought her out for the SB. I was livid that he had the nerve to even sing that song during the show. He would have received brownie points for bring out Nsync, but he decided on a kamikaze mission and ended up killing this album's momentum.

That stunt was Janet's idea. Justin was just rubbing it in her face. The shit songs are what killed the album's momentum.

[Quote] And he's the one who keeps poking at her when she's trying to live her damn life and she doesn't even mutter a word about him, because he knows he got more out of the relationship than she did.

Reminds me of when Jessica Biel made some shady comment on twitter back when Britney had a lingerie line.

What happened to his fashion line? Don't even recall the name.

R100 Sorry to burst your bubble, but he has nasty feet. I would still throw him a much needed fuck though, with socks on.

R104 Wasn't it called William Rast?? Or something like that.

Yes, R106 I believe it was... Nothing on the website really though. Fall 2017 are the last pics, but no description, price, etc.... seems defunct.

Anything about the feets?

R32 through R38....forgetting someone?

We'll always have the shots of his tight nude body.

[quote]Justin Timberlake has FLOPPED

Pics please.

Yes clearly JC has had the more enviable career

Britney's just a dumb slut who can't even sing.

I remember a few songs that got airplay for about a week. I instantly forgot them as soon as they were over. Looks like he forgot to write hooks.

Mmmm thanks r110

his ass is surprisingly nice

Why would u be surprised? That ass is responsible for his whole career.

The album went gold in a month. Janet Jackson's last album took a year to hit plastic.

Justin has fallen out of the top 200 on billboard.

That is a bit shocking.

So he released SoulMate last night and those dolts on The Today Show this morning said “and it’s already being called the song of the summer.” By who?!?!? I listened to the song and it’s starts with “summer starts...now.” Justin will do ANYTHING to have a song of the summer but when will he learn that it can’t be engineered in a recording studio? To be the real song of the summer- it has to be organic and have momentum that is entirely driven by the listening public. He tried so hard with that thirst trap of a song “Can’t Stop the Feeling” and clearly won’t be satisfied until he nails it. SoulMate ain’t it. Sorry, JT. Go the fuck away, you empty pop, appropriating vessel.

Sorry Taylor at r120, but your song is no song of the summer either.

Justin Timberlake should have hung it up years ago.

It is not his ass that made him a star. It is his HUGE penis.

And yes, those idiots - starting with Hoda Kotb - will call anything the song of the summer - except what is likely to be the actual song of the summer. Hoda was also blathering on about that crappy song by Adam Levine, which features Ellen Degeneres, and a bunch of other ubiquitious ladies, dancing.

Another classic "in the know" DL thread that pretends to be the arbiter of all things hip and trendy.

JT was in Philly a couple of weeks ago. Sold out the joint, the crowd with enthusiastic, and the reviewer for the Inquirer said the show was great. Plus the guy sold out another show here scheduled for December,

If that's what is considered washed up, count me in.

His album flopped r124.

"In March 2018, Man of the Woods was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 album-equivalent units in the US."

That's hardly a flop, R125. Granted, it not the numbers he used to rack up, but it's definitely not a "flop" and JT isn't the teen idol he was 10-15 years ago.

Why do you and others have such a vested interest in making sure this innocuous fellow's career is in the tank?

A gold album for someone who headlined the past Super Bowl is a failure. Period. Platinum or bust.

Does anyone know if his CD was included in the purchase of a concert ticket. That’s happening more and more these days.

No, only losers like Janet Jackson have to resort to giving their CD away with everything from an Uber Ride to a super size Baja Fresh meal in order to count sales.

I never thought much of him. I didn’t like N’sync or the curly hair.

He had some pop hits I really liked, both are linked above, but he himself never appealed to me. I thought he sang in a very high key and had a bro personality. Ehh, it just never meshed with me.

His movies have sucked. He’s better in drama than comedy though. I don’t know who told attaractive people that can’t act, especially women that COMEDY is their balliwick. It seems like every middling actor in Hollywood turns to and settles in comedy when drama and action don’t work.

I think he may still work in movies but it’s not 2004 anymore. I think his audience is still there while Beyoncé never lost fans really. Just kept gaining.

Timberlake sucks. He's a flop, a loser, and a douchebro.

But he's still sells more albums than Janet Jackson.

OP = JC

[quote]So he released SoulMate last night

It wasn't on his new album.

Which is an admission that his new album sucks and DOA.

"album equivalent units" does this mean he didn't even sell an actual 500, 000 copies?

Thats why the queen of pop is rapping and making trap music. She knows how to stay relevant.

Once you release a great album and it fails, your career is over

[quote] "album equivalent units" does this mean he didn't even sell an actual 500, 000 copies?

Well, you can't fault him or even single him out for this. That's how the music business is these days. The only acts who more more physical copies than streams are country and oldies who put out new albums (Streisand, Neil Diamond, The Eagles, etc.) If you look at any of the top acts you'll see their stream equivalents far outpace their actual sales. This is why music is in the toilet. Thanks, internet.

He also has "Oscar equivalent units"

his song is currently at #13 on itunes. It didn't even reach #1. I think it peaked briefly at #3. I wonder how it will chart on billboard...clearly the public is OVER him

I loathe him.

Justin's just gonna keep getting more and more irrelevant.

We live in an age where streaming is becoming the most important part of total sales compared to other forms like physical sales, especially with places like Best Buy not stocking physical copies anymore, and the Billboard 100 will keep changing to address this. Like Gangnam Style peaked at #2 despite being the hottest YT video at the time but Harlem Shake reached #1: BB100 changed the algorithm to make YT views more important. And Christina's Liberation just did great in physical sales, especially for a female pop star over 35 who's been in the game for like two decades. But apparently the age of her fans is showing because her streaming sales were absolutely pitiful, which doesn't bode well for her because that also means she's not getting new younger fans. Same thing is gonna happen with JT.

So he had a flop album. He is still wildly successful, had the biggest song of the summer a few years ago, and could easily pull off a successful international tour. How many of these flash in the pan streaming youngsters will be relevant in not even 5 5 but 2 yrs from now.

It’s no surprise that his teen idol days are over, he’s seriously like 40 by now.

He’s going out like Liberace - he’ll be able to maintain star status and career with a hardcore fanbase for as long as he wants, no matter how weird & tweaked he gets.

Maybe when his mother dies he’ll come out.

[quote]his song is currently at #13 on itunes.

It is currently #138. Has it been out even a week yet?

Embarrassing.

That reference to summer at the beginning of the song was so shameless. It didn't work out for him, obviously.

What is doubly embarrassing is that even releasing the song in the first place was an admission that his new album was a failure.

Has he gotten desperate enough to give away Albums with Uber rides? Tickets for $9/pop?

Asking for a friend.

History will never remember Justin Timberlake like it remembers Jane Jacket.

He has always been a phony fuck. His liberal "borrowing" from other better artists, his punk non-response to the Janet debacle his highly-affected and nauseating earnestness/cutenes. Awful. His inviting a homeless guy to his wedding for the express purpose of setting him up for a joke was the nail in the coffin. Hope this fake piece of shit disappears.

I'm no fan, but he didn't invite a homeless guy to his wedding.

Fortunately, he has his red-hot movie career to fall back on.

Oh, perhaps, I'm thinking of someone else . . .

He always drew HEAVILY from Michael Jackson -- just a marginally more talented Corey Feldman -- and is an actor in the same way that Frankie Avalon is. Growing up in the '80s, you knew who the real singers and bands were, and who the novelty pop confections were. It's mystifying to see the people who are taken seriously now. Rick Astley was written off as a studio creation and has demonstrably better pipes than Timberlake.

R150 agree 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[quote] He always drew HEAVILY from Michael Jackson

Not as heavily as some people.

r150 needs to get fucked, BADLY.

Isn't JT close to 40 now ? Has he ever been musically relevant ? I know he's rich so he got very lucky with the very little generic talent he had. He must know that in 20 years no one will listen to his music...So why does he still bother (us) with the cotton candy stuff ?

Somewhere . . . Lance Bass is smiling . . .

[quote] Somewhere . . . Lance Bass is smiling . . .

Why, is his shift at Fuddruckers over?

When suit and tie came out and then every other song I heard sounded more or less like that, I rapidly lost interest. Used to be a fan.

It's interesting to watch the effects when social media turns on someone.

Of course, he didn't help things by releasing a shitty album with a shitty concept.

Maybe he's missing advice off his friend Kevin.

R158 Bass won't be smiling for long when his Pearlman documentary flops so hard it makes this album look successful.

Stop this! Stop it stop it stop it stop IT.

As a pop singer Justin Timberlake is fine, nearly perfect. We need to support him in that, if only verbally here on the Datalounge - BECAUSE - otherwise he'll "act" more and nobody wants that.

r149 Jane Jacket will never be forgotten

Even the DL seems to have forgotten Jane Jacket.

We know Janet Jackson Al-Wasabi is the OP.

Who?

Why did his new single fail to even chart on Billboard, the Gold Standard of Sales?

Fake news!

Op...no links? Means you’re full of it.

OP keeps trying to make Janet Jackson happen.

Jane Jacket HAS happened!

I just checked Billboard. Not only is his single not on the charts, his latest album isn't even on the Top 200.

Bruno Mars has definitely replaced Justin Timberlake, and thank god. After his saccharine first album, Bruno Mars made his music all about the funk and his music is way more interesting than anything Timberlake did, even the stuff on Justin's second album (the one with Timbaland on it).And he's a way better performer and not a has-been.

He had a good run.

What was the real story between him an Cameron Diaz?

It was such an odd match. It made me convinced that he's gay.

JC is so stoned and cute in this video. But I post this because none of us are asking the important question: Can our gal Justin still make a perfect turkey sandwich?

PS: Never had Cream Soda but it sounds disgusting.

Wow, looking at the charts, singles and albums- the music industry is a fucking mess. The album chart is filled with catalog titles because nothing new is selling at all and people aren't streaming full albums. Billboard counts an album sale if you stream 4 songs off the same album. That's insanity.

And the singles chart is a joke because it's ruled by streams and you have album cuts on the chart simply by virtue of a few people being lazy and letting spotify play on.

And you have people like Beyonce who have won, what, 33 Grammy awards?? Talk about devaluing something.

It's time to end the music industry. It had a good run.

[quote]It's time to end the music industry. It had a good run.

Said every old person in history.

Please give me examples of good music happening right now. Everything is autotuned to sound exactly the same and every female singer is told to sound exactly like Adele. Music has never been more generic than it has this decade.

Please give me examples of good music happening right now. Everything has so much drums and guitars you can't even hear the singer. Give me Patti Page or Judy Garland with a piano. That's real music! Not these new Beatles from England. Music has never been more generic than it has this decade.

R180, the big difference is that now, even many YOUNG people are saying it too.

R183 Sure, Jan.

If I had a dollar for every time my niece or nephew said, "I wish I could listen to your old records instead of the stuff I'm listening to!"

R184, you sound completely clueless. I'm a millenial and I know what I'm talking about it. You sound 60.

R184's idea of a great artist is Jaden Smith.

[quote] I'm a millenial

R181 The indie girl way of singing drives me nuts. A few years ago some vine mocked the "indie girl" way of singing that was starting to get popular and now pretty much all the newer pop stars are singing like it. Here's a girl who's demonstrating how they sing.

Selena Gomez basically changed her entire way of pronouncing things in some of her songs. Halsey, Bebe Rexha, Lorde, Jessie Reyez, Troye, etc all do it. So annoying.

Music acts outside of Taylor Swift and Adele don't sell many albums these days. It's not just Timberlake, though his new backwood bro shtick with this new album turned a lot of people off (myself included, though I liked "Filthy"). He really should have stopped with 2020 part 1 and then just coasted by on his acting career, but maybe he'll bounce back. His voice is grating to me, but he's an excellent performer.

On a random note, as someone who always felt Jessica Biel was underrated it's nice to see her career in better shape than her husband's. "The Sinner" was excellent and it's nice to see her get some genuine acclaim for it.

The indie voice is absolutely horrible. A bunch of followers they all are. I'm a millennial and friends with a lot of Gen Z and only brain dead people like today's music. I like a song here and there but nothing i love. We all love old music and collect vinyl. It's cool.

Why is Taylor Swift so popular? That bitch can't sing at all!!!

Taylor swift is the worst. A big fucking dumb geek.

R191 Eh Beyonce's voice is as thin as flypaper. At least Taylor plays a couple of instruments and actually writes her own shit

Taylor Swift?? That bitch is sining off-key ON THE RECORD.

*singing

Sure you're not r193

r193, you call this a thin voice.

Beyoncé can def sing but her talents are mediocre at best. She can’t write her own songs and has a whole team to plan and think for her. She’s a very dumb woman. Nothing is special about her.

The music industry is continually bringing remastered or re-releasing special edition classic albums back. Too much hip-hop and fake pretentious artists have ruined the music industry with crap by the masses. Drake would have been laughed at 40 years ago.

Drake is such a joke.

[quote]Drake is such a joke.

What an idiotic comment. Whether you like him or not, he is the biggest thing in music right now.

Music is such a joke.

[quote] Whether you like him or not, he is the biggest thing in music right now.

That's like being Queen of Mortville.

[quote]What an idiotic comment. Whether you like him or not, he is the biggest thing in music right now.

You can have him.

I sat behind him on a flight years ago (decades ago: it was on TWA) and he and his momager were in the first row left at the bulkhead in First. He must have been 17 or so and all I could see was his nappy hair when I'd get up to get something out of the overhead compartment. The FA's were paying a lot of attention to them so I asked one - "who are they? - and she told me, "Justin Timberlake and his mom." I had no clue whatsoever who he was then or what he did or why he was important. Just looked and seemed like a little kid with a perm.

Until the next day when he was on the front page of the local paper - in town to do a concert for racial peace. Nice thing to do, sure, but he didn't impress me then and hasn't since. Go figure.