JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AND "CRY ME A RIVER"

After doing a podcast on Justin Timberlake's Cry Me a River, I will admit something about him. And it's rather embarrassing, if you will. I'm starting to like the guy. His music blows, but he's a good guy. Just kidding, his music is fine. And granted, I didn't really hate him before. I knew of him and sort of dismissed him and all his boy band friends. I'm basically a Rock 'n' Roller.

Having said that, I still don't consider myself a "fan". The only songs I've bought from him are Cry Me a River and Bye Bye Bye from NSYNC cause I had to for the podcast. Even having to check out the book Justin: The Unauthorized Biography from the library to do research was embarrassing. I almost felt compelled to tell the librarian that it was for my son who was with me. But he's only four. And much more into Zack and Cody. It actually turned out to be a decent book and I learned a few things.

For one, he lost on Star Search when he was a kid and that actually turned out to be a good thing. Figure that one out. If anything, that's an excellent life lesson to learn. Losing just might turn out to be one of the best things that ever happens to you. In Justin Timberlake's case, losing gave him the opportunity to go on the Mickey Mouse Club, where he met Christina Aguilera and JC, which he later recruited for NSYNC. He also met Britney Spears, who turned out to be his future girlfriend and the inspiration for his song "Cry Me A River." So in essence, losing a competition turned out to be a great career move.

Matt did the podcast and we interviewed Jessica, the self described greatest Justin fan. Her website is called World of Justin and is the number one Justin website. The good thing about the website is that, as far as I can tell, she updates almost every day. When I checked out the site to do this blog entry sometime ago, Jessica had written about Justin being snubbed again on People magazine's Sexiest Man issue. The entry was actually pretty funny and she wrote in her own voice, which is not an easy thing to do. I got to know her voice because I edited the podcast and had to hear the interview way to many times.

The thing that hooked me about doing a podcast for Cry Me a River was that before Justin could appear on the Grammy Awards, where he was nominated, he had to apologize for exposing Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl half-time show. So he apologized while accepting his Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Cry Me a River." That was pretty amazing to me. Apologizing while receiving an award is something you don't see very often. That's gotta be a first.

One other thing that made me do the podcast is that the song is about Britney. As Jessica put it when Matt asked her what the song was about. I wasn't paying too much attention when Justin and Britney were an item, but they must've been a cute couple. It's too bad Britney hooked up with Kevin Federline sometime later because things started to deteriorate at that point.

Cry me a River is a pretty good song which is well produced by the renown record producer Timbaland. I wouldn't be surprised if Justin Timberlake has a long and successful recording career.