NYT: Justin Timberlake, beloved by hipsters

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Youthful urbanites who normally wouldn’t admit to filling their iPods with anything remotely Top 40, let alone the music of a performer who can sell out Madison Square Garden, as Mr. Timberlake, 26, did for tonight’s show, are suddenly unashamed of their copies of “Justified,” his first solo album, or “FutureSex/LoveSounds,” his recent chart-topper produced by Timbaland. Members of the Flaming Lips, Coldplay and Keane have come to his shows, and his music is a staple of cooler-than-thou fashion week.

On Monday, at an after-party for the Marc Jacobs show at the club Eugene, the D.J. Duane Harriott played “SexyBack,” and the crowd of models, art directors, designers and other insider types hit the dance floor with abandon. “It’s a timeless song,” Mr. Harriott said, favorably comparing it to the Michael Jackson tune he spun next.

Pete Wentz, the bassist for Fall Out Boy, said at the party: “The cool thing about Justin Timberlake is that he’s one of those dudes who can dance, sing, do everything. I went to a Victoria’s Secret show, and he played there, and people loved it. You can go to hipster clubs, and they like it. I think at first they liked him ironically, but now they just like him

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Bands as hip as Keane!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.eastlondonsa.com/ddcal/gifs/2003.gif

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Justin Timberlake, the singer for Justin Timberlake, said at the party: “The cool thing about Pete Wentz is that he’s one of those dudes who can play bass, complain, expose himself, do everything. I went to a Victoria’s Secret show, and he masturbated furiously in the corner there, and people loved it. You can go to hipster clubs, and they like it. I think at first they liked him ironically, but now they just like him.

― Hell Hath No Furry (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Youthful urbanites who normally wouldnï¿½t admit to filling their iPods with anything remotely Top 40

So the writer has done a pretty extensive survey of these "youthful urbanites"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

"suddenly"

― ampersand, spades, semicolon (cis), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Are Coldplay and Keane meant to be examples of hipster music far from the Top 40?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hell Hath: you forget trying to kill himself by taking an overdose of anti-depressants.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

if only he'd succeeded

― antidote against poisoning (lex pretend), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

If only it were Elbow who'd been seen at a JT gig, eh?

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

The Flaming Lips performed with Timberlake some years ago -- nice to know they've finally gotten around to stopping by his shows.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Youthful urbanites who normally wouldnï¿½t admit to filling their iPods with anything remotely Top 40
So the writer has done a pretty extensive survey of these "youthful urbanites"

-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...) (webmail), February 7th, 2007 9:20 AM. (Hurting) (later) (link)

Yea, I'd imagine you'd find that all the youthful urbanites at a JT show.... like JT!!11!! shocking :D

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Journalism student never learned about sampling methodology; lock thread

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

The part about R.A.M.B.O. at the end is pretty lol though. No name punker dude says ANYTHING to get name in NYTimes article!!!

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

No I mean the "normally wouldn't admit to filling their iPods" part - pretty big assumption. (xpost)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

they could've demonstrated this phenomenon more credibly by just linking a bunch of ILM threads about Justin in chronological order

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

more like overweight shut-in bloggers than hipsters

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

LOL 2003

― Valoss (valoss), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

He's still a TWERP. Not a dork. ;)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Fall Out Boy SCREAMS hipster.

And...

I'm still ashamed of listening to Justin Timberlake.

― MaGoGo (FirstBass), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

WHITE HIPSTERS IN LIKING SAFE WHITE POP-R&B SINGER SHOCKAH

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm confused. Didn't Simon Reynolds say that hipsters were turning to metal and ignoring pop? DOES SIMON NOT HAVE HIS FINGER ON THE HIPSTER PULSE AFTER ALL?!?!?!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

We're getting less and less good at making fun of stuff like this. Not that it's ever been easy to hit the side of a barn with much panache, but still. :(

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Monday, December 12, 2003

Currently Listening
Justified
By Justin Timberlake
see related

My sister keeps playing the new Timberlake solo album in the car. I'm kind of shocked at how good it is. I might have to burn a copy. Is that embarassing?

I WAS THERE

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

WHITE HIPSTERS IN LIKING SAFE WHITE POP-R&B SINGER SHOCKAH

Is there a dangerous non-white pop-r&b singer??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Boy, that Usher.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Brandy was in that accident last week.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Never forget. (Actually it was in December, wasn't it?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Kelly Rowland set two orphans on fire for fun once.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

The NYT's intrepid mission to tell me what urban hipsters are up to continues unabated!

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

There is R. Kelly, but I'm pretty sure he's played at every hipster party ever.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

I, for one, am grateful for the info that “SexyBack” has become a timeless song.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I could have waited until 2017 to know that but it's nice that I can just know it now.

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

more like overweight shut-in bloggers than hipsters

TS: Overweight shut-in bloggers vs. hipsters

― Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

People wrote it off as a popular song that would come and go with the times! Foolish pre-9/11/06 mindset!

And the concept of slumming when it comes to taste is as old as the hills. At this rate the NYT is on pace to discover "snobbishness" sometime in mid-2009.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I know that dude in that emo band mentioned irony in the article, maybe the NYT could get an article about that done by 3rd quarter '07.

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

The NYT's intrepid mission to tell me what urban hipsters are up to continues unabated!

I'd been thinking this was the job of most music crit in general

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Some of it's to let us know what those crazy black people are up to these days.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

are you starting a 'taking sides' Dom?

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Fat people > blacks > hipsters

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'd been thinking this was the job of most ~~music crit~~ big American newspapers in general

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

POPULIST MUSIC IN POPULAR SHOCKAH

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

BLACK PEOPLE LISTENING TO NIRVANA?! HIPSTERS LISTENING TO TIMBERLAKE? HAS THE WORLD GONE TOPSY TURVY!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.musicals101.com/News/GScartoon.JPG

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Fat people > blacks > hipsters

fat blipsters >>>>>> all.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Are you from Teignmouth?!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Who's representing for youthful non-urbanites? The sticks are getting overlooked when it comes to Justin love, y'all. Or maybe they're just not embarassed?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

No, I think the concept of "urban hipsters" is 97.5% of the time some sort of straw man. At least at this point.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

We are all straw men.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

In this zany progressive rock concept album we all call life!

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

i still haven't even heard "Sexyback"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

noize dudes grooming thread to thread

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

I was wondering what Matt of Matt and Kim had to say about Justin Timberlake. Thank you, Major News Organization.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

This sounds like the worst thing

― maura (maura), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

Christ, I didn't actually read the article until now. With any luck, the NYT will soon replace "urban hipsters" with "anarchist punks."

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

Reporting still incomplete on what the blipsters think of all this.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

for those who haven't seen matt and kim yet

― killa bee (killabee), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

At the bottom of the Brooklyn barrel there's...a horrible electro-hipster Bright Eyes. Wow.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

Matt and Kim are fun.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

horrible and fun aren't mutually exclusive. i went to a kid rock show in '99 and had an absolute ball. same thing with the killers at last year's v-fest.

i'll backpedal on the horrible comment, however, due to a relatively small sample. but that video is horrible.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

matt and kim are awful

http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=73918

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

That video...

Who else was waiting for a fist to appear in one of those "next up" boxes?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 8 February 2007 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

anybody heard/like their whole album? I played the shit out of 'yea yea' but seems like one of those lightning-in-a-bottle/could-have-turned-out-really-annoying-but-for-the-grace-of-god-songs.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 8 February 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

Call me blackster or blipster, but Timbaland (blipster) is the reason I'm still listening to Timberlake. Also: wouldn't Timbaland, Jay-Z, Nelly Furtado and JT make the ultimate quartet.

― the rock n roll nigga (the rock n roll nigga), Thursday, 8 February 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

DIE BLIPSTER SCUM!

― The Reverend (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

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