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10/13/2007 7:37 PM
insomniachollie wrote: I expect that rather than OTL being the thing that actually broke them up, it just got picked on as an example of what they were less keen about as a group - a symptom rather than the actual disease, if you know what I mean. It's the cheesiness of it all, I think. (I mean, they were always a little cheesy, but OTL was a big old stinky slice of cheese ). I know one of them (Joey I think) said that the lip balms and some of the merchandising used to annoy him... that kind of stuff, the stuff that might make people view them less as musicians than as the pretty boys who are there to sell shit to girls. I think OTL was probably an indicator that their names couldn't sell everything any more, the tide was changing, and I think it probably frustrated Justin who I think, even then, clearly longed for the musical credibility they deserved but were never given. The whole cheesy spin off boyband movie thing I think was probably just an example of the various downsides of being a mass marketed pop group.
I believe Justin just wanted to get out. He was always talented but nobody really took him seriously when he first went solo because of his boyband past. He just couldn't escape it no matter how hard he tried. Eventually people started seeing him in a different light. They started to see the talent, not some manufactured artist trying to keep up an image of something he wasn't. Look at Lance. He was pretending to be something he wasn't. He dated girls to uphold some image for his female fans. I just wonder if he told those girls what was going on. Justin saw an opportunity and he took it. Because he did that, those people overseas know him as Justin Timberlake or JT. Not as "Britney's boyfriend" like they did before. *NSYNC never did a world tour so that's why they only knew him as that. People change. They develop different interests. They grow up.
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