Justin News

9/21/03
John Mayer's Big Ups To Justin Timberlake
Us Weekly caught up with John Mayer and asked the singer about his friendship with *NSYNC star Justin Timberlake. "We come from different sides of the tracks but are both good guys," Mayer said. "He's so talented. Men who want to beat the crap out of boy bands say, 'except Justin'. How do you do that?"

9/20/03
Black Eyed Peas Enjoyed Touring With Justin & Christina
The Black Eyed Peas did a Q&A with Top of the Pops and were asked what it was like to tour with Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC and Christina Aguilera this summer. "It was a shocking wonder," will.i.am admitted. "I didn't think it was gonna be that fun. I thought it was gonna be more than a mission rather than something I walked away from going 'Whoa that was hot!' The tour staff were cool, and Justin AND Christina's people were really cool. And the audience, cos not knowing you'd think it would just be teenagers with braces and lunch boxes, but there were cool cats, cool chicks, cool dudes." apl.de.ap said, "It was cool to open up a lot of people to our music. And they were very receptive to it." And Taboo added, "And to have 'Where Is The Love' make such an impact on that market, to have 20,000 people singing it was a blessing in itself." Check out the entire interview here.

9/14/03
Mark Your Calendars
Justin Timberlake will be performing at The Radio Music Awards along with Cher, Kelly Clarkson, Tim McGraw, Celine Dion, Jewel, Bon Jovi, Linkin Park, and Destiny's Child star Beyonce Knowles. The show airs on NBC from Las Vegas on Monday Oct. 27th at 9:00pm.

9/13/03
Britney Tells Truth About JT
Taryn Mannings isn't the only one lashing out...Britney opens up about how she really feels about Justin. In the new Rolling Stone w/her on the cover, she talks about how she really felt about the "Cry Me A River" video. Britney says thats Justin called her up and wanted to get her permission to put this video out and he wanted to get back together and I take it she said no. Jive called Britney and asked Britney that she can say no for the video not to come out but it was his video not hers. When it came out she said, "I should've freakin said no to this sh*t!" She also says it was a publicity stunt for him to sell more records and of coarse...it worked! *Smart Guy JT!*

9/10/03
Justin's Videos, Live Show Collected On Two New DVD

Justin Timberlake
Photo: MTV News

The Justified and Stripped Tour may be close to folding up its tent in the U.S., but there'll be plenty of Justin Timberlake to keep fans occupied through the fall. The solo 'NSYNC star will release the home video/DVD "Justified The Videos" on September 23, followed by the in-concert "Live in London" on November 18, according to a spokesperson for the singer. The 65-minute video compilation will feature all four videos from Timberlake's solo album, Justified, including the recent "Senorita" as well as a medley he performed at the 2003 Brit Awards that has not been shown in the States. Included are "Cry Me a River," "Like I Love You" and "Rock Your Body," as well as excerpts from the MTV "Making the Video" specials for "Like I Love You" and "Rock Your Body." Other extras in the package are performances of "Like I Love You" at the 2002 VMAs and in Times Square, a "TRL" performance of "Cry Me a River" and excerpts from the MTV "Launch" special that looked at the making of Justified. Timberlake's spokesperson said a track listing for "Live in London" is not yet available. The North American Justified and Stripped Tour will wrap up at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 2, after which Timberlake will head overseas by himself for two more months of shows.

9/10/03
Jason Mraz Becomes Jason Timberlake
" Jason Mraz is well known for slipping in a few bizarre covers into his setlist. On this tour he is doing Christina Aguilera. "We've actually started doing some Christina Aguilera as well as some NAS. I just throw in random pop tunes. I can be Jason Timberlake" he tells Undercover News.

9/10/03
I Know, I Know...
Some of this news was back in the begining of the year or even a year ago! But now im finally gonna start updating alot more!!!

4/3/03
Justin Says Britney Was Not The One Who Took His Virginity..
Justin Timberlake has answered the question on minds of millions of women by revealing he is an animal in bed. And he boasted there was nothing an older woman could teach him between the sheets. In his sexiest interview yet, Justin, 22, said he was 15 when he lost his virginity and he knows all there is to know about satisfying a woman. The singer, who sensationally groped Kylie Minogues bum onstage at the Brit Awards, also revealed he was once addicted to his ex-girlfriend virginal pop princess Britney Spears. Justin said: I dont think there is anything thirty-something women could bring on that would corrupt me. Ive been doing this since I was 15. Sex has never been taboo for me. I enjoy it and I praise it and I embrace it and I celebrate it openly, freely and funly if thats a word. Justin, who dated Britney for four years until their split last year, revealed he prefers sex with regular partners rather than one-night stands. He said: Im not a one-night stand kind of person, but I am very expressive sexually. Im not the kind of guy who can chat someone up in a bar Ive never done that. But I am a firm believer in talking about whats on your mind.
Source: Marie Claire Magazine

**Ok...now my first reaction to this article was that Justin is the BIGGEST horn dog out there right now!

2/20/03
What A Trippy Video
"Rock Your Body" is a great song but the video was not all that great. He was in a room over a hundred of light bulbs and what was neat about it was that the light bulbs went w/the beat of the song. But I was expecting something better w/the whole concept. Francis Lawrence directed it, he also directed "Cry Me A River," and he said when he heard the song he thought of a disco theme. He does a dance break which was good and he did a, what I like to call it, a beatbox breakdown in the middle of the song and that was the only part of the video I liked. The girl in the video was named Stacy and is a good friend of Justins (i bet). And at the end he beatboxes again and he's in this hexagon looking thing w/9 camera's on it which I think looks really corny in the video. Anywho...like I said, the song is great but the video is not all that wonderful!

2/19/03
"Rock Your Body" On Making The Video
Justin's new single "Rock Your Body" will premiere on tomorrow's Making The Video on MTV. I have no clue on what the video is about but I will find out tomorrow and I'll try to get some pics up too! It will also premiere on TRL Friday!

2/15/03
Retired At #3
"Cry Me A River" retired on Thursday at the #3 spot! Thanks to all the fans that voted cause he was starting to drop! No news on when they will premiere "Rock Your Body" but they will say soon!

2/13/03
Whats Next For Mr. JT
Well as ya'll all know his next single will be "Rock Your Body" and "Cry Me A River" is getting retired on TRL so hopefully they will say when they are going to premier the new video. He also did a video w/Nelly for "Work It" and the video was shot at the Playboy Mansion! I bet J had lots of fun there...lol. They haven't said much about his summer tour w/Christina but they will soon!

"Cry Me A River" (Britney....lol):
Ok...I know alot of ya'll have seen the "Cry Me A River" video right? Well to me, its so obvious that the video is about Britney! Reasons? Ok, here we go!
1.The Guy-When the "Britney" chick is walking out of the house, she's walking out w/a guy. The guy is suppose to resemble Wade Robson, which he does.
2.The Car- Silver Boxcar Porsche, the same car that Britney has. The director Fances Lawrence says, "Yeah I knew Britney drives the same car."
3.The Fairy-When Justin breaks the class w/that pebble, he walks to the door and stops it w/a fairy. Why can't he stop the door w/a rock or something else? It had to be a fairy right???
4.The Picture-When Justin is jumping around in the air he lands on the table and kicks a picture of the "Britney" chick and the another guy. When you see the picture, the "Britney" chick is wearing purple sunglasses. The same ones that Brit has in a picture that was taken when she was shopping.
5.The Other Girl-This brunette girl is, once again, suppose to resemble either Jenna Dewan or Alyissa Milano. If you look closely, it does!
6.The Ring-After Justin does this fooling aroung w/the other chick, he wait for the "Britney" girl to walk in. Well I think its just me who noticed it but when the "Britney" girl is walking down the steps talking on her cell, she's wearing a gold ring on her middle finger. Now I know for a FACT that Britney has that same ring!
7.The Hat-If I recall, Britney wore a pink-ish newsboy hat to the "CrossRoads" premier in Febuary. Huumm...the "Britney" girl in the video is wearing the same hat!!!!
And at the end, she walks out of the shower, see's the video and Justin's thinking, "Revenge is sweet!" Britney's response to the video...."Boys will be boys!" The girl in the video that's suppose to be Britney is named Lauren Hastings. She's 18 years old and she says that never has she been told that she looks like Britney! Funny huh? When she was waiting to be casted as the girl in the video, Justin looked at her, smiled and said "Perfect!" Thats how she got casted. As for the other girl, Kiana Bessa, 21, says she had fun working w/Justin and she's already casted in Justin's next video. My reviews and out looks on his video may be different that yours but its kinda obvious about what happened between Justin and Britney!

Justin Tightlipped About Whether 'River' Flows From Britney
'Cry Me a River' will be second single from Justified, due November 5. Justin Timberlake's second single may or may not be about his old flame. "Cry Me a River," which the 'NSYNC star co-wrote with producers Timbaland and Scott Storch (Dr. Dre, Pink), addresses relationship woes, but that's about all the singer will reveal. "I'm not going to specifically say if any song is about anybody," Timberlake insisted recently in New York. "I will say writing a couple of songs on the record helped me deal with a couple of things. To me songs are songs. They can stem from things that completely happened to you personally or they can stem from ideas that you think could happen to you." While Justified, due November 5, is jam-packed with dancefloor ditties, like the first single, "Like I Love You," there are moments where Justin wears his heart on his sleeve. "Cry Me a River" and "Last Night" are the most obvious examples. "It was therapeutic, completely," Timberlake said of recording the tracks. "I got some stuff off my chest, I got some ideas down that I wanted to try. So creatively, personally, spiritually, physically, mentally, sexually, it was a very satisfying experience." Timberlake is filming the video for "Cry Me a River" in Malibu, California, this week with veteran director Francis Lawrence, best know for his Aerosmith epics and for staging a car crash in P.O.D.'s "Alive" . Neither Timberlake's nor Lawrence's publicists would reveal the concept of the clip. The video will debut November 25, while the single is slated to hit airwaves November 11, according to Jive Records. Timberlake has lined up a bevy of appearances to promote Justified, including Thursday on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," November 4 on "20/20," November 5 on "TRL", November 7 on BET's "106 & Park" and November 8 on "The Today Show."

Justin Timberlake Talks New Album, Possible Tour, & 'NSync
Justin Timberlake, 'NSync's main man and newfound solo artist, got one thing right: The world is a bit over bubblegum pop. "I don't think people want to hear [bubblegum pop] so much anymore. I know I don't," Timberlake admitted during an interview late last week. This would explain why - for those who don't know - Timberlake's debut solo album, Justified, falls more under the smooth, R&B - old-school style -- category than pure pop. Even with his forward-thinking musical direction, Timberlake says that 'NSync will be making another record and he will be part of it. "I would do it in a heartbeat," he said. 'NSync aside, Timberlake says he will tour behind Justified (due Nov. 5 on Jive), though no firm plans are in place yet. The second single, "Cry Me a River," which was co-written by Timberlake, Timbaland, and Scott Storch, will hit radio Nov. 11 and video outlets Nov. 25. And, on the artist's wish list these days are collaborations with Coldplay's singer Chris Martin or Lenny Kravitz.

Justin on Nick, Nick on Justin
Although many like to make it out that the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync are diehard rivals, it certainly doesn't seem to be the case. When asked if it bothers him that 'NSync's Justin Timberlake's solo debut, Justified, is due the week after his own solo debut, Now or Never - on the same label (Jive) -- Nick Carter told us, "Not at all. I think, honestly, he wants to do R&B and I want to do rock. We both have something to prove. He's got more going for him at the moment, but that's okay. I want to sweat. I don't want it to be easy. I don't want people to necessarily like me in the beginning. I like being the underdog." Justin's answer was a wee bit snippier - then again, he was asked how competitive he feels with Nick, considering that Nick's been romantically linked to his ex-girlfriend, Britney Spears. "I'm really indifferent about that whole situation," said Justin in an interview Thursday (Oct. 24). "Obviously, I've answered so many questions about my personal life. I wish him the best. As far as anybody comparing the two of us at this point, I feel like it's kind of lazy ... you can tell that we're two totally different artists. It's like comparing Coldplay to the Vines." Now or Never drops next Tuesday (Oct. 29); Justified is out Nov. 5. For more on Justin and Nick, check out the CDNOW interviews by Allison Stewart on Nov. 6 and Nov. 12, respectively.

Justin Timberlake Says The Timing Was Right For 'Justified'
"Justin Timberlake's debut solo album, Justified, comes out on Tuesday (November 5) via Jive Records. With *NSYNC on hiatus, Timberlake told LAUNCH that the timing was just right for him to release a solo effort. "It's really more about timing than anything," he explained. "It just worked out." Timberlake said of his desire to record a solo album. "It's something that's kind of been an ongoing thing for me as a kid, and I just got, you know, in the madness of all the *NSYNC (news - web sites) craze, things just got so crazy. I think as a group we decided to kind of slow down and see where our heads were at and what we wanted to do for the next record. You know, I just got this creative spurt and went in the studio, and here it is." Meanwhile, the other members of *NSYNC are each keeping busy with their own individual projects. Following his turn in the amazing box-office success My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Joey Fatone is currently starring in the Broadway production of Rent. Lance Bass is still training and pursuing his life-long dream of becoming an astronaut, and Chris Kirkpatrick recently made a cameo in the video for Good Charlotte's "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous." In addition, J.C. Chasez has recorded four songs with producer Dallas Austin for the soundtrack to the film Drumline. Timberlake's Neptunes-produced first single, "Like I Love You," is currently at Number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The second single, "Cry Me A River," will hit radio airwaves on November 11, and the music video will impact on November 25. "Cry Me A River" was co-written by Timberlake, Timbaland, and Scott Storch.