On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:16, skip heller wrote:
Have you heard the album? I mean, Justin Timberlake is a pro singer (and dancer), so it's not unthinkable that he could make a good record. Look at Michael jackson's OFF THE WALL. Totally a masterpiece of its kind. Why not Justin.
I haven't heard the whole album, but the singles are very good. "Rock Your Body" pushes all the right buttons. OTOH, I also rather like Britney Spears's new album, with which I've been tormenting my coworkers for the past couple of weeks. Though one of them has noted aptly that it would be a *killer* disc with a competent singer. And there's one point where her voice is so obviously pitch-tweaked that they just run with it and turn it into a sort of virtuoso vocoder solo, which is (I think intentionally) hilarious.