Timberlake’s ascent – aside from the VMA gong, Timberlake’s had a full year of positive buzz for his album “The 20/20 Experience,” and before that, years of praise for his acting endeavors – seems unlikely in light of his cohort. ![]() And yet it seems as though the kid from *NSYNC has something figured out that everyone else onstage last night can only envy. Consider his coming up through a commercially successful but (let’s be honest) sort of doofy boy band or his participation in the “wardrobe malfunction” incident that effectively ended the career of Janet Jackson, a star many times Timberlake’s wattage to his seven-year gap between records. ![]() There are so many reasons Timberlake – rewarded last night with a “Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award” and the Video of the Year trophy in spite of middling success as a video artist specifically, and nearly universally seen as something close to a musical genius – should not be successful. ![]() Lauryn Hill is in jail Kid Rock is at a Tea Party rally somewhere the Backstreet Boys are reunited, but you don’t hear their praises heralded anywhere Christina Aguilera is languishing on reality TV let’s leave the topic of Britney Spears alone.Īnd yet: One performer from the turn of the century got feted beyond any entertainer's wildest dreams last night at the VMAs despite the fact that he began his career as one of five in the boy band *NSYNC, Justin Timberlake is now the last – and best – male pop star. There are very few performers from the 1999 or 2000 iterations of MTV’s Video Music Awards who could conceivably be featured on MTV’s air in 2013.
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