Sooo Justin Timberlake Is Considered An R&B Artist Now?

[Jerz-2]

Why else would this dude be part of the BET Awards?

Gotta love these white artists who flock to the Black community when it’s CONVENIENT for them.

 

[the artist known az]

They been playing Timberlake on BET since that N'Sync song 'Gone'

Where you been?

 

[Olu Dara]

Who cares breh

 

[CashmereThoughts]

How exactly you you classify his last 3 albums?

 

[Jone2three45]

You blacks did this.

 

[neph27]

Why else would this dude be part of the BET Awards?

Gotta love these white artists who flock to the Black community when it’s CONVENIENT for them.

justin and ryan gosling the gawd was trying to get them to play more rnb jawns on the mickey mouse club back in the day

what do you really care about the classification anyways, he fukks with the music, but you dont want him there because of his skin color?

the album was good and it incorporates lots of elements of soul/neo soul

 

[thernbroom]

Mickey Mouse Club - Cry For You - YouTube

justin and ryan gosling the gawd was trying to get them to play more rnb jawns on the mickey mouse club back in the day

what do you really care about the classification anyways, he fukks with the music, but you dont want him there because of his skin color?

the album was good and it incorporates lots of elements of soul/neo soul

 

[Jerz-2]

How exactly you you classify his last 3 albums?

Considering he won Best POP Album and Best POP Male Vocalist, I'd classify them as pop.

You're telling me "Mirrors" is an R&B song?

As for the "convenience" argument:

But when shyt hit the fan after the 2004 Super Bowl when he exposed Janet Jackson’s nipple on live television, he was able — after making a public apology on CBS — to easily revert back in the public’s imagination to the wholesome white boy who made pop songs for teenage girls. And that’s what becomes tricky with Justin, that his whiteness acts as both an entryway into a popular culture and a buffer against its criticisms. Janet’s career, on the other hand, stagnated. (Black comedy legend Paul Mooney famously dubbed the scandal her “n*a wakeup call.” And Chris Rock blamed her exposed “40-year-old breast” for creeping censorship in American television.)

 

[6god]

as opposed to? its been more than a decade since that boy band shyt bruh

 

[neph27]

his whiteness in this case doesn't act as a buffer for criticism, it only attracts it from posters on here etc. he's got plenty of rnb influences in his music, the music is dope, who cares?

how is it convenient to have neo soul influences in 2013? that's not what moves records to a "pop teenage audience" is it? am i that out of touch?

 

[Hammer]

he's r&b u stupid faq

 

[HideoKojima]

R&B game Eminem

 

[Street Knowledge]

I see Justin as a guy who is making and performing the music he wants to make. I mean what does he have to gain here? Any black person who had any intentions of buying his record would've bought it already. It's not like a nikka is gonna watch him perform and say " OK I'm buying the 20/20 experience now"

 

[Wild self]

This time, black folk fukked it up for themselves. Since we don't support talented acts and support trash ass superficial shyt, this is what happens.

 

[Deetee]

He's been R&B since his first album. He has pop singles but most songs are R&B. You just think he isn't cuz he's white