I ended up not being mad at him, but cringing for him, after I read the whole article. It was like 'Own your own past, man!'. Sure he thinks his latest work is his best, it's a sad day for any artist if that's not true, but the all my past work was trash and I was crazy for thinking anything else stuff I thought was just sad.
And if I took his quotes literally, I'd think he was kind of delusional. There just isn't that much difference between Bye Bye Bye and Rock Your Body. Neither of them are particularly adventurous musically or lyrically; they are both upbeat, dancy, catchy pop tunes. You can think one of them is better than the other, but exponentially different in quality? I think not. Pop was far more adventurous than either of them.
If he really thought his stuff was '10x better than anything Nsync ever did', I wouldn't have much hope for his future records, because his critical faculties would be pretty clearly on crack, but I don't think he was particularly serious. I think he was just doing that trying to fit in thing that got him in trouble more than once during his tour of radio stations when LILY came out. RS wants to hear that yeah, all the boyband stuff was crap, so that's what he tells them.
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Date: 2003-12-19 09:58 pm (UTC)And if I took his quotes literally, I'd think he was kind of delusional. There just isn't that much difference between Bye Bye Bye and Rock Your Body. Neither of them are particularly adventurous musically or lyrically; they are both upbeat, dancy, catchy pop tunes. You can think one of them is better than the other, but exponentially different in quality? I think not. Pop was far more adventurous than either of them.
If he really thought his stuff was '10x better than anything Nsync ever did', I wouldn't have much hope for his future records, because his critical faculties would be pretty clearly on crack, but I don't think he was particularly serious. I think he was just doing that trying to fit in thing that got him in trouble more than once during his tour of radio stations when LILY came out. RS wants to hear that yeah, all the boyband stuff was crap, so that's what he tells them.