RS wants to hear that yeah, all the boyband stuff was crap, so that's what he tells them.
Exactly -- you have to think of your intended audience when you read the quote. The quote (while read by us fans) was not really intended for us. It's intended for RS readers, who typically despise *nsync and grudgingly enjoy Justin. If anything, those readers' appreciation of him probably went up after reading the article.
but the all my past work was trash and I was crazy for thinking anything else stuff I thought was just sad.
Did he really say (or imply) that all of it was trash, though? I honestly read the article very quickly while at work, and haven't seen it posted online, so my memory is slightly sketchy.
My understanding was that he thought he was crazy for trying to deny to himself that their music had anything like a social conscience. Not that pop is bad, but he was trying to trick himself into thinking that they weren't your typical pop group. (Which, I suppose, you could argue that they were or they weren't. But this is a long comment already, so I'll stop.)
(If I had produced the first *nsync album, I would be really embarassed, too. With the exception of maybe one or two songs, that whole album is not so much wonderful.)
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Date: 2003-12-20 02:03 pm (UTC)Exactly -- you have to think of your intended audience when you read the quote. The quote (while read by us fans) was not really intended for us. It's intended for RS readers, who typically despise *nsync and grudgingly enjoy Justin. If anything, those readers' appreciation of him probably went up after reading the article.
but the all my past work was trash and I was crazy for thinking anything else stuff I thought was just sad.
Did he really say (or imply) that all of it was trash, though? I honestly read the article very quickly while at work, and haven't seen it posted online, so my memory is slightly sketchy.
My understanding was that he thought he was crazy for trying to deny to himself that their music had anything like a social conscience. Not that pop is bad, but he was trying to trick himself into thinking that they weren't your typical pop group. (Which, I suppose, you could argue that they were or they weren't. But this is a long comment already, so I'll stop.)
(If I had produced the first *nsync album, I would be really embarassed, too. With the exception of maybe one or two songs, that whole album is not so much wonderful.)