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aruanMiranda and I have concurred that this was the shortest weekend in recent memory. Why hast thou forsaken us, o sweet, sweet free time? I feel like it should be Thursday night already, or at least Wednesday.
The boy watched me eat lunch today, always an awkward scenario. Also, it's so, so over. No, really, and I'm going to actually tell him that tomorrow night. You know, the one night of the week I have off (I stepped in to cover Thursday night because one of the copy people up and quit without notice.) Good thing this week I'm neither sick nor struggling with more work than my eyeballs can breach.
Miranda and I have so much fun shopping. Seriously, we need to bring a recorder with us. It's even better when we're both strung out for whatever reason. We ask existential questions of our groceries, discuss the weather and other mundanities as if they were Things Of Consequence, have normally internal conversations out loud, ask each other what we ourselves want, and it's all just immensely entertaining. Although today, and I should've kept tally, she called me some version of crazy at least five times. For no reason. No, really. Also, the fascist Commie wankers who run Publix seem to have discontinued carrying almonds in the shell and my pumpernickel cocktail bread. *weep*
Some girl wrote a letter to the paper after a columnist called Bush an asshole in yesterday's issue. She said it's "self-destructive" of the Alligator, that she herself was offended on his behalf and thinks we should apologize. I ran out of righteous indignation earlier today in my rant about Justin's Grammy acceptance speech, so lucky you. Just insert your version of my rant. Probably add some hand gestures and a lot of intonation. There, see? All the excitement, none of my loosely coherent rhetoric. We all walk away happy!
As far as Justin not thanking his boys specifically and the whole 'he wouldn't be here without them' argument -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kirsch brought up the very good point that there's every chance that he would've made it without the group, and hell, he could've been even bigger. We don't know, and no one can make a statement like that with any authority. However, it's excellent fic fodder. What would've happened in each of the guys' lives if *NSYNC had never been formed? Would Joey have been a marquee star on Broadway years ago? Would JC and Tony be doing the grassroots thing together or would he have become some hotshot producer? Would Lance have become the entrepreneur party boy or gotten married and settled in Mississippi in a respectable blue-collar position? Would Chris be fronting a punk rock band with a managerial day job? It's fascinating to ponder, to be sure. But Justin, as everyone and their mother have said, was born a star. We've all seen Driven, right? Read the interviews with all his collaborators and producers and hell, gushy reporters who all say what a class act he is? What that boy has is quite irrepressible. I'd love to meet him in person to know what that vibe feels like.
Back to the point: Yes, I do think he should've mentioned them. Do I feel he owes his solo success to them? To a point only he himself knows, but to that extent absolutely yes. However, I'm one of those who believes he included them under the 'family' heading, but also feel he made the album happen on his own - he got the producers, he wrote the tracks, he sang the songs, he made it happen. I understand people mean that without the group, he would likely not have had the connections he did to do so. But it's such a moot point, and at the end of the day, those Grammys belongs to him and those involved in Justified creatively. If that meant one or all of the other four, I've no doubt be would've named them in accepting every single award he's received. But given what he's said, I don't think it does, but I also don't think it means anything that it doesn't. At least some of the idea behind this hiatus was to see who they were outside of the group, right? God knows if I started that young and been doing it for seven years and change, I'd want to see what else was out there, maybe pursue the other things that existed in my imagination other than the wildest dreams that may not even belong to me.
Do I want them to live together happily ever after as *NSYNC, nevermore to "stray?" Absolutely. I also, however, realize that they're individual people with minds, desires, and goals of their own. Do I begrudge them this, or their not thanking the others at every step? No. The people who matter know they do and don't need an acceptance speech nod to remind them.
Schiz, drop me a line later tonight. I'm having technical difficulties, and I'm not entirely certain they're a necessary evil.
Quote of the Day:
"Censorship can suck my 2003. Oh yeah, and my Grammys, too."
-me, on Justin's behalf
The boy watched me eat lunch today, always an awkward scenario. Also, it's so, so over. No, really, and I'm going to actually tell him that tomorrow night. You know, the one night of the week I have off (I stepped in to cover Thursday night because one of the copy people up and quit without notice.) Good thing this week I'm neither sick nor struggling with more work than my eyeballs can breach.
Miranda and I have so much fun shopping. Seriously, we need to bring a recorder with us. It's even better when we're both strung out for whatever reason. We ask existential questions of our groceries, discuss the weather and other mundanities as if they were Things Of Consequence, have normally internal conversations out loud, ask each other what we ourselves want, and it's all just immensely entertaining. Although today, and I should've kept tally, she called me some version of crazy at least five times. For no reason. No, really. Also, the fascist Commie wankers who run Publix seem to have discontinued carrying almonds in the shell and my pumpernickel cocktail bread. *weep*
Some girl wrote a letter to the paper after a columnist called Bush an asshole in yesterday's issue. She said it's "self-destructive" of the Alligator, that she herself was offended on his behalf and thinks we should apologize. I ran out of righteous indignation earlier today in my rant about Justin's Grammy acceptance speech, so lucky you. Just insert your version of my rant. Probably add some hand gestures and a lot of intonation. There, see? All the excitement, none of my loosely coherent rhetoric. We all walk away happy!
As far as Justin not thanking his boys specifically and the whole 'he wouldn't be here without them' argument -
kirsch brought up the very good point that there's every chance that he would've made it without the group, and hell, he could've been even bigger. We don't know, and no one can make a statement like that with any authority. However, it's excellent fic fodder. What would've happened in each of the guys' lives if *NSYNC had never been formed? Would Joey have been a marquee star on Broadway years ago? Would JC and Tony be doing the grassroots thing together or would he have become some hotshot producer? Would Lance have become the entrepreneur party boy or gotten married and settled in Mississippi in a respectable blue-collar position? Would Chris be fronting a punk rock band with a managerial day job? It's fascinating to ponder, to be sure. But Justin, as everyone and their mother have said, was born a star. We've all seen Driven, right? Read the interviews with all his collaborators and producers and hell, gushy reporters who all say what a class act he is? What that boy has is quite irrepressible. I'd love to meet him in person to know what that vibe feels like.Back to the point: Yes, I do think he should've mentioned them. Do I feel he owes his solo success to them? To a point only he himself knows, but to that extent absolutely yes. However, I'm one of those who believes he included them under the 'family' heading, but also feel he made the album happen on his own - he got the producers, he wrote the tracks, he sang the songs, he made it happen. I understand people mean that without the group, he would likely not have had the connections he did to do so. But it's such a moot point, and at the end of the day, those Grammys belongs to him and those involved in Justified creatively. If that meant one or all of the other four, I've no doubt be would've named them in accepting every single award he's received. But given what he's said, I don't think it does, but I also don't think it means anything that it doesn't. At least some of the idea behind this hiatus was to see who they were outside of the group, right? God knows if I started that young and been doing it for seven years and change, I'd want to see what else was out there, maybe pursue the other things that existed in my imagination other than the wildest dreams that may not even belong to me.
Do I want them to live together happily ever after as *NSYNC, nevermore to "stray?" Absolutely. I also, however, realize that they're individual people with minds, desires, and goals of their own. Do I begrudge them this, or their not thanking the others at every step? No. The people who matter know they do and don't need an acceptance speech nod to remind them.
Schiz, drop me a line later tonight. I'm having technical difficulties, and I'm not entirely certain they're a necessary evil.
Quote of the Day:
"Censorship can suck my 2003. Oh yeah, and my Grammys, too."
-me, on Justin's behalf
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Date: February 10th, 2004 03:36 am (UTC)Re:
Date: February 10th, 2004 07:10 am (UTC)Just my opinion though, as always.
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Date: February 10th, 2004 01:28 pm (UTC)Also, it irritates me when people go on the defensive and say things like, "Maybe Justin should thank Thomas Edison for inventing the lightbulb, because Justin wouldn't be able to put on a stage show without them." I realize the guys didn't have anything specific to do with the making of his album, but they're not insignificant.
so basically, I don't think it's expected or required of him to publically thank the guys, but I do think it would be nice.
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Date: February 10th, 2004 09:32 pm (UTC)