Justin Timberpink?

Other than the occasional pop country binge, I listen to very little pop music on FM radio. Unfortunately, Wednesday, I was driving home from work and the only thing being discussed on talk radio was Terrell Owens' suicide attempt, which I had heard more than enough about by noon. My iPod, normally option #1 while driving, is dead, so that wasn't an option. I flipped over to FM, but both country stations were on commercial, so I scanned the digital dial.

I landed on 107.1, the station Robyn and I affectionately refer to as 'The Ho-bag station'. The song being played was the musical equivalent of the 13-car pileup on the highway... you know it's bad, you know you should just look ahead and move on, but you can't stop looking at it. It was a sonic mess with distorted vocals and a strange concoction of sounds that didn't belong together. I listened through to the end mainly because I was curious who recorded it. I figured something that bad had to come from someone awfully famous, as there's no way someone's first "hit" would be that bad.

Trying to hear vocal qualities through the disaster, I decided I thought maybe the artist was Pink. I was wrong... it was Justin Timberlake. My wife thinks this is the funniest story ever. I mistook Justin Timberlake for Pink.

Memo to Timberpink... I don't know where 'sexy' went, but I'm pretty sure you didn't bring it back. And by the way, you have a really nice voice, so stop doing this weird crap and just sing. Or, you know, do some very strange techno experimentation. Why not.