Some years ago when Mr Timberlake first went solo he was booked to play in Australia. I read a review of one of his first concerts. Some unwilling journalist had been sent to witness the one man boy band however she had seen something unexpected. Timberlake had a really hot backing band and played no hits from his past, concentrating on long complicated jams based on new unfamiliar material.
The reviewer was enchanted and thought it one of the best shows she had seen for many years however the audience consisted of Mr Timberlake’s previous constituents - teenybopper girls, who couldn’t understand what the hell he was doing. They began to leave in droves.
I just saw a live clip of JT and laughed at the idea of that long ago concert.
Any other tragic misunderstood ticket buying experiences?
Justin Timberlake used to be in a boy band (can’t remember which one). Think - annoying, teenybopper, screaming prepubescent girls as fans. Then, he grew up, went solo and actually started making “real” music. He’s still not so much to my taste but he’s vastly superior to the crap I was forced to listen to as a teenaged babysitter of screaming prepubescent girls.
When he went solo, it’s understandable that his first few concerts were stocked full of his previous types of fans. The type of fan who would not really enjoy his new stuff. The type of fan who would enjoy his new stuff would still be unaware of his metamorphosis and wouldn’t have touched tickets to a JT concert with a ten foot pole.
So, have you ever bought tickets to a concert, thinking you were gonna hear one thing, only to find out that the artist had undergone a complete overhaul. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any other real life examples at the moment. One scenario that might apply would be if I bought tickets to a Rob Zombie concert only to find out, once there, that he had found god and was now singing Christian Rock music. :eek:
I* think* that explains what you were asking about.
Spinal Tap. I thought it was going to be some good headbanging metal, and they started with this doodly doodly jazz crap! I should have known something was wrong when Nigel wasn’t there.
This is like when Rick Derringer went back on the road, playing small clubs last decade. What his audience didn’t know was that he’d got off drugs and gone religious. They came expecting to hear “Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo” and what they got was musical testifying. There were a lot of walkouts on that tour.
I’m reminded of a Simpsons episode where Ned Flanders somehow confuses “Chris Rock in Concert” for “Christian Rock Concert.” “I’ve never head a preacher use the m-f word so much in my life!”
Yeah, I suppose it does. I knew he was in N*Sync (I think the asterik goes there), but I thought that his music in his immediate transition to solo artist was pretty much along the lines of what he had before, just less sexually suggestive (and by less sexually suggestive I mean more sexually blatant).
It was the teeny-bopper girls who made him a solo-artist hit, so I was just surprised to hear that they were shocked. Australia must not get Ethe E Network…
Well, I didn’t actually buy tickets for either of these shows, but…
Kenny Loggins. Played a song or two, then turned up the lights and started a “question and advise/answer” session about child-rearing. Lame. Both parts. :rolleyes: I bolted when my second drink was done.
Shawn Colvin. Yakked as much as she sang. And she seems to have a real problem with Brittney Spears. It was a little embarrassing to hear her go on and on about her. You would think someone with Colvin’s talent would be a little above that, but I guess not. Didn’t walk out, because the show was my Christmas present and I was there with my wife who gave me the tickets.
Another “honerable mention”: Robert Cray opened for Santana. That was good, because I was able to leave early after seeing the best part of the show.
Um, er, Justin Timberlake is still INCREDIBLY popular with the teeny bopper set, sorry to say. You’ll still find lots of 13 year old girls squealing and crying at his concerts.
That said, those of us who were screaming 13 year olds many years back when he was in Nsync are now more grown 21 year olds attending his concerts. So, while he matured, so did the better part of his audience.
don’t ask needs to explain the OP. JT’s solo work isn’t that much different from the N*SYNC stuff, besides being, y’know, better.
What I thought this was getting at is that tickets were sold to ‘Justin Timberlake’ but Ticket Central messed up and the teenyboppers all ended up at a Pearl Jam concert or something.
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Oh, sure it is. Have you listened to his latest effort: Future/Sex Love/Sounds? It’s definitely more urban (R&B, whatever you want to call it) than anything ever put out by NSync. It’s also much more sexual and grown up than anything NSync.
Though, I will admit that SexyBack is probably the most commercial. . . dancy song on the record- most of the other stuff is much more hip hoppy. This is his single with 50 Cent, Ayo Technology (which was originally called “Ayo Pornography” but they were forced to change the title-- the song says “Ayo! I’m tired of using technology. Why don’t you sit down on top of me?”).
Yes, agreed. I own several songs from both of JT’s solo albums (N*SYNC music owned = zero…um, just for the record). But what perplexes me is the idea that teenyboppers would flee from a JT concert in droves. I mean, he is still *Justin Timberlake *for chrissakes. It’s not like he went from teenybopper pop to industrial hardcore ("…featuring special guest Einstürzende Neubauten!"). Don’t teens mainly go to concert to look at an astonishingly hot young man anyway?
But whatever shrugs - as ArizonaTeach says, maybe Australian teens/young adults are several years behind the latest thing, but that seems rather insulting to them.