Justin Timberlake – no longer dreamy

OK, so I am 37 and while I recognise I am not of the skater dude crowd anymore, I think I remain reasonably with it. Certainly I am immersed in pop culture and had still dance like an escapee from Solid Gold with a serious caffeine addiction, but I got a nasty shock the other day when trying to relate to a bunch of 14 year old girls.

Now any number of people would tell you that this should have been very much a case of equals talking, and to them I say – screw you, but I did stumble into the generation gap thats for sure. And as they say in Hong Kong – Tsing siu-sam jyt-toi hung-gwek.

We were auditioning girls for the lead in my next short film and as part of the process we were discussing pop idols. I figured that Justin Timberlake was a good conversational starter, but to my huge surprise it seems that not only is he no longer the gleam in the tween sets eyes, a number of them had not even heard of him.

Poor Justin – first that whole Superbowl thing and now he is being systematically rejected by the under 15 set.

This got me wondering -  have been completely deluding myself, am I in-fact now an old person and should be shuffled off to the twilight home for old disco faggots. I thought I would use Justin as my test case and ask what the blogosphere thinks of him. Are he and I still with it or are we now has beens?

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This is also a shameless excuse for another poll, since its been a while