This post is about nothing green, it’s about Justin Timberlake.

My crush on Justin Timberlake is fading.

Fast.

He was so cute in his first solo vid, dancing MJ style. There was no creepy shaved head-with-goatee combo. He sang part of the song in falsetto, kind of like Prince. And the dancing! Did I mention he could dance?

Then, things got…not so cute. The first big downfall being the famed Superbowl event, in which JT ended his performance duet by ripping off Janet Jackson’s metallic-looking push-up bra, revealing a naked boob. Instead of the masses being horrified at the violent nature that this act seemed to be done in (aggressively, without permission, very sexual assault-like), people were more offended at the idea of seeing an uncovered baby-feeder. (My God, the superbowl is a FAMILY SHOW! That thing is supposed to be greased-up and in a string bikini top, not NAKED!). The football-watching, cheetoes-eating public flew off the handle, mostly at Miss J for owning a pair of breasts, leaving sweet JT virtually unscathed.

And now? Oh, Justin. How you have forsaken me. For starters, while I enjoy dancing to a little “Sexyback” now and then, his album is littered with lyrics that honestly gross me out. The beginning track, “Future Sex/LoveSong”, is a prime example; while I’m into the beat and all, I literally squirm as he cooes: “Come here closer to me, little girl; Daddy’s on a mission to please.” Seriously, I am fine with the you-call-me-mommy, I’ll-call-you-daddy thing that seemed to take off in pop songs for a while, but “little girl”? Is this the new trend? Is Dateline’s To Catch a Predator no longer about committing a crime, or even a taboo, but just like, a hip thing now?

Justin, what in God’s name has gotton into you?? And that’s not where it ends, folks! No sir, the eww train doesn’t stop here! What’s the next stop? Let’s let the new JT/50 Cent video “AYO technology” be the final destination. This video I will not even bother fully describing. I’m unsure about what the storyboards of this video must have looked like, but it’s something to do with some sort of manipulative technology that both 50 and JT use to “control” women (ooo, edgy!), seemingly in a consensual way. Justin exceeds his creepy quota physically, his head never looking more shaved and his goatee never looking more painted on. The video is aggressive, semi-violent, and supposedly, I guess, “sexy”. “Creepy is the new sexy” is what I’m gathering, and if you decide to youtube it, you will see countless idiotic comments supporting this turpitude and screwed up version of an trend.

One day (and this was the last day I’ll ever do it, I swear) I decided to hate the world and read many of these comments. Gems like “Damn wish I could get wit thos girls” and “i wana fuk them too like 50″ are some things I found from what I’m guessing are quotes from boys under the age of sixteen. And the comments by girls weren’t much better. According to the female youtubers, they wish Justin could control THEM.

Reading all of these comments, I couldn’t take it anymore, and actually signed on to youtube, fake name and all, and posted. My post said the video was creepy, not sexy or hot, and so on. And guess what. My comment was marked maybe 10 minutes later as freakin’ SPAM! I was furious, to which point I commented AGAIN, this time chiding my youtube children, hopefully making a few cry. “You people are all ROBOTS, unable to think critically about anything, or think for yourselves at all, really!” was the basic gist of my scolding.

I haven’t checked, but I’m sure that comment was spammed as well. Or else I was replied to with the usual youtube adroitness of name-calling.

But what this shows is that even with JT’s growing creepy factor, crushes will remain intact all over the country. And world, I guess. I don’t see people turning on him anytime soon, but with the direction he is going, some discretion should be happening.  Call me an idealist, but I’d like to see an against-the-grain youtube comment every now and then.