Justin Timberlake is named the creative director of Myspace
By Alex HeiglJune 30th, 2011, 1:56 pmComments (5)
Justin Timberlake is procrastinating on dropping any new music like a boss, and his latest venture (aside from acquiring Henry Kissinger's eyeglasses) is becoming creative director of Myspace.
"There's a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect. Myspace has the potential to be that place... Art is inspired by people and vice versa, so there's a natural social component to entertainment. I'm excited to help revitalize Myspace by using its social media platform to bring artists and fans together in one community."
Other than his newfound love of generic business talk (I much prefer him informing me of his intent to have me naked by the end of this song), Timberlake's statement seems to indicate that he's going to turn Myspace into a kind of art-Reddit, which could be the site's saving grace, since it already tried and failed to be a place for people to interact with entertainers, listen to music, and watch videos... albeit one made eye-bleedingly ugly by whatever HTML monstrosities people decided to pepper their pages with.
And the bubbling, carefully-worded enthusiasm goes both ways. Tim Vanderhook, the CEO of Specific Media, which purchased the site from News Corp, said:
"We're thrilled about the opportunity to rebuild and reinvigorate Myspace... We look forward to partnering with someone as talented as Justin Timberlake, who will lead the business strategy with his creative ideas and vision for transforming Myspace. This is the next chapter of digital media, and we are excited to have a hand in writing the script."
Holy mixed metaphors, Batman! Between rebuilding, rewriting, and reinvigorating Myspace, when will JT have time to plot the sequel to FutureSex/LoveSounds, the much darker The Sexy Strikes Back?
Comments ( 5 )
A delightful sidelight to this story is the hit News Corp. took on Myspace. News Corp. bought it in 2005 or so for $580 million, and sold it now for $35 million. Murdoch would have done better to take Beck's advice and put it all in gold.
in an interview when the social network came out, he said he had never used face book and rarely uses the internet.
Wait, why do i even give a shit?
you know, it would just be kind of karmically hilarious that after starring in the social network, jt completely turned myspace around and led it back up the ladder of success.
Why is this no-talent hack famous again? Great, now he's going to be the Snooki of social networking.
lol, no wonder they had to layoff half the staff today, gotta pay this idiots bloated salary. What a joke.
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