The reality is that the first kids to get there were total fucking weirdos leading to future generations of denizens also being total fucking weirdos. The idea was that the residents that cohabitate the RC will already have things in common and want to grow from each other, leading to a more intellectually stimulating environment. The applications were approved by the residents currently living there, supposedly leading to a place where students feel truly welcomed by each other. It was also uniquely (for Ole Miss, at least) co-ed. The RC was a weird dorm - there was a cafeteria in the basement, showers in the rooms instead of communal ones per floor, and you had to apply to get in. R, J, A, and I (I as in the pronoun, not an initial) lived in a quad-style dormitory in Ole Miss’s Residential College.Our room was actually several rooms: four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a living room connecting all of them. But what’s the answer? Is it a good song? Is it an objectively good song? It’s an object to be cherished and experienced over and over again until it becomes so soaked into your bones that it’s an irrevocable part of you. Have you ever found an hour-long album that 17 people can agree on? It’s magical. I know he did, because within a week of the album’s leak and subsequent release, I listened to the album 67 times. I think the results read as yes-undecided-no, and I’m guessing that Rob was the asshole in the middle who refused to decide if Justin Timberlake’s supposedly landmark smash hit was really the achievement in music I thought it was.Įventually, R came around. R was an asshole so we forced him to listen to it over and over again.
We danced to it the day before the poll results dropped. We were convinced that Justin Timberlake had created a work of art that transcended all preconceived notions of good and bad. We weren’t just asking if “Suit and Tie” was palatable, we wanted to know if it was objectively good. The “good” in that sentence is a loaded one. I remember the question we ended up asking everyone: “Is this a good song?” The answer, even for the non-obsessed, is most likely a flat “sure, yeah,” but our question went deeper than that. The video didn’t come out until a few days later (again, immortalized in a tweet), so I’m assuming that our (probably J and me) method of conducting the poll was to get a person in a room and play “Suit and Tie” for them. Or could we? I’ve been trying to remember what this poll was actually about. I couldn’t play My Bloody Valentine around R (I tried, he hated it), J couldn’t play any Griz around W (he was too self conscious to play music around the hipsters), but we could all agree that “Suit and Tie” fucking ripped. Somehow, all of us became obsessed with “Suit and Tie,” to the point where it was the only thing we could play if any of the sundry friend sub-groups intersected.
My extended college friend group was 17 (!!!) people strong, and we covered the spectrum of College Types: hipsters (W, C, B, me), ultimate frisbee players (J, L, White Scoops), arty weirdos (M), people that fuck and fuck each other (R, T), etc. It took time to let “Suit and Tie” sink in. “Suit and Tie” dropped about a month before this tweet and, somehow, I vividly remember the bespoke poll taking place over the entire month.
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I tend not to do that anymore, but it makes the 2012-2014 segment of my Twitter archive a fun time capsule. During this period of my life I was really depressed and used the tried and true method of vomiting every thought, whether or not it was actually valuable or worth sharing, on social media to try to feel like I was expressing myself in a vulnerable way. I haven’t been able to piece together a logical progression or a narrative tale, but I have this tweet about a “poll” to go off of as a starting place. I’ve been spending all night trying to pinpoint exactly when my obsession with Justin Timberlake’s 2013 album The 20/20 Experience started.