The JT everyone likes to think about is the entertainment megastar he unquestionably is. A pop-culture institution unto himself, Justin Timberlake sings, dances, does humour, acts, and more. His music regularly tops charts, his movie roles are commercially (and occasionally critically) sensational, he is a cast-and-audience-beloved SNL host, and there is just no denying how good he looks in a suit and tie. Such an impressive legacy for someone whose first big break came in the form of a mouse who wears white museum-curator gloves. Who would've thought a former member of the Mickey Mouse club would amount to so much? There is just no shaking this bullet point from his thoroughly-engorged resume. Of course, this was even before his time within an arguably more embarrassing ensemble - whose target audience demographic remained roughly the same. Clearly JT's strongest suit, stemming back to his formative years in the entertainment industry, is his sense of cooperation. Everyone from Jimmy Kimmel to Jay-Z loves working with the guy, which begs you to imagine how much of a pleasure he was to babysit. Some notable other members of the clubhouse who've launched in similarly explosive trajectories include later love-interest and Uncle Fester-impersonator Britney Spears, vocal-acrobat Christina Aguilera, and the unrelenting hunk-o-man that is Ryan Gosling. As for the rest of the Mouseketeers: none have truly escaped the looming round-eared shadow of their pasts. At least none as exceptionally as that smiley kid with the curly hair.
Ryan is a song-writer (soundcloud.com/the-articles), music journalist, vinyl enthusiast, 80s pop-culturalist, and just kind of a vaudevillian person.
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