![]() She has to call me on the phone, and it’s hard.” He’s helping her move from bubblegum to more rockish stuff. If I have a problem, I have four guys I can talk to, and I can go directly to them. I’m the only one in her life she wants to talk to about stuff. She’s like salvation.” Being a good friend to her is important to him. I don’t think about what everybody’s thinkin’ about. ![]() “When we get together, that’s just my girl, and I love her, and that’s it. Half an hour later, slicing through a near-empty Orlando highway at seventy miles an hour in his blood-red Plymouth Prowler with the top down and the setting sun painting the sky with brilliant orange and pink, Justin continues gushing about his sweetheart. ‘N Sync: Weird Scenes Inside the Glitter Factory I got the cream of the crop, man!” No one argues with that. She’s as down-home as she was before she got into this. What can I say? The thing is, so many girls you meet in this business are so into themselves, and Britney is not. “I think my girl is fine,” he says without arrogance, just pride, a blond goatee barely visible against his manila-colored skin. That explains why he’s been pretty quiet through most of the goddess praising, up until now. You probably already know that Justin is dating one of the goddesses ( Britney Something-or-other). “Once you’ve had my grandmother’s peach cobbler, you are saved!” Imagine one of those highly energized kids who go to church camp, then add a healthy dose of hip-hop flavoring. He spontaneously launches into songs by Bill Withers or Missy Elliott, or paeans to his grandmother’s cooking. “There’s nothing in this world that I’ve done that my mother does not know about,” he says. He’s not a goody-goody, though he calls his mom his best friend. He’s restless, driven, polite and pleasant – especially pleasant, positive and encouraging when coaching Chris on his vocals. ( Lance Bass and JC Chasez will show up in a few hours to contribute their vocals, and Joey Fatone will come in tomorrow.) Justin’s dinner, a small Denny’s chicken-fried steak with runny cheese eggs and something resembling mashed potatoes, is waiting nearby. And next to Chris is Justin Timberlake, sporting paint-splattered jeans, a plain white T-shirt, a big diamond stud in each ear, a Top Gun-ish crew cut and blue-tinted sunglasses resting at the base of his neck. His hair is maroon and spiky, and he wears baggy orange Abercrombie and Fitch cargo shorts and Air Jordans. To Williams’ left sits Chris Kirkpatrick of ‘N Sync. ![]() ![]() To the right is producer Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes – who has worked with Jay-Z, Mystikal and Ol’ Dirty Bastard – leaning back in a white Polo shirt with a pink Ralph Lauren logo. There’s a valley of knobs and red, green and yellow dots of light, a bank of speakers, a recordable CD on which someone has written “‘NSucks” and a slew of Aeron chairs, but the whole room is probably smaller than your bedroom if you live with your parents. But we’re in Orlando, Florida, in a recording studio, tinkering with a song called “Girlfriend,” for an album called Celebrity by a quintet called ‘N Sync so these guys talking goddesses are young and paid with the style, fame and looks to actually nab one of these goddesses, which changes the dynamic of the conversation from abstract dreaming to abstract planning. Beyoncé Knowles, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Lucy Liu all get their props. Just a normal guys-talking-about-dream-women sort of convo, one man dropping the name of some god-dess, and the others cheering in response. Picture this: a bunch of guys sitting around talking about girls. ![]()
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