Timbaland made his name as a Hip Hop and R&B producer by creating unique and eccentric music for superstars like Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, and Aaliyah. But in the last decade he has branched out to become a hit maker in the Pop genre as well. Through work with Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, and especially Justin Timberlake, Timbo was responsible for some of the 2000’s biggest Pop smashes. More recently he has worked with Ashlee Simpson and Miley Cyrus so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Timbaland is more than open to work with more Teen Pop stars.
But the way he is going about it now is more than a little unusually. In the last few days Tim has made two impassioned videos, making appeals to collaborate with Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas, respectively. In the video directed at Lovato, the super-producer praises her saying, “You are amazing, girl. I am not an easy person to please, but I’m very impressed.” He then plays a snippet of a song he wrote for the Disney star, who recently spent a stint in rehab. In the video Timbaland made for Jonas he singles out the middle Jonas brother, claiming he is thinking up ideas for them to collaborate on, then declaring, “I’m with you Joe Jonas. I’m with you 100 percent.”
No word from the young signers, who for a brief period were romantically linked, about the offers. Timbaland may be reaching out to teen stars but he still keeps a foot in the rap world having produced tracks for Drake, T.I. and Game in 2010.
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SELL OUT
sell out? really? you’re clearly retarded. He appreciates that sound and makes great music in pop and in hip-hop…selling out cause he lives music? stopit5. Timbo keep doing your thing!
Timbaland is a sellout. It’s okay to dabble in other genres of music to expand ya brand. But go straight pop and leave Hip-Hop behind isn’t cool really.
Timbo is starting to look like B. Pumper lol
LOL
sell out
Timbo you plagiarizing sellout!
well said.
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chek out this dude…i think he gon b signed to shady…he gud tho
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He’s always been a great producer, and a wack ass human being. Sell out. Hip-Hop is so gay now it’s like a joke.
This is pathetic. I used to have some respect for Timbaland for the hits he produced for my girl Aaliyah in the 90s, but Timbaland sold out years ago. Now it’s to the point he’s making youtube videos begging pop stars to collaborate. Timbaland lost all points when he sold out and went mainstream.