![]() (“a/s/l?” “22/f/Hubble Space Telescope!”) JC is apparently using some sort of prehistoric 2000-era FaceTime, since he “sees you on the screen and gets to freakin’.” Justin Timberlake, though, isn’t quite so technologically advanced. ’NSync were apparently having e-sex with people in low earth orbit. we can get together on the digital screen.” (Note: It’s about 11,000 miles from wherever you are to your antipode on the opposite side of the globe. The chorus notes that even though their lovers might be “20,000 miles away. ![]() The singers’ voices are all Auto-Tuned, because future the band performed the song by dancing in weird metal outfits in front of pictures of keyboards. Rodger Sherman : ’NSync figured out how to connect the sex appeal and bad boy charm they were trying to project with the growing popularity of the internet: Get everybody to imagine JC Chasez jerking off! “Digital Get Down,” off the seminal album No Strings Attached, is, with no exaggeration, an ode to cybersex. Wait, does “DM Freak” have the same ring to it? Hmm, maybe it does. But RIM soon turned two-ways into the telecom version of Betamax, and then the iPhone came through and crushed the buildings. At the time, the comparatively staid BlackBerry had only 380,000 users. ![]() “Some of the most passionate,” reported The New York Times, “are members of the African American elite in entertainment and sports.” Meaning, mostly, rappers: A two-way ringtone even became the foundation of a street anthem. (Male paranoia about girls rummaging through their devices, though? Hasn’t aged a day.)Īt their peak, Motorola two-ways were used by at least a million people. ![]() The 2001 ode to Motorola keyboard pagers is delightfully outdated, from the hook’s reference to “beaming”-users could point their two-ways at each other to transmit contact info-to the music video, which features members of Three 6 rapping from inside a two-way mainframe. ![]()
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