Hello all,

I know it's been awhile since you've heard from me (Liv) or any of the Jaded Ladies. *NSYNC is...separated, though not completely divorced yet, and life has kept us ladies busy in so many ways. While some of us have managed to stay tight, others of us are just reconnecting. Suffice it to say that we are all doing well. :)

The first point of this update is that I posted an *NSYNC skit. I debated whether or not to post it now or wait until the anniversary next year, but it's one of those "in the moment" stories, because it's current to what's going on now. So it's posted and I hope you like it. I'm a little rusty at the humor writing, but it amused me. lol

The second point is the aforementioned 2009 site anniversary. Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of *NJEF. In honor of this, Lux and I have discussed a huge update on April 28, 2009. Tabz and I recently discussed it on our graduation vacation [complete with YAY BUDDY! pics], and she's into it.

We're going to do our best to get as many of the Ladies, past and present, to contribute a little. If you are a former editor or know where we can find one of them, tell us! We'd love to hear from them and their lives after *NSYNC/*NJEF. And of course, we want all of the readers we've got left to contribute too. So old or new, if you've got a skit, picture commentary, parody, fan fic, or ideas, throw it our way! We want a page full of new updates. We're looking to make this even bigger than our 2001 relaunch when we became "*NSYNC Jaded EF."

Have I rambled on long enough? Man, I've missed those boys, but not as much as I've missed my girls and the fun, free-writing here at EF. Sign the guestbook or drop me a line to say hello! And I can't wait to see what y'all come up with for EF's Anniversary Bash.

--Liv
*NSYNC Jaded EF
www.angelfire.com/mn/nsynchumor

Hola!

A drive-by post just to let y'all know there are new updates at the site. On behalf of everyone at EF, may you all have a Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Olivia
Everybody's Free

Whasup, y'all?

In case you haven't noticed, we have updated a couple more times over the past week, with even more stuff coming over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I know, you're probably all wondering how long this spurt will last. Tell ya what, just ride it out with us, okay? :)

We are also in the process of cleaning up the site. I don't think we'll be able to fix all the dead links and pictures, but we're going to try to restore as much as possible from our backup archives. Also, we may be eliminating some of the services [ie: Add-a-Site, Guestmap, etc] that are obsolete or else havens for spammers. We don't want that ish on our site, and we don't want you accidentally clicking on it.

The new layout will probably follow during the Christmas break. If you have any color scheme and font ideas, drop us a line or sign the guestbook.

Also, Justin's movie Southland Tales had a limited release to theatres this past Friday. So check your local listings to see if one of the artsy, independent places near you is screening it. For those in the metro Detroit area, the Birmingham 8 and AMC Livonia 20 are the only two playing it. You're welcome! :)

That's all I've got for now. If you have any submissions, ideas or comments...sign the guestbook or hit us with an email.

Peace, Love & TimberActor,
Olivia
Everybody's Free

Hey guys,

No need to rub your eyes like that, because you're not hallucinating. We have, indeed, updated for the second time in three days.

*gasp!*

Please don't die of shock and go read them. lol And as always, drop us a line or sign the guestbook and let us know how we're doing - or if you still care. And if you don't, bite me! We updated, damnit! ;)

Liv
Everybody's Free

Whasup, y'all?

Surprised to see me? Just in case you didn't get the elist, BexXx recently schmoozed with Lance at one of his book signings, which inspired a couple of the editors to get back to humor. There's some stuff that we worked on but never got to posting, so technically they're old. But as NBC used to say, "But they're new to you!" And there's also a brand spankin' new piece for good measure.

We're bubbling with all sorts of stuff, now that the guys [besides Justin] are actually doing things again, so don't be surprised if things start popping up more frequently. We're also thinking of ditching the layout because it's so 2003 and we're sick of it.

Yes, things at *NJEF are a-changing. We hope that the few of you that are still out there will take the journey with us! As always, leave a message in the guestbook or drop us a line.

Hope y'all are well!
Liv
*NSYNC Jaded Everybodys Free

I forgot to post this last week, but the November 16 [#1013] issue of Rolling Stone had a blurbs about Justin and Chrstina's tours:

Justin, Christina Plan 2007 Arena Tours (pg 14)
By Steve Knopper

Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera - who grossed $31.8 million together in their Justified/Stripped tour in 2003 - will kick off the 2007 touring season by launching separate arena headlining tours. So far, Timberlake, who sold out a tour of 2,000-seat clubs in minutes this fall, is seeing brisk sales for his thirty-one-city tour, which begins January 8th in San Diego.

In contrast, Aguilera, who starts her first solo U.S. outing February 20th in Houston - three years after canceling a major tour due to vocal problems - is seeing mixed sales results, according to concert-business sources. Both tours have relatively high ticket prices - eighty-five to ninety-nine dollars for prime seats and about fifty dollars for nosebleeds - and some in the concert business question whether such relatively young artists can justify the cost.

"We keep our prices pretty low because our fan base is relatively young," says Steve Feinberg, manager of Good Charlotte, who have never charged more than thirty-five dollars for a ticket and plan a tour next spring. Both Timberlake and Aguilera had major hits this fall: Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds has sold more than 1.3 million copies, and Aguilera's double-disc Back to Basics is up to 837,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Few details were available at press time about Aguilera's tour, but Timberlake's show will be a production extravaganza with as many as ten dancers and a set list that includes new favorites such as "SexyBack," hits from Justified and maybe even som old 'NSync tunes, according to his manager, Johnny Wright. The singer is hoping to maintain the intimate vibe of his recent club shows, which emphasized live-band interaction over choreography.

"We're trying to re-create a club atmosphere in an arena," Wright says. "We're trying to do something that no one's ever done before. We're definitely spending a lot of money to make sure that happens."

It's like deja vous. I recently just got Issue 1008 of Rolling Stone, the one with Bob Dylan on the cover. The post office mangled this one, too. >:| Anyway, there are a couple of blurbs about Justin.


FALL MUSIC PREVIEW [pg. 28]

Justin Timberlake
FutureSex/LoveSounds
Out September 12

TIMBERLAKE DESCRIBES HIS NEW disc as "an application of a rock & roll mentality to R&B, hip-hop, pop, dance, disco and stuff." With Timbaland and Nate Hill, Timberlake wrote and produced a dozen fresh cuts - club bangers like "Love Stoned" and his current smash "SexyBack" and mellower tracks like "What Goes Around" and "My Love." On the final cut, Timberlake changes direction with the Rick Rubin-produced buttery-soul tribute to Donny Hathaway, "Another Song." "I never made a conscious effort to follow any particular style," he says. "Good music is good music. That's all I'm trying to do."

Video Music Awards Preview [pg. 53-55 pullout]

Best & Worst
The Good...the Bad and the Ugly

6. Justin Timberlake, 2002
While we're generally not a fan of the tie worn with a collarless shirt, Justin pulls it off and cements his transformation from boy-band frontman to sexy solo artist. Insert girlish squealing here.


Bring Back the Heat
How to save the MTV Video Music Awards
By Rob Sheffield

'NSYNC REUNION: IT'S TIME!
Justin's back, sexy as ever, and that Lance is so hot right now. What, Fatone, you got plans that night? Milk that boy-band nostalgia fast - while people forget how shitty your music was.

I just got Issue 1007 of Rolling Stone, the one with Christina on the cover. The post office basically ripped it to shreds, thus the delay. >:| Anyway, JT is on the editors' Hot List on page 25.


HOT LIST
Rolling Stone Editors' Favorite Albums, Singles and Videos.

1. Justin Timberlake
"SexyBack" video

The technofied Timbaland-produced single from JT's new album gets a James Bond-themed video in which our hero faces off against a beautiful spy in a pretty bra. Don't wrestle too much with the particulars. Just kick back and enjoy the sexy.

I forgot to post this last week, but the August 10 [#1006] issue of Rolling Stone had a couple of blurbs about Justin:

The Smoking Section (pg 41)
By Austin Scaggs

[...] We were in Europe because Justin Timberlake is back, and he's brought sexy with him. JT kicked off a European tour with his first gig in nearly three years, at La Cigale, a tiny club in Paris. There, with an ecstatic crowd of Frenchies chanting "Just-teen, Just-teen," Timberlake debuted major cuts from his upcoming FutureSex/LoveSounds, like the hit single "SexyBack" and the future megamash "What Goes Around," which is in the style of "Cry Me a River" but even better. (Timerlake co-wrote and co-produced the album, and it's damn fine.) [...]

"SexyBack" was also reviewed by Brian Hiatt on pg 100:

Justin Timberlake
***
"SexyBack"
justintimberlake.com

FOR THE FIRST SINGLE FROM A POP superstar's new album, the Timbaland-produeced "SexyBack" is as odd as it gets - a thunderstorm of synth pulses underneath Timberlake's vocals rendered ailen by pitch-shifting, distortion and Lance Bass knows what else. But as Timbaland chimes in with a chant of "Get your sexy on," it's easier to accept the song - if not the transformation of "sexy" from adjective to noun.

STRIPPERS GALORE
Janet Charlton's Hollywood

JC Chasez's birthday party was almost an N'Sync reunion at On the Rox Sunday night and it was a blast! Only Joey Fatone was a no-show. Lance and his boyfriend Reichen couldn't have been happier. Lance kept exclaiming about his coming out " I'm so happy! I feel so free- I've been wanting to do this for SO long!" He and his boyfriend danced together all night - publicly at last. Midget male strippers shook their butts for for JC when he wasn't chatting up a number of pretty girls. Cameron and Justin downed Strawberry Bombs (strawberry Stoli with Red Bull) alternating with tequila shots. Thus fortified, Cameron gave the stripper pole a spin when Justins new song Sexy Back was played. Followed by Reichen doing a pole number to entertain Lance. A good time was had by all and JC invited all the loose girls - not the little strippers- to his house for a party after.

+ Lance and Reichen on the Rocks?
Kat Giantis
MSN News, Entertaintment Gossip

Looks like Lance Bass' coming out has been given the unofficial tabloid seal of approval. Just days after the erstwhile 'NSYNC-er revealed his "very stable" relationship with reality show winner-cum-model-actor Reichen Lehmkuhl in his People cover story, the breakup rumors have begun, courtesy of the New York Post, which predicts they won't "be together much longer."

"Reichen forced Lance to come out just at the same time he has a book coming out so he could ride the publicity wave," a mole alleges to the paper. "He is a big gay activist and very controlling. He wants Lance to give up his straight friends and do whatever he tells him to."

Reichen, whose upcoming memoir is titled, "Here's What We'll Say: A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and the U.S. Air Force," has been making the media rounds to talk about Bass, whom he's been dating for a few months.

"I will say that Lance is happier than he has ever been," he tells "Access Hollywood. "It has been a long ride and it's a huge relief and I couldn't be happier for him and I couldn't be more proud of him."

He adds to "The Insider," "I'm happy it's shocking people ... I couldn't be more proud of Lance. It's definitely a sense of relief. There are a lot more smiles. We are so happy about it."

And in still another sit-down, this one with "Entertainment Tonight," he gushes, "I support Lance wholeheartedly. I couldn't be more proud of what he's doing."

Bass' overworked rep is sidestepping the split chatter, telling the Post, "Lance couldn't be happier with the overwhelming reaction he's getting from all over the world."

Justin Timberlake - "SexyBack" (Jive)
By Brian McCollum
Free Press Music Critic
July 30, 2006

Released amid a heap of hype for his upcoming "FutureSex/LoveSounds" album, due Sept. 12, the new collaboration between Timberlake and hip-hop producer Timbaland lands with a disappointing thud. A tune-free track that masks Timberlake's vocal behind a sheet of distortion, "SexyBack" is a strange, repetitive mess of electronic noise and regurgitated '80s vibes. A less-than-promising start for the star's latest effort.

From John Smyntek's Names & Faces, in the July 27 edition of the Detroit Free Press:

Bass says he's gay

Out of the closet via the pages of the forthcoming People magazine is Lance Bass, the former 'N Sync heartthrob.

"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," says Bass, referring to bandmates Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatricks, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake (who artfully avoided marrying Britney Spears to become Cameron Diaz's boy toy).

Now, after years of keeping his personal life private, the MIssissippi-bred Southern Baptist-reared Bass, 27, is publicly revealing what he first shared with his friends, then his shocked family.

And note that Bass says he's in a relationship with model-actor and winner of "Amazing Race," Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32.

This article is 100% better than the first, so I feel I should put it here in case anyone missed it. This is the article from MTV.com, which also includes quotes from the other 4/5th's of Nsync.

There is so much buzz going on in the fandom, and poor Lance had to post a blog on myspace to tell everyone he appreciates the comments but he can't read them all right now...Poor guy!

Anyway, here is the article as it appeared on MTV.com it's much more in-depth and gives a much better view of how amazingly strong and at peace Lance is with his decision to share something so personal with the world.

Liv has asked me to point out that this article will appear here uncut because the article is much more well-written than the AOL article we posted earlier, making it "less celebrity rag and more focused", due to the reactions and support from the rest of the band.

She would also like me to share with you all the following:

"I'm giddy for him! *grin*"

My sentiments exactly!
~BexXx~

NSYNC's Lance Bass Reveals He's Gay: 'I'm Not Ashamed ... I Don't Think It's Wrong'
07.26.2006 6:29 PM EDT

After years of speculation, Lance Bass has confirmed the rumors and told People magazine that he is gay.

"The thing is, I'm not ashamed — that's the one thing I want to say," the 'NSYNC singer told the mag in the issue that hits newsstands Friday. "I don't think it's wrong. I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy."



The rumors started during 'NSYNC's heyday (the group is currently on hiatus) but heated up in the last few months as he was spotted frequently with gay-rights activist and reality-TV personality Reichen Lehmkuhl, who won the $1 million prize on "The Amazing Race 4" with his former partner Chip Arndt. Lehmkuhl has since appeared on other reality shows such as "Fear Factor" and hosted a talk show on the now-defunct Q Television.

After tabloids and gossip sites started tracking Bass and Lehmkuhl's public appearances together, Lehmkuhl responded in mid-April by posting on his Web site that he likes to keep his personal life private. "As for the rumors about me and Lance, please continue to remind people that things that I do not discuss anymore, such as the private and personal relationships that I have, are just that — private — unless I choose to open up with details to my family and close friends for reasons of support and love," he wrote. "I wish people could allow that part of me for, well, just me and who I choose to share my life with and love ... and to leave it well enough alone."

Despite this wish, Bass told People that the rumors about the two being a couple were "really starting to affect my daily life," so he decided to come forward and confirm that they're in a "very stable" relationship. "Now it feels like it's on my terms. I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God, so there's nothing else that I worry about."

It also helps that Bass no longer feels compelled to hide his private life to protect his bandmates, since the band has been on hiatus for four years. When 'NSYNC were in full swing, he worried that coming out would hurt the band. "I didn't know: Could that be the end of 'NSYNC?" he told People. "So I had that weight on me of, like, 'Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did ... I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said [that I was gay], it would overpower everything."

Bass said he's known that he's gay for his "whole life ... from childhood on," but struggled because he knew it would be "something that I would have to hide my whole life." Bass hid it from his bandmates — who suspected anyway "because we were like brothers," he said, and they wondered, " 'Why aren't you hitting on women all the time and acting like a rock star?' Because I was a good Christian boy, that's why."

Their suspicions were also complicated by the fact that Bass was dating women until he was 22 (he's now 27). "I've definitely, you know, been with women," Bass said. "And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up."

"He took years to really think about how he was going to tell everyone," Joey Fatone told People. "I back him up 100 percent."

"I've know Lance for more than 10 years," JC Chasez told MTV News. "We have been through so much together. He is family and I support him unconditionally."

Fatone was the first 'NSYNC bandmate Bass told about being gay, after Fatone walked in on Bass and a male date at his house in Orlando, Florida. Fatone's response at the time? "Dude, I don't care," Bass recalled him saying. Chris Kirkpatrick found out last summer and JC Chasez three months ago.

"Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?' " Bass said. "I'm pretty sure they all knew and they probably all talked to each other, but they had the respect to let me tell them. I haven't had the conversation with Justin [Timberlake] yet. I know he knows, but I've never really sat him down and said it." I will be calling him."

"Lance is one of my great friends," Timberlake told MTV News Wednesday (July 26). "I support him and wish him all the happiness in the world."

Telling his bandmates has been easy, but telling his family was another matter. His sister became pale and started crying when he told her, while his mother "broke down." "The worst part about it was my mom found out not from me," Bass said. "She found out on the Internet, and that's what just killed me. ... It destroyed her for a little bit." His father, in the meantime, was concerned about diseases, telling Lance that "It's much easier for gay people to get AIDS," and "Statistics show that these relationships don't last. You know it's not going to last." "I was like, 'Dad, wow!' "

In Bass' hometown of Clinton, Mississippi, where his mother is a middle-school teacher and his father works in real estate, being gay is "not looked at very highly," he said. But as worried as he was that his grandparents would take it even worse, his maternal grandmother, who was told last week, handled it "so well," he says. "She was like, 'You know what? I may not agree with it, but I love you just the same and you're welcome in my house anytime.' "

For now, Bass and Lehmkuhl are "taking it one day at a time," since the relationship is only a few months old. They met because Lehmkuhl was Bass' real-estate agent, and the two became friends, then lovers. "This is a huge turning point in my life and also in his life too," Bass said. Eventually, Bass would like to have a family and hopes to have his own kids as well as adopt.

"I want people to take away from this that being gay is a norm," Bass said. "That the stereotypes are out the window ... I've met so many people like me that it's really encouraged me. I call them the SAGs — the straight-acting gays. We're just normal, typical guys. I love to watch football and drink beer."

And if people ask him now if he's gay, Bass said he plans to respond, "No, I'm also gay." Meaning that it won't define him — just the part of himself that he doesn't have to hide anymore.

Speculation is running rampant about the validity of the article coming out in Friday's issue of People magazine in which Lance comes out of the proverbial closet.

We are proud of LBeezy (Fo Sheezy!) And our hope is that whatever he decides to do with his personal life, it brings him joy.

I'm posting the article here for your perusal, however if you'd rather not read it, I've put it under a cut.

Mad love my peeps,
~BexXx~


( You can read the article here )

Chasez and Timberlake Are Back 'NSync
AOL Music
Posted Jul 21st 2006 4:32PM by Jolie Lash
Filed under: Pop

J.C. Chasez has enlisted the help of former 'NSync bandmate Justin Timberlake for two tracks on the follow-up to his 2004 album 'Schizophrenic.'

The boys reunited to co-write and produce 'God Bless America' and 'Until Yesterday,' the first single from Chasez's upcoming effort. "We had a lot of fun," Chasez tells AOL Music. "'Until Yesterday' is a lot of Beatles-meet-Freddy Mercury. That guy was so operatic and entertaining, and the song is a soap opera."

Though the former boy-banders both release their new records later this year, Chasez says it didn't put them off collaborating. "The records are two different worlds. They really are," he says. "We're not competing in any way, shape or form.

"It's hard for people to imagine. But we have two very different stories to tell, and we had a lot going on in our lives the last four or five years that we've been apart. You really can't play one record on my album that sounds like any one of his records."

Other producers on the record include Dallas Austin and Nelly Furtado's recent duet partner Timbaland. Chasez says listeners will be surprised at his new direction.

"Everything I've been working on is mainly guitar-based," he says.

Source: MSN Entertainment Gossip

[excerpt]

[...] According to K. Fed, he's looking at the performance as a chance "to prove myself as an artist, as a rapper and as a human being in society who goes through everything everybody else goes through."

But is he currently going through a bit of jealousy? Star magazine claims Federline is determined to be more successful than his wife's Grammy-winning, chart-topping ex, Justin Timberlake.

"Kevin is totally preoccupied with Justin's music career," an insider alleges to the tab. "He's incredibly jealous of Justin's musical style, his sales and his popularity.

Timberlake, who recently admitted to GQ that he was "infatuated" with Britney "from the moment I saw her" but their relationship was "just so high school," is set to release "FutureSex/LoveSounds" in September.

Kevin, continues Star's source, has "convinced himself that he's going to be the next Justin, only better ... He says he's got the hottest producers in the business and that he can write killer rhymes -- and that all Justin has is a silly falsetto and a bad haircut."

When contacted for comment by the New York Daily News, Timberlake's rep went with the only sensible response to the report, namely, he "laughed hysterically."

From the August issue of GQ, on sale next week:

Cover lines:
The Private Life of Justin Timberlake

"I didn't want to be the guy who dates girls in tabloids"

Article:

Locked & Loaded
With his second album about to hit stores, serious roles in two upcoming movies, and the older woman you dream about, Justin Timberlake is on the verge of something very big.
By Lisa DePaulo, Photographs by Steve Klein

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE picks me up in his black Porsche 911 convertible, in front of the Chateau Marmont. "Don't worry," he says. "We're not doing the Chateau Marmont celebrity interview. You know, 'We're at the Chateau! And Bobby De Niro walked in! And he ordered salad!'"

No, he's taking me to a little joint on Highland Avenue called Ammo that he likes because it's "cool" and he can go there without getting noticed and we can sit outside and smoke. (Even though Justin doesn't smoke, you kind of get the feeling he'd like to.)

"Didja eat lunch?" he asks. "Good. Neither did I. Fucking starving."

He peels out of the Chateau...and almost runs over Mos Def, who is walking up the driveway.

"Yo, bro!" says Justin. "What's up?"

"I'm mixing a record out here, bro," says Mos Def.

"I can't wait to hear it!" says Justin.

"It's good, it's good."

"All right, man."

"Take care, bro."

Nice wheels, I tell him, as he accelerates rather abruptly out onto Sunset Boulevard.

"Yeah, well, it's better than my extra-small penis car." And that would be...? "My Ferrari," he says, adding that he also has a Bimmer, which he lent to his parents for the week. Oh, and a Jeep and a Dodge pickup "with a winch" on it. A winch? "Wow, you really are from New York," says Justin. "A winch is a device that you attach to the front of the, uh, truck, and you can tow people out if they get stuck."

I see.

"I'm into cars. You know, boys and their toys."

He tears down Sunset, almost clipping another (lesser) vehicle. "You know when I'm an asshole?" he says. "In traffic. I get road rage so badly. I'm on my best behavior today. But I get road rage like you wouldn't believe!"

After some L.A. parking drama, Justin finds a spot near Ammo, steps out of the car...and a fan materializes on the sidewalk. (So much for not getting noticed.) "You're my favorite!" squeals the young woman, who just happens to have Justin's face on a button on her denim jacket.

"You're my favorite, too," says Justin.

The woman practically faints.

( The rest... )

Are we on the Verge of Another White Boy Invasion?
http://www.urbancelebritynews.com/news/writersblock/whiternbmus.html

Solo artists J.C. Chasez, Justin Timberlake, and Robin Thicke are all releasing sophomore albums before the end of this year.

(...) Chasez and Thicke haven't experienced as much commercial success as Timberlake, but all that may change with Thicke's, "The Evolution of Robin Thicke", and Chasez's new (untitled) release.

Chasez's first album, "Schizophrenic", was just that -- Schizophrenia in both style and flavor. "Schizophrenic" incorporated so many different musical styles and genres that it was more than just a R&B/Pop album, it had a little something for everyone.

(...) To fully appreciate artists like Thicke, Chasez, or Timberlake you have to experience them as they grow rather than waiting on the sidelines to become a Bandwagoneer. So as we approach this next surge of quality music, let's take the time to discover and celebrate artists who make good music regardless of color.

Justin Disses, Defends Britney
MSN News, Entertaiment Gossip

Justin Timberlake seems to have mixed emotions when it comes to Britney Spears, taking a potshot at his beleaguered former flame in one interview while defending her in another.

"When we initially parted ways, I felt like she had a couple of opportunities to just sort of stick up for me, and she didn't," the nonthreatening pop star, who broke up with the swelling Mrs. Federline in 2002 after two years of togetherness, kvetches to GQ (via the New York Post).

But Timberlake, 25, currently on a mammoth publicity push for his forthcoming "FutureSex/LoveSounds" album, sings a different tune about Spears as he discusses his own squeaky-clean image with the Observer Music Monthly.

"If Courtney Love shows up to a function, then it's like, "Oh that's Courtney Love." If I show up drunk, it's like, "Oh my God!" And, like, Britney's an unfit mother because she put her child in the carseat backwards. I feel bad for her. We all make mistakes," maintains Justin, whose 2002 hit "Cry Me a River" is believed to be about his ex's alleged two-timing.

Speaking of mistakes, did the former boy-bander make one by attempting to give himself a bit of bad-boy cred with a few tabloid-ready sound bites on his apparent experience with mind-altering substances?

"The drugs that I do have been in my own private time," he reveals to the Observer. "I've never been arrested -- though not to say that I won't."

When the interviewer wonders whether he'd ever want to be president, Justin says, "I've done way too many drugs already. I've already inhaled and I've already ... who knows."

He declines to go into detail for "fear that if I said that, I'd fuel the fire, so forgive me," but he does offer, "I'm just like everyone else, I get completely plastered, I've done my fair share of drugs and I've been caught places with my pants down; it's just I make sure there are no cameras around."

Plus, babbles Timberlake, "If we get into this whole [drugs] conversation we don't have enough time. Some drugs haven't been legalized because it will ruin the other drugs, like nicotine and tobacco. Nicotine is more addictive than heroin. I'll leave the preaching to the preachers -- my grandfather's a preacher -- but I believe you don't do anything to excess. They always say too much of a good thing could be a bad thing. I try to live my life in a well-rounded manner."

He then reiterates, "We all make mistakes."

As for Justin's three-year romance with Cameron Diaz, it's not only still on but engagement rumors are bubbling for the umpteenth time.

But he tells the Observer of settling down, "I'm way too young ...," and explains to GQ that he needs his space: "I have my own house. It's very important. Healthy."

Less healthy, however, is his acting career. The Los Angeles Times reports "Edison Force," his big-screen debut co-starring Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, is going straight to DVD.