Justin Timberlake Down, Meek Mill Up: How Twitter Swings Public Opinion

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Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Music

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🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The internet’s response to the two musicians after the Super Bowl shows how criticism works these days. Rapid-fire groupthink online can be strong enough to have real-world impact.

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0:00.0	Sauce.
0:02.0	The sauce is forever.
0:04.0	Suss!
0:05.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:06.0	Popcast.
0:07.0	Your bulletproof man purse,
0:09.0	smoking a blunt in the front row of a fashion show
0:12.0	of music news and criticism.
0:14.0	S get it!
0:16.0	I'm John Cara Monica. I love your pink you like my purple you must be got herself can not come
0:29.1	worship let's make some new details just for your journal
0:34.0	Because you keep looking at me with those eyes like you know something I don't so good.
0:40.0	Say I'm all.
0:42.0	Say I'm all. Say I'm all.
0:43.0	Ain't nothing to it but you do it.
0:45.0	Throw away that phone.
0:46.0	Cause I'm going to you with a snap on another
0:49.0	and I can enter your phone.
0:51.0	But you keep looking at me with those eyes like you know something I down.
0:56.0	Hold up.
0:57.0	Oh, ooh, something goes over there.
1:01.0	It's all these loose moves when you get close to me. That thing that you were just listening to that's the sauce that's the sauce.
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