It’s been almost two years since Justin Timberlake donned a pair of Color Me Badd pants and sang about giving his ladyfriend a Very Special Christmas Box, which I guess means that enough time has passed for “Dick In A Box” to become source material for a song about Very Important Things. Above, Timberlake (with girlfriend Jessica Biel) turns his ode to giving the best present of all into… a song about sticking your ballot into that hole in that box. Unfortunately, pretty Christmas wrapping, Andy Samberg, and the concept of “being funny through something besides extreme awkwardness on Timberlake’s part” are nowhere to be seen, so why not clear your brain out with the original, which we’ve placed after the jump.
Watching this makes me miss Maya Rudolph all the more.
VoteForChange.com: Vote In The Box [YouTube via Videogum]
Saturday Night Live: Dick In A Box (Uncensored) [Hulu]
The whole “Dick in a Box” thing made me miss the group
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i love justin irrationally, but i couldn’t get beyond the first 15 seconds. “vote in the box”? yeesh.
Could be worse, could be “Save the Gorillas”:
That really wasn’t so bad. I mean, it was 20 seconds of a guy goofing around. I don’t see the big issue here.
Let me state for the record that NSYNC and their ilk make me want to shoot myself in the head, but while I don’t particularly enjoy his solo music, I hate great respect for Timberlake. He makes the music he wants to make and he’s actually got talent, and that’s a lot more than you can say about any of the other teenybopping morons of the late 90s.
Word on Rudolph. I had a total geek-crush on her the whole time she was on.
@Chris Molanphy: Ditto, and the geek-crush was furthered after seeing her in Idiocracy.