It doesn't matter if we all have TB hard drives, hard drives in our cars, 64 GB thumb drives, Spotify, clouds, iPods, whatever...the average person can only 'keep' so much music in mind at any given time...especially when looking back into 15-20 years ago (damn) with a right now life. The overbearingly popular folks who still 'exist' in a certain way get brought up more often and a cat like Ginuwine COULD get lost depending on who is telling the story.

And with companies only doing so much to sell something to consumers right now (how many albums does Rihanna have?) and allowing cult status and keeping it cheap carry almost everything else (Mayer Hawthorne, mixtapes, etc.), the labels aren't going to spend a lot of time trying to convince you that Ginuwine was the shit. This is especially true cuz dude is still alive. And the label he was on probably doesn't exist in the same form anymore.

The other problem...most people don't care about albums. At all. So the idea that Ginuwine's first two albums are excellent doesn't help him as much now as it would have in the past.

The fact that Timberlake has a solo music career built in part due to him taking what could've easily been Ginuwine songs (and rejected MJ songs from the Tunes) tells us a lot about lasting Ginuwine's impact. If Lumpkin didn't keep relationships alive and/or his name on the scene, that's a different matter. Regardless, if he's truly unfairly 'forgotten', there'll be an adjustment at some point.

I always make the joke that Ginuwine flips over an ottoman every time he sees or hears JT singing something from 20/20 or FS/LS.

Jimaveli: by the way, as a lover of Jodeci, I viewed all of the 95-2001 Timbo stuff as a continuation of the group. And I thought Ginuwine was good shit. The Bachelor was monsterous to me. I was basically street-teaming for that joint trying to get people past pony and into the other stuff. The interludes/bridges threw folks off cuz CDs were ALREADY ruining attention spans for albums (*thinks of those last 3 JT albums again*).

>has the real impact of that run of "what's so different", "so
>anxious", "none of your friends business" (and to a lesser
>extent "same ol' g") been largely forgotten due to lack of
>White fans recording it into stone for future generations to
>experience?
>
>let's be honest.
>with usher all of 1999/2000.
>ginuwine was the #1 male r&b act.
>kells probably #2.
>but kells never could dance.
>
>aaliyah's legacy is cemented because she died at arguably her
>peak or the tail end of her peak.
>ginuwine? seems like "here today, gone tomorrow".
>never to be thought about or discussed again...
>
>that "100% ginuwine" album was fire, but also wildly popular
>and successful.
>and you'd really never know it based on the history books.