Justin Timberlake Proves Not To Be A Marketing Genius

So what do you do when you’re signed on by Microsoft and MTV to release your new album with a service billed as the ‘iTunes Killer’? If you’re Justin Timberlake, you talk to ‘Access Hollywood’ about owning… an iPod. “So, you let someone else program your iPod?” Maria asked. “I just got an iPod this year,” Justin responded, as Microsoft and MTV execs cringed. “Really? That long it took you?” Maria followed-up. “Hey, I’m from Tennessee, man,” Justin laughed. “Some of us don’t even have all of out teeth, much less an iPod!” So while iPod got three mentions in the brief interview, the new Urge service, which the *NSYNC star was in Las Vegas to promote, got zero.