Did They Just Say … Timmy T?
Fresno’s favorite local singing sensation, Timmy T, gets a shout-out in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly.
The pop culture magazine’s “Chart Flashback” lists Timmy T’s “One More Try” as the number one single twenty years ago this week, and has these not-so-glowing words to say about the song: “Balls of tinfoil have better production values than this tinkly synth-pop plea, and L.A. freestyler Timmy T never hit the Top 40 again. But oh, that aching, Casio-assisted misery.”
Wow. Way harsh, Tai. Also, “L.A. freestyler”? Timmy T is Fresno born, baby. Anyone who writes an angry letter to Entertainment Weekly and gets it published will have his/her letter reprinted here on the Beehive, and props will be doled out accordingly.
We may not have much, but we have Timmy T, dammit.
Responses to "Did They Just Say … Timmy T?"
Timmy is a world class one hit douchebag…LA can have him!
Yo Timmy T, can a dude get a 20th anniversary remix?
TI-MAY, TI-MAY!
all songs of this time were in the same style as Timmy’s. i.e. Stevie B, collage, lisa lisa!!! the writer probably wasnt even born when this song came out…
Didn’t he have some local show on public access? I guess that would be more a sad infomercial.
I was a sophomore in high school, and I have no idea who Timmy T is/was. Of course I was most definately not listening to crap like lisa lisa and Stevie B, and most especially not Mariah Carey.
I wonder if the same person who wrote this review of his Time After Time album review back in 1991 wrote that piece in this weeks EW
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313475,00.html
Timmy T never has to work again believe it or not.