even worse
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
"Flannel" by Justin Timberlake "Flannel" by Justin Timberlake "Flannel" by Justin Timberlake
― Roz, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
at least 16 tracks means he's probably cut down on the codas this time
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
also I just had a horrific thought that A.K. and C.S. stand for Alison Krauss and Chris Stapleton
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, January 5, 2018 9:37 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The CS does stand for Chris Stapleton, but the AK is Alicia Keys.
― MarkoP, Friday, January 5, 2018 9:45 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, January 5, 2018 9:50 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i went through this whole dynamic in my own head when i read the tracklisting
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
i assume "breeze off the pond"/"livin' off the land"/"the hard stuff" is his extremely personal song cycle about choppin' wood
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
Not a great song, but remember when he was talking about listening to Dirty Mind all the time, and then the subsequent album had no trace of that? At least this sounds plausibly like JT & Timbo taking some inspiration from early Prince.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
always remember: "Alicia Keys" and "even worse" go hand in hand.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Ahah that tracklist...Maybe it’s a joke album in the same spirit as « Dick in a box » ? (actually I have difficulty listening to his « sexy » songs without thinking about his sketches...).
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 5 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
ticks in a box
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
he made the box himself
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Also the big revelation from that RS piece is that Timbaland produces at home on Ableton now
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
feels like an attempt to make a Prince b-side. pleasant enough jam though imo
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, January 5, 2018 5:35 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yeah like an unreleased track from Planet Earth
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
Filthy might be half decent when it's finished.
― piscesx, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Disappointed he didn’t cover « Knock On Wood » on the album. Maybe as a b-side!
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
especially after that horrendous trailer i was ready to completely dismiss this entire project, call it "man of the whites" and so forth, but i have to admit to rather liking "filthy"! of course it's his previous track record and industry clout that permits him to do this, but it's nice to see someone who tends to aim right down the middle go for something at least somewhat audacious -- he could have easily just dropped a track with 3.5 minutes of moaning in a thin falsetto the way at least one up-and-coming twink imitator at top 40 is currently doing to modest success. there are interesting touches both in the backing track and in his vocal so i imagine i'll be coming back to it for a little while at least.
(the full album could still turn out to be abysmal. i haven't liked most of his music since futuresex/lovesounds.)
― dyl, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vnmgZLA8s
the follow up is just as confusing
― ufo, Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
maybe jt is a prepper
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
JT clearly loves Black Mirror.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
so are we out of the woods?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
So JT is the unabomber now?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
lmao what the actual fuck is this
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
i dont dislike this
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
these videos are v v Trenchant Social Commentary tho lol
This is better than "Filthy" but my god that video is... something.
― Roz, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
I fear the WTFness of the video is distracting us from how lifeless and mediocre the song is.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
let it be clear, the "what the actual fuck is this" also referred to the quality of the song
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
the WTFness of the song meant i still haven't really taken in just how bad the video is yet
― ufo, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
his dancing is really shit in the video too. isn't he usually a pretty good dancer? everything about this is so fake and stupid, the choreography, the styling, the Trenchant Social Commentary. it's clearly all top-down imposed and nothing to do with JT, despite what he says in the trailer video. It just seems very confused, he's talking about bringing it back home and trudging through the fields in a big woolen cape (styling error!) and now we get this mess which seems completely disconnected from the supposed theme.
is that sequins or rhinestones around the edge of his hoodie, because WHAT
also wtf was the budget for that shit video?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
JT acting like he’s giving some sort of woke message on the video while the lyrics are sex and then he’s there gettig it on with Eiza Glz (who does look insanely sexy in the video tbh) but then there’s that kid saying “wake up” and then there’s all the faux rural/hipster/indie/ aesthetic for the album... I don’t know what he’s trying to say but I’m hating it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
I dug the main groove - felt like a Timbaland loop pedal jam. The bridge was weak. The video looked very expensive.
― DJI, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
It’s like side 2 of Hounds of Love but in a forest.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
except that would be good
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
the chorus to supplies is dreadful
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
the weirdly country-tinged verse is also dreadful
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
ok so this album will be a trainwreck apparently.too bad, I would have enjoyed a Timbaland come-back...
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
ugh, thank god for lauren jackson http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/exploring-justin-timberlakes-relationship-to-black-music.html
― austinb, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
his dancing is really shit in the video too. isn't he usually a pretty good dancer?
This was the exact thing I said to my 13-yr-old son, after he texted me the link to the video. (The full content of his text: "JUSTIN IS TOO WOKE BRO ... but seriously this is one of the worst music videos I have ever seen")
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Looks like the Neptunes (!) actually produced most of the album, including 'Supplies'?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Mediocre Neptunes is much less disheartening than mediocre Timbaland.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
Funny, listening to these new tracks (and to some older ones I used to really like) I realize I (finally) find his voice really annoying/bad (nasal, trebly + silly gimmicks).Actually, watching that latest video, his face and moves are also ridiculous and I can't help thinking about these old Lonely Islands pastiches !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
ugh, thank god for lauren jacksonhttp://www.vulture.com/2018/01/exploring-justin-timberlakes-relationship-to-black-music.html
― austinb, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like this piece forgot to make a point
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, both “Filthy” and “Supplies” offer much to interrogate in terms of racial analysis, in visual and in sound. [remainder of piece only talks about visuals]
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
& fails to draw any conclusions from them
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
supplies is one of the worst songs i've heard in a rly long time
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
it's so bad
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Going to be a weird Super Bowl halftime if he does these instead of "SexyBack."
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
looking forward to justin's treatise on how he personally slaughtered and skinned a pig to make a football
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Official Music Video directed by La Blogothèque
ok, lmao
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
This album title (and the dumb making-of video) keeps making me think of this recent Dollop podcast: http://thedollop.libsyn.com/307-naked-joseph-knowles
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
he managed to release a song that's just dull instead of a trainwreck
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
the scores of millions of people who loved it aren't in yr twitter timeline
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
we had about 15 kids (12 and under) watching it and they were all like "this is weird / lame" "i dont like this who is this" and then 'cant stop the feeling' came on....
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
my 1 year old girl was rocking back and forth the whole time, my 3 year old boy paid no attention at all
I think y'all are on to something here
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
I tried to convince my 3 yr old to watch cuz "there are people dancing, you like people dancing" she was non-plussed and demanded we watch whatever she wanted to watch.
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
i watched with a music savvy crowd on a tv with a nice soundsystemthat said the “it’s supposed to be background noise” argument is a ... strange one? jt’s voice and the mixing itself was bad, and it was noticeable even in the context of the telecast
― maura, Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
Vocals sounded weird/bad to me but I was unclear if it was on purpose or a bad mix or what
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
Usually in these sorts of situations where I assume there are scads of professionals working on it when stuff sounds weird to me I just think its me and not that it's bad or mistake
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
What are you going to believe, your ears, or science?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
I assume all terrible sounds are aesthetic choices
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
man of the woods title track is some looney tunes shit, what the f was he thinking
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
eheh, exactly !Why not for a cartoon ost or something but on an album (and more so a supposedly "serious/spiritual/whatever" album)...
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 08:48 (six years ago) link
I got suppli-yiii-yiiiiieees
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
"supplies": because "Carry Out" wasn't bizarre and strained enough a metaphor
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
how many jt songs are extremely strained metaphors. i relistened to 20/20 the other week and as far as i can tell it's almost all of them
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
lol i forgot about "carry out"
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
i relistened to 20/20 the other week
congrats: if you can prove you finished it I'll nominate you for a Nobel.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
da lex on j-tim.
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/is-justin-timberlake-losing-his-way-1.701958
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
what i wrote on lex FB. which is probably totally wrong but i kinda would have liked to see all-in faux-cowboy JT for some reason. i think it was that village people handkerchief that made me wish for it:
Scott Seward "if he really wanted to get woodsy he should have made a big pop-country album with huge nashville hitmakers handing him hooks for days and a smash duet with t-swift that premiered AT the halftime show. would have been the biggest seller of the year in the u.s."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
i agree with you there. somewhere along the way whatever message he meant to come with got muddled.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
"say something" isn't horrible; maybe shoulda just done an album of duets with Stapleton if he wanted to be in this lane?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
i can't imagine Timberlake's voice over a country-ass country song
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
I have this feeling he just does not care that much anymore. There's some good songs in there, but even these good songs leave me with the impression another younger/hungrier artist would have made it better.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Perhaps he should go the Charli route and release mixtapes of shit he really cares about. This whole album with a concept thing just seem so heavy on him.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
Also, christ, 16 songs. I know this is the streaming era, but please edit.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
if i was ever a recording artist, i would release 8-song albums with 12 bonus tracks each with a 5 second sound effect from a synth preset just to goose the numbers
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
my big takeaway from watching him sing and dance in HD on a giant TV was: wow, Justin Timberlake is 37 years old
― alpine static, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
Tom Brady is 40.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
Timberlake eats tomatoes, he won't make it to 40
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
probably wears sunscreen too
― maura, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
So I've tried to listen to more of this album. the father/son stuff is awful, the husband/wife stuff is cringey, the looney tunes song is wtf, etc."Montana" which seems to be the favourite song for many people is just meh to me.I think the only thing I enjoy is "Higher Higher". And the funky part from "Filthy" (minus some of the vocals)...Good job JT !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 February 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (three weeks ago) Permalink
^^ otm
― ilxor, Friday, 9 February 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link