https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVU-MmJZFFA
https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/1/2/16841108/justin-timberlake-man-of-the-woods-album-announcement
It's like, wild West, but... now, y'know?
In any case, I'd like some new Timberlake, so I guess it's time to get hyped.
― DJI, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:50 (nine months ago) Permalink
Huh. Didn't like his last couple - maybe I never heard them all the way? - but looking forward to this.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:52 (nine months ago) Permalink
I saw from Timbaland re: the new Timberlake: "The music we just made?" Timbaland says, shaking his head. "It's gonna put him on another plateau." Was he in that video? Just saw Pharrell.
(BTW, had no idea Timbaland was struggling with pain pills, which he supposedly starting taking in his 30s to deal with nerve issues he suffered after getting shot as a teen. Might explain Timbo's erratic output for a while there.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:57 (nine months ago) Permalink
"Can't Stop the Feeling!" has become an inextricable part of watching my nieces grow -- it's blasted at every event
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:58 (nine months ago) Permalink
Well, it's called "Can't Stop the Feeling," right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:04 (nine months ago) Permalink
Timbaland interview:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/timbaland-kicked-oxycontin-self-doubt-to-stage-comeback-w512403
― DJI, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:05 (nine months ago) Permalink
man the nostalgia
https://youtu.be/sR9UwFwVPPw
― goole, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:40 (nine months ago) Permalink
I haven’t even listened to his latest album but if Timbaland is back to form, this could be interesting. It’s a pity Timbo kinda lost it since the mid 00 or something. Especially when you consider all the things Pharrell has done in these 10y +...I didn’t know he had drugs issues though. Good for him that he kicked them.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 09:15 (nine months ago) Permalink
that Rolling Stone article linked says Timbaland having a pretty brutal oxycontin habit for most of the 00s (and seemed insightful about the transition in the music world from the trope of the drug dealer who hustles & makes money to the drug user who Has Big Fun)
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 13:41 (nine months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-NDZb29I4
no idea what to make of this, if anything the weirdly dated wubs + rock bridge & intro remind me of "madness" by muse? at least it isn't 8 minutes
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 06:38 (nine months ago) Permalink
look what we made him do
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 06:39 (nine months ago) Permalink
Aw that stadium rock thing is horrible. The rest sounds like an irritating sexy funk jam. Not a good start for this new album.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 5 January 2018 09:52 (nine months ago) Permalink
it's a bit of a mess that track, and despite not kicking in for a good minute and a half, ends up being a little slight and boring
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Friday, 5 January 2018 10:30 (nine months ago) Permalink
those wubs really don't help the track much. if you're going to revive brostep 3 years too early, at least do something interesting with it?
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Friday, 5 January 2018 10:36 (nine months ago) Permalink
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, 5 January 2018 11:35 (nine months ago) Permalink
I like it fine. Won't dread it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 January 2018 14:34 (nine months ago) Permalink
it appears justin timberlake has accidentally posted a twitter comedian's setlist parody, what a terrible mistake
MOTW https://t.co/oydnUMzBE8 pic.twitter.com/24vYbTachJ— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) January 5, 2018
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 16:24 (nine months ago) Permalink
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, 5 January 2018 16:37 (nine months ago) Permalink
The CS does stand for Chris Stapleton, but the AK is Alicia Keys.
― MarkoP, Friday, 5 January 2018 16:45 (nine months ago) Permalink
even worse
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 16:50 (nine months ago) Permalink
"Flannel" by Justin Timberlake "Flannel" by Justin Timberlake "Flannel" by Justin Timberlake
― Roz, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:09 (nine months ago) Permalink
at least 16 tracks means he's probably cut down on the codas this time
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:16 (nine months ago) Permalink
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― 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 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
always remember: "Alicia Keys" and "even worse" go hand in hand.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:24 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
ticks in a box
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:43 (nine months ago) Permalink
he made the box himself
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:46 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
― 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 (nine months ago) Permalink
Filthy might be half decent when it's finished.
― piscesx, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:18 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
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 (nine months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vnmgZLA8s
the follow up is just as confusing
― ufo, Thursday, 18 January 2018 14:48 (nine months ago) Permalink
maybe jt is a prepper
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:41 (nine months ago) Permalink
JT clearly loves Black Mirror.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:45 (nine months ago) Permalink
so are we out of the woods?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:46 (nine months ago) Permalink
So JT is the unabomber now?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:50 (nine months ago) Permalink
lmao what the actual fuck is this
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (eight months ago) Permalink
i dont dislike this
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:56 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
It’s like side 2 of Hounds of Love but in a forest.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:58 (eight months ago) Permalink
if you were dragging Justin Timberlake for the past few weeks I don't really see how a reheated clip show (the best-case scenario for most Super Bowl halftime shows, realistically) could be expected to win you over
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:08 (eight months ago) Permalink
I don't really see how a reheated clip show (the best-case scenario for most Super Bowl halftime shows, realistically)
that's what i'm saying, i just don't really understand what the point of complaining about the super bowl halftime show is, outside of the shark wackiness it didn't seem that far off from katie perry imo which everyone seemed to think was so great
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:13 (eight months ago) Permalink
complaining about things is americas actual pastime
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:14 (eight months ago) Permalink
maybe it should be the halftime show from now on
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:15 (eight months ago) Permalink
people thought Katy Perry was great?
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:15 (eight months ago) Permalink
i thought her halftime show was
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:17 (eight months ago) Permalink
she was pretty good but the shark made it
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (eight months ago) Permalink
the show is always just as much about the spectacle as it is the performer tho so I include them all as a package deal
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:28 (eight months ago) Permalink
Katy was great. my memory is fuzzy but when she rode ... something? ... way up into the air singing Roar, I think? that was awesome!
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:57 (eight months ago) Permalink
^^^ lol i have an identical half-formed memory of that
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:02 (eight months ago) Permalink
xp maura I didn’t really notice how bad the vocals were, they sounded fine to me but there was some crosstalk at my watch party so maybe it warrants rescreening. everyone I watched with thought the choreography was solid tho, and I personally thought the song selection was on point. like UMS said above, I guess I just don’t know what people are looking for in a halftime show if that was bad
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:12 (eight months ago) Permalink
right, this is kind of the point of the halftime shows......?
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:14 (eight months ago) Permalink
oops that was an xp to this:
the show is always just as much about the spectacle as it is the performer tho so I include them all as a package deal― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 20:15 (eight months ago) Permalink
xxxp that nytimes piece was indeed probably written before the show, yet at the same time is pretty much otm. Especially when highlighting how Janet Jackson was vilified and JT can go about like nothing happened.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:17 (eight months ago) Permalink
I do find it weird when people get rockist about a Super Bowl halftime show. I think the Black Eyed Peas one was the only recent one I considered completely terrible.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:24 (eight months ago) Permalink
The Who were pretty bad
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:26 (eight months ago) Permalink
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, 5 February 2018 20:28 (eight months ago) Permalink
People generally like JT, he's had a lot of hits (both solo and with a group), he's a modest singer but a very good performer, and he's had decades of experience entertaining huge crowds. That he had all of that going for him and was still pretty indifferently received indicates something was not firing right, technical or otherwise. Not enough spectacle? Played it too safe? The fundamental thin-ness of pop without enough distractions (costumes, explosions, choreography)? Something like that. Doesn't help that as much as I like a lot of his stuff, very little JT is particularly exciting, let alone rousing. Probably why stuff like Mirrors and the Trolls song did so well. They're more conventionally anthemic, though that is probably too strong a word.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:45 (eight months ago) Permalink
agree with all that ^ but everyone remember "we" exist in a bubble, no matter who you watched it with. 90% of norm women/kids absolutely loved it, 75% of norm men rolled their eyes and wanted "real" music and 25% of norm men did the whole "i can't believe i'm going to say this but i think the guy is very talented and seems like a cool dude" thing to contrast the eye-rollers.
― alpine static, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:51 (eight months ago) Permalink
the scores of millions of people who loved it aren't in yr twitter timeline
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
― maura, Monday, February 5, 2018 2:28 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:05 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
What are you going to believe, your ears, or science?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:14 (eight months ago) Permalink
I assume all terrible sounds are aesthetic choices
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:31 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
I got suppli-yiii-yiiiiieees
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:54 (eight months ago) Permalink
"supplies": because "Carry Out" wasn't bizarre and strained enough a metaphor
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:10 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
lol i forgot about "carry out"
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:31 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
"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 (eight months ago) Permalink
i can't imagine Timberlake's voice over a country-ass country song
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:50 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
Also, christ, 16 songs. I know this is the streaming era, but please edit.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:07 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
Tom Brady is 40.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:13 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
probably wears sunscreen too
― maura, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:30 (eight months ago) Permalink
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 (eight months ago) Permalink
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (three weeks ago) Permalink
^^ otm
― ilxor, Friday, 9 February 2018 03:43 (eight months ago) Permalink