Let's anticipate Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods...?

lmao what the actual fuck is this

i dont dislike this

these videos are v v Trenchant Social Commentary tho lol

This is better than "Filthy" but my god that video is... something.

I fear the WTFness of the video is distracting us from how lifeless and mediocre the song is.

let it be clear, the "what the actual fuck is this" also referred to the quality of the song

the WTFness of the song meant i still haven't really taken in just how bad the video is yet

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?

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.

I dug the main groove - felt like a Timbaland loop pedal jam. The bridge was weak. The video looked very expensive.

i assume "breeze off the pond"/"livin' off the land"/"the hard stuff" is his extremely personal song cycle about choppin' wood

It’s like side 2 of Hounds of Love but in a forest.

except that would be good

the chorus to supplies is dreadful

the weirdly country-tinged verse is also dreadful

ok so this album will be a trainwreck apparently.
too bad, I would have enjoyed a Timbaland come-back...

ugh, thank god for lauren jackson
http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/exploring-justin-timberlakes-relationship-to-black-music.html

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")

Looks like the Neptunes (!) actually produced most of the album, including 'Supplies'?

Mediocre Neptunes is much less disheartening than mediocre Timbaland.

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 !

ugh, thank god for lauren jackson
http://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

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]

& fails to draw any conclusions from them

supplies is one of the worst songs i've heard in a rly long time

it's so bad

Going to be a weird Super Bowl halftime if he does these instead of "SexyBack."

looking forward to justin's treatise on how he personally slaughtered and skinned a pig to make a football

Official Music Video directed by La Blogothèque

ok, lmao

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

he managed to release a song that's just dull instead of a trainwreck

ahah, he keeps on giving !

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/justin-timberlake-say-something-ft-chris-stapleton/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

the opening of the Say Something video makes me think of this and lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIWxgGrVaAQ

a minor point but whoever did the lighting in the Say Something video should be sacked. You can't see anything.

Is that video actually live like in other blogoteque videos? I think it’s impressive if that’s the case even if aided by playback.

Song is decent compared to previous singles, lyrics are terrible.

That intro is laughable though that limmy comparison is otm

tackiest part in the supplies video is when the pyramid with one eye is lit up and flames in front of those worshipping people

i was driving thru north GA and they were talking about this on local talk radio with the 2 DJs (a man and a woman) promoting the upcoming tour. they played a really short clip and it was just overprocessed generic radio garbage. when it cut back to the DJs they said "They doesn't sound like country for an album called Man of the Woods". that was it, they didn't play the song, they started talking about something else.

its a missed opportunity cos Justin Timberlake is actually from Tennessee and grew up outside of Memphis singing in gospel choirs. he could be a modern Elvis if he wanted but he wants to sound like a generic robot instead. imagine if he had recorded a non-EDM album of him singing country songs. i think he might have the chops to do something good and not just millennial whoop stuff. he knows tons of musicians, he could easily throw a band together, probably with alt country guest stars and stuff. they could play new material and songs he learned as a kid and sang w his family etc. have it produced by Jack White.

not just millennial whoop stuff

all of the songs from this have been dogshit so far but we don't have to invent bad things about them

i'll be your generator
turn me on
when you need electricity
because electricity is needed
for powered devices

i think he might have the chops to do something good

also this is neither here nor there, i enjoyed the first part of 20/20 when it came out but literally nothing timberlake's done since 2013 has suggested that he cares about music

wow that video is a fuckin disaster

blade runner 204hate

I was expecting an album filled with these:

https://youtu.be/9Aq4a7g_wdU

https://youtu.be/W7eYaJr1j-0

this is such a disastrous album. i'm 11 songs and what feels like three hours in

"sauce", the title track, "flannel", some of the most abysmal songs i've heard in years

there's an interlude in the middle where jessica biel talks about how she feels like she's "his" when she wears her husband's shirt

people have been citing "montana" as a highlight but to me it just sounds like a run off the mill album track from...idk chromeo or something

anyway! i hate this and hope it flops really hard! #justiceforjanet

I love this song so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baj6llvgpWA

i do really like that one

It’s not terrible but it goes to show timbaland and timberlake are severely out of touch.

i can't imagine Timberlake's voice over a country-ass country song

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.

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.

Also, christ, 16 songs. I know this is the streaming era, but please edit.

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

my big takeaway from watching him sing and dance in HD on a giant TV was: wow, Justin Timberlake is 37 years old

Tom Brady is 40.

Timberlake eats tomatoes, he won't make it to 40

probably wears sunscreen too

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 !

lmao what the actual fuck is this

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (three weeks ago) Permalink

^^ otm