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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
The Who were pretty bad
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:26 (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, 5 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (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
― 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
lmao what the actual fuck is this
― 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