Justin Timberlake

[Chucky 39]

He looked cute on SNL tbh :whitney:

[Brainiac 10,449]

Every song after the 4 first minutes changes to a complete another song tbh

 

that's how he meant it to be. it makes up for the fact that there's only 10 songs. i'm glad they're longer

[Mills 446]

NEW POLL: How do you find the new album of Justin Timberlake? Is it good or bad? 

[GrandchildDavid 14]

NEW POLL: How do you find the new album of Justin Timberlake? Is it good or bad? 

..honestly speaking, it kind of disappointed me. I expected JT to bring something new & refreshing.. Oh well.

[Mills 446]

Justin Timberlake's 'The 20/20 Experience': What The Critics Are Saying

 

The much anticipated third album of Justin Timberlake, due on the 19th of March, has received mostly positive reviews so far. 

 

 

Billboard's Jason Lipshutz called the album "one of the weirdest -- and most fully realized -- efforts in ages. There will be many people longing for the immediacy of songs like 'My Love' and 'Rock Your Body,' but Timberlake has offered us something more complicated, although no less accessible."

 

Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone said, "Its sense of musical space-time is more elastic and sprawling than anything on the radio ... Songs unfurl into vamps, abruptly change keys, pile on unexpected beats and harmonies. The music is catchy, but the emphasis is on rhythm and flow." Rosen continued: "The 20/20 Experience may test the patience of fans expecting immediate gratification. There are no songs as instantly infectious as 'Like I Love You' or 'SexyBack,' nothing that cuts as deep as 'Cry Me a River' or 'My Love.' But eventually the music sinks its teeth in, even on the wooziest of songs."

 

MTV's James Montgomery said "The 20/20 Experience is just an album ... even if it does come after a near seven-year hiatus from music. And in that regard, it is a tremendous triumph, an artfully anachronistic effort from Timberlake that eschews just about every preconceived notion of popular music in 2013 -- radio-friendly running times, a dearth of actual instrumentation, etc -- and confidently carves out its own niche. It's part Frank Sinatra, part Frank Ocean, and it plays out gradually, languidly, as if JT and Timbaland never want the party to end. Is it perhaps too long? Sure. Will it mystify a portion of his fanbase? Undoubtedly. But you get the feeling Timberlake could care less."

 

The New York Daily News said that "the album's sound comes as no surprise" but does "have its twists" and praised JT's patience and willingness to take his time. "The general familiarity of the sound suggests a star who feels he has little to prove on this, his first album since entering his 30s. That might seem arrogant had the 32-year-old’s first two solo albums not established such a striking track record. The assurance shows best in his vocals, which here achieve a balletic grace. He Fred Astairs his way through these tracks, dancing over their melody with the air of an acrobat. It all serves the persona he has adopted and, by now, perfected -- a lover able to balance a boyish eagerness with a manly talent."

 

Entertainment Weekly praised the album for sticking to the "JT formula: golden falsetto, electro-R&B grooves." "Even when Timberlake’s not singing his way through a big-screen drama on 20/20,  the music has a cool, cinematic vibe."

 

Find out more here.

[Illuminati Freak 2,432]

JT is getting that promo! He's doing a private concert in Texas @ SXSW music festival next week. The CW network announced Tuesday that it has scheduled a one-hour special coinciding with the release of Timberlake’s third solo effort at 8 p.m. March 19. The special will feature performances and interviews with Timberlake.

 

It will be taped from Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre during the album release party March 18, which will include a 30-minute iheart radio special revealing the story behind the making of the album.

 

An eight-minute world premiere of his new music video "Mirrors" will also premiere during the special. An encore will air Friday, March 22, at 8 p.m.  Mirrors has also hit number one on the UK charts.

Edited March 13, 2013 by Illuminati Freak

[Illuminati Freak 2,432]

 

Rob Knox reveals he is the producer behind Dress On and Body Count.  Rob has worked with JT & Timbaland before on Future/Sex Love/Sounds.  These tracks will appear on Target’s exclusive edition of the 20/20 experience.

 

Here is what Rob said on his instagram account:

 

 

Started from the bottom. But in my eyes, still at the bottom. This was a vision and dream of mine to be on something so special with people I idolized and looked up to. My mentality says, no matter what you’ve done or how hard you have worked, you have to keep chipping away because there is always somebody better and bigger than you. Quite frankly, I like it that way. Keeps me pushing and working hard. This is a huge accomplishment in my life but I’m nowhere near satisfied. I’m starving for more. More is what I’m gonna get. For whoever has a dream or a vision, never let anybody tell you it’s impossible. God knows I’ve heard that told to me my whole entire life. Only thing that should be impossible is quitting. Now, everybody go pick up the album from Target cuz that’s where you can hear the songs that I did on the album that was “impossible†for me to do.

[Illuminati Freak 2,432]

The Ragtime Gals: "SexyBack" (w/ Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake)

 

http://youtu.be/UD8tGWIqA-c

 

Edited March 16, 2013 by Illuminati Freak

[Illuminati Freak 2,432]

Billboard track by track review of 20/20

 

 

When “FutureSex/Lovesounds†was released in September 2006, Justin Timberlake was 25 years old, in a relationship with Cameron Diaz that was about to end, and for all intents and purposes, still a kid trying to prove himself and sustain the post-*N SYNC momentum of 2003′s “Justified.†Today, Timberlake is 32 years old, married to Jessica Biel, and has nothing left to prove. He has, in fact, been hounded for a half-decade to release new music, and not been frantically tossing out stopgap singles to remind the world of his presence.

 

When Timberlake announced his return to music last January, pop fans prayed that “The 20/20 Experience†would feel a lot like “FutureSex/Lovesoundsâ€â€¦ but realistically, that could never have happened. Timberlake is no longer where he was in September 2006, and as his latest album reflects the euphoria seeping out of every one of his immaculate, 32-year-old pores.

 

Six-and-a-half years after effectively conquering pop music with a highly s-xual, fashionably futuristic album, Justin Timberlake has returned as a more relaxed version of himself, with a brand new palette of musical shades. Despite the reunion of Timberlake and “FutureSex/Lovesounds†producer Timbaland, “The 20/20 Experience†is not a sequel of that groundbreaking album as much as a document of growth, crystallized within the medium of classic R&B.

 

The propulsive moans and aggressive come-ons of his 2006 smash single “Sexyback,†for instance, have been traded for big-band brass, creeping bass and open-hearted professions of love on songs like “That Girl,†“Mirrors†and “Tunnel Vision.†Timberlake has always been a vocal force, but the main accomplishment of “The 20/20 Experience†is the expansion of Timberlake’s vision: aside from Jay-Z’s guest verse on snappy single “Suit and Tie,†the album features no guests, and often allows its tracks to run past the seven-minute mark.

 

One of the year’s most anticipated pop releases is also one of the genre’s weirdest  and most fully realized  efforts in ages. There will be many people longing for the immediacy of songs like “My Love†and “Rock Your Body,†but Timberlake has offered us something more complicated, although no less accessible.

 

Which songs on “The 20/20 Experience†are worth extended listens? Check out Billboard.com’s extensive track-by-track breakdown of Justin Timberlake’s long-awaited new album.

 

 

1. Pusher Love Girl

 

Like a more seasoned version of his opening “Justified†come-on “Senorita,†“Pusher Love Girl†is an extended glide  even if the d--g-addled metaphor at the heart of the song produces some dubious lyrics, Timberlake’s easy delivery will leave listeners hopelessly, er, addicted. The song morphs into fuzzed-out neo-soul during an elongated breakdown, one of the many mid-song transformations that occur on the album.

 

2. Suit and Tie feat. Jay-Z

 

The ode to high style is still not as sonically ambitious as Timberlake’s last lead single, “Sexyback,†but within the confines of “The 20/20 Experience,†“Suit and Tie†makes a lot more sense. Funneling the succulence of “Pusher Love Girl†into a more radio-friendly format, Timberlake and Jay-Z  who will soon be co-headlining a stadium tour  demonstrate an effortlessness that probably took months to construct.

 

3. Don’t Hold The Wall

 

Tribal chants and oozing vocal samples combat with rainsticks and spacious drums, as Timberlake correctly reads the primal tone and commands his subject to give in to her physical impulses. Timbaland’s production is the star here, turning on a dime at the 4:20 mark and assuming a darker, more muscular structure. There are so many things happening on “Don’t Hold The Wall†that it takes five listens just to process them.

 

4. Strawberry Bubblegum

 

The intensity of “Don’t Hold The Wall†evaporates, and a cloud of electronic blips, string stabs and snappy percussion tears at the seams of a (relatively) simple R&B tune. Timberlake has rarely sounded more at peace as he does when he intones, “She’s just like nothing that I’ve ever seen before/And please, don’t change nothing, because your flavor’s so original.†The sashaying outro is pleasant, but the main track is sumptuous enough on its own.

 

5. Tunnel Vision

 

The instrumentation is vintage Timbaland, with fizzing beats abetted by the producer’s signature ad-libs and vocal record-scratches, while Timberlake puffs out his chest and throws out a typically confident performance. The song’s evolution is thrilling: not only do the ornate production details stack upon each other to create a constantly moving Jenga tower, the arrangement falls apart at exactly the right time, as Timberlake sings, “A crowded room… all I see is you. Everything just disappears, disappears, disappears.â€

 

6. Spaceship Coupe

 

From the groove at its gooey core to the lyrical concept  interstellar romance!  “Spaceship Coupe†smacks of an R. Kelly castoff… not that that’s a pose that Timberlake can’t successfully assume. “Spaceship Coupe†is admittedly sillier than any of the other “20/20″ tracks, and Timbaland sounds out of his element here; JT sells the concept with aplomb, though, and even gets an electric guitar solo to echo across the cosmos.

 

7. That Girl

 

“Some ‘em some Southern love!†Timbaland shouts during his faux-introduction of “JT & The Tennessee Kids,†and Timberlake strides onstage to reside upon one of the album’s shiniest surfaces. “That Girl†does not carry grand ambitions, endlessly rhyming “baby†with “lady†and keeping the whiz-bang production techniques to a minimum, but as the bass continues creeping forward and Timberlake nods to the brass section, the song reaches “immaculate soul†status.

 

8. Let The Groove Get In

 

The album’s only extended dance flare-up, with canned horns popping off, propulsive percussion begging for movement and Timberlake’s harmonized voice knocking against Timbaland’s nimble pop arrangement. For seven minutes, “Off The Wallâ€-era MJ gets a tip of the cap, and Timberlake enters a zone reserved for only the most assured mainstream stars. Make no mistake: “Let The Groove Get In†will be exhilarating in concert.

 

9. Mirrors

 

Imagine being a newlywed and wanting to write the most epic song ever in honor of your life partner. “Mirrors†is Timberlake’s version of that anthem  how can you not think of the singer’s recent wedding photos alongside Jessica Biel when he endlessly repeats, “You are, you are, the love, of my life,†as if he had just soaked in the splendid finality of his romantic situation? Compare this album’s second single to “Justified’s†second single, “Cry Me A River,†and aside from the steady presence of Timbaland’s fantastically cluttered production, the difference between the song is clear: 10 years ago, Timberlake was broken, and now he is whole.

 

10. Blue Ocean Floor

 

An unexpectedly somber note ends Timberlake’s third album, with the pop star digging for his most pensive expressions and pleading to be joined in his silent escape. Unlike “FutureSex’s†“serious†song “Losing My Way,†“Blue Ocean Floor†shows the growth of Timberlake, who gently steps into Timbaland’s puddles of piano pokes and stretched-out melodies. It’s a song that only a few vocalists could land  imagine Thom Yorke trying this one on for size  and a bold way to close a generally celebratory project.

 

Source: billboard

[Mills 446]

JT is getting that promo! He's doing a private concert in Texas @ SXSW music festival next week. The CW network announced Tuesday that it has scheduled a one-hour special coinciding with the release of Timberlake’s third solo effort at 8 p.m. March 19. The special will feature performances and interviews with Timberlake.

 

It will be taped from Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre during the album release party March 18, which will include a 30-minute iheart radio special revealing the story behind the making of the album.

 

An eight-minute world premiere of his new music video "Mirrors" will also premiere during the special. An encore will air Friday, March 22, at 8 p.m.  Mirrors has also hit number one on the UK charts.

 

I cannot wait for that CW special. 

[ShadowM 3]

I can't get enough of 'Don't Hold The Wall'! It's been on repeat since the start of the free streaming. IT'S SO GOOD 

[Lum 315]

I've had Pusher Love Girl, Suit & Tie, and Strawberry Bubblegum on repeat LOVE 'EM!!

[Rudz Xinc 7,929]

I really love this album, so different from his previous works

 

Tunnel Vision (this is the best track imo), Mirrors, Suit & Tie, Strawberry Bubblegum are my favorites

Edited March 14, 2013 by RudzXinc

[Mills 446]

My Top Five Favourite Tracks from 20/20 Experience:

 

1. Pusher Love Girl

2. Strawberry Bubblegum

3. Tunnel Vision

4. Mirrors

5. Don't Hold The Wall 

[mariomania1234 11,368]

On 2nd listen I am in love with this album. Best album of 2013 so far.  It Sh**s on everything on the radio right now. My faves so far are:

 

1. Don't Hold the Wall

2. Tunnel Vision

3. Let The Groove In

3. Strawberry Bubblegum

4. Blue Ocean Floor

5. Mirrors