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| The official Justin Timberlake thread; New album "Man of the Woods" | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 5 2013, 11:44 PM (7,781 Views) | |
| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jan 16 2013, 07:54 PM Post #41 |
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Usher's great, but not.. worldwide star. BTW, '4' was kinda reminiscent to this JT's song, in a way (or vice-versa). Music was a soft R'n'B. I mean, '4' was really good, not like this torture song from JT.. but with Timbaland there's lots to worry about. Hope not. And tbh, if we actually found this Suit song on a bonus CD, many would like it it's just ... not a single at all.I wonder this song being the best-seller of 2013 |
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| Vancho | Jan 16 2013, 07:58 PM Post #42 |
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Let's PRAY not. |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jan 16 2013, 07:59 PM Post #43 |
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When I lay in bed I touch myself and I think of you
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I guess you're right, but Usher never seemed as... ubiquitous as JT. I guess it's like a Taylor Swift/Lady Gaga situation, Taylor Swift sells more but Gaga has penetrated the public consciousness. |
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| Vancho | Jan 16 2013, 08:02 PM Post #44 |
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^Good comparison. T Swift also stayed surprisingly local in terms of commercial success, while Gaga has been big outside the U.S.
Edited by Vancho, Jan 16 2013, 08:02 PM.
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jan 18 2013, 09:48 PM Post #45 |
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Timbaland @Timbaland i love it. giv em sumthing different & unexpected out the gate get them talkin. then drop dat record like cry me a river or my love. genius WTF? Sounds like he's shoving unexpected shit our throats for fun just TO TALK... Anyway damage control started. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 18 2013, 09:57 PM Post #46 |
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Absolutely! That really is so transparent and embarassing. Dear oh dear. |
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| TickTock | Jan 18 2013, 11:11 PM Post #47 |
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I Fckt Riverwide N Da Azz Real Hard Again
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Pulling a Mimi. |
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| Manu Alexz | Jan 21 2013, 08:20 AM Post #48 |
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The new song is vile and is plummeting on every chart. |
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| Beautiful Stranger | Jan 21 2013, 04:42 PM Post #49 |
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Last night, less than a week after release, it was already down to #6 on US iTunes. His new era may turn around, but I'll laugh my ass off if it doesn't and this smug prick flops. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 21 2013, 10:11 PM Post #50 |
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Popjustice review. ![]() We went through this last time we did a 28 Plays Later but just to recap: it takes 28 listens to fully digest a pop song. Sometimes that breaks down nicely as one play every day for a month. Often, you’ll get to 28 in a couple of weeks. Sometimes you get through all 28 listens in a day. It’s natural, of course, to sometimes dismiss the song after one listen or decide that it’s the greatest thing ever after two, but if you keep playing it you’ll find that 28 plays later you’ve got your head around the whole thing. Up for discussion today: Justin Timberlake’s ’Suit & Tie’. It’s now one week since this appeared online and we’re not sure where your playcount is but as of this morning ours is now finally at 28, so we can comment on the song knowing that our final decision will be definitive, unswerving and 100% correct. Here’s how the ‘listening experience’ panned out. PLAY 0: This is exciting. Justin was far away but now he is close. One of the best male popstars of the last twenty years is back with a new song. We’re concerned that producer Timbaland isn’t exactly at the top of his game, but Justin wouldn’t put up with any rubbish, right? PLAY 1: This is rubbish, and extremely long. The tempo is wrong. It sounds dated. We don’t even particularly want to listen to it again, but we must. Because a Justin Timberlake comeback single would never be proper rubbish, regardless of first impressions. [It was at this point that we decided we'd give 'Suit & Tie' the 28 Plays Later treatment instead of publishing a review after a couple of listens.] PLAY 2: Perhaps it’s not actual rubbish – it could make a decent third single from an album, if they were struggling. PLAY 8: It’s only now that the real horror of the lyrics is settling in. “So thick, now I know why they call it a fatty.” Oh Justin. (Halfway through this play an email arrives from a friend. She’s just listened to the song. Her verdict: “It’s a bit Kenny Thomas.”) PLAY 9: Maybe third single from an album is pushing it. But as an album track it would probably work quite well. PLAY 10: We like a bit of Jay-Z but on ‘Suit & Tie’ he’s failing to deliver the goods. Should Justin really need a guest spot to make his comeback seem special? We understand that he likes to situate himself in the ‘urban’ ‘milieu’ and that collaborations and guest spots have a different sort of currency there but he is a popstar more than he is An Urban Thing and this reminds us a bit of when Madonna came back with (HANG ON A MOMENT) a Justin Timberlake guest spot on the Timbaland-produced ’4 Minutes’. Back then it felt like a bit of a copout that Madonna decided to come back with a collaboration – face it, she’s Madonna – and it feels equally aimless here. Shouldn’t all eyes be on Justin? Isn’t Justin enough? PLAY 13: The JLS single that everyone said was a shit version of a Justin Timberlake song would be a better Justin Timberlake song than this shit Justin Timberlake song. PLAY 15: This would usually be the point where a dodgy song would begin to wear down the listener to the point where they’re going “oh actually this isn’t an iconic banger or whatever but if you accept it for what it is it’s pretty good really”. But it’s not happening. It’s jaunty, we suppose. JAUNTY. You want more than ‘jaunty’ from a Justin single, don’t you. PLAY 16: It’s actually impossible, based on ‘Suit & Tie’, to predict what the rest of the Justin album will be like. Is this the best song on it? Is it a taste of everything else on the album, or is it a ‘tastemaking’ effort ‘for the heads’? PLAY 21: Boring. PLAY 22: Still boring. PLAY 25: Britney would never have let this happen. PLAY 27: Listening to this song 27 times has been a pretty joyless exercise. PLAY 28: Thank God that’s over. Verdict: We gave it a chance. We gave it 28 chances. But the new Justin Timberlake single is officially, and very disappointingly, mediocre. Maybe it takes 29 listens. UPDATE: At around 9pm tonight we gave ‘Suit & Tie’ its 29th listen. And do you know what? Without the pressure of having to think about whether we liked it or not, and without having to note down our thoughts, and without feeling that we needed to over-analyse the song as anything other than a piece of music in its own right, it was still rubbish. http://www.popjustice.com/briefing/28-plays-later-justin-timberlake-suit-tie/108271/ |
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| Vancho | Jan 21 2013, 10:21 PM Post #51 |
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I like JT himself to be honest. He seems like a decent guy and he's a good actor. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 21 2013, 10:23 PM Post #52 |
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I have no issue with him either really. He's a talented guy and always seems like he has a good sense of humour. The song is still shit though. |
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| Anastasia Beaverhausen | Jan 21 2013, 10:37 PM Post #53 |
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It was SO fuckin good At least we have a nice review... The song had a point. |
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| Beautiful Stranger | Jan 22 2013, 01:06 AM Post #54 |
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He's a vile shit in real life. A few years back at some film premiere he SPIT on a fan. He's also a major homophobe, which most people don't know. Lance Bass isn't allowed anywhere near JT's lexicon. |
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| Riverwide | Jan 22 2013, 01:17 AM Post #55 |
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Seriously???
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| Beautiful Stranger | Jan 22 2013, 01:47 AM Post #56 |
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Yep. Lance and Joey were both barred from the wedding. |
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| TickTock | Jan 22 2013, 10:11 AM Post #57 |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jan 22 2013, 11:46 AM Post #58 |
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Sounds like super concrete, verified information. If there's a reason to dislike him, it's for messing up Madonna AND Janet Jackson but he's gotten such a beating for all his 'movies' these past few years and this new single that I think karma has come back for him. |
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| johnnox | Jan 22 2013, 11:49 AM Post #59 |
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He didn't mess up Madonna. He helped give her a huge hit with 4 Minutes. If anyone messed up madonna, it was herself and Guy and once again, crap single choices. |
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| GimmeSomeRiver | Jan 22 2013, 11:50 AM Post #60 |
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I don't know, he was on so much of Hard Candy. His voice, his writing, his melodies. Poor Devil Wouldn't Recognize You. It could have been an epic Madonna ballad if Justin didn't have his handprints all over it. |
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it's just ... not a single at all.






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