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The official Justin Timberlake thread; New album "Man of the Woods"
Topic Started: Jan 5 2013, 11:44 PM (7,777 Views)
Anastasia Beaverhausen
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Omg. These lengths are impressive. That's a new challenge for every artist out there. :clap:
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It's very easy for a song to be an overwrought disaster with a length like that, especially when it's not a music-driven rock track.
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Weren't all the songs on his last album also overlong and essentially two songs mashed up together?
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Feb 27 2013, 08:51 PM
Omg. These lengths are impressive.
I've heard that before. :flirt:
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Feb 28 2013, 04:43 PM
Anastasia Beaverhausen
Feb 27 2013, 08:51 PM
Omg. These lengths are impressive.
I've heard that before. :flirt:
No one wants to hear about you not having clipped your toenails in 2 years.
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The album is out this coming Friday, can't believe it hasn't leaked yet.
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
Feb 27 2013, 08:51 PM
Omg. These lengths are impressive. That's a new challenge for every artist out there. :clap:
I'd far prefer quality over quantity. Just because the songs are long doesn't mean they're any good.
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Mar 10 2013, 10:52 AM
Anastasia Beaverhausen
Feb 27 2013, 08:51 PM
Omg. These lengths are impressive. That's a new challenge for every artist out there. :clap:
I'd far prefer quality over quantity. Just because the songs are long doesn't mean they're any good.
Well, that was sarcasm ;)
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He was pretty fucking good on SNL. View most clips here:

http://www.homorazzi.com/article/justin-timberlake-snl-five-timers-club-steve-martin-nuvabling-champagne-andy-samberg-dan-aykroyd/
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
Mar 10 2013, 04:26 PM
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Mar 10 2013, 10:52 AM
Anastasia Beaverhausen
Feb 27 2013, 08:51 PM
Omg. These lengths are impressive. That's a new challenge for every artist out there. :clap:
I'd far prefer quality over quantity. Just because the songs are long doesn't mean they're any good.
Well, that was sarcasm ;)
Oh.
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:shock:

@jtimberlake: Want to hear #The2020Experience early? The full album is now available to stream on @iTunesMusic: http://t.co/YJlcij2N1m -teamJT
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Loving the first track!
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This shit better be good.
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Seems to be mostly rambling, weak-tuned, repetitive, overlong, retro affairs like "Suit & Tie".
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After a couple of listens, I like the album, but it doesn't seem to have the killer melodies that FS/LS had. That's a big problem for me. Great production though.
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EW review:

http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/11/justin-timberlake-the-20-20-experience-review/

It’s Justin Timberlake Week! Right on the heels of his record-making, ratings-boosting SNL-hosting gig, JT has decided to get his new album, The 20/20 Experience, out to fans early. It’s not due to hit stores until Tuesday, March 19, but it’s currently streaming on iTunes in its entirety.
The official EW review of Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience is below, and a version of it will appear in the magazine on newsstands next Friday, March 15.

Justin Timberlake
The 20/20 Experience
POP (RCA)

He’s back behind the mic for the first time in almost seven years — but Justin Timberlake isn’t quitting the whole acting thing. He actually loves movies so much, he’s even playing a movie star on his records. Since his last album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, he has appeared in some good films (Alpha Dog, The Social Network) and some not-so-good ones (The Love Guru does not an Oscar winner make). But he’s got the Old Hollywood thing down on his new album, The 20/20 Experience, which finds him dressed up like a member of the Rat Pack. It’s no accident that the singer, who’s now 32, released the first single, “Suit & Tie,” a swinging ode to Tom Ford tuxedos, on the same night as the Golden Globes; he seems to be campaigning for a statuette of his own.
Check him out on “Tunnel Vision,” playing the rom-com director: “Just like a movie shoot,” he croons, “I’m zoomin’ in on you… as we ride off into the sun.” Listen to him starring in a sci-fi flick on “Spaceship Coupe,” where he propositions some alien creature to “make love on the moon.” Or catch him in the gritty two-junkies-in-love story “Pusher Love Girl,” where he’s all hopped up on romance (and hydroponics). There’s even a submarine epic, “Blue Ocean Floor,” that starts with him trying to pick up signals from 20,000 leagues under and ends with wishy-washy water noises that could be the sound of his bubble bath draining. It’s a movie you watch with your ears.
Even when Timberlake’s not singing his way through a big-screen drama on 20/20, the music has a cool, cinematic vibe. For that, he can thank his longtime collaborator Timbaland, who’s the main producer here. His basic sound adheres to the JT formula: golden falsetto, electro-R&B grooves, Motown horns, and other retro glitz that will seduce your mom. The best thing here is “Let the Groove Get In,” which builds from African hand-drum rhythms to a classic Michael Jackson jam, circa Off the Wall. But the real thrills are in the details: If you borrowed some of JT’s chronic from “Pusher Love Girl,” you could spend long headphoned hours appreciating the chirping crickets of “Don’t Hold the Wall,” or the porn-star gasps of “Spaceship Coupe,” or the warped-melody opening of “Blue Ocean Floor,” which sounds like Timbaland is playing the song backward. That last one is a neat trick for a love-gone-wrong ballad; you can imagine Timberlake actually pushing rewind on the relationship, undoing the damage until it plays the right way again.
As Timbaland’s leading man, Timberlake never lets you forget that he’s acting. “Don’t be mad at me!” he pleads on the ’60s-soul track “That Girl,” as if he’s professing his love after sneaking back into bed at 4 a.m. (Naw, girl, I was just hanging with the boys!) If he’s devoted to anyone, it’s himself: “You reflect me,” he coos on “Mirrors.” “I love that about you.” All of which should make him a very convincing movie star, except that there’s ultimately not enough showbiz razzle-dazzle here. The songs are a little too slow, too long, too lacking in the flashy tap-dance energy that made him a giant solo success when he was 23. Maybe he wants to be the young Frank Sinatra. But for now, he’ll have to settle for being a slightly older JT.

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BEST TRACKS
“Let the Groove Get In” An MJ-inspired dance-off
“That Girl” Finger-snap soul
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Mar 12 2013, 12:28 AM
After a couple of listens, I like the album, but it doesn't seem to have the killer melodies that FS/LS had. That's a big problem for me. Great production though.
is there a lot of filler? :confused:
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bulgar
Mar 12 2013, 12:50 AM
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Mar 12 2013, 12:28 AM
After a couple of listens, I like the album, but it doesn't seem to have the killer melodies that FS/LS had. That's a big problem for me. Great production though.
is there a lot of filler? :confused:
Well, they're ALL really, really long and mostly the same tempo. They just seem to all wash into each other in a sea of blandness. "Mirrors" is the highlight for me. It's the only one with a decent pop melody. I quite like "Let The Groove Get In" as at least it's a much-needed tempo change, but it still feels like it could've been so much better.

It's all so, so polished, with brilliant production, but the tunes really let it down. And there's absolutely no justification for the songs being so long. It's like they made them long because they could, even if the songs don't warrant it. Yes, the tracks were similarly long on his last album, but crucially, they were far stronger.
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Agreed! I literally dozed off during the first track. Even the polished and quite gorgeous production cannot save this tuneless and forgettable turd of an album.

top 3 tracks for me:

1. Tunnel Vision
2. Mirrors
3. Let The Groove In

the rest I can live without... :files:
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Utter drivel.
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