Justin Timberlake in 2013

I've got a writer acquaintance who's loathed Timberlake since he thought Timberlake got off easy after the Super Bowl fandango; he's been chortling all day.

mirrors is much, much cornier than what goes around... it's basically an 'n sync song. far less stately and original, epic template or not.

tunnel vision on the other hand is definitely one of my favorites on the album. neither joyless nor cloying, it's the right balance btw light and dark.

even now when I'm hearing it four times a day on the radio "Mirrors" still sounds bloated by endless verses and choruses.

Some dude otm

I've got a writer acquaintance who's loathed Timberlake since he thought Timberlake got off easy after the Super Bowl fandango; he's been chortling all day.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:00 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

i doubt much of anything is going to come from this... he probably will issue a statement but it's not like they're gonna pull the song from radio or anything. they still play ross' date rap verse.

i didn't even think of it when i heard the song

tunnel vision on the other hand is definitely one of my favorites on the album. neither joyless nor cloying, it's the right balance btw light and dark.

otm

i don't think anyone's necessarily saying this will def blow up in JT's face, it's possibly to just laugh at how stupid dude is

lol rick ross date rap

i prefer "don't hold the wall" for the outro but both are great

i don't think anyone's necessarily saying this will def blow up in JT's face, it's possibly to just laugh at how stupid dude is

yeah it's kind of amazing... i wonder if it was brought up to him and he just didn't care

I didn't suggest this will bury him. He's a slippery guy with shrewd PR skills. He'll survive. But a straight singer playing with tired ideas about nudity and exposure is gonna be in the crosshairs for a while.

if he just issues an apology and doesn't drag it out everyone will move on immediately to whatever the next controversy is

i mean there are a LOT of different activist-type groups out there, anytime you don't use any funky unique language in a song title the odds are the phrase has been trademarked by somebody somewhere, it's not totally insane to just have it brought up at first and assume oh, that's some tiny organization nobody's heard of. just pretty unfortunate given the tone of the song itself and the whole running theme of pop music controversies this year.

for myself, I wish he'd had a new album to promote before the Superbowl appearance to see if he would've suffered a "backlash" like Jackson did.

what gets me is: I can see some dude from the mickey mouse club who doesn't seem overly well-read (face it) not having heard of take back the night, but _everyone else in the room_?

not even from a progressive perspective, I mean but sheer must not get into legal trademarking trouble perspective

(other option: it's trolling. it's juuuuust plausible enough, just enough on the nose.)

i have to believe nobody would troll like that on purpose, there's no upside, it's not even funny on a 'yeah, i meant to do that' level

TBTN foundation can consider all the lawsuits they want but they're highly unlikely to file and certainly won't win if they do. They didn't invent the phrase, and their registered trademark affords certain very specific protections, of which controlling whether or not the phrase appears in a work of art is not one.

Good PR move though and I'm glad they're making the most of the opportunity.

"Spaceship Coupe" has been giving me naughty feelings lately.

it's pretty funny though that they were like "we sent him an email through his website but it wasn't answered"

I posted under his youtube video and he never hit me back.

i tweeted @JTimberlakeTeam, no response, not even a follow back

I rolled up to KFC and that lazy-ass Colonel wan't even THERE

I've stood by Tolkien's grave. And did he have the courtesy to rise from the dead, no.

jerk

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121003055425/lotr/images/4/4f/Gandalf_the_White_returns.png

No, see, that's the wrong moment from the film when the actual return is earlier and it's not quite like in the book and...

*several hours pass*

...and that's what Peter Jackson and by extension you got wrong. Hello? You there?

"Time for your nap, Mr Raggett"

"Because this dorky looking cloak and staff are all that between us and the real bad guys."

I'm enjoying the turn this thread has taken

come for the Timberlake, stay for Treebeard

"This meeting of the ILXor White Council will come to order. ME ME ME."

Timberlake & Jay-Z's joint show in London last night was pretty spectacular. The only lull came during Pusher Love (end already!) and the very boring Take Back the Night. But hearing him sing the hooks on Heart of the City and I Just Wanna Love U, or drop a verse of I Want You Back over Izzo, was damn fine.

yeah, raves about it in my office today

I've seen Jay-Z be so-so, but I've seen JT three times, and he was great each time. Screw seeing it in a football stadium here, though.

Jay-Z/JT are the first concert at the Ravens' stadium since U2 a couple years ago -- my editor called me a few hours before U2 hit the stage and asked me if I wanted to cover the show, so i'm still laboring under the unrealistic hope that that could happen with this show.

Upon the release of my new single ‘Take Back The Night’, I was made aware of an organization of the same name called The Take Back The Night Foundation. I wanted to take this opportunity to let all know that neither my song nor its lyrics have any association with the organization.

As I’ve learned more about The Take Back The Night Foundation, I’m moved by its efforts to stop violence against women, create safe communities and encourage respectful relationships for women — Something we all should rally around. It is my hope that this coincidence will bring more awareness to this cause.

It is my hope that this coincidence will bring more awareness to this cause publicity to a single most will find disappointingly out of style.

c'mon, clearly the song will do well

How is a song that borrows from the same set of influences as some of other big hits of the year considerred out of style?

i think "dated as fuck" would be the better expression

I was speaking on behalf of the wildly, inaccurately wrong people itt.

New Timberlake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJydK_V-7Ws&feature=youtu.be

hahaha this song

Timbaland is basically about as respectable as will.i.am at this point in time

Raelly bad songgg

damn not a Le Tigre cover then.

Sounds like a parody.

hahaha this song

― J0rdan S., Friday, September 20, 2013 12:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it really does sound like a parody :| so this new one is coming out already?