Justin Timberlake in 2013

"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?

what even

I had to stop the song after the intro so I could facepalm for a couple minutes before I could return to it

yeah the new one is coming out on tuesday, same date as drake.

this is def mediocre as fuck but damn, the way you lot were carrying on i had the popcorn ready for something outrageous :/

lmao @ people acting like this is any more pointless, over-long or self-parodic than anything else JT has put out this year

lmao @ JT for thinking that this of all things merited seven minutes

damn not an Elvis Costello cover then.

imo you chumps have got it all wrong tbh, jt is clearly a modern day bunuel interrogating bourgeois absurdity thru luxury longueurs

"Take Back the Night" not sounding too bad now in comparison, is it now?

Come on. Like chanting "kill me with that coochie coochie coo" isn't jumping the shark so hard their water skies touch down in the lunar maria.

sure yeah but like how is that not just the latest in a long line of timbo cringe

whatever tho nbd

Wait is this the next single or just the track being previewed at the moment? World of difference imo, Justin's deep cuts have always had dippy lyrics galore

reminder: "if you'll be my strawberry bubblegum, then I'll be your blueberry lollipop"

Idk. That one never bothered me but I never took it as literally as some here did.

taking it figuratively is the bigger problem

Is the whole bubblegum pop genre a squick then?

http://i.imgur.com/S69FmgF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ohSMAl2.jpg

these are all time

b/w the verse where lil wayne goes "i just kissed a avatar, now i got a blue dick"

can't second the "jump the shark" claim cuz this is self-parody (esp right after "holy grail") rather than jt completely losing the script, but man this is dumb

but i've always thought his album tracks were poop from the get-go

it's actually surprising that beiber or that austin mahone guy or somebody hasn't dropped some seven minute heartbreak wail with a dude hiccuping in the background

p sure it's a single. I don't even think this is unlistenable or anything, I like the beat switch-up at the end, but it totally fails the suspension of disbelief test.

They seem more interested in channeling Justin circa 2000-2004 than JT in his current self-indulgent elder statesman of pop pseudo-throwback phase and I don't blame them.

it's prob a bad sign that I immediately assembled half the lyrics in my brain upon seeing the title

It was assembled in one of those word association mad lib sex/love metaphor generators that made half of the last Ciara album

...holy grail

...TKO

...grocery bag