Justin Timberlake in 2013

Gotta say, I love Mirrors, and his performance of it on SNL was awesome (it helped that the band and backup singers all looked like they were having a blast). The lyrics are goofy as ever (what else is new), but it's hooky and and and. I just like it.

Was not expecting this album to be so good

6 minutes into pusher love girl right now

http://i.imgur.com/PwDQq.gif

hehe

this is supposed to hypnotise me into a half-assed album right

The album felt a little tedious on my inaugural listen, which was probably inevitable given the song lengths. But that hasn't bothered me so much on subsequent listens; the whole thing really hangs together well imo

i think every outro on this is fantastic

don't really feel i have to hear the rest of this tbh, the form it takes will be irrelevant

it's gonna trade hard on general happiness just to hang w/ jt again, and no one's really gonna mind

"Suit and Tie" and "Pusher Love Girl" are easily the worst songs on the album. It's a shame it starts with those two

this entire campaign is about buying into JT as a cultural great rather than the music specifically - the music is just the soundtrack to it (an efficiently tailored soundtrack, though, there's no disjoint here at all)

Yeah, I know ILM has issues with Perpetua, but this piece of his seems pretty on point:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/justin-timberlake-is-a-luxury-brand

i really hope that the inevitable people who will get starry-eyed about how beautiful and hypnotising "blue ocean floor" is will at least admit that literally nothing happens in it, no tune, no development, nothing

u__________u

ok how much longer of this album, i can't

Keep hope alive, Lex. ;)

i've got strawberry bubblegum on repeat. mini-hooks galore

mini-hooks but not much structure

(the "don't hold the wall" thru "tunnel vision" stretch is my favourite but i wouldn't call any of those good songs)

finally listening to this fucking thing. really really really want to think JT led with "Pusher Love" as a blatant self-correction to "Love Dealer"

NEVER FORGET (actually I don't hate this, but again, THIS is what Justin Timberlake is zomgcomingback from):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6wG1hNZJw

my god this album is a nightmare.

don't nightmares wake you up tho

as I feared, there is little groove in "Let The Groove Get In" -- it's a white guy shouting catchphrases in the hopes of animating a moribund rhythm program/section.

http://www.aeropop.be/post/45195900138/justin-timberlake-suit-tie-aeroplane-remix

a bit Aeroplane-by-numbers, but pretty sweet - love that they kept the horns in this.

for SEVEN MINUTES

if it was a 1-min interlude as nature intended i'd probably really like it!

xp

listening to this album on a plane while sitting beside an ugly man reading The Weekly Standard gives a new meaning to the term trans-continental stress

can someone give me a quick refresher as to "who" aeroplane is at this stage

"suit & tie" is much better aeroplaneised

yeah this remix is the shit

the four tet remix is pretty shit though

Nice! I haven't thought of Aeroplane since their Kathy Diamond collab.

Jordan: Aeroplane is the guy in the hat. The other one is how The Magician.

Is now*

thanks

i think every outro on this is fantastic

agreed

i think "blue ocean floor" is pretty zzzzzZzzzZZZZZZZZZZZzz

hey i finally finished listening to this

http://i.imgur.com/6BPIz62.gif

everything about this album makes 100% more sense when you imagine the girl is a stand-in for his audience

the girl from I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry?

i love the four tet remix

lol sarge really buying into JT's "I'm from Memphis and Memphis soul is my primary influence" schtick

well i didn't say that

i dunno you said "Its sound is rooted both in Memphis soul and Timberlake/Timbaland's own forever-futuristic sonic experimentatio" as if that's 50% of the formula

i guess if you interpret "both" to mean "half this, half that"

in any event i'm not even sure if that would be wrong. i don't know what shtick it is you're talking about, anyway.

my first thought about those impulse reviews was the dizzying amount of frank ocean references which seems offtm in a way i can't exactly pinpoint

anyway someone should've hired rtc who is having the most reasonable reaction to this record

there's a languidness to the album that is comparable to channel orange, but also a lot of other things

i dunno i just think "Memphis soul" is a pretty specific subgenre out of dozens of types of R&B that Justin may or may not draw from, and that it only gets mentioned, by him and other people, because he was born in Memphis, not because of anything you hear in the music. personal pet peeve of mine is all.

this aeroplane remix is a plate of ass but i'll probably listen to it again

Well it is Bootylicious

done. gonna go out clubbing with neil strauss now, chances are I'll be negged less

"forever futuristic" REALLY j0rdan?