Justin Timberlake in 2013

yep

my favourite terrible JT lyric will always be "you're out of this world except you're not green"

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh god there's so so many of them

on bubba sparxxx's "hootenanny" he says "i could go #1 ten times" and idk how you sing that line without immediately thinking about piss

or the entirety of his "i can't believe it remix" -- stupid lyrics are kinda the point of that song, but still

yeah the image of justin timberlake with a blue dick is a regrettable one

JT's lyrics have been bad more often than they've been good and I generally just ignore them.

on bubba sparxxx's "hootenanny" he says "i could go #1 ten times" and idk how you sing that line without immediately thinking about piss

i have actually never thought this. THX J0RDAN -_-

I don't care for the biographical glossing but it's one of my favorite negative reviews (the cursive line is a scream).

even "walkin' on the beach our toes in the sand" is silly. Where else would your toes be?

JT's lyrics have been bad more often than they've been good and I generally just ignore them.

yep

you can get pebble beaches

I've been trying to lalalala in my head through the strawberry bubblegum metaphor but it doesn't work and ugggh

I like the song but RUINED 4 eva

generally I like him when his natural dorkiness ("She's freaky and she knows it!") overcomes his hamfisted attempts at suavity.

otm

I mean he's got a song with the hook DAMN GIRL DAMN GIRL DAMN GIRL

that also features will.i.am

it worked for Shaggy

did it?

my favorite timberlake lyrics are all on "shades"

xpost well, okay no

and i agree with alfred about how his dorkiness overcoming his hamfistedness = his strongest lyrical moments, but i don't mind the pure hamfisted suave bro either; it doesn't exactly get in the way

it's a dialectic, right? He's a believable suave fuck cuz he's a dork.

lmao @ blueberry lollipop http://i.imgur.com/l6bFsnS.jpg

I like the album; don't LOVE it...but I think it's mostly because it wants to slip into the background all the time. It's a lot less attention-grabbing than I expected.

also I've been listening to Miguel for like 2 weeks straight and so poor JT def suffers in comparison to that.

but there's some nice high spots. I like the way the first 2 tracks work together.

the guy also wrote a complaint in song about us bitching about the ice around his neck

i think maybe an ultimate failure of "suit & tie" is that rap verses on timberlake singles (clipse, t.i.) have been smooth in a real and effective way ("at the mall kids ask how the chain glow / point at her say, wow that's the same glow / point to me, i say yeah that's the same dough") which helps play up timberlake's endearing goofiness. jay-z is just as bumbling on "suit & tie" tho.

blueberry lollipop
me = gasface

Yep. Nothing worse than a purported suave dude not noticing the mud puddle.

revisited the "suit & tie" video today and it's way appropriate that jay's performing his verse while sitting down, like guy is gonna straight up nap at any time during this verse

lol

"get out your seat, hov"

h to the zzzzz o

He's a believable suave fuck cuz he's a dork.

word

i think maybe an ultimate failure of "suit & tie" is that rap verses on timberlake singles (clipse, t.i.) have been smooth in a real and effective way ("at the mall kids ask how the chain glow / point at her say, wow that's the same glow / point to me, i say yeah that's the same dough") which helps play up timberlake's endearing goofiness. jay-z is just as bumbling on "suit & tie" tho.

― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:24 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

hah I kind of hear an inverse - like jay is rapping "this is truffle season / time for tuxedos for no reason", tryna deliver a real michelin 3-star verse, but jt is singing "so thick i now know why they call it a fatty"

has jay had a good verse on like anything in years? i can't really remember one

he has a handful of genuinely good verses on 'watch the throne'

his stuff on "otis", "niggas in paris" and "gotta have it" is all pretty great

uggghhh that fatty line

xp wellllllll.....

i think jay's awesome on "suit and tie"

^

"wait does "katherine" here = kt st. a?"

yeah that's me. so:

- re: the biographical criticism stuff, probably could've gone into more detail on that (but it was toward the end and I'd already blown way, way past my word count). the thing is I've read a lot of reviews with tossed-off statements like "you can really sense how happy Justin Timberlake is after marrying Jessica Biel, this album is like a wedding gift" (no shots, I'm paraphrasing, I've read so many reviews I've forgotten who wrote what), and it seems... weirdly hollow. like, I kind of feel like if you did a side-by-side comparison of the amount critics cared about Justin Timberlake's marriage to Jessica Biel, or really about Jessica Biel at all, before and after this album, the bar graph would be pretty skewed.

I can see why they're in there, though; the album's pretty clearly trying to do the thing where the artist bakes whatever biographical details are available into the album, as branding (sigh) and to give it more oomph (more gravitas or more buzziness, depending on who it is; compare this to, say, Unapologetic. same idea, different outcomes.) take Beyonce's recent... thing; the only way it works is if you care about Beyonce as a public figure and her marriage to Jay-Z as a public thing, otherwise a line like "don't think I'm just his little wife" comes off like, I dunno, a chopped-and-screwed Nellie McKay song? and I think Timberlake's trying to do the same thing, but just taking it as a given that his marriage is a Sufficently Big Deal to elevate hismaterial. on "Mirrors," say, the difference between "self-indulgent and weirdly narcissistic song supposedly about love" and "paean to Justin Timberlake's newlywed bliss" is primarily whether you accept that biographical criticism.

- re: lyrics: I pretty consistently care more about them than most people, but even so the ones here are so bad they fall right past "ignorable" to "so bad they're actively distracting and break whatever spell might've happened." (it's not a coincidence that "Cry Me a River" and "What Goes Around" get so much praise; they're the ones without any stupid shit.) and again, if this is supposed to be a happy-marriage album it should, at minimum, evoke a marriage one might like to be in? right?

- re: robin thicke, I don't really have a strong opinion either way (haven't heard the new song); he exists, he's getting probably the right level of praise for what he does, good for him

I kind of feel like if you did a side-by-side comparison of the amount critics cared about Justin Timberlake's marriage to Jessica Biel, or really about Jessica Biel at all, before and after this album, the bar graph would be pretty skewed.

otom

*otm rather

i honestly am still not 100% sure who jessica biel is or what she has been in or what she looks like

she's known for the wb

she was in stealth

she's known for not being the actress you think she is when you hear her name

(in my experience, anyway)

she played lt. kara wade in stealth

or, actually, better (and blindingly obvious) example: "Cry Me a River" got so big in part because people thought "holy shit, this is about Britney Spears." it's a good song, but if you're a pop artist the difference between a good song and a classic song is often decided by stuff like that.

sam shepard played capt. george cummings in stealth, does that help lex?

lol balls