Justin Timberlake in 2013

that was a good thread where we chopped it up about tedder, just reread

k i asked him (xp)

Halo is awesome fuiud.

there's also an "edits only EP" version of the album which sounds great to me

Halo is awesome fuiud.

ya seriously

it's kinda weird/sad that "Halo" is her most recent big multi-platinum pop crossover hit, and is now 4 years old, though

i feel like the disconnect between album sales and single performance has been as profound recently as it's ever been so it will be really interesting to see what beyonce's numbers look like. with her cultural relevance at an all time high, will she do big album sales numbers without a crossover pop hit? seems pretty possible.

i think B/Jay/Kanye/a few others have proven at this point that they will never sell less than a million of an album, unless they go into a major commercial decline unlike any of the bumps in the road they've experienced so far. their brand is stronger than any song, just like Flo Rida's brand is so weak that he can have 4 massive pop hits on an album that will never go gold.

I have this sinking feeling that B's entering the Dionne and Friends phase of her career.

http://the2020experience.bandcamp.com/album/the-20-20-experience-no-bullshit

haha yeah he might have wanted to be juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit less conspicuous with that

Suit and Tie Shit (Tie SHIT) 04:50

by Not Justin Timberlake

lol yeah am linking it now cause who knows how long it'll last. the OTHER person who responded to my request for outro-less edit on twitter kept putting it on mediafire and rapidshare or w/e, where it'd get pulled immediately.

playing this for the first time, man those strings that open "Pusher Lover Girl" are overbearing and stupid

not scanning through this whole thread, you guys talked about the massive Prince pastiche going on here right

when i first listened to the record i thought they were a bad omen. now i think they're enjoyably stupid

not scanning through this whole thread, you guys talked about the massive Prince pastiche going on here right

"pusher love girl" doesn't recall prince exactly to me but i guess the contorted guitars are "darling nikki"-ish

"Pusher Love Girl" is by far my favorite song, and also the one most hindered by the outro. really hope it becomes a radio single and i eventually forget what it sounds like after the 5 minute mark.

i only like the outros on this record really

also timbo sounds real old rapping on one of the bonus tracks

like seventy years old

kinda like if kendrick's dad was rapping on the answerphone skits on that record

agree pusher love is the best. love the strings

not scanning through this whole thread, you guys talked about the massive Prince pastiche going on here right

On my first couple of listens I wanted to compare it to Around the World in a Day but couldn't place the referents; it was just a vibe I got.

yeah i def get a chilled-out prince vibe

kinda like if kendrick's dad was rapping on the answerphone skits on that record
― schlump

man this is so sadly otm but may apply to his entire career

The whole arrangement and performance is very "Prince smacks you with a bomb-ass ballad on track 3", particularly with the vocal phrasing and the guitar riffs. There are shades of "Darling Nikki", "Adore", "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?", "Shh", and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" in there, among other things; not so much that you could say "oh, this is [specific Prince song] Part 2" but there is a strong nod to the way Prince used to write ballads going on here

idk i got the feeling of like swirling curtis mayfield ballads, particularly with the heavy moving strings, but it's not like that wouldn't also be a layered prince reference

I am definitely more familiar with Prince than Curtis Mayfield

Forget it, Jake. It's indie R&B.

man this is so sadly otm but may apply to his entire career

― i petted a bodega cat today. (forksclovetofu), Monday, March 25, 2013 4:06 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha idk i like a lot of his rapping but there's a verse with this kinda ad-lib chuckle that is just the voice of age, it's like a guest verse by johnny cash

as he is now

everything being pastiched in the song is things Prince also pastiched as opposed to things Prince invented imo; it's like saying some standard '70s arena rock pastiche was "so Guided By Voices" or something.

some dude, can you put out a call for a similar edit to MBDTF? would love a version of that w/o the bullshit.

that would end up being just be 5 minutes of music and remove most of the point of MBDTF

lol someone else will have to put up the batsignal to polish that turd (xp)

My Beautifully Brief And Now Insignificant Fantasies

haha oh man I was enjoying "Don't Hold the Line" and then the beat switched up and I'm sitting here going "wtf is the point of this"

thanks to that little digital sound effect in the beat for "Strawberry Bubblegum" I keep wanting to sing "Clumsy" over the chorus

Rick's brief part of Monster looped for 40 minutes would hit the spot, tbh

i haven't combed the album's thread, i imagine that verse is reviled, but i like it

if you can call it a verse

I like that verse cause it's like he's just the herald coming in on some "HEAR YE HEAR YE" (pun only slightly intended) shit

really dig "Spaceship Coupe" too

so far I have really enjoyed when he's been signalling Prince to me and the main part of "Suit and Tie"

this trend is holding true with the beginning of "That Girl"

lol "Mirrors"

I am rebelling against everyone else in this thread and humming Kelly Clarkson over this instead of Beyonce

a moment like this?

"Miss Independent"

some dude, can you put out a call for a similar edit to MBDTF? would love a version of that w/o the bullshit.

― alpine static, Monday, March 25, 2013 3:22 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

hahahaha

here's an easy way to edit MBDTF:

delete everything except tracks 1, 2 and 8

Yeah everyone: listen to "Don't Rush" instead.

that was fun

probably not buying this, or ever playing it again

np: The Cure - "The Real Snow White"