Justin Timberlake in 2013

why wouldn't i just listen to michael jackson or stevie wonder

Neither of them are exactly turning out the jams these days.

Anything that can easily cross-reference with Rod Temperton is A-OK with me.

there's a point, though, where a new song is so evocative of an old song that it makes the newer song feel pointless

Anything that can easily cross-reference with Rod Temperton is A-OK with me.

yeah but idk, there's something deadened about the production. no urgency to it. as if it's really aware that it's a deliberate retread

oh that's right i'm a "mirrors" convert too so expect me to contradict everything i've said to the point of being a different person in a few months

I admit, this sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'll listen to incessantly for about 2 weeks and then get tired of.

^kind of the essence of JT in 2013

surm otm on this matter

it's simultaneously fine/just not good enough

also - this hardly needs stating at this point - way too long

I suppose these days he assumes the presence of a horn section guarantees a groove lithe enough to extend past the six-minute mark.

The horns are kinda my least favorite part. Although it does allow in a moment of o_0 when it sounds like he says, "And the whores say."

Reading these lyrics is so hilarious I kind of don't ever want to hear the actual song

Yeah, uh, feels good, don't it?
Listen, uh

Yeah, this was your city
You did it all and more, broke every law except for one, babe
Attraction, are you ready
I know you feel it
Pull you nearer ’til you feel it again, oh

I wanna do something right
But we can do something better
Ain’t no time like tonight
And we ain’t trying to save it ’til later
Stay out here living the life
Nobody cares who we are tomorrow
You got that lil’ something I like
A little something I’ve been wanting to borrow
Tonight the night’s, come on surrender
I won’t lead your love astray, astray, yeah
Your love’s a weapon
Give your body some direction
That’s my aim
Then, we could

Take back the night
Come on, use me up until there’s nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you can’t catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, don’t know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feeling’s right, raise your glass and let’s

Take back the night, take back the night
They gon’ try to shut us down, I’ll be damned if we gon’ let them
Take back the night, take back the night
You know you gon’ mess around and find out there ain’t no one better
Take back the night, oh
Yeah

Rare, there’s not too many
No one but you and crowded rooms, we can do anything (yeah)
Attraction can drive you crazy
The way you move, you go crazy, that’s incentive for me

I wanna do something right
But we can do something better
Ain’t no time like tonight
And we ain’t trying to save it ’til later
Stay out here living the life
Nobody cares who we are tomorrow
You got that lil’ something I like
A little something I’ve been wanting to borrow
Tonight the night’s, come on surrender
I won’t lead your love astray, astray, yeah
Your love’s a weapon
Give your body some direction
That’s my aim
Then, we could

Take back the night
Come on, use me up until there’s nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you can’t catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, don’t know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feeling’s right, raise your glass and let’s

Take back the night, take back the night
They gon’ try to shut us down, I’ll be damned if we gon’ let them
Take back the night, take back the night
You know you gon’ mess around and find out there ain’t no one better
[Middle 8]
And the horns say, alright
And the horns say, alright
Uh, ooh, and the horns say, alright
And the horns say
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
Take it over
Yeah, yeah

Timbaland:
Y’all ready to have a good time out there, ladies and gentlemen?
Take back the night, take back the night...

Take back the night
Come on, use me up until there’s nothing left
Take back the night
Dizzy, spinning, sweating, you can’t catch your breath
Take back the night
Ooh, don’t know when the sun is rising next
Take back the night
So if the feeling’s right, raise your glass and let’s
Take back the night

so is he pissed that a bar is closing too early for a quick pop before the pro-woman rally or

You got that lil’ something I like
A little something I’ve been wanting to borrow
(It's your vagina)

Admittedly there's been a lot of competition, but I think JT might have the 2013 Nigel Tufnel Award on lockdown

Um, lick my ARTPOP.

Oooh girl, if it's late and you're all alone
let me be your safety escort
to my bedroom
doo doo dooooo

Admittedly there's been a lot of competition, but I think JT might have the 2013 Nigel Tufnel Award on lockdown

― da croupier, Friday, July 12, 2013 1:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

lifetime achievement award

my absolute favorite part of his last album is the outro where he compares his dick specfically to a blueberry lollipop

and imagines the lollipop fucking a piece of bubblegum

WHAT

this is what I get for ignoring lyrics

does he do it in the saddest of all keys?

If you'll be my strawberry bubblegum,
Then I'll be your blueberry lollipop
If you'll be my strawberry bubblegum,
Then I'll be your blueberry lollipop
Then I'll love you 'til I make it pop.

that entire outro is incredibly sublime though

my point is that dude's lyrics have been fantastically dumb from the start

good point

I can see us holding hands
Walking on the beach, our toes in the sand
I can see us on the countryside
Sitting on the grass, laying side by side
You could be my baby, let me make you my lady
Girl, you amaze me
Ain't gotta do nothing crazy
See, all I want you to do is be my love

This must be, pop

my name is bob
i work at my job

you're out of this world except you're not green

you're out of this world except you're not green

ha xp

i think one can be aware of the fact that JT has always been a ridiculous goober and still note these lyrics are a cut above in the absurdly clueless appropriation dept

which is why I've always found his transformation into futuresex/love god so transparently ridic

man, the chorus to "My Love" is downright pedestrian compared to the rest of this

yeah, there's nothing really wrong at all with those "My Love" lyrics

The next single will be a tribute to the rich history of hip-hop named "Rap Culture"

;_;

which is why I've always found his transformation into futuresex/love god so transparently ridic

he is v pretty tbh

like THAT is the least surprising aspect of it all

the funny thing about JT's dumb lyrics is that he IS capable of self-awareness - see his entire "shades" verse! which is 100% corny punchlines but he delivers them with a nod and a wink because he totally knows they're dumb - but the dumbest of them, the "you're not green"/"i work at my job"/"my dick is a blueberry lollipop" ones, he sings so SINCERELY and SERIOUSLY

my love lyrics are amazing, especially since the first time i met my boyfriend was on the beach with our toes in the sand

/cornball

but the real masterpiece is obvii:

Ridin' in the drop top with the top down
Saw you switchin' lanes, girl
Pull up to the red light, lookin' right
Come on let me get your name, girl
Tell me where you from, what you do, what you like
Let me pick your brain, girl
And tell me how they got that pretty little face
On that pretty little frame, girl

he's the rare teen-bopper who's both kept his looks and (enough of the time) figured out how to make his boyishness work for him - less of the former, he'd be michael j fox, less of the latter he'd be JC Chasez

Michael J. Fox is in the lost looks side of the equation?

not like in a 'goddamn that's rough' way, i just mean when a teenybopper doesn't age into continued pin-up status

to be fair, he's 20 years JT's senior. who knows what Timberlake will look like in twenty years.

i meannn, yeah.

point being that justin t is still insanely hot at the moment

he looks like a salamander dressed as Justin Timberlake:

http://www.peolpstar.com/images/JC-Chasez-05.jpg

at least he ditched the terrible mane