Justin Timberlake in 2013

Has his tour started yet? Shifting promo gears to the new album should sync up with that pretty well.

Incidentally, new Gaga single in August. Which means these dudes have to hustle before they have to get out of the way (maybe). Did Swift's "22" tank? I didn't hear that a single time on the radio.

tour stars next week. funny that when it was announced, we knew of 1 new album between Jay and Justin this year, now there are 3.

"22" pretty much did tank, yeah, thankfully.

Gaga could do well but it's not a given, nobody's afraid of her.

She does tend to hog the spotlight.

this new single is pretty joyless

shock

i was a suit & tie + mirrors stand on the ground floor, i can't find anything to love about this ... yet

i guess everybody else is also trying to work in a subterranean homesick blues joke

but nobody has figured one out yet

Tunnel Visions hasn't even been sent to radio according to Billboard.

he just put out the video b/c he had to share his powerful artistic vision

xp i don't think 22 "tanked". maybe underperformed compared to the other two pop singles, but i think it went top 20 and i heard it plenty on the radio. not a huge seller, but not embarrassing either.

iTunes says I've listened to TBTN 18 times now today. Once again, ILX, you are wrong.

Seems incredibly bizarre to release something that will certainly curtail the performance of (the actually joyless) "Tunnel Vision" at this moment.

i guess everybody else is also trying to work in a subterranean homesick blues joke

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but nobody has figured one out yet

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i was thinking Love Actually actually

a Swift pop radio single missing the top 10 is kinda tanking! but w/e.

a joyous "tunnel vision" would be something to hear i guess

Meantime

http://www.stereogum.com/1405961/anti-rape-organization-contacts-justin-timberlake-about-take-back-the-night/news/

“We tried to contact him through his website and got no answer,” she said. “Then we sent him a letter Friday from our legal counsel saying ‘You used our name without our permission.’ They got back to us and said they’re sorry. His agent said ‘Justin’s a good guy! He’s a family man!’ They claimed he’d never heard of us before he wrote that song. I don’t know what country he’s been in. I suppose it could have slipped off his radar screen somehow. Somebody working for him definitely messed up.”

the doofus has never stepped foot on a college campus so

it's just funny because i wonder whether the phrase would even pop into your head unless you'd heard the name of the organization somewhere. obviously it's 4 perfectly common words that fit together, but i've never heard anyone say 'take back the night' in any other context ever.

yup

I've got a writer acquaintance who's loathed Timberlake since he thought Timberlake got off easy after the Super Bowl fandango; he's been chortling all day.

mirrors is much, much cornier than what goes around... it's basically an 'n sync song. far less stately and original, epic template or not.

tunnel vision on the other hand is definitely one of my favorites on the album. neither joyless nor cloying, it's the right balance btw light and dark.

even now when I'm hearing it four times a day on the radio "Mirrors" still sounds bloated by endless verses and choruses.

Some dude otm

I've got a writer acquaintance who's loathed Timberlake since he thought Timberlake got off easy after the Super Bowl fandango; he's been chortling all day.

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i doubt much of anything is going to come from this... he probably will issue a statement but it's not like they're gonna pull the song from radio or anything. they still play ross' date rap verse.

i didn't even think of it when i heard the song

tunnel vision on the other hand is definitely one of my favorites on the album. neither joyless nor cloying, it's the right balance btw light and dark.

otm

i don't think anyone's necessarily saying this will def blow up in JT's face, it's possibly to just laugh at how stupid dude is

lol rick ross date rap

i prefer "don't hold the wall" for the outro but both are great

i don't think anyone's necessarily saying this will def blow up in JT's face, it's possibly to just laugh at how stupid dude is

yeah it's kind of amazing... i wonder if it was brought up to him and he just didn't care

I didn't suggest this will bury him. He's a slippery guy with shrewd PR skills. He'll survive. But a straight singer playing with tired ideas about nudity and exposure is gonna be in the crosshairs for a while.

if he just issues an apology and doesn't drag it out everyone will move on immediately to whatever the next controversy is

i mean there are a LOT of different activist-type groups out there, anytime you don't use any funky unique language in a song title the odds are the phrase has been trademarked by somebody somewhere, it's not totally insane to just have it brought up at first and assume oh, that's some tiny organization nobody's heard of. just pretty unfortunate given the tone of the song itself and the whole running theme of pop music controversies this year.

for myself, I wish he'd had a new album to promote before the Superbowl appearance to see if he would've suffered a "backlash" like Jackson did.

what gets me is: I can see some dude from the mickey mouse club who doesn't seem overly well-read (face it) not having heard of take back the night, but _everyone else in the room_?

not even from a progressive perspective, I mean but sheer must not get into legal trademarking trouble perspective

(other option: it's trolling. it's juuuuust plausible enough, just enough on the nose.)

i have to believe nobody would troll like that on purpose, there's no upside, it's not even funny on a 'yeah, i meant to do that' level

TBTN foundation can consider all the lawsuits they want but they're highly unlikely to file and certainly won't win if they do. They didn't invent the phrase, and their registered trademark affords certain very specific protections, of which controlling whether or not the phrase appears in a work of art is not one.

Good PR move though and I'm glad they're making the most of the opportunity.

"Spaceship Coupe" has been giving me naughty feelings lately.

it's pretty funny though that they were like "we sent him an email through his website but it wasn't answered"

I posted under his youtube video and he never hit me back.

i tweeted @JTimberlakeTeam, no response, not even a follow back

I rolled up to KFC and that lazy-ass Colonel wan't even THERE

I've stood by Tolkien's grave. And did he have the courtesy to rise from the dead, no.

jerk

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121003055425/lotr/images/4/4f/Gandalf_the_White_returns.png

No, see, that's the wrong moment from the film when the actual return is earlier and it's not quite like in the book and...

*several hours pass*

...and that's what Peter Jackson and by extension you got wrong. Hello? You there?

"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