Justin Timberlake in 2013

can't second the "jump the shark" claim cuz this is self-parody (esp right after "holy grail") rather than jt completely losing the script, but man this is dumb

but i've always thought his album tracks were poop from the get-go

it's actually surprising that beiber or that austin mahone guy or somebody hasn't dropped some seven minute heartbreak wail with a dude hiccuping in the background

p sure it's a single. I don't even think this is unlistenable or anything, I like the beat switch-up at the end, but it totally fails the suspension of disbelief test.

They seem more interested in channeling Justin circa 2000-2004 than JT in his current self-indulgent elder statesman of pop pseudo-throwback phase and I don't blame them.

it's prob a bad sign that I immediately assembled half the lyrics in my brain upon seeing the title

It was assembled in one of those word association mad lib sex/love metaphor generators that made half of the last Ciara album

...holy grail

...TKO

...grocery bag

it's funny when radio stations cut off the first minute of the Jay-Z song so all you hear is an abrupt "OLY GREHH" before the rapping starts

ahhhhh I wish stations here would do that. JT getting his Journey on is the biggest bummer

haha terius at his most tedious wishes he was steve perry

this whole thing is shaping up into a Rufus Wainwright Want One/ Want Two kinda deal.

Want None

lol

Part 2 is streaming on itunes now.

oh gosh

link?

first song sounds good, not paying attention to the lyrics tho... something about someone in a cage tho, prob not a good sign

What even is this True Blood track?

honestly that whole track makes me think of the bears/menstruation myth

way to ruin Jim McMahon

hahaha

JT's the one to remake "Superbowl Shuffle."

heard 'take back the night' in a bud light platinum commercial - good classy product to attach your brand to, jt

so far this is kinda ugly and unpleasant where the first part was pretty lush

cause i got you sayin' "jesus" so much it's like we laying in a manger

smdh

please say the next line is "got you sittin' on my flagpole like you was harvey danger"

There isn't interesting enough production this time to help me ignore the lyrical bankruptcy on display here.

He is sexy.

like Harvey Danger sittin' on a flagpole

is everyone overcompensating to make up for the wholly incorrect split decision on the last JT record or is this really genuinely as bad

no it makes the last one look better in retrospect esp from a conceptual level

heard 'take back the night' in a bud light platinum commercial - good classy product to attach your brand to, jt

― 乒乓, Monday, September 23, 2013 6:18 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

you realize he's the "creative director" of bud light platinum right?

yeah i figured that out when i googled bud light platinum and his name was like 5th in the results.

it's truffle season... time for tuxedos for no reason [and bottles of Bud Light Platinum™, a bolder light beer that's triple filtered for that smooth top-shelf taste]

but yes i thought everybody knew that justin timberlake was the creative director for bud light platinum. ask any man on the street, he'll look at you in the eye as if you're crazy before answering "why, of course it's justin timberlake"

also just now realizing the... irony? uh, not sure what the appropriate word here is - of not only repurposing the phrase 'take back the night' for his first single but then going ahead and making the creative decision of using that song to sell beer to frathouse bros

part 2 is so so bad.

i really like the first song

The Yoko bit in "Murder" is the most mortifying of Jay's career.

i really like the first song

― J0rdan S., Tuesday

Me too. It's the return of that worried falsetto I liked on the FS/LS title track. Also, he's not trying so hard lyrically.

haha i liked that part

I dont know if Justin T is worthy of vocal praise

hoo boy i had assumed the negative reactions were embarrassed overcompensating but this really is so so bad

the last song is ELEVEN MINUTES LONG?????

his vocals are so pinched and lazy on this album

More pinched than usual? I didn't realise that was possible.

genuinely yes

she's got that true butt

holy crap he actually rings a bell at the end of tko