Justin Timberlake in 2013

it's like "if you haven't already started to dance we're gonna turn up the drums and bass and fucking MAKE you"

ok in album context i can totally hang with "Mirror"

i like this album but it's like i've been listening to it all damn day

one of these songs has a total Kid A intro

OK, I feel like an idiot. How do I listen to this thing? I followed links to iTunes, but it just opens up a page that says JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE next to a photo of JT, and there's nothing to click on.

This is way better than I expected it to be.

jaymc - click on the bottom of the album cover art to the left

i got that too, and assume it's because i haven't downloaded the supposedly terrible latest iTunes update. have decided i'm fine w/ waiting to hear the JT. (xp)

ps the stream won't work if you're on your phone -- has to be computer or ipad

Actually it wasn't working on my desktop computer (not sure what the issue is -- I just upgraded last week), but I see it is working on my iPad.

if you've downloaded too much hentai it won't work iirc

why need you connect? we can hum it

one of these songs has a total Kid A intro

― Raymond Cummings, Monday, March 11, 2013 7:40 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't.

hahaha

we're waiting for the New Yorker to point out "Mirrors"'s resemblances to "How to Disappear Completely."

this guy really likes metaphors

In case it hasn't been mentioned already, JT is Jimmy Fallon's co-host on Late Night all week long.

is he the musical guest every night as well?

this kick drum sound on "spaceship coupe" that sounds like a whip being cracked is really dope

i wonder how many times JT will play Dead Robin Gibb this week

what if they do a "history of rap" every night and by friday they're doing oj da juiceman's xxl freestyle

my theory is Justin is going to use this week to take away Tonight Show hosting prospects from Fallon, so he never has to make an album again

justified is pretty weak
― J0rdan S., Monday, March 11, 2013 6:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

does not compute
i feel like the people saying this haven't heard it in 5+ years

relistening in cold light of morning. WHY DOES SO MUCH OF THIS ALBUM SOUND LIKE A REALLY FUN INTERLUDE STRETCHED OUT TO SEVEN MINUTES THOUGH???

"tunnel vision" is the one. possibly the only one, but it's def where the languorous, unhurried feel clicks with me, i love all the little details in the production.

tell you what, it makes goldenheart seem really concise and unsprawling by comparison

agree with "let the groove get in" being a really welcome shot in the arm but...it's just JT vamping for like 7 minutes. why is it not 3 minutes long? there is no reason for this. you are not erykah.

okay not skipping "mirrors" this time. i get exactly what it's meant to be, it's JT pulling out what's meant to be the album's Classic Song towards the end of an album that's not been big on songcraft. like, look, verses, a chorus, structure, all that jazz. too bad it SUCKS SO MUCH AND IS SUCH AN IDEAS VOID. its big "climax" when all the music except the cavernous drum beat drops out is so embarrassing, JT why is your big emotional peak on this song such a vocally limpdick mess?

STONER LOTHARIO CUTS ALL-INTERLUDE R&B ALBUM

new itunes is worth upgrading al

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFKCpuwCQAAZXd7.png

i don't think i've upgraded itunes for years.

lol xp

i really like the outro of "don't hold the wall"

Gotta say, I love Mirrors, and his performance of it on SNL was awesome (it helped that the band and backup singers all looked like they were having a blast). The lyrics are goofy as ever (what else is new), but it's hooky and and and. I just like it.

Was not expecting this album to be so good

6 minutes into pusher love girl right now

http://i.imgur.com/PwDQq.gif

hehe

this is supposed to hypnotise me into a half-assed album right

The album felt a little tedious on my inaugural listen, which was probably inevitable given the song lengths. But that hasn't bothered me so much on subsequent listens; the whole thing really hangs together well imo

i think every outro on this is fantastic

don't really feel i have to hear the rest of this tbh, the form it takes will be irrelevant

it's gonna trade hard on general happiness just to hang w/ jt again, and no one's really gonna mind

"Suit and Tie" and "Pusher Love Girl" are easily the worst songs on the album. It's a shame it starts with those two

this entire campaign is about buying into JT as a cultural great rather than the music specifically - the music is just the soundtrack to it (an efficiently tailored soundtrack, though, there's no disjoint here at all)

Yeah, I know ILM has issues with Perpetua, but this piece of his seems pretty on point:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/justin-timberlake-is-a-luxury-brand

i really hope that the inevitable people who will get starry-eyed about how beautiful and hypnotising "blue ocean floor" is will at least admit that literally nothing happens in it, no tune, no development, nothing

u__________u

ok how much longer of this album, i can't

Keep hope alive, Lex. ;)

i've got strawberry bubblegum on repeat. mini-hooks galore

mini-hooks but not much structure

(the "don't hold the wall" thru "tunnel vision" stretch is my favourite but i wouldn't call any of those good songs)

finally listening to this fucking thing. really really really want to think JT led with "Pusher Love" as a blatant self-correction to "Love Dealer"

NEVER FORGET (actually I don't hate this, but again, THIS is what Justin Timberlake is zomgcomingback from):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6wG1hNZJw

my god this album is a nightmare.