JT clearly loves Black Mirror.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
so are we out of the woods?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
So JT is the unabomber now?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
lmao what the actual fuck is this
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
i dont dislike this
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
these videos are v v Trenchant Social Commentary tho lol
This is better than "Filthy" but my god that video is... something.
― Roz, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
I fear the WTFness of the video is distracting us from how lifeless and mediocre the song is.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
let it be clear, the "what the actual fuck is this" also referred to the quality of the song
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
the WTFness of the song meant i still haven't really taken in just how bad the video is yet
― ufo, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
his dancing is really shit in the video too. isn't he usually a pretty good dancer? everything about this is so fake and stupid, the choreography, the styling, the Trenchant Social Commentary. it's clearly all top-down imposed and nothing to do with JT, despite what he says in the trailer video. It just seems very confused, he's talking about bringing it back home and trudging through the fields in a big woolen cape (styling error!) and now we get this mess which seems completely disconnected from the supposed theme.
is that sequins or rhinestones around the edge of his hoodie, because WHAT
also wtf was the budget for that shit video?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
JT acting like he’s giving some sort of woke message on the video while the lyrics are sex and then he’s there gettig it on with Eiza Glz (who does look insanely sexy in the video tbh) but then there’s that kid saying “wake up” and then there’s all the faux rural/hipster/indie/ aesthetic for the album... I don’t know what he’s trying to say but I’m hating it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 19 January 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
I dug the main groove - felt like a Timbaland loop pedal jam. The bridge was weak. The video looked very expensive.
― DJI, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
i assume "breeze off the pond"/"livin' off the land"/"the hard stuff" is his extremely personal song cycle about choppin' wood
It’s like side 2 of Hounds of Love but in a forest.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
except that would be good
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
the chorus to supplies is dreadful
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
the weirdly country-tinged verse is also dreadful
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:39 (six years ago) link
ok so this album will be a trainwreck apparently.too bad, I would have enjoyed a Timbaland come-back...
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
ugh, thank god for lauren jackson http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/exploring-justin-timberlakes-relationship-to-black-music.html
― austinb, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
his dancing is really shit in the video too. isn't he usually a pretty good dancer?
This was the exact thing I said to my 13-yr-old son, after he texted me the link to the video. (The full content of his text: "JUSTIN IS TOO WOKE BRO ... but seriously this is one of the worst music videos I have ever seen")
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
Looks like the Neptunes (!) actually produced most of the album, including 'Supplies'?
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
Mediocre Neptunes is much less disheartening than mediocre Timbaland.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
Funny, listening to these new tracks (and to some older ones I used to really like) I realize I (finally) find his voice really annoying/bad (nasal, trebly + silly gimmicks).Actually, watching that latest video, his face and moves are also ridiculous and I can't help thinking about these old Lonely Islands pastiches !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
ugh, thank god for lauren jacksonhttp://www.vulture.com/2018/01/exploring-justin-timberlakes-relationship-to-black-music.html
― austinb, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel like this piece forgot to make a point
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, both “Filthy” and “Supplies” offer much to interrogate in terms of racial analysis, in visual and in sound. [remainder of piece only talks about visuals]
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
& fails to draw any conclusions from them
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
supplies is one of the worst songs i've heard in a rly long time
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
it's so bad
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Going to be a weird Super Bowl halftime if he does these instead of "SexyBack."
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
looking forward to justin's treatise on how he personally slaughtered and skinned a pig to make a football
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Official Music Video directed by La Blogothèque
ok, lmao
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
This album title (and the dumb making-of video) keeps making me think of this recent Dollop podcast: http://thedollop.libsyn.com/307-naked-joseph-knowles
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
he managed to release a song that's just dull instead of a trainwreck
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
ahah, he keeps on giving !
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/justin-timberlake-say-something-ft-chris-stapleton/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 26 January 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
the opening of the Say Something video makes me think of this and lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIWxgGrVaAQ
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 26 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
a minor point but whoever did the lighting in the Say Something video should be sacked. You can't see anything.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 26 January 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
Is that video actually live like in other blogoteque videos? I think it’s impressive if that’s the case even if aided by playback.
Song is decent compared to previous singles, lyrics are terrible.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
That intro is laughable though that limmy comparison is otm
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 January 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
tackiest part in the supplies video is when the pyramid with one eye is lit up and flames in front of those worshipping people
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 26 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
i was driving thru north GA and they were talking about this on local talk radio with the 2 DJs (a man and a woman) promoting the upcoming tour. they played a really short clip and it was just overprocessed generic radio garbage. when it cut back to the DJs they said "They doesn't sound like country for an album called Man of the Woods". that was it, they didn't play the song, they started talking about something else.
its a missed opportunity cos Justin Timberlake is actually from Tennessee and grew up outside of Memphis singing in gospel choirs. he could be a modern Elvis if he wanted but he wants to sound like a generic robot instead. imagine if he had recorded a non-EDM album of him singing country songs. i think he might have the chops to do something good and not just millennial whoop stuff. he knows tons of musicians, he could easily throw a band together, probably with alt country guest stars and stuff. they could play new material and songs he learned as a kid and sang w his family etc. have it produced by Jack White.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
not just millennial whoop stuff
all of the songs from this have been dogshit so far but we don't have to invent bad things about them
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
i'll be your generatorturn me onwhen you need electricitybecause electricity is neededfor powered devices
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
i think he might have the chops to do something good
also this is neither here nor there, i enjoyed the first part of 20/20 when it came out but literally nothing timberlake's done since 2013 has suggested that he cares about music
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
wow that video is a fuckin disaster
blade runner 204hate
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
I was expecting an album filled with these:
https://youtu.be/9Aq4a7g_wdU
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/W7eYaJr1j-0
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
this is such a disastrous album. i'm 11 songs and what feels like three hours in
― monotony, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
"sauce", the title track, "flannel", some of the most abysmal songs i've heard in years
there's an interlude in the middle where jessica biel talks about how she feels like she's "his" when she wears her husband's shirt
― monotony, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
people have been citing "montana" as a highlight but to me it just sounds like a run off the mill album track from...idk chromeo or something
anyway! i hate this and hope it flops really hard! #justiceforjanet
― monotony, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
what i wrote on lex FB. which is probably totally wrong but i kinda would have liked to see all-in faux-cowboy JT for some reason. i think it was that village people handkerchief that made me wish for it:
Scott Seward "if he really wanted to get woodsy he should have made a big pop-country album with huge nashville hitmakers handing him hooks for days and a smash duet with t-swift that premiered AT the halftime show. would have been the biggest seller of the year in the u.s."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
i agree with you there. somewhere along the way whatever message he meant to come with got muddled.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
"say something" isn't horrible; maybe shoulda just done an album of duets with Stapleton if he wanted to be in this lane?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
i can't imagine Timberlake's voice over a country-ass country song
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
I have this feeling he just does not care that much anymore. There's some good songs in there, but even these good songs leave me with the impression another younger/hungrier artist would have made it better.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Perhaps he should go the Charli route and release mixtapes of shit he really cares about. This whole album with a concept thing just seem so heavy on him.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
Also, christ, 16 songs. I know this is the streaming era, but please edit.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
if i was ever a recording artist, i would release 8-song albums with 12 bonus tracks each with a 5 second sound effect from a synth preset just to goose the numbers
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
my big takeaway from watching him sing and dance in HD on a giant TV was: wow, Justin Timberlake is 37 years old
― alpine static, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
Tom Brady is 40.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
Timberlake eats tomatoes, he won't make it to 40
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
probably wears sunscreen too
― maura, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
So I've tried to listen to more of this album. the father/son stuff is awful, the husband/wife stuff is cringey, the looney tunes song is wtf, etc."Montana" which seems to be the favourite song for many people is just meh to me.I think the only thing I enjoy is "Higher Higher". And the funky part from "Filthy" (minus some of the vocals)...Good job JT !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 February 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:44 (three weeks ago) Permalink
^^ otm
― ilxor, Friday, 9 February 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link