Let's anticipate Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods...?

ugh, thank god for lauren jackson
http://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

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]

& fails to draw any conclusions from them

supplies is one of the worst songs i've heard in a rly long time

it's so bad

Going to be a weird Super Bowl halftime if he does these instead of "SexyBack."

looking forward to justin's treatise on how he personally slaughtered and skinned a pig to make a football

Official Music Video directed by La Blogothèque

ok, lmao

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

he managed to release a song that's just dull instead of a trainwreck

ahah, he keeps on giving !

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/justin-timberlake-say-something-ft-chris-stapleton/?mbid=homepage-more-latest-and-video

the opening of the Say Something video makes me think of this and lol

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

a minor point but whoever did the lighting in the Say Something video should be sacked. You can't see anything.

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.

That intro is laughable though that limmy comparison is otm

tackiest part in the supplies video is when the pyramid with one eye is lit up and flames in front of those worshipping people

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.

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

i'll be your generator
turn me on
when you need electricity
because electricity is needed
for powered devices

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

wow that video is a fuckin disaster

blade runner 204hate

I was expecting an album filled with these:

https://youtu.be/9Aq4a7g_wdU

https://youtu.be/W7eYaJr1j-0

this is such a disastrous album. i'm 11 songs and what feels like three hours in

"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

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

I love this song so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baj6llvgpWA

i do really like that one

It’s not terrible but it goes to show timbaland and timberlake are severely out of touch.

ahah, oh wow that "Man of the Woods" song/video !
it confirms that it's all just a joke...

Does the album have a song called "Chiggers"?

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5a73f551d12a6971e06f6de7/2:1/w_790/Justin%20Timberlake%20Man%20of%20the%20Woods.png

lol

the bear is a deep cut nod to his role as Boo Boo in the Yogi Bear movie

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

― monotony, Thursday, February 1, 2018 9:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think it’s just bc it’s the first sign of life after “flannel”

every song feels about two minutes too long but this time around the songs are only four minutes long anyway

I guess he thinks the Neptunes are his Jimmy Jam-Terry Lewis: co-creators of jams and ballads that sonically endlessly reinvent themselves.

I just got to the lyric, “But then your hands talkin’, fingers walkin’/Down your legs, hey, there’s the faucet.”

oh no

I swear to god this album and its videos are a tribute to the unabomber.

The pitchfork pan is pretty good

Timberlake may have yanked back the reins on the interminable song lengths of The 20/20 Experience, but many of these tracks still manage to overstay their welcome by a minute or two. They don’t have the hooks or the dynamism to justify their continued existence: phrases get recycled, breakdowns feel like intrusions from completely different songs, grooves are sought but remain undiscovered. “Midnight Summer Jam” is a sub-Robin Thicke boogie with a sub-John Popper harmonica solo; “Sauce” is Beyoncé’s “Don’t Hurt Yourself” cut with a jug full of pond water. And there’s no refuge from the lyrics, which in many places engender the same mix of emotions you’d confront upon walking in on your parents having sex.

It's a clavinet not a harmonica

Walking in on your parents having sex is an accident, not an embarrassment.

Walking in on your parents not having sex is an embarrassment.

Length of song would be irrelevant if the songs were catchy and hooky (see: almost all dance music ever made).

Walking in on your parents having sex is an accident, not an embarrassment.

There's a poll idea in here.

Walking in on yourself having sex is potentially awkward.

Don't give him any ideas for his next black mirror cyber video.

“Sauce” is Beyoncé’s “Don’t Hurt Yourself” cut with a jug full of pond water

read this as "poon water"

I'm calling it now: highlight of halftime show will be Janet performing Rhythm Nation, with JT sidelined a la Coldplay that year.