Justin Timberlake in 2013

lmao at the idea of gucci mane or drake on this song

i bet drake's on the album tho

surfboards is right about "sexyback" tho

yeah i've never loved that song but i can appreciate it as a lead single, especially now

yeah i feel totally different about that song now than i did even three years ago

sexy back got much better after the album came out and you heard "my love" and you were like oh this sexyback is jsut a club song not like the statement

"LoveStoned" is the only track I feel like listening to these days

"sexyback" is the best song on FS/LS

and always was

apart from when it wasn't.

which was most of the time.

I heard "Until The End of Time" last summer for the first time since late '07 and thought it wasn't as limp as I once thought

As we get older, our standards of what qualifies as limp get frequently revised.

well that's depressing

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-39yjgsH2IRU/UJfZ9POK2oI/AAAAAAAAAUU/S7j7hk9KU3g/s320/DeWitt.jpeg

"Until" was the jam

"sexyback" is the best song on FS/LS

― lex pretend, Monday, January 14, 2013 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

"Sexyback" was almost the best song on FS/LS.

"What Goes Around.../...Comes Around" was the best.

Take away Jay-Z and the intro and I basically love this. Isleys vibes.

for historical accuracy's sake

SEXY BACK??? IS THIS A GOOD JUSTIN COMEBACK??

haha that's a first response hall of fame for sure

i will dance to this song while all the haters pout in the corner

― max (maxreax), Thursday, July 6, 2006 6:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

max was the otm person in that thread tho

let the record show that i was otm about the kanye west daft punk song too

This thing reminds me of Don't Disturb The System for some reason

It left me pretty cold this morning and I still can't get passed the intro and Jay-Z verse to fully recommend it but I like its mild electrogroove.

do you think it sounds like tom waits?

it feels like it should be facile to bring up the other white R&B guy but there really are like 20 Robin Thicke songs that do this exact vibe a million times better

not sure Thicke would be above using the line about dinner and the oven though

Tom Waits def not above using it

I def get Thicke vibes from this.

thin mix ithough

but jt begat thicke in the first place

not really, nothing about Thicke's sound is derived from JT in any way

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begs 2 differ

but anyway i think thicke recorded his first record before Justified came out?

xp

i mean maybe you could make an argument that he set a precedent career-wise but the nature of Thicke's success and what his biggest songs sound like don't line up xp

yeah i mean career-wise, vocal style wise, even, not song-wise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7K7orMOHqY

never forget

that song is ridiculous but dope

voice-wise they can be similar, especially in falsetto. but i think it speaks volumes that Thicke's big breakthrough came out less than a month after FS/LS but "SexyBack" and "Lost Without U" represent such vastly different approaches that only the hackiest hack would've dwelled on the comparison for too long.

If you compare "Justified" to "A beautiful World" the comparison bears even less scrutiny.

after about 15 listens, I've decided it's not a disaster. i'm ok with it. fingers are crossed for the album to make me forget about it

i actually really did hate sexyback in the beginning! definitely on the low end of that album for me

i like the beginning of "suit and tie" a lot but the thick(e) of the song is generic, kind of sounds like he's doing beyonce on first listen

it's not miles off from "love on top" or "lay up under me" territory

after a few spins I still find the track pretty fun but it's true that Jay's verse is much too long and meh.
as someone said, the structure of the song is weird, especially for a single, but why not.
it's a pocket rnb symphony !
"sexyback" was great (but less than "my love").

yeah exactly xp

but 'love on top' is amazing (although it probably wouldn't stick out as much without those key changes)

This is pretty great, clunker of an intro expected. His voice is really different!

hahahahahaha that intro really terrified me but once it got past that, dope

but 'love on top' is amazing (although it probably wouldn't stick out as much without those key changes)

― keef qua keef (Jordan), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:03 PM Bookmark

I wasn't equating them quality-wise, just saying they're both working similar aesthetics.

very similar, with JT throwing in some avalanches for good measure

doesn't seem to quite make up for the insignificance of the tune tho

It was great to listen to "suit" this morning, in the bus, with the sun shining on the Seine !
I don't mind the intro now.
only jay's part is still boring. that said, he wasn't helped by the fact they made him rap on the slow part. I think it wouldn't be that boring if his rap was on the funky part.
anyway, glad JT's back !

reminds me of that thing someone said like he could have been the new MJ and he decided to be the new ashton kutcher...