Justin Timberlake in 2013

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...

heard this in the car today, very early 90s sounding, sounds like the bridge of "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"

yeah it's funny cuz like, i always want modern modern modern from Justin, so that's big time throwing me

I love about three and a half minutes of this track.

http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/justin-timberlakes-album-will-be-out-on.html

March 19, y'all

lol "Justin Timberlake's album will be out on HTML"

Hey if Beck can do sheet music.

"Suit and Tie" #5 this week.

THAI SHIT THAI SHIT

haha

zoot & thai shit

http://pitchfork.com/news/49463-justin-timberlake-shares-2020-experience-tracklist-artwork/

Kinda like that this is gonna be just a 10-track thing, rather than the sort of bloated "event" record we usually get.

Me too. I hope it's a really solid, brief album instead of a murky long-distance run with more valleys than peaks.

ILX-precovers or what !?

as for the number of tracks/length, yeah, I agree.
that's one of the things I like about the MBV album.

OK, if there's an ILX-precovers, I can already hear "blue ocean floor" !

err... wasn't it supposed to have 20 tracks, though ?

haters to the left

"mirrors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QZPcNoXGw

can't shake the feeling he's recorded an album of wedding songs

This is terrible. Same stock Ryan Tedder bullshit that's been recorded by 100 different singers over the past 10 years. Fuck this.

JT did absolutely nothing to get out from the bottom of my Mickey Mouse Club Actor power rankings.

i like this song

Reading that just made me sad.

i can hear your criticisms in it tho... i mean it's not GREAT or anything. it's a pretty solid JT sounding song, i'm not mad at it. i think it's kinda cool to hear him over tim's beatboxing again actually.

i just want "strawberry bubblegum" to be a smash because it sounds like a prince song title

this song is a real disappointment

that album sleeve..

http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/media/article_images/300/1325.jpg

I like the coda, but the first part is awful. :(

wow this is so autopilot

like, the timbas had already written this song 947438 times by the time "what goes around" and "rehab" came out OVER HALF A DECADE AGO, but at least those had really stirring melodies

let's see if the "epic" length fools anyone into breathlessness

the coda is the best bit obv but it also doesn't need to pad out the song for three minutes

also it isn't worth the six minutes it takes to get to it. -_-

i've gone more lukewarm on "suit & tie" than when i first heard it but it's much better than this

as for the album cover the thing that sprang to mind immediately was BIONIC, which is not exactly a good sign

The fact that i'm finding Bieber >>>>> Timberlake at this very moment is extremely depressing ;_;

This song is terrible.

Man, just yesterday I was listening to "Tim's Bio" for the first time in years, and boy, that guy used to be on fire.

i really enjoyed the new song he played last night but then again i was pretty drunk

now i'm hungover and "mirrors" is the absolute worst

Both of his new songs sound like Robin Thicke b-sides.

Yeah.

I do fux with the new song he played at the Grammys.

really hope he's burying the lead with these first singles

Man, this is like the Depeche Mode thread. Why the hell would he do that? "Ha, my new album is awesome, so I am going to release two songs that suck!"

"That'll throw them off, ha ha!"

well, thinking of it, people (including me) shouldn't be expecting too much from this.
after all, it's just an old star/has been coming back in his 30s...
how many times has it happened before and often, the coming back album was far from being as good as the prime era albums...
reminds me of the thread comparing babyboomers Vs 90s ageing stars.
in a way, it's normal that bieber is more exciting than JT now (I have never heard a bieber song but hey, I'm old !).
it's just another generation !

Don't care much for Mirrors, other than maybe the ending, but I liked the new one her performed last night.

JT is a whopping 32. It's only been six years since the last album, which had several hits and a big tour, so call it less than six years. He's hardly a has-been but has had all the time and money and talent to do better than what we're getting now.

I don't think Bieber is more exciting than JT because I have absolutely zero expectations for Bieber. He's no more exciting than any other pop automaton. JT has a spark, though, which is what makes him so likable. He can act, he's funny, he can sing and dance OK, and his two albums have been great.

He massively transcends lil kid entertainment, in other words. I haven't seen Bieber live yet, but I bet the crowd on average is a lot more limited in age than what you'd find at a JT show, unless you're counting all the parents waiting in cars outside.