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Post by Juan Carlos on Jan 14, 2024 22:57:52 GMT -5
In our sources, we trust. 😉
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Post by Choco on Jan 15, 2024 14:37:48 GMT -5
Points for the self aware title.
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Post by 312999 on Jan 15, 2024 14:44:18 GMT -5
I don't have great expectations for him anymore after Filthy, but hopefully he can prove me wrong.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 15, 2024 16:23:12 GMT -5
A self-read!
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Post by mccloud on Jan 16, 2024 13:18:46 GMT -5
Why are people still crying about the Janet Jackson thing from 20 years ago. She told him to pull the stunt and asked him not to talk about it to the public after the outcry...
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Post by Soundcl🕤ck on Jan 16, 2024 13:41:07 GMT -5
Why are people still crying about the Janet Jackson thing from 20 years ago. She told him to pull the stunt and asked him not to talk about it to the public after the outcry...
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 16, 2024 13:45:03 GMT -5
Why are people still crying about the Janet Jackson thing from 20 years ago. She told him to pull the stunt and asked him not to talk about it to the public after the outcry... That's so not the point lmao. Please educate yourself.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 16, 2024 13:50:52 GMT -5
I just hope the song is good after all the drama.
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Post by mccloud on Jan 16, 2024 13:58:13 GMT -5
Why are people still crying about the Janet Jackson thing from 20 years ago. She told him to pull the stunt and asked him not to talk about it to the public after the outcry... That's so not the point lmao. Please educate yourself. Janet Being black, JT cheating, JT influencing Britney to get abortion. Miss anything? This happened 20 years ago and everyone has been crying about Timberlake since Man of the Woods released
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 16, 2024 16:11:48 GMT -5
That's so not the point lmao. Please educate yourself. Janet Being black, JT cheating, JT influencing Britney to get abortion. Miss anything? This happened 20 years ago and everyone has been crying about Timberlake since Man of the Woods released Okay, you can choose to continue supporting misogyny and mediocrity. It's your choice!
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Post by Choco on Jan 16, 2024 19:50:47 GMT -5
Even if you ignore all those issues (which, come on now...) the music took a nosedive with 20/20 Experience and has never reversed course. By Man of the Woods it was downright trash.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 17, 2024 0:35:50 GMT -5
20/20 is hands-down Justin's best album. I love the song lengths and bells and whistles. Also, his only no skip album. I just revisited it the other night and it still sounded fresh. He doesn't have a bad album tho.
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Post by hitmakaontharise on Jan 17, 2024 10:08:12 GMT -5
If you have to audacity to say the 20/20 experience era is a bad album you have no business talking about music at all.
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Post by spiritboy on Jan 17, 2024 11:07:26 GMT -5
I don't give a f about Janet & Britney incidents. I just hope he'll release great music again cause he hasn't been doing that for a while.
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Post by clsvltn on Jan 17, 2024 11:13:37 GMT -5
If the music is good, that is all that matters. I'm not getting involved in Drama of things we don't know about from decades ago. The music will speak for itself.
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Post by CatSoul on Jan 18, 2024 12:58:37 GMT -5
Why are people still crying about the Janet Jackson thing from 20 years ago. She told him to pull the stunt and asked him not to talk about it to the public after the outcry... a) No b) Do you think Janet Jackson is the only woman JT's been shitty to
Man doesn't even make good music anymore. "tHiS aIn'T tHe ClEaaaaaaaaN vErSiOn" This is what you're defending. Try another milquetoast man, they're everywhere.
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Post by Daenerys on Jan 18, 2024 13:20:31 GMT -5
We live in an age in society where people venerate aged, mediocre, and milquetoast white men.
We can't fight it nor contain it. We can only get through it.
Man Of The Woods proved he had nothing else left to say, and nothing in his life since 2018 has been interesting enough to indicate that his next musical work would be better.
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Post by clsvltn on Jan 18, 2024 15:12:11 GMT -5
It is frightening how some people just can't let things go from decades ago. Especially when we are not privy to all the details of any of the situations.
However, I am not disagreeing on most of the musical output though - most of everything since 20/20 has been fairly unremarkable - but I am definitely giving him a chance. At the end of the day, it is about the MUSIC.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 18, 2024 23:00:12 GMT -5
So, I will die on the hill that Man Of The Woods got wayyy too much hate. He does veer into...SNL territory or parody towards the end of the album. To name a song Montana when you literally bough a ranch in Montana is way too on the nose. The thing is, the song isn't bad at all. Is it up there with his best? Definitely not, but it grew on me and is VERY well-produced like...well, pretty much everything else on the album. It also sounds like it belongs on Justified. What surprises me the most is to see that it wasn't just Pharrell, but The Neptunes who produced a lot of these songs and also the fact that Chris Stapleton co-wrote two other songs besides Say Something. But, back to where Justin loses the plot. The stretch of Livin' Off The Land (LOLOL) to The Hard Stuff (that accent, LOLOL) to Young Man feels interminable and is hokey. Breeze Off The Pond is OK, but coulda been a bonus track. I have a soft spot in my heart for Flannel - probably because I do a lot of drugs - but it sounds suspiciously like a Confederate Soldier anthem and I can't imagine that was Justin and The Neptunes' intention. It's beautifully sung and has a pretty melody, but...awkward. That outro is also just...bizarre. Then, there is Filthy, which should NOT have been the first single, but I get it: "edgy" "provocative" whatever. It was a misfire, but I bop a little to it. I am a sucker for Supplies though. LOVE that song especially because of Pharrell's bizarre disruptions. Oh...Wave is kind of a flimsy lark. I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but Justin probably sounded his best vocally on this album. Pity about the lyrics, but he has never been a lyricist and lets Pharrell run wild. Anyway, I am curious to see what he does with this next project and how it will be received.
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Post by Juan Carlos on Jan 19, 2024 9:37:12 GMT -5
I don't know why Justin Timberlake's comeback should be classified as a 'big annoucement' by RCA, but here we are. Anyway, the flyer below hints that this will be pushed to radio, so I'm going ahead and moving this thread here.
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Post by Hefty Hanna on Jan 19, 2024 9:50:34 GMT -5
Interesting!
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jan 19, 2024 10:00:28 GMT -5
20/20 Part 2 was pretty abysmal. And MOTW had four or five keepers and that was it. So my expectations are below the floor at this point.
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Post by • Господин Умљеновић • on Jan 19, 2024 11:47:18 GMT -5
Where did u listen?
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 19, 2024 11:56:30 GMT -5
Rosaliner is one of our top industry insiders. You'll hear it soon enough.
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Post by • Господин Умљеновић • on Jan 19, 2024 12:07:08 GMT -5
Tnx 😘
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Jan 19, 2024 12:16:47 GMT -5
I just don't want this to be a drippy ballad or midtempo with vague references to being selfish in the past but trying to grow every day or something. Justin HAS made good music in the past. I think he could also in the future, maybe lol.
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Post by Juan Carlos on Jan 19, 2024 20:45:08 GMT -5
Teaser.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jan 19, 2024 21:19:29 GMT -5
That actually sounds really nice based on the clip. I'm glad he's coming back with something smooth and lowkey.
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Post by clsvltn on Jan 19, 2024 22:07:16 GMT -5
Oh... okay! This kinda sounds pretty hot
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 19, 2024 23:56:06 GMT -5
This sounds excellent.
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