The next step in the year of Justin Timberlake’s musical comeback has arrived. Last night, the singer tweeted out the album cover (above) as well as track listings for The 20/20 Experience, which drops Mar. 19. “I wanted you guys to see this first!!!” the singer wrote.
The handwritten song list only contains 10 tracks, so for those hoping Timberlake would be bringing longer albums back, you might be disappointed. The songs? “Pusher Love Girl,” “Suit & Tie,” “Don’t Hold the Wall,” “Strawberry Bubblegum,” “Tunnel Vision,” “Spaceship Coupe,” “That Girl,” “Let the Groove Get In,” “Mirrors,” and “Blue Ocean Floor.” Feel free to overanalyze. READ FULL STORY »
Justin Timberlake doesn’t have much of a track record with album titles. His solo debut was a pun on his name, and the follow-up was a surreal word collage. His new record is called The 20/20 Experience, but what does it mean? Is he particularly driven by ABC news magazines? Deeply concerned about marksman-quality vision? Establishing a bar that is exactly half as awesome as Jay-Z’s 40/40? Is it a reference to the fact that the whole experience of creating the album consisted of 20 songs in 20 days?
Timberlake revealed the science behind the name this morning on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show. “It more or less came out of I was playing some of the stuff for my friends and they would come in and out of the studio and I’d say, ‘What do you think of this?’” Timberlake explained. “And my best friend said, ‘This is music that you can see,’ and for some reason that stuck with me.”
So there you have it: Justin Timberlake’s new album is a concept record about synesthesia.
Seacrest also got a few other details out of Timberlake. READ FULL STORY »
Justin Timberlake isn’t taking the field at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, but he did take the stage at a pre-Super Bowl party in New Orleans Saturday night. There were no wardrobe malfunctions reported (phew!) but Timberlake did take the opportunity to debut two new tracks from his upcoming album to luck partygoers. The songs, “That Girl” and “Little Pusher Lover Girl” were caught on video. Watch them below: READ FULL STORY »
The black-and-white lyric video for Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” is so well produced, with so many nifty design elements, that it’s hard to believe it’s not the outright actual music video.
Like the song itself, the clip is centered around sartorial affairs, with the ever-dapper JT making his way through L.A. and slipping into an improbably more elegant outfit. The kid cleans up nice!
Watch Timberlake fix up, look sharp in the video below:
Just in case anyone was wondering, Justin Timberlake is still a bona fide pop star.
Timberlake’s new single, “Suit & Tie,” was released with a maximum amount of drama (countdown clocks! YouTube manifestos!) and, as it turns out, a maximum amount of sales: it notched the highest first-week total radio plays in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Pop Songs chart.
“Suit & Tie” places Timberlake’s falsetto front and center, next to a decent-if-sappy verse from Jay-Z, all backed by spangly Timbaland production. (Can a song shimmer and honk at the same time?)
It racked up 6,045 plays between Jan. 14 and 20, landing at No. 14 on the chart and breaking two records: it’s the highest debut for a male artist (beating out Jon Secada’s “If You Go” from 1994, if you can believe it) and it tops Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” in first-week plays by almost 2,000 spins.
And all of this for a track that very few people even knew Timberlake was recording.
JT’s movie career thus far has been fairly hit and miss, so this musical detour seems as much strategic as spontaneous. Meanwhile, FutureSex/Love Sounds fans — out in the cold since 2006 — have just months to go until the release of The 20/20 Experience.
Other good news for Timberfans? He will be performing at DirecTV’s Super Saturday Night during Super Bowl weekend — his first concert in almost five years.
Seven years ago, Justin Timberlake brought sexy back. This time around, he’s bringing sales back.
According to Billboard, ”Suit & Tie,” Timerberlake’s Jay-Z-assisted single that showed up on iTunes on Monday, could move as many as 350,000 downloads in its first week of release. That would top the opening week sales of his most successful digital single, “SexyBack,” by nearly 100,000. READ FULL STORY »
Three days ago, Justin Timberlake told us he was ready to release new music — and now it’s here. His new single, “Suit & Tie” featuring Jay-Z is available on iTunes.
Timberlake also addressed his fans, and the way he released the new tune in a letter on his website. He wrote that “Suit & Tie” is part of his new album, The 20/20 Experience, which will come out later this year. Read it below!
This morning, Justin Timberlake let everybody know that there was an announcement coming in a few hours, which threw the internet into a freakout over the idea of new music from JT — an idea compounded by the fact that Beyoncé talked about working with him on her new album in a just-released interview in GQ.
So what was the big announcement? It was a tease for a tease. In a minute-long video uploaded to YouTube, Timberlake delivers a monologue about why he’s been gone — and why he’s coming back. Check it out below.
As teens the world over undoubtedly already know, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are no longer together. Peoplereports that Gomez ended things over “trust issues,” but Bieber’s latest moves don’t exactly jibe with that version of events.
In concert over the weekend, Bieber performed “Cry Me A River,” Justin Timberlake’s 2002 famous rain-soaked kiss-off to a cheating Britney Spears. Pause. Does this mean Gomez cheated on him? Is he trying to incept everyone as we speak? Is it weird that Timberlake’s decade-old breakup song is circling back around (and around) and coming all the way back around for the ending of another teen dream split?
This isn’t the first time Bieber has performed the song, but it is the first time that people can make a big, huge deal out of it. TMZ reports that Bieber is confident they’ll get back together (make sure to tell that to Gomez’s BFF Taylor Swift!), but if those two crazy kids really are done for good, what other songs would you like to hear him add into his devastation rotation: “Go Your Own Way”? “Everybody Hurts”? “The Scientist”?
So many questions, only 1:34 minutes of footage to overanalyze. Check out the heartbreak below: READ FULL STORY »
