but he isn't making 20/20 part 3 it must be an album for tik tok
nothing wrong with adapting to the times lol, the new single sounds nothing like a tik tok song btw

you realize FSLS was mostly 5+ minute songs also right? Justified was mostly songs close to 5 minutes with some over 6

2-3 minute songs nowadays are basically tik tok songs and thats like half this album

and Selfish is 4+ minutes and it sounds like the most generic song of his career besides s*** like Cant Stop the Feeling and Soulmate

Man i look at the track lenghts and my first thought was that these are some long ass songs, what you mean by 2 minute ones?

Just do that and then let the music do somethin', and then do that again, that'd be enough for a record
I mean, you only want two and a half minutes if you can get it, you know, three minutes max—

JT is better than this....weak single

this catchy

Some threads remind me how out of touch this forum has gotten. This is one of them, lol

KTT really got bitter and annoying

Let 20/20 finally go

It's def a safe sounding single, but still enjoyable to me

“The lyrics just started to come out honestly. And when I listened to the whole album, I felt like it’s probably, of all the songs on the album, production-wise, probably the most straightforward, and I don’t want to say simple because it’s complex within its simplicity to me.”

“I think there are moments that are incredibly honest, but also, there’s a lot of f***ing fun on this album,” Timberlake added of Everything I Thought It Was.

“I think that’s where I came up with the album title, with everything I thought it was. I was playing it for people around me. They’re like, ‘Oh, this sounds like everything we know you for.’ And then another friend of mine was like, ‘Oh, this sounds like everything I thought I wanted from you.’ It was like that sort of phrase, in one way or another, was in the air. And I thought to myself about how some of the songs are more introspective and some of them are more what I think people know me for.”

You just made this up. Almost all of his music related IG posts have somewhere between 180K and 300K likes

I don’t think y’all understand how big Justin Timberlake is

I’m well aware of the difference between stadiums and arenas. Justin Timberlake has the reverence and catalog enough to be able to sell out the former

I really think this is due to the disconnect JT has with a Gen Z audience. Some of y’all really don’t understand how huge this guy was and still is

I'm down with this. No short ass music.

I feel like Justin making extra long songs was always considered outside the norm for a pop artist, even back then.

I please wish y’all would stop dismissing every song you don’t like as “TikTok music”. Y’all sound so out of touch when you say that

Ehh I guess we'll see if he does tour after this album

He is. We just don’t know if it’s arenas or stadiums yet.

forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/01/25/justin-timberlake-returns-with-low-energy-lackluster-single-selfish/amp

Lmao

Some of these article headlines are gonna be funny af as this rollout begins. Gonna be interesting to see which outlet gonna have a vendetta against JT

Is Justin guaranteed an 100k first week release? Physical consumption has drastically dwindled since his last release, and his streaming numbers are fairly decent.

I guess it's a case where he's depending on his immediate fanbase to purchase the music and cultivate a following with the new generation with the singles.

Selfish comes across as a safe and calculated lead single. With the backlash MOTW received, he couldn't afford to go far left again and alienate mainstream listeners. I expect him to release another single until the March release, which will have more depth.

I'm really surprised he didn't do a long traditional roll out

I think he sells between 125k - 150k

?? It kind of is a traditional rollout though.

Started teasing new project couple weeks ago. Got a single out and a music video out on the same day and announced album date.

Given that it's still 1.5 months away you can expect another single soon. Maybe even 2 more.