justin timberlake the 20/20 experience rar

In fact, to conflate the second part of Justin Timberlake s The 2020 Experience with the first part is valid in name only.

The two share superficial similarities, just as they each share with both Justified and FuturesexLovesounds: Basically, theyre all Justin Timberlake albums that share his post-MJ Gatsby pop aspirations.

But where part one of The 2020 Experience was 1-er music, all truffles and neo-Sinatra affectations, Timberlakes part two follow-up opens up dirrty, in the Christina Aguilera sense.

But, three songs in on Pt.

Timberlake is singing, I got you saying Jesus so much its like we are laying in the manger, which is a line only really suited for Robert Kelly.

In the opening of the song immediately following, TKO, longtime production foil Timbaland actually says, She kill me with the coo coochie coochie coo, because in the world of Pt.

His first two records, his time with NSYNC, his acting experiences, his Lonely Island collaborations, and even his Justin Vernon impression have always succeeded because of the air of effortlessness that surrounded him.

Insta-classic singles like Sexyback, Cry Me A River, and My Love seemed inevitable, as though songs like this simply dripped off of Timberlake in a single studio take.

Part one of The 2020 Experience had moments Mirrors, natch but its most valid criticism was that its highs simply did not live up to JTs unimpeachable first LPs.

Part two, on the other hand, suffers most from overreaching.

Its classic Timberlake, an extra-smooth amalgamation of pop, funk, and RB that shifts unexpectedly from memorable moment to memorable moment.

But, its extended outro is an awkward spoken word moment that slams the songs already obvious metaphor of the bedroom as jungle into the beaten ground.

Its a three and a half-minute song stretched to just over five for no other reason than indulgence.

But the song throws together too many elements, until the chorus is a noisy mess, obscuring the driving rhythm with a whole lot of nothing.

Theres another spoken word outro here, too, and its equally as inexplicable and uncomfortable; at one point, a minor key disco guitar is introduced just by Timberlake saying guitar.

Guest rap turns from Drake (Cabaret) and Jay Z (Murder) are completely forgettable (which may actually be a good thing for Jay, after his atrocious Pound Cake verse) and seem to serve no other purpose than to allow Timberlake to point out and pay his friends.

And, when he tries a complete left turn by reaching for country pop aspirations with Drink You Away, the result is less Brad Paisley and more Uncle Cracker, with a gospel choir at his disposal.

Amnesia is actually two songs that really should not have been put under a single umbrella, but both songs would have acquitted themselves well on FuturesexLovesounds, a high compliment for any JT track.

Final track Not A Bad Thing is an NSYNC song, basically, and serves as pitch perfect nostalgia-bait.

Its predecessor, the penultimate Only When I Walk Away, actually pulls off its White Stripes blues guitar blast on the hook.

Justin Timberlake may have had the best record of his career had he pulled a Kanye West and hired Rick Rubin to cut all of the fluff out of both parts of The 2020 Experience.

But the indulgence that fit the designer Suits Ties of Pt.

Hey There Delilah endings, and it hamstrings an otherwise great singer into making a mediocre record.

Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience Rar