They are lashing his auntie music
??????
This new song
And now, we come to this New Music Friday?s delivery: the long awaited (is it really long awaited if he only announced it earlier in the week?) release of his new single ?Filthy. While the album teaser from earlier in the week suggested a complete overhaul of the singer?s usual sound and image, the song itself is pretty much the same thing he?s been giving listeners for over a decade now ? R&B melodies with dance and funk-fusion production. It sort of sounds like dubstep only just happened? And, with its womp-womping beat it honestly goes on forever. I know the guy loves to make songs seem like they last for almost ten minutes, but listening to ?Filthy? I feel myself age considerably from start to finish. There is one part in the song that grabbed me though: the line ?What you gonna do with all that meat?? It?s sung with such conviction, he even uses a hard "t" on the word "meat." It?s like his Lonely Island ?Dick in a Box? piss-take feature all over again, but this time I think he?s actually serious.
Produced by the singer, his longtime collaborator Timbaland and Danja Hills, ?Filthy? reeks of something left over from the Future Sex/Love Sounds sessions of 2006, or at least an attempt to recapture the magic. How he marries this with the promise of a more ?authentic? and grassroots sound is anybody?s guess but we'll all have to wait to hear more for proof of that.
As for the music video, released at the same time as the single, Justin does his best Steve Jobs impression while a robot glides, croons and dry humps (I know!) the dancers on stage. It feels like the 2018 version of Robbie Williams? ?Rock DJ?, which is not a compliment no matter what way you look at it.
Oh Justin, what happened?
https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/zmqzjw/when-exactly-justin-timberlake-got-uncool-filthy
