Timberlake went full-on retro-soul showman on that album, but he did it with Timbaland. It’s an album of lush, expansive, indulgent love songs. After years away from music, Timberlake was suavely gliding back in, giving the world a look at the new, mature version of him, the one that was a decade-plus removed from the boy band years, the one who’d been in at least one good movie, the one who’d gotten married and made tons of money and was coming back because he felt like it. The first 20/20 Experience is far from a perfect album, but it had a reason to exist. That’s the level of writing we’re dealing with here. Imagine if HAIM’s “The Wire” was about how you’re like Stringer Bell, selling them WMD vials of your love.
Seriously: “True Blood” is an extended metaphor about the HBO show True Blood. “True Blood”: Your love has him feeling like a vampire, in the sense that he wants to drink your blood. “ TKO“: You’re knocking him out with your love.
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But even in the context of his larger career, this new album is a full-on howler zone, full of extended song-length metaphors that never had a chance to work. Timberlake has never exactly been Jarvis Cocker or Biggie Smalls, and his lyrics have never held up to close analysis. He probably didn’t think much about a single word that he sang on the album. When Justin Timberlake released “ Take Back The Night,” the first single from the second volume of his The 20/20 Experience album, there was some confusion on the internet: How in the hell did Timberlake think it was OK to give his slick disco-revival single the same name as an anti-rape institution that’s been around for decades? Did he just not know about the other Take Back The Night? Did he think nobody would mind? Did nobody tell him that this was a bad idea? Was he intentionally tweaking multiple generations of feminists with this shit? Did he even think about it? But a few early listens to The 20/20 Experience – 2 Of 2 handily answers that last question: No.
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