3:07 pm - 03/22/2013
JUSTIN TIME: After poring over the latest retail reports, reading the tea leaves and consulting their astrological guides, HITS’ numbers crunchers have once again revised the estimated first-week total for Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience to…drum roll…850-900k. Whoa. Can you say blockbuster? (3/22p)
*this re-airs on the CW tonight, fyi
written out explanations of some songs on the album by
beachshore from audio JT put on his official site
The album title, The 20/20 Experience
"So when I started recording The 20/20 Experience, as we were going through the recording process I felt like there was a lot of the sounds that seemed very visual, if that sort of makes sense. So I came up this whole idea of music that you can see and that's what really gave me the idea for the album title, The 20/20 Experience, which is obviously a play on vision.
"Mirrors"
"Mirrors is a love song to someone that you feel like is, you know, your sort of other half and it became a play on that. It's not specifically about looking into a mirror, it's just about…I think one of the most valuable things in a relationship is being able to constantly change and be individual but look to the other side of that relationship with the person you're with and know that they're changing as well individually but somehow, you two can mirror each other and be the other half of that world that you both create. So that's where the idea for the song came from.
I've heard a little bit from people around me, that it could be a good wedding song, [laugh] which… hey, that's awesome! I find it interesting, too, that in wedding vows, you say "I do" when I feel like what you should say is, "I will" because I think a relationship, when it's working, it's constantly evolving because we, as individuals, evolve and want to know that person that you're with is evolving with you. People change like the seasons, we're always growing, we're always evolving, and to know that the other half of that special part of your life is, you know like I said, mirroring you but also being individual in their own way… that's the balance. That's really what the song is about.
There's a line in the second verse, "I can't ever change without you." If you take it at face value, it maybe doesn't make sense but that's more or less what it means, that…you can change and that is looked at by the other person you're with as a blessing. So that's where the idea for the song came from.
It's definitely a special song for me. I feel like it's probably closest to what people know about a sound that I may have established as an artist but it's a step in a new direction, as well. It's kind of got both of those things going for it. The year's have gone by… [laugh]"
"Suit and Tie":
"Suit and Tie is a feeling for sure, but it also forces you to stop and think for a second when you first listen to the record. That was always by design. It's obviously one of my favorite songs on the album. Y'know, obviously Jay, and having him on the album, finally doing the collaboration with him was really special for me. It's going to be exciting to see what we put on stage this summer.
Yeah, I love that record. For me, it's like a second or third listen record. It didn't really hit me when we first finished it that I wanted it to be the first single. But there was something about it that seemed interesting and different and not like anything I'd heard recently on the radio. It's definitely a grower, that song, but I think that's what I love it so much. It's not a 30 second record, it takes a second to get under your skin. But once it did get under my skin, it just feels so good, that record."
"Strawberry Bubblegum":
"Strawberry Bubblegum is about meeting that girl down the block, it's really about love at first sight. When you meet that someone and become instantly infatuated with, you remember something they were doing at that moment, or something they said at that moment, or something they were wearing at that moment and for some reason, this idea popped into my head that this girl was just blowing bubbles with strawberry bubblegum and what it smelled like as you passed by her on the street, you both kind of stop and look at each other. There's this moment and then maybe the two of you fall in love and then you both walk down this path but reminding yourself of that moment of love at first sight, and then just giving it that specific."
"Pusher Love Girl"
"Love is dopamine, is a drug, is…all of those things. That's basically what the song is. It's just about being so intoxicated with someone that you feel like you're high every time you're with them.
Everything is a sort of play on words. I didn't have this song title, which is obviously just the tag at the end of the hook until I wrote it. I started with the verse and just came up with this idea and didn't know what I was going to call it, and then I'd blurted it out to give this girl a nickname since I feel a lot of drug dealers have nicknames. So, I thought that was kind of..it was humorous to me, but it definitely, just kind of sang well. I thought it was cool to give this girl that I'd imagined in this song her own title, and it became the title of the song."
"That Girl" and the idea for the TN KiDs,
"A lot of these songs on this album are lengthened and stretched out and a lot of them are really two songs in the same song. And we touched on that a little bit before on the last album, but we wanted to just explore and see where each song took us. And so, one that's maybe an exception to that, is That Girl, which is my ode to The Temptations or The Four Tops or you know, those really soulful, vocal groups of old. The idea for that song originated by, I thought, I want to record every vocal part as if it's its own character. So there's a true bass part on there, and when we were mixing the record, I made sure the vocals were really pushed up so that it felt like you were in the room with a quintet or a quartet of vocals and they're kind of right in your face.
So that was a fun record to do, but it really started more as, I wanted to do a song where I could play different characters within the song and sing different parts. I got the idea for The Tennessee Kids from that 'cause I thought, let's give this imaginary band a name. So, that's really where that came from.
The night before I went in to record that song, the classic "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" was on and….. if you don't know that movie, it's about an interracial relationship and the sort of issues that arise with the parents in that, and it's made in a time of our country and our world where we were a little more innocent and that was a bigger deal. So I got the idea of, maybe a Romeo and Juliet type thing where you're kind of, you know, lovers from the other side of town and your relationship isn't so blessed by everyone watching. That's really where the idea came from. That's how the song became the song."
Sources: http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rum
timberlegend post: "20/20" projections increase even more, album release party vid, BTS stuff
*this re-airs on the CW tonight, fyi
written out explanations of some songs on the album by
beachshore from audio JT put on his official siteThe album title, The 20/20 Experience
"So when I started recording The 20/20 Experience, as we were going through the recording process I felt like there was a lot of the sounds that seemed very visual, if that sort of makes sense. So I came up this whole idea of music that you can see and that's what really gave me the idea for the album title, The 20/20 Experience, which is obviously a play on vision.
"Mirrors"
"Mirrors is a love song to someone that you feel like is, you know, your sort of other half and it became a play on that. It's not specifically about looking into a mirror, it's just about…I think one of the most valuable things in a relationship is being able to constantly change and be individual but look to the other side of that relationship with the person you're with and know that they're changing as well individually but somehow, you two can mirror each other and be the other half of that world that you both create. So that's where the idea for the song came from.
I've heard a little bit from people around me, that it could be a good wedding song, [laugh] which… hey, that's awesome! I find it interesting, too, that in wedding vows, you say "I do" when I feel like what you should say is, "I will" because I think a relationship, when it's working, it's constantly evolving because we, as individuals, evolve and want to know that person that you're with is evolving with you. People change like the seasons, we're always growing, we're always evolving, and to know that the other half of that special part of your life is, you know like I said, mirroring you but also being individual in their own way… that's the balance. That's really what the song is about.
There's a line in the second verse, "I can't ever change without you." If you take it at face value, it maybe doesn't make sense but that's more or less what it means, that…you can change and that is looked at by the other person you're with as a blessing. So that's where the idea for the song came from.
It's definitely a special song for me. I feel like it's probably closest to what people know about a sound that I may have established as an artist but it's a step in a new direction, as well. It's kind of got both of those things going for it. The year's have gone by… [laugh]"
"Suit and Tie":
"Suit and Tie is a feeling for sure, but it also forces you to stop and think for a second when you first listen to the record. That was always by design. It's obviously one of my favorite songs on the album. Y'know, obviously Jay, and having him on the album, finally doing the collaboration with him was really special for me. It's going to be exciting to see what we put on stage this summer.
Yeah, I love that record. For me, it's like a second or third listen record. It didn't really hit me when we first finished it that I wanted it to be the first single. But there was something about it that seemed interesting and different and not like anything I'd heard recently on the radio. It's definitely a grower, that song, but I think that's what I love it so much. It's not a 30 second record, it takes a second to get under your skin. But once it did get under my skin, it just feels so good, that record."
"Strawberry Bubblegum":
"Strawberry Bubblegum is about meeting that girl down the block, it's really about love at first sight. When you meet that someone and become instantly infatuated with, you remember something they were doing at that moment, or something they said at that moment, or something they were wearing at that moment and for some reason, this idea popped into my head that this girl was just blowing bubbles with strawberry bubblegum and what it smelled like as you passed by her on the street, you both kind of stop and look at each other. There's this moment and then maybe the two of you fall in love and then you both walk down this path but reminding yourself of that moment of love at first sight, and then just giving it that specific."
"Pusher Love Girl"
"Love is dopamine, is a drug, is…all of those things. That's basically what the song is. It's just about being so intoxicated with someone that you feel like you're high every time you're with them.
Everything is a sort of play on words. I didn't have this song title, which is obviously just the tag at the end of the hook until I wrote it. I started with the verse and just came up with this idea and didn't know what I was going to call it, and then I'd blurted it out to give this girl a nickname since I feel a lot of drug dealers have nicknames. So, I thought that was kind of..it was humorous to me, but it definitely, just kind of sang well. I thought it was cool to give this girl that I'd imagined in this song her own title, and it became the title of the song."
"That Girl" and the idea for the TN KiDs,
"A lot of these songs on this album are lengthened and stretched out and a lot of them are really two songs in the same song. And we touched on that a little bit before on the last album, but we wanted to just explore and see where each song took us. And so, one that's maybe an exception to that, is That Girl, which is my ode to The Temptations or The Four Tops or you know, those really soulful, vocal groups of old. The idea for that song originated by, I thought, I want to record every vocal part as if it's its own character. So there's a true bass part on there, and when we were mixing the record, I made sure the vocals were really pushed up so that it felt like you were in the room with a quintet or a quartet of vocals and they're kind of right in your face.
So that was a fun record to do, but it really started more as, I wanted to do a song where I could play different characters within the song and sing different parts. I got the idea for The Tennessee Kids from that 'cause I thought, let's give this imaginary band a name. So, that's really where that came from.
The night before I went in to record that song, the classic "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" was on and….. if you don't know that movie, it's about an interracial relationship and the sort of issues that arise with the parents in that, and it's made in a time of our country and our world where we were a little more innocent and that was a bigger deal. So I got the idea of, maybe a Romeo and Juliet type thing where you're kind of, you know, lovers from the other side of town and your relationship isn't so blessed by everyone watching. That's really where the idea came from. That's how the song became the song."
Sources: http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rum
That just came on my Itunes
ew
I like the album but I can't stand this noodle haired fool
I need a video for Tunnel Vision like yesterday
LISTEN TO THE MAN, JT
Josh has flawless taste. <3
'Tunnel Vision' needs to be a late summer song.
BLOODSHOT EYES,
I'M HOPPED UP ON IT
YOU AIN'T GOTTA THINK TWICE...
JUST HOP UP ON IT.
because idgi
there's also a part in one of his songs where i thought he was saying "swallow my load" lmao