{"id":125614,"date":"2024-03-16T12:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=125614"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:49:22","slug":"audio-review-everything-i-thought-it-was-album-justin-timberlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=125614","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Everything I Thought It Was ( album ) &#8230; Justin Timberlake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/125614.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Everything I Thought It Was ( album ) ... Justin Timberlake\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Is this &#8220;great new JT album&#8221; Everything I Thought It Was going to be? Basically yes. A decent; nowhere near great; soul croon set with perhaps a few good songs is what I&#8217;ve come to expect from Justin Timberlake and that&#8217;s exactly what this is. He&#8217;s still romancing the girls with declarations of Love; the conceptual crutch for his genre of choice; and calling up Timbaland to make beats. Listen for the producer&#8217;s inept vocal ad-libs.<\/p>\n<p>The reason Justin Timberlake never reached; again nowhere near; the level of Michael Jackson; his most obvious comparison in regard to career trajectory; to my ears is that his songs just don&#8217;t pop. Never mind his lack of stylistic flair. All it would take to make this album good, maybe even &#8220;great&#8221;, are better melodies, specifically at the choruses where it matters. The best here in that regard include Conditions, No Angels and Selfish.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this &#8220;great new JT album&#8221; Everything I Thought It Was going to be? Basically yes. A decent; nowhere near great; soul croon set with perhaps a few good songs is what I&#8217;ve come to expect from Justin Timberlake and that&#8217;s exactly what this is. He&#8217;s still romancing the girls with declarations of Love; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=125614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Everything I Thought It Was ( album ) &#8230; Justin Timberlake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[964,11454,7822],"class_list":["post-125614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-music","tag-tennessee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125638,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125614\/revisions\/125638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}