Justin Timberlake Claims He Can 'Understand Why People Laughed' At Second Album
Tuesday, 02 April 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
American superstar Justin Timberlake has revealed he can ‘understand why people laughed’ at his sophomore album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’, which he claims was given ‘terrible reviews’ when it hit shelves back in 2006.
There’s no doubt the record was extremely successful - it birthed his first UK #1 with ‘SexyBack’, and has sold over 10million copies worldwide - but Timberlake seems to think that people weren’t too pleased with it when it came out, and he’s come forward via the PA to confess that he understands why.
“When I put it [‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’] out, everybody was laughing at me - critics, radio programmers, and to their credit, I understand why,” Timberlake revealed. “But I wanted to do something different at that time. I wanted to do something that was like, this is like nothing I hear on the radio. That was my effort with that one.”
He continued: “I got like terrible reviews on that record, and so to talk about it now... I just think that Tim [Timbaland] and I were onto something different, and I just think that anytime you put out something different, it's polarising. And polarising is good, I think, because polarising starts a conversation.”
Timberlake went on to excitedly talk about his up and coming co-headline tour alongside Jay-Z, and enthused: “I think he likes to do things for his fanbase that are special, as do I, and we just thought, we share a lot of the same style, actually. I bet we share a lot of the same fans, you know what I mean? I remembered artists like Billy [Joel] and Elton [John] went on tour together and you just see them mash up their songs together, and I said, that's what it has to be. We have to just go out on stage for two hours and just non-stop, kill it and then go have a beer or whatever.
“We're both on this thing where we're not into a lot of tricks. We just want to come play and fry everybody's face off with the songs and everybody have a great time. Almost festival style.”
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