Product Description

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Track Listing

1. Future Sex/Love Sound
2. SexyBack
3. Sexy Ladies
4. My Love
5. Love Stoned
6. What Goes Around
7. Chop Me Up
8. Damn Girl
9. Summer Love
10. Until The End Of Time
11. Losing My Way
12. All Over Again (Another Song)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #392 in Music
• Brand: TIMBERLAKE,JUSTIN
• Released on: 2006-09-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
One spin of FutureSex/LoveSounds and it's hard to believe that Justin Timberlake was ever a boy-band barnstormer--no modern-day male artist beats him when it comes to single-minded self assurance or suavity. "SexyBack," the inescapable summer sizzler of a first single off this short and thrillingly unwholesome disc, makes that clear on its own: If there was ever any question about whether sexy was in need of reviving--a doubtful proposition at best, given the sheer volume of JT's gyrating counterparts--he lays it to rest instantly over a small but insistent Timbaland-concocted beat. On that track, Timberlake's appeal is his sweet but newly thuggish-sounding voice--here's a good kid gone bad, and he's determined to convince us of it not only by tossing a few well-timed mother****ers our way but also with such lyrics as "I'll let you whip me if I misbehave." The rest of FutureSex will feel familiar to anyone who picked up 2002's brilliantly funk-flecked Justified: "Love Stoned/I Think She Knows Me," shifts from Michael Jackson-esque paranoid trilling to pulsating guitar rock; "Chop Me Up," a collaboration with Three 6 Mafia and Timbaland, gives up the grit rap-style but still manages to recall both Prince and Stevie Wonder; "My Love," with T.I., mines classic Timberlake territory with meltaway lyrics like "I can see us holding hands walking on the beach/Our clothes in the sand"; and the straight-up but groovy lament "Losing My Way" asks, searchingly, what may be the silliest question a squeal-inducing pop star has ever posed: "Can anybody out there feel me?" Rest assured, JT: we feel every past-, present-, and future-sexy verse. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Great
This is a great album. Justin Timberlake totally shot to absolute stardom with this album and for good reason - It sounds like this album was actually produced for two purposes - making catchy music and selling records. Which is basically what the music industry is about.

Th production is what gives the album it's punch - it's catchy, fun and well marketed. Definitely one of the breakthrough albums of the decade.

If urban contemporary radio can forgive, I guess I can, too!
I really waited a long time before I succumbed to listening to this album, feeling that Timberlake had been less than noble by not publicly supporting Janet Jackson following the faux pas that was the halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII or A.K.A. "Boobygate." I couldn't bring myself to give young Justin a try.

It wasn't until I saw a video on YouTube of Timberlake's "Sexyback" accompanying scenes from the primetime soap "Dallas" that I began to hear him in a different light. Later, I saw his video to "My Love" and the moves of him and his dancers were quite eye-catching. Next, I saw one of his appearances on SNL and saw that there was a comic talent behind that pop/hip-hop persona.

Then, it wasn't until I discovered that he was the auteur behind "Until the End of Time," one of the best R & B songs of last year, I then said to myself, "OK! He's a tad more than just Britney's ex!"

After having heard the entire album, I can say that it has something that appeals to a wide spectrum of the listening public. There's enough of the old (the 70's-funk sounding "Sexy Ladies," for example) intertwined with the new ("Chop Me Up," among others) to satisfy the kids, their parents, and, possibly the younger grandparents.

Granted, the use of a couple of expletives could have been eliminated, along with the ridiculously out-of-place "Damn Girl," the one track that sounds like a holdover from the singer's 'NSYNC days. Using profanity is not necessarily a sign of maturity but "kids" tend to think that it is.

Overall, ""FutureSex/Lovesound," while not one of the great pop albums of all time, is definitely a keeper and shows a talent that, with a couple of more years, may develop into a something more than "the flava of the month," just as long as he matures vocally and doesn't remain in one niche.

Love it!
Love about 4 or 5 songs which I rate 5stars, the other songs are so so.