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Justin Timberlake :: "SexyBack"From FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive; 2006)
"I think it's special what's behind your back / so turn around and
I'll pick up the slack." Finally, the song about Kylie's butt that we
all knew he was capable of. Not sure this will bring so much "sexy"
"back" into pop music as cause strippers to consider "Timbaland"
routines. Speaking of Tim, if you became progressively creeped out by
the zillion youtubes of "Promiscuous" where the Tanktop Juggernaut
actively ogles Furtado's butt like that's a part of the
"choreography", right down to that squinting "damn y'all: it is a
moving butt" double-O-face (choréographie-de-visage), you'll want
to import that Pipettes album before listening to this. They do this
weird "wit" thing that's getting more revolutionary by the minute.
Cokemachine had a group discussion about "Sexyback." Q: "Timabland
produced it?" A: "No, can't be, the drums are too shit." Regretfully,
that's a two part answer that's 50% right. But hey, Justin does bite
Pharrell with his faux-tormented, fauxetto, faux-pas whine that was
really only hot for Prince. And do us a solid, don't call it a
comeback when it's actually a strip club tour told between sloppy
synth expulsions: "(little fart) come here girl (big fart) come to the
back (little fart) V.I.P. (big fart) drinks on me." Later, deep in the
dark crevices of the cut, as the pace quickens into jiggling cellulite
inertia, we get a glimpse of its true identity: "Batdance."
Not even half as awesome as it sounds.
Aaron Newell :: 10 July 2006 |
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