At a live performance in his hometown of Memphis on Friday evening (Jan. 19), Justin Timberlake live-debuted the brand new track “Selfish” — his first new solo materials since his fifth studio album, 2018’s Man of the Woods.
“So if I get jealous, I can’t help it/ I want every bit of you, I guess I’m selfish,” JT sings on the silky-smooth R&B observe (take heed to a snippet within the TikTok video under). “It’s bad for my mental, but I can’t fight it.”
And that’s not all: Also on Friday evening, Timberlake unveiled a trailer for his sixth album together with the undertaking’s official title: Everything I Thought It Was. This comes after the pop star’s Instagram teaser on Wednesday was captioned “EITIW,” main followers on an Easter egg hunt to decode the acronym.
The album trailer has a form of Wes Anderson, Asteroid City vibe about it, with a mannequin automotive driving towards a desert fuel station. It additionally has an A-list narrator in Benicio Del Toro.
“What do we have here?” Del Toro says because the video opens. “Ooh, that’s a nice car! Wait, it’s a model. Did that say JT? OK, that sunset is definitely not real. Oh, there’s Justin! Why won’t he turn around? What the f— is he staring at?”
The trailer — which you’ll watch under — ends with yellow phrases towards a black display screen that learn: “Justin Timberlake Presents: Everything I Thought It Was.”
A sequence of clues had hinted at new Timberlake solo music, beginning with the star wiping his Instagram clear in early January. In addition to the mid-week Instagram teaser, Timberlake was additionally introduced as a visitor on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday subsequent week and the musical visitor on Saturday Night Live (alongside host Dakota Johnson) on Jan. 27. While we don’t have an official launch date for “Selfish” but, you may pre-save the track on Spotify now.
In September, Timberlake reunited with *NSYNC to launch “Better Place” for the Trolls Band Together soundtrack, marking the group’s first musical launch since 2002 (when the Neptunes remix of “Girlfriend,” that includes Nelly, arrived). That identical month, Timberlake reunited with longtime collaborators Timbaland and Nelly Furtado on the track “Keep Going Up!”
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