ALBUM REVIEW: Justin Timberlake's "Future Sex/Love Sounds"

I feel like for the last 3 years Cameron Diaz has had Justin locked up, making love to Prince's Greatest Hits. Then he woke up one morning, while she was knocked out, and recorded this album. When his 2nd solo "Future Sex/Love Sounds" is released tomorrow (9/12), you'll hear the legendary Prince's influences all over his tracks. My personal favorites are: Track 4 "My love," which starts off with a ridiculously long and repetitive back and forth "hey" with Timbaland. You can really tell they are good friends, putting their goofy guyness on this track. When it finally gets into the actual song, the one he played to open the VMAs, it makes me want to bust out and dance the robot...but sexily. Favorite by far.

Then there's Track 5: "LoveStoned/I think she knows." It's marked as an interlude, but last time I checked interludes were like 30 seconds long. This is 7 min and 24 seconds. What I love about it is that it goes from a club love song to a piano-driven John Mayerish ballad. Seriously, he had a crap load of fun making this album. Playing around with the "proper way" to create a song. No more straight shooting, one beat for the whole shabang, less than four minute track. I can see why the word "future" is in the title.

If you love scandal and intrigue play Track 6: "What goes around..comes back around" the moment you get the album...the very second. If there are extras, screw em. Listen to this track. It's the best 7min and 28 seconds you'll ever hear. Here are the vital lyrics that will blow your gossip-ragged mind:

"It's breaking my heart to watch you run around/cause i know that you're living a lie/but that's okay baby you will find/what goes around/goes around/goes around/comes all the way back around...I was ready to give you my name."

Song goes from ballad to hip hop and essentially from sorrow to anger.

"You spend your nights alone/and he never comes home/and every time you call him/all you get is a busy tone...i heard you found out that he's doing to you/what you did to me...when you cheated girl/my heart beat it girl...girl you got what you deserved...and now you want somebody to cure the lonely nights...and girl i need somebody but not out of sympathy."

You could say that this is just a made up story and he isn't talking about Britney Spears. But then he laughs maniacally...softly but maniacally...at the end. Revel in this scoop waiting to happen.
Besides Timbaland, Will.i.am makes an appearance and so does a Justin-trying-to-rhyme-like-a-Southern-rapper.

If you're looking for a love tune listen to Track 9, 10 and 12. But for that inspirational, Grammy attempt listen to Track 11. It's about a guy letting pot rule his life and watching his dreams pass him by. I understand the effort, but the lyrics are a tad juvenile.