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Justin Timberlake’s sixth solo album, “Everything I Thought It Was,” has been met with a fairly uncommon quantity of vital dismissal in addition to weaker than normal gross sales, turning into his first solo launch to overlook No. 1 since “Justified” in 2002. Timberlake, as soon as probably the most distinguished male star in American pop music, has turn out to be one thing of a musical afterthought lately.
That is related to his musical decisions, to make sure, but in addition to a bigger social-cultural backlash within the wake of public re-evaluations of his relationship with Britney Spears, and the way he navigated the 2004 Super Bowl halftime present incident that despatched Janet Jackson into exile and largely left him unscathed.
On this week’s Popcast, a dialog concerning the state of Timberlake’s music profession, the lengthy stretch of time throughout which he left his roles within the Jackson incident and Spears relationship publicly unexamined, and what, if any, paths ahead stay for him musically and past.
Guests:
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Steven J. Horowitz, senior music author at Variety
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Joshunda Sanders, an creator and former columnist on the San Francisco Chronicle
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