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Justin Timberlake is simply 2 weeks far from revealing his very prepared for 6th workshop cd, Everything I Thought It Was, and the celebrity required to Instagram on Thursday (Feb. 29) to share the behind the curtain of making the cd’s newest solitary, “Drown.”
“‘Drown’ happened very quickly,” Timberlake is seen informing his followers in an informal video clip resting at the piano. “Myself, Kenyon Dixon, Amy Allen along with Cirkut and and Louis Bell. It’s the first one I actually wrote with Lou Bell and Cirkut. The song wrote itself so quickly. It kind of annoyed me, because sometimes you have this thing like, ‘Oh, if you didn’t struggle to write the song, maybe it’s not worth it.’”
He proceeded, “The more I listened back to it and the more I played it for people, the more it was like, ‘No, this sounds like you.’ When I think back to songs like that, where I kind of underestimated that ability to have that familiarity or catch on with people, the last time was ‘Mirrors.’ I sat on that song for, like, five years.”
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Timberlake included an additional “fun fact” to the mix, sharing, “The vocal that you hear is the demo vocal. I recorded it line by line as we were writing it, just to demo it out. The most we listened back to it, the more it had this honesty to it that I didn’t want to change anything.”
“Drown” works as JT’s main follow-up to “Selfish,” which debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, gaining Timberlake his highest possible launching in 6 years on Billboard’s marquee songs graph. The lead solitary from Everything I Thought It Was likewise significant Timberlake’s 29th leading 40 hit as a musician.
In assistance of his brand-new LP, Timberlake is readied to start a headlining North American sector trip. The trip will certainly start April 29 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B.C., and browse through significant cities such as Las Vegas (May 10-11), New York (Jun. 25-26) and Atlanta (Nov. 16), prior to wrapping up Nov. 20 at KFC Yum Center in Louisville, Ky.
Watch his review of “Drown” listed below. Everything I Thought It Was is out March 15.
