The 20/20 Experience
The 20/20 Experience is the third studio album by American singer Justin Timberlake. It was released on March 15, 2013 at RCA Records as the first part of a two part project. On September 27, the successor to The 20/20 Experience was - 2 of 2 published.
Formation
After the commercially successful album FutureSex / LoveSounds, it took seven years to Timberlake presented the successor. In the meantime, he had been active as an actor and some songs by other artists such as Madonna, Rihanna or TI Features contributed.
2010 Timberlake began with his manager Johnny Wright to talk about a new album. First Timberlake did not return to the music and continue to focus on his film career, but in June 2012 he had worked with Timbaland and new songs in July 2012, the album was completed. The recordings took place in just four weeks in the Larrabee Studios ( Hollywood), Timberlake was due to the planned filming of scenes Runner, Runner under time pressure.
Wright described it as " fast disk " ( " almost record" ). On collaboration between Timberlake with Timbaland, he said, "when Those two come together there 's a lot of magic did happens. " ( "If these two work together, magical things happen. " ) In Suit and Tie Jay Z seemed the only guest vocalist on the entire album.
First, the album should be released in October 2012, although the date was postponed to March 2013 for the wedding of the singer with Jessica Biel.
On 27 September 2013 another LP was released to complete the 20/20-Experience. The first single from the new album called " Take Back The Night". The deluxe edition of the album includes 13 songs.
Promotion
In September, Justin Timberlake and his manager Wright met with the chairman of RCA Records, Peter Edge and Tom Corson to speak for the first time on market strategies. On January 10, a teaser with the name I'm Ready was uploaded on Youtube in which Timberlake explains his plans and the music in question is to be seen in a music studio. Four days later, the first single Suit & Tie to the January 25 a rotated by director David Fincher music video was released. The song was also placed in 15 countries in the top 10. In his appearances at the Grammy Awards and the comedy show Saturday Night Live, he sang Suit & Tie live. On February 6, they released the cover and the track list of the album. As a second single mirror was coupled on February 11 that he, among others, at Wetten, dass ..? played in Friedrichshafen and the Brit Awards. For the series of appearances at high-profile events including his first solo live performance in five years at the Super Bowl party in New Orleans, where he introduced the two songs Pusher Love Girl and That Girl.
As of March 11, you could stream the album on iTunes at full length.
Criticism
The album called mainly produced positive reactions on the website Metacritic.com received the album a fundamental positive average rating of 75 out of 100 points based on 39 reviews English.
In the list of the 50 best albums of the year the magazine spin the album was ranked 32, Complex Music is listed at position 21
Tobias Rapp from the news magazine Der Spiegel praises Timberlake's style as elegant and described him as an entertainer, where he draws parallels to even Frank Sinatra. He had not reinvented do with the album but what he could best.
"The whole album shines with effortless elegance and sensuality. Ten songs of psychedelic bliss, modern pop, in the string arrangements keep the voltage carried by a euphony, as you probably hinbekommt him only in the most expensive studios. It takes a while to open up to what the singer really getting at. "The 20/20 Experience" is the plate with the Justin Timberlake says. I can be the Frank Sinatra of the 21st century "
Although the online edition of the mirror in person by Andreas Borcholte however, raises the oriented Motown sound positive times out, but questioned the quality of many lyrics and writes that the elements that should make the album probably more exciting cause, to the contrary. Blessed are the two songs Let the Groove Getin and mirrors.
" There was great expectation, as a successor to his grandiose Timberlake in many ways second album" FutureSex announced / Love Sounds ". And now that "The 20/20 Experience" can be heard at last, one would like to say that the wait was worth it. Does it also. But at the same time remains the feeling that no one would have used this plate. [ ... ] In addition, since most of the new songs are structured as opulent as "Strawberry Bubblegum " seven or eight minute change of style or break towards the end, makes itself at all production technical brilliance and finesse quickly boredom wide. [ ... ] Of course this is not a bad, but even very good, well thought out, sometimes even touching music. "
An article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung is more concerned with the phenomenon of the "superstars" and why the album going so well received.
"Right from the stool plate skin actually no, but all go to great lengths, they somehow find terrific. [ ... ] Everything ripples something too solid then, as already the first single " Suit & Tie ". [ ... ] But who has seen the recent performances Timberlake in the late-night show Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Life in the BBC or Jonathan Ross, who was of course still entranced by this lovable, gifted entertainer. "
The same also describes Jacob Biazza from the focus, the designated Justin Timberlake as perhaps the only current male superstar. The album is not a masterpiece, but everyone wants to see it well. The reason he calls the human " basic need for elegance."
Commercial success
The album reached # 1 on the album charts in Germany, the UK, the U.S., Switzerland and many other countries of different continents, in Austria it reached number 2
In the U.S. it rose with 968,000 copies sold directly to the 1 position, which it lay the strongest first week sales of the year. The 20/20 Experience three weeks was able to hold on to the top chart and has already been awarded on April 22 with double platinum.
In Britain, it was with more than 100,000 sales in the first week of the hitherto most successful album of the year.
In Germany The was 20/20 Experience awarded with the Golden Record.
A world record was set on the album, as it was downloaded 580,000 times in its first week on the iTunes Store.
Awards
- 5x Gold
- 4x platinum