At a live performance in his hometown of Memphis on Friday evening (Jan. 19), Justin Timberlake live-debuted the brand new track “Egocentric” — his first new solo materials since his fifth studio album, 2018’s Man of the Woods.
“So if I get jealous, I can’t assist it/ I need each little bit of you, I suppose I’m egocentric,” JT sings on the silky-smooth R&B monitor (take heed to a snippet within the TikTok video beneath). “It’s unhealthy for my psychological, however I can’t struggle it.”
And that’s not all: Additionally on Friday evening, Timberlake unveiled a trailer for his sixth album together with the venture’s official title: Every thing 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 type of Wes Anderson, Asteroid Metropolis vibe about it, with a mannequin automobile driving towards a desert fuel station. It additionally has an A-list narrator in Benicio Del Toro.
“What do we have now right here?” Del Toro says because the video opens. “Ooh, that’s a pleasant automobile! Wait, it’s a mannequin. Did that say JT? OK, that sundown is unquestionably not actual. Oh, there’s Justin! Why gained’t he flip round? What the f— is he watching?”
The trailer — which you’ll be able to watch beneath — ends with yellow phrases in opposition to a black display that learn: “Justin Timberlake Presents: Every thing 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. Along with the mid-week Instagram teaser, Timberlake was additionally introduced as a visitor on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday subsequent week and the musical visitor on Saturday Night time Reside (alongside host Dakota Johnson) on Jan. 27. Whereas we don’t have an official launch date for “Egocentric” but, you possibly can pre-save the track on Spotify now.
In September, Timberlake reunited with *NSYNC to launch “Higher Place” for the Trolls Band Collectively soundtrack, marking the group’s first musical launch since 2002 (when the Neptunes remix of “Girlfriend,” that includes Nelly, arrived). That very same month, Timberlake reunited with longtime collaborators Timbaland and Nelly Furtado on the track “Preserve Going Up!”
