This album is very good, maybe even great. The Prince comparisons are very apt. Sonically, it's the best pop album I've heard in a long, long time.

Pitchfork even gave the album an 8.1:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/r ... LoveSounds

I guess my indie rock credibility isn't totally thrown out the window, heh.

good luck.

I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me, but I think there's always a time and place for well-made pop.

'I'm Bringing Sexy Back' is actually a pretty good pop song.

I'll be downloading this.

I just can't get into this.

I don't really like the song (although maybe I'll change my tune), but I'll proabbly listen to this at some point.

I flat-out refuse to accept even the possibility of someone like Justin Timberlake making a good record.

Don't like it have it on the player for the last couple of days and I just took it off the playlist this morning

Dissapointing because I like Justified

Nice outlook on things you have there.

Since I was an MMC mark back in the day, I checked this record out. I'm really digging it... it's a damn fine pop-dance album. My favorite track right now is either "What Goes Around..." or "My Love".

that's what I thought at first, but it's really stupid to go looking at things like that. Why? Why can't he have made a good pop record?

Cynical? Yes! But I so strongly dislike what he stands for that I doubt if I could still listen to his work objectively.

FutureSex/LoveSounds?

Sounds suspiciously similar to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

first thing that came to my mind

It's produced by Timbaland, which portends well. But one can't forget that Pitchfork likes indie rock and mainstream rap/pop/hip-hop.

By the logic of 'I hate what they stand for,' I would never have checked out Nirvana (self-destructive addictive fury) or Bruce Springsteen (pop star hero of the working man), among many others, and I'd be an asshole for it.

*Puts on Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten.*

There's a difference, I think. If only one of scale. Nirvana were forced (or forced themselves, who knows) into a niche. Springsteen was iconified, but was so for who he was, or what people thought he was.

Justin Timberlake is a direct product of mass marketing. A machine that has no other goal than to eliminate personal preference and diversity of thought, by enforcing upun the youth the idea that their worth is directly proportional to their adherence to what that machine tells them to listen to, wear, eat, drink or think. All in the name of monetary gain.

Maybe you are narrowminded and not the "mass marketing machine". Maybe your attitude is at fault need to actively seek out subtlety and craft rather than expecting media to fully explain what an artist represents.

Remember also that Justin Timberlake's albums are put out under the Sony BMG label, who also put out Pearl Jam's records until recently.