With simply hours to go earlier than Justin Timberlake takes the stage on the Orpheum Theater in his hometown of Memphis tonight (Jan. 19), the singer posted a five-second sneak peek of what’s anticipated to be the preview of his return to music. “SEE YOU TOMORROW” Timberlake wrote on X on Thursday night time prematurely of the free underplay present he introduced final week.
Even higher, the publish got here with a quick video of Timberlake strolling onto the theater’s stage, which was bathed in orange mild illuminating a full band enjoying a slinky R&B groove because the “Mirrors” singer crooned what gave the impression of “it’s all that I noticed.” It was unclear at press time if the groove was from a brand new tune, however Justin’s elevated exercise recently has ramped up hypothesis that the JT6 period is imminent.
Along with the present, Timberlake will probably be again within the pleasant confines of The Tonight Present subsequent Thursday (Jan. 25), the place he’s booked to seem as a visitor alongside Molly Ringwald and musical visitor Flo Milli. Timberlake and host Jimmy Fallon are previous pals, so followers have been hoping that the singer will use the chance to announce his as-yet-untitled new album; at press time Timberlake had not formally confirmed hypothesis that he’s prepping the follow-up to 2018’s Man of the Woods.
There have been a variety of clues that one thing is up, together with Timberlake wiping his social media feeds over the previous week earlier than posting a collection of images that look like from a music video shoot, captioned “EITIW.” The latter spurred solutions that his new single will probably be referred to as “Every thing I Thought I Was,” with eagle-fingered Redditors monitoring down a trademark software filed by a thriller LLC early final 12 months for that phrase, in addition to for “Every thing I Thought I Was… A Sonic Movie.”
At press time a spokesperson for Timberlake had not returned a request for touch upon his upcoming plans.
In September, Timberlake reunited together with his previous bandmates in *NSYNC to launch “Higher Place” from the Trolls Band Collectively soundtrack, marking the group’s first musical launch since 2002’s Neptunes remix of “Girlfriend” that includes Nelly.
Take a look at Timberlake’s publish beneath.