Justin Timberlake is again, and this time he’s in a egocentric temper.
The pop star dropped his new single “Egocentric” on Thursday morning (Jan. 25), marking JT’s first solo launch in additional than 5 years. The video for the track opens with Timberlake bowing to a clapping viewers after which slipping behind a curtain right into a rehearsal studio because the mid-tempo track’s heat keyboard and refined beat bubble up.
“In the event that they noticed what I noticed/ They might fall the best way I fell/ They don’t know what you need/ And, child I might by no means inform,” he sings within the track about limitless devotion, pledging to by no means let his lover go. “‘Trigger Your lips have been made for mine/ And my coronary heart would go flatline/ If it wasn’t beating for you on a regular basis,” Timberlake provides within the pre-chorus of the track he co-wrote with Louis Bell (Taylor Swift), Cirkut (Maroon 5), Theron Thomas and Amy Allen and which he co-produced with Bell and Cirkut.
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The pensive, Alice in Wonderland-style video directed by Bradley J. Calder (SZA) focuses solely on Timberlake, who enters a small door on the soundstage that transports him right into a perspective-skewed hallway during which he seems as an enormous scrambling to reply a purple telephone on the far wall.
“So if i get jealous, I can’t assist it/ I need each little bit of you, I assume I’m egocentric,” he sings in his signature falsetto on the smoothed-out refrain. “It’s dangerous for my psychological, however I can’t combat it/ Once you’re out lookin’ such as you do/ However you’ll be able to’t cover it, no,” he provides. The low key track stays in the identical mellow gear all through, whereas the video finds a annoyed Timberlake repeatedly stomping the miniature units to items and stepping exterior into the rain trying pensive earlier than reducing to the singer in a customized go well with on a dimly lit stage displaying off his signature easy dance strikes.
The singer has teased the lower a number of methods in latest days, together with a hometown reside debut and a publish with what gave the impression to be the official cowl artwork, shot by photographer Charlotte Rutherford. Then, a snippet which pictured JT from behind the stage curtain, thanking an viewers over the sound of an old-fashioned analogue drum machine and lo-fi organ, lifted from the video’s intro.
JT debuted the silky, R&B-leaning observe reside at his free hometown live performance in Memphis on Jan. 19, pulling again the curtain on the primary observe from his forthcoming sixth album, titled All the things I Thought It Was. “Egocentric” is the primary style of the follow-up to his musky 2018 solo LP Man of the Woods, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. EITIW is slated for launch on March 15.
Although his solo music profession has been in deep hibernation, Timberlake did return to his boy band roots final yr when he reunited with *NSYNC for “Higher Place,” which accompanied the JT-starring animated household movie Trolls Band Collectively. The observe bowed at No. 25, for *NSYNC’s fortunate 13th look on the Billboard Scorching 100 and first look on the tally since “Girlfriend” that includes Nelly reached No. 5 — means again in 2002.
The ten-time Grammy winner will remind followers of what they’ve been lacking when he serves as musical visitor on Saturday Evening Stay this weekend, with Dakota Johnson internet hosting. There’s extra small-screen motion to return when JT stops by the The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon subsequent Thursday. The singer additionally introduced one other small-capacity show in New York on Wednesday, revealing that he’ll play the 1,100-capacity Irving Plaza on Jan. 31.
Watch the “Egocentric” video beneath.
