Yesterday rock nyc wondered (I think we wrote: stop fucking around and get back to work) when Justin Timberlake would be back to recording.
Today,we heard exclusively through secret backchannels, the cover of Entertainment Weekly, that the answer is: when I want. Here is what Justin said: “”Does a painter make a painting because he has to make it by December 21st? No, he doesn’t. It happens when it pours out of him. That’s how music is for me.”
Justin is, of course, a twit. A Van Gogh, a Gaughin. A renoir. THEY SPENT THEIR LIVES PAITING. They didn’t sit around waiting for inspiration from life. The inspiration to painting was life itself. As for Justin. He is a talented fellow who has been a performer all his life. But if he is taken a decade off in the prime of his life what he isn’t write now is a musician.