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During a two-year hiatus, Timberlake resolved his feelings on being unable to record any new material, and as he returned to record some new music, he began collaborating with his longtime record producer Timbaland , alongside the latter's colleague Danja. The album's contents were produced at Timbaland's Thomas Crown Studios. Comes Around ". Many music publications considered it among the best albums of the s. Aside from earning numerous best-of-the-decade lists, the album received several Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album , while its first four singles won in their respective categories. It has been certified multi-platinum in many countries worldwide, and has sold over 10 million copies, with four million in the United States. The album has been added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's musical library and archive. It is also considered by critics and fans to be one of Timberlake's best albums to date. In the following years, Timberlake went partially idle in the music industry. In October , he hosted and was the guest musician on the late-night variety show Saturday Night Live , where he showcased his acting potentials.
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The pop star ended up utilizing the four-year gap between albums to launch his acting career and recover from the burnout of heavy touring and promotion of his debut, as he stated in a Rolling Stone cover story. He spent the break snowboarding and playing golf with then-girlfriend Cameron Diaz and launched his acting career after a surprisingly adept, hilarious turn as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Now, I thought, I need to make an epic record, a consistent sound, a body of work. It has to be better than the last one. As Timberlake slowly eased himself back into the recording process, he reached out to both tried-and-true collaborators as well as new ones. Before the EDM boom that would follow a few years later, producer Danja was intrigued with where techno and trance would go in mainstream music. What made FutureSex feel so innovative at the time was its clubby, gritty sound, which separated the pop album from the more straightforward synth or hip-hop influences in mainstream music during that era. I just wanted to have that energy and have people going crazy. As soon as I put the boom-boom-kat, I knew it. Legendary rock and rap savant Rick Rubin contributed to one song on FutureSex , and his link-up with Timberlake happened because of comedian Chris Rock.
Give Justin Timberlake credit for this: he has ambition. He drove the teen pop quintet to the top of the charts, far exceeding their peers the Backstreet Boys , and when the group could achieve no more, he eased into a solo career that earned him great sales and a fair amount of praise, largely centered on how he reworked the dynamic sound of early Michael Jackson at a time when Jacko was so hapless he turned away songs that later became JT hits, as in the Neptunes -propelled "Rock Your Body. Hell, a quick look at the titles of those first three songs shows some cracks in the album's architecture, as they reveal how desperate and literal Timberlake 's sex moves are. Each of the three opening songs has "sex" sandwiched somewhere within its title, as if mere repetition of the word will magically conjure a sex vibe, when in truth it has the opposite effect: it makes it seem that Justin is singing about it because he's not getting it. Surely, his innuendos are bluntly obvious, packing lots of swagger but no machismo or grace. They merely recycle familiar scenarios -- making out on the beach, dancing under hot lights, acting like a pimp -- in familiar fashions, marrying them to grinding, squealing synths that never sound sweaty or sexy; if they're anything, they're the sound of bad anonymous sex in a club, not an epic freaky night with a sex machine like, say, Prince. But Prince isn't the only idol Justin Timberlake wants to emulate here. Like any young man with a complex about his maturity, he wants to prove that he's an adult now by singing not just about sex but also serious stuff, too -- meaning, of course, that drugs are bad and can ruin lives.
