At a concert in his hometown of Memphis on Friday night (January 19), Justin Timberlake performed new song 'Selfish' – his first new solo material since his fifth studio album in 2018 – live Man of the Woods.
“So if I get jealous, I can't help it/ I want every bit of you, I guess I'm selfish,” JT sings on the silky, smooth R&B track (listen to an excerpt in the TikTok video below). “It's bad for my psyche, but I can't fight it.”
And that's not all: Also on Friday night, Timberlake unveiled a trailer for his sixth album along with the project's official title: Everything I thought it was. It comes after the pop star's Instagram teaser on Wednesday was captioned “EITIW”, leading fans on an Easter egg hunt to decipher the acronym.
The album trailer has a kind of Wes Anderson, Asteroid City atmosphere for it, with a model car driving towards a desert gas station. It also has an A-list narrator in Benicio Del Toro.
“What We Have Here?” Del Toro says as the video opens. “Oh, that's a nice car! Wait, she's a model. Is that what JT said? Okay, this sunset is definitely not real. Oh, here's Justin! Why won't it come back? What's that staring at?'
The trailer – which you can watch below – ends with yellow words on a black screen reading: “Justin Timberlake Presents: Everything I Thought He Was.”
A number of clues had pointed to Timberlake's new solo music, starting with the star cleaning up his Instagram in early January. In addition to the mid-week Instagram teaser, Timberlake was also announced as a guest The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday next week and the musical guest at Saturday night live (with host Dakota Johnson) on January 27. While we don't have an official release date for “Selfish” yet, you can pre-order the song at Spotify now.
In September, Timberlake reunited with *NSYNC to release “Better Place” for them Trolls Band Together soundtrack, marking the group's first music release since 2002 (when the Neptunes' remix of 'Girlfriend,' featuring Nelly arrived). That same month, Timberlake reunited with longtime collaborators Timbaland and Nelly Furtado on the song “Keep Going Up!”
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