Justin Timberlake drops new single, video for 'Filthy'
'What you gonna do with all that meat?'
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Your support makes all the difference.Justin Timberlake has released the first single from his upcoming album Man of the Woods and told fans to play it "very loud".
The song was co-written with Timbaland, Danja, James Fauntleroy and Lawrence Dopson; produced by Timberlake, Timbaland and Danja.
He sings about dismissing haters who "gonna say it's fake" while the chorus goes: "Look, I said, 'Put your filthy hands all over me'/You know this ain't the clean version/And what you gonna do with all that meat? Cookin' up a meat serving."
Meanwhile the video, directed by Mark Romanek ['Can't Stop the Feeling'] shows Timberlake presenting at the "Pan-Asian Deep Learning Conference" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2028.
Styled as a Steve Jobs-type inventor, Timberlake introduces a robot that gets frisky with the dancers who join it onstage, blurring a line between inventor and his invention.
We're wondering if he's attempting to emulate the success of Taylor Swift and the first track to be released off reputation: "Look What You Made Me Do" - especially considering he's enlisted songwriters including Alicia Keys and Chris Stapleton to contribute to the album.
The Jack Antonoff-produced work was unlike anything Swift had released previously, and prompted a frenzy of speculation over the subject/s of the lyrics. It was also noticeably different to any of the singles - or indeed the rest of the album - going for something that got people talking to create a buzz around ahead of consecutive releases.
Timberlake is planning to release three other videos ahead of the album's release on 2 February.
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