Hey y'all, DJ Louie here, just dropping a snippet of this week's Pop Panty on All Access episode

in which myself and writer Rachel Brodsky are taking a look back at Justin Timberlake's debut solo album, Justified, which came out in 2002, on the eve of the release of his newest album, Everything I Thought I Was, which comes out on March 15th. In this conversation, Rachel and I get into so many interesting topics about this music, how we thought about it at the time, how we think about it now, how Justin's nosedive of a public profile has

affected how we view his peak era music, and so many more interesting topics. So if you enjoy this

snippet, you can listen to the rest of the episode, plus weekly bonus episodes of this show

by going to patreon.com slash pop pantheon or by clicking the link in the show notes of this episode. So without further ado, here is a snippet of my conversation with Rachel Brodsky. Okay, so I'm here with freelance music and culture writer and host of the InSync podcast, Rachel Brodsky, Rachel, welcome to the show. Hi, thank you for having me. It's my pleasure

to have you, and I'm super excited for the conversation that we're going to have today. I was

honestly already excited to have it just because we're obviously on the eve of new Justin Timberlake

music, his next record. Everything I thought I was drops on March 15th, which is exactly one month from today.

So we're currently in the midst of having to reckon once again, as we have many times in the

past with Justin Timberlake, with his legacy, having to intersect with him again and trying

to figure out what we feel about him as a body politic of pop consumers, I guess.

And so I went into this, having just sort of gone through the experience of listening to his new

single selfish, feeling kind of underwhelmed by it, feeling the general feeling, I guess,

that I've mostly experienced with Justin Timberlake, I'd say, in the last probably,

mostly like eight years, but to some degree, I think since the 2020 experience of 2013, which was,

I feel like a lot of the fizz, a lot of the tension, a lot of the excitement that he generated, again,

in ways that I wonder looking back, whether it was warranted or not, and we'll talk about

that in this conversation, was just kind of gone. And I sort of experienced Justin Timberlake

now as kind of just like embarrassing a little bit, a little bit dad, a little bit out of touch,

out of step, no cool factor, funny duddy, literally out of step. Literally out of step in some

instances, which like is, you know,

indirect competition with like the way that we used to see him as somebody that was like a pretty

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