Justin Timberlake exclusive: The singer on his new album (or lack thereof) and current iPod favorites
Mar 25, 2009, 03:26 PM | by Tim Stack
Categories: Ciara, Current listening, Justin Timberlake
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Timberlake fans, don't hold your breath waiting for a new album. Timberlake, whose last disc, FutureSex/LoveSounds, came out in 2006, tells EW
that he's "not working" on new music right now. The singer -- who's executive producing a new MTV reality competition series called The
Phone (premiering April 21) -- has been hitting the studio lately, but only to produce tracks for other artists, like T.I. ("Dead and Gone") and Ciara ("Love Sex Magic"). "Right now, I like the idea that things can just kind of pop up and if they feel right I can do
them," says Timberlake. "Committing to my own sort of project, that's like, 'Okay, let me block out two years of my life and do it.' I
was heavily fulfilled with the last one and I always have this thing with myself that if I can't sleep because I need to do it, then I'm gonna do it.
But if I'm not losing sleep over it then…"
When he does finally get to work on his new disc, what might it sound like? Timberlake isn't saying, but if his current iPod listening is any indication, it might have more of a rock sound. "I mean, I listen to everything," he says. "I've been going back and forth between Kings of Leon's latest album and the Black Keys. I really love their Attack and Release. I thought that was a really great record. And of course Radiohead. It's a constant. I enjoy In Rainbows in the morning. You throw it on in the iPod dock and get ready to leave the house and go on about your day. That album seems to put me in a pretty decent mood."
What do you think, Music Mixers? Should JT get back into the studio, already? And would you be into hearing a Timberlake rock album?
). But I really am
hoping he'll at least start thinking about it soon.
