Justified

All the nostalgia from my childhood comes around. Butnlistening to this, now, can't really like this. Lyrics too, how okay today, really?

Was catchy but gave me the ick big time

it’s this kind of music that made 13 y/o me incredibly snobby about “only listening to classical music.” far too heterosexual

maybe I’m biased because I lowk hate this guy though

Even though this isn't my kind of music, I listened with an open mind, but it's just forgettable, weak, and derivative sounding. The algorithm suggested some decent tunes of a broadly similar genre after the album finished, such as Outkast, TLC, and No Diggity, all of which are far superior to anything on this album. Rounded down from 1.5 to 1 stars as he's a twat.

The Good: This album is Justified! The Bad: Don’t believe everything you’re told… The Ugly: The only good thing about this album is the silence after the last song… I hit skip… and skip…. though, I did try and listen to the first song… but I couldn’t. Somehow, I actually started getting aggressive towards anything pop related. Also, though the album hails from 2002, this is such a ‘90s shit-storm, it isn’t even funny…. or, my brain is just playing tricks on me. Poor Justin, he’s not getting a lot of love I guess. Off to listen to one of the other many albums I still left to rate—2 week business trips really don’t help trying to catch up… 1*

Influential on pop culture for sure, but we've got a severe case of listener/music mismatch going on when I have to white-knuckle my way through a 63 minute album over the course of three hours, taking breaks between every track. Absolutely, brutally, profoundly not to my tastes.

i do not believe the inclusion of this album was justified within this list. ugh, FINE, actual thoughts. this one hell of an early 2000s time capsule. the production from timbaland and the neptunes is good enough that if this were not justin timberlake i think this would be a decent-solid album. unfortunately we've got this goofy looking and sounding dude trying to pretend he has sex appeal. he looks and sounds like a guy i would not leave my drink unattended around you know what i mean? you're not michael jackson!!! it's unfortunate that "cry my a river" is such an incel anthem because honestly the beat on that track is shockingly good. "rock your body" likewise would go crazy hard if it was not timberlake singing this.

You are kidding me. This is a joke right. "Trolls" actor and Flop Era extraordinaire Justin Timberlake once allegedly said "Oh yeah. Fo-shiz Fo-shiz, Ginuwine. What's up, Homie?" and whilst that has never been actually confirmed, it is the exact kind of cringe channelled throughout Justin Timberlakes work. We do not need to critically reassess this man. I very nearly DNF'ed this album. If I have to give this album something its that I think Timbaland's production is pretty good here. Timbaland might nowadays is an AI grifter, but you can't say he wasn't without talent. I kinda forgot how weird Cry Me a River actually sounds. The Neptunes are also trying their hardest to make this album sound good evidenced most in "rock your body", which would be an actual great song had it not been Timberlake singing it. Idk I just don't see Justin Timberlake as cool or hot and all his music REALLY wants you to believe he is for it to work.

Nope.

I thought I knew Timberlake's work, and decided I didn't like it. Turns out I did not actually know a lot of his work. Now I can say with improved confidence that I don't like it at all. 2/10

Not for me.

It’s slick, polished, and utterly drenched in Neptunes‑era production, but beneath the glossy beats it’s basically an hour of Justin trying—very hard—to seduce someone who apparently doesn’t need a name beyond “Girl.” The cumulative effect is… well, slightly grimy. Not in a fun rock‑and‑roll way—more in a please stop whispering in falsetto way. By the time the closing track rolls around, titled “Never Again,” I found myself nodding in complete solidarity. Yes, Justin. Never again indeed.

він мене лратуж і він проблематичний тож

I tried.

Never listened to an album of his. Now I know why. So terribly, terribly boring music.

I did not need to hear this

Awful

Not my jam. Ends with ... Never again!

In 2004, I turned off the halftime show at the beginning because I thought it was boring. Ergo, I missed Janet Jackson’s boob. I still regret doing that. (SIDE NOTE: Janet got absolutely screwed there. That happening on “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song” shows that it was 100% intentional and 100% on Justin. The more you think about it, the more you realize how massive of a douchebag Justin Timberlake really is.) Slow, soulful R&B is worse when it’s sung by white people. Also loses a point because after about minute 40, this one is absolutely interminable. This does NOT need to be this long. Anything N*Sync > any JT solo material.

No voihan helvetti. Tämä on taas yksi niistä levyistä, joilla ei ole mitään asiaa tälle listalle. 63 minuuttia geneeristä poppia, jossa ei ole mitään omaperäistä tai erityisen mielenkiintoista. Justin on ihan kyvykäs laulaja, mutta tämän albumin kuuntelu oli aika työlästä. En tiedä antaisiko yhden tähden vai kaksi.

One star purely for a couple of mild bangers…

An irredeemable , horny slog of an album. I can't believe this made the list. I wish I died first. 1.5/10

I prefer his 'Dick in a Box' phase. The last track on this collection of highly produced sounds is Never Again. I agree.

Just so early 2000s pop. "Rock Your Body" is the only song on here I don't actively dislike, and even then it's kind of a "so bad it's enjoyable" vibe,

A waste of sound

Elevator music

I remember not liking Timberlake as a kid 20 years ago, let's see how he holds up.in 2026. Within 30 seconds, Justin is using his own name in 3rd person, that's a bad sign. First impression is that Senorita is an overproduced, dull affair. Has a few pop hooks but also sounds dated. Very basic melody wise, too. Like I Love you is a little better, I guess. I like the electronic melody near the end. The lyrics are still awful. Also the album doesn't flow, each song is like it's own presentation. This is more a collection of singles than an album. I just can't help but compare this to what bands like The Avalanches or Daft Punk were doing around the same time. Or other pop songs of the era Shakira, Beyonce etc. it just pales in comparison even to those. This sound is like...it sounds like an Idol contestant 3rd place getter. But JT also has a weak vocal performance. Even the big hits like Cry me a River are... passable at best. That one in particular is dull and a bit repetitive. Rock your Body is at least a bit more upbeat. Everything after that is garbage. Some of these songs are also just five whole fucking minutes of the same shitty beat. Never Again is how I feel after getting to the end of this tripe.

I tried, I really did….skip skip skip, mid album bail…

I liked him better when he was working with the Lonely Island guys.

This is the radio pop music of my youth and fits that early 2000s pop sound - a lot stemming from the r&b realm. It’s competently made, but that’s about where my appreciation ends. Of course I know a handful of the popular singles which are still engrained deep in my head somewhere, but the non-singles really add nothing unless you’re a JT super fan. Just not something I have interest in and even my 2 year old was asking me to turn it off.

Didn’t like this. It almost sounded like a Michael Jackson parody (who I don’t really like). Not very enjoyable.

moest ik alle albums op deze lijst zo snel doorspoelen als deze, dan kan ik morgen sterven

nei

This is so torturous to listen to I think the FBI could use it in some enhanced interrogation techniques. So boring and way too long

not my cuppa

Soooo dated (and shite)

Blech

Justin, stop trying to make MJ happen. It's not going to happen! Ok, see this is interesting because this one of the few albums I've gotten so far that came out when I was in high school. So looking back at it now in 2026...ugh. It's so cringey. The little breakdown in Senorita ('fellas, sing this part, ladies this part")....I'm cringing so hard. Time has not been good to Justin Timberlake. Cry Me A River has a catchy beat but feels icky after reading about what went down between him and Britney. It sounds very dated in a bad way. And what's with all the talking on this record? Like he's trying to sound sexy whispering over the music a lot and it's stupid. Plus, this album did NOT need to be 63 minutes long.

Nei

Sí, claro... El idiota de Justin Timberlake. Ni de coña escucho esto.

a bit rapey for my liking.

- Oh hooray, another Zio. - It’s that overproduced, sterile sound that I can’t get behind with his nothing voice over it all... - Yeah, this was so forgettable that I forgot I was listening to it. Nothing caught my attention, and I just wished I was listening to something good instead. And, this after getting Michael Jackson the day before didn’t help.

Not my genre

There are soft drink jingles with the sincerity and artistic impact of this album

Ho hum. This is definitely what Pharrell sounded like when Chad was still helping and that is better than what came after , but that is not enough to overcome Timberlake's MJ and Usher impressions.

Warum?

Sorry, aber nein. Einfach nein.

Of all the artists that have come up, I was the most surprised to see Justin Timberlake. The album was produced by the Neptunes with songs originally for Michael Jackson and you can really tell. That being said Justin Timberlake fucking sucks. Boring album with lifeless singing over the top. Made my train journey feel twice as long as it was. Dreadful stuff.

Maybe one good dance track. Not enough for a full album and definitely not something that needs to be heard.

God what the FUCK was this. It felt like a 63 minute parody. By the 3rd song I was having serious doubts about my commitment to this project.

Well that was awful.

I went through a phase where I really dug Timberlake's stuff, now he just annoys the piss outta me

Very ho-hum. 1.5/5

Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Cry Me A River Yea, so Justin Timberlake along with NSync, Backstreet Boys, and 98 Degrees were borderline inescapable "bands" if you were a pre-teen/teen in the 2000s. I mean, you might have liked them as a young adult too, but I doubt, for example, my parents enjoyed them (or even tolerated them) the same way they enjoyed the Beatles or the Beach Boys. At least with those bands, they actually also played instruments. Anyways, this shit mostly sucks. Cry Me a River is interesting insofar as the underlying beat is amusing - some weird mumbling going on deep in the music, and for the fact that I love using that phrase when someone's being whiny and obnoxious. But yea, not a fan of this. Not a fan of the genre, not a fan of the history of the modern 90s boy band, not a fan of the subject matter or lyrics; Overall pretty shallow and boring. And of course, I will take any opportunity to reference or quote Futurama whenever I can: Fry: How can you guys be so blasé? Here we are in the year three-hundred-or-so, yet you're just sitting around like it's the boring time I came from. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Boring? Wasn't that the period when they cracked the human genome, and boy bands roamed the earth? Not a direct reference to Justin Timberlake, but amusing nonetheless.

While Cry Me a River is a classic, this is honestly pretty bad. Did not finish.

Mickey Mouse effort here. There's just NOTHING here that I want to listen to - ever.

Irritating

Someone tryin to be MJ …Only one MJ dude. This shit boring and not for me. A bunch of skips.

I hated this

Wow, not a single half-decent song!

You are not michael jackson, lightweight early 2000's pop. Not my thing

Pop garbage

Appropriative and entitled 😡

It's just the same song played over and over again.

One of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die? Unjustified.

The singles are well known and stronger pop songs. The rest of the album to me has the vocals try to be too much and the lyrics are generally uninspiring. There's no lack of confidence here.

Entirely derivative. Sweet voice, slick production. Weak songs.

oh...

Timberlake, torna a fare In Time

IDGAF about him or this album, he's just a wanna be Michael Jackson

You know what, I hated this stuff when I was a teen. I'm really not interested in engaging with it now. Everything I don't like about the late 90s/early 2000s. Just giving it my 1 and moving on. Also, garbage album cover. Why'd they MSPaint paste him on to the moon?

Just completely unlistenable for me unfortunately. Like auditory battery acid.

I’m offended by this album. I don’t know why, I just am. I’m offended that he came to the conclusion that this piece of shit should be out there for us all to listen. This doesn’t contribute to society in any way, quite the opposite. I’d bet all my money that this album has brought more negative feelings than positive ones in general. I pity my fellow unfortunate souls who have had the unlucky fate of hearing this humdrum album. A tedious journey. Listening to this makes you feel like you’re in an empty locked room with only Justin Timberlake performing and flaunting and dancing really close to you. And you just have to sit there and watch, utterly terrified. For an hour and three minutes straight.

No. Not justified!

1 - nothing good

he should khs

murder-suicide was #justified by this album

This guy 100% grinds on a mirror and listens to his own album. The “I think I’m sexy” voice is so embarrassing.

Nope

This was really bad. The relentless funky beat did not make me want to rock my body. Some of it was catchy 20 years ago, but it was very grating today

*2002. Debut solo album. *Solo JT is not it for me - high pitched voice, latin flare with R&B but without any soul. *I can see why people would like some of it. *Flew through most tracks. Would not revisit. *Big hits - Cry Me a River + Rock Your Body RATING - 4/10

Thirteen milquetoast love songs that won’t shut up about baby. I skipped around each track for a few seconds, and almost every time I dropped in, there it was—baby, girl, or you, crooned on repeat. So thirteen tracks of ‘baby, girl, you’ on endless loop—romance Muzak with better sneakers

No Justin

A hour and 4 minutes? Really, are you kidding? Do I have to do this? I'm writing this before I listened, dreading what's to come. I would never - I repeat, never - choose to listen to this album. And, it turns out it was entirely an unpleasant experience for me. If I was had been a 14 year old girl in 2002 (I was a 37 year old man) or maybe even was one now, I might - might, I say - enjoy this. However, I have neither nostalgia nor appreciation for much of anything this is - the musical performance, the song writing, his singing, not a bit of it. And that's even with Pharrell along for the ride, whom I appreciate very much. Nope, nope, hard no thank you, do not prefer.

Thought there would be at least one track I would like but nope they all sucked.

I thought I was too hard on JT until I listed to this album.

mogao bih dati dvojku jer je ovo objektivno valjda okej, ali nisam uživao ni u jednom trenutku. naprotiv. i sve mi se vrijeme činilo ko da traje cijelu vječnost. naziv zadnje pjesme, ujedno i najpodnošljivije, idealan – "never again"

This album is not for me.

Absolutely not

You have got to be kidding me. How did this make it onto the 1001 Albums list

I wonder why this album is on this list. Just generic radiopop. Thank god AI will save us from this crap in the future...

Just shit and time hasn’t treated this shit well

90 percent is so bad that I can’t give the decent parts any star-based credit

I get that this was supposed to be objectively good, but I didn’t enjoy a second of this.

Man this was pretty brutal. An album that was far too long, full of pop with no substance. Every song is about the most seductive man on the planet saying he's going to get with the woman subject of the song. There isn't a lot to take away from this besides some ok R&B grooves. But reading the Apple Music description of the album made me laugh by stating JTs falsetto "MJ worthy" because I actually feel it's really forced sounding. This whole album just plays as fabricated. All that said, Take it from Here has some pretty cool backing music parts, notably in the bridge. Cry Me a River and Rock Your Body are not good enough songs to propel this album to enjoyable for me.

Started it for the third time this morning and... whatever. I was a teen when this dropped. I know a ton of folks who bought this album but don't know anyone who listened to anything but the singles. Bad R&B is atrocious and that's all there is to offer here.

I'm not the same person I was back when this album came out. I liked it then, now it seems like cotton candy with no substance. Also, Cry Me A River is vastly improved if you look at it as the song is actually about him, he just doesn't know it (don't act like he don't know it)

This was bad.

It wasn't kid rock, but I hurt my jaw gritting my teeth getting through this. I understand it sold well, but wow it felt tailor-made to be annoying.

Hard listen, and a hard pass. Production was good but messy. Please stop with the whiny sex voice.

Like. When they were done recording, did anyone think maybe to cut the shit songs and only put in what they knew would hit? This is a 2 star, lowered to a 1 on account of it being OVER AND HOUR LONG!

This album made me feel like I was being groomed

Respectfully, solo JT is just not for me. I'm good

The four singles are solid, iconic and nostalgic and have successfully worked their way back into my rotation. I am a big sucker for the production on Cry My A River, I just love it so much, those weird vocal layers in the background - so good. Everything outside these is filler bloat so they could actually release an "album". They all sound the same and cover the most banal and uninspired topics. Truly vapid stuff. It was honestly difficult to pick my least favourite. The production is decent across the board, some actual depth and character, but lyrically and vocally just absolute drivel. To be fair, this includes the four singles too, but they're actually more interesting and have stronger hooks and themes. The rest feels... remedial. Most: Cry Me A River Least: Take It From Here, Last Night, Still On My Brain - basically everything not a single Rating: 1, even with four Certified Banger singles that are a lovely blast from the past to listen to, the rest in between is unlistenable.

Dread is what I felt when this showed up. I might be carrying a bit of prejudice against 2000's pop music so this will be a challenging listen. I am praying I at least can get through this, as this is at least from a period in time where JT was considered cool. Unlike today where a generational drop off has seen him completely fall off the map, relevancy wise. I fear the length of this thing. Going into this with low expectations and hoping I'll find something to enjoy here. Señorita Off to a bad start. Hate the intro. The triangle is extremely annoying. Cringe lyrics. His voice is very good. A varied and well paced performance. Some sections sound very busy. Drags. Hate the outro. His personality on this track is really cheesy and performative. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Like I Love You Uuuuuuuuuugh hate the whispery soft spoken intro. The drums sound like tin cans. Generic cringeworthy lyrics. Genuinely difficult to get through. Free me from falsetto hell. Dated beyond belief. Awful. 1/5 (Oh No) What You Got Annoying. Torturous flute. The synth is kinda cool. Almost decent chorus. At least it's mostly just boring, doesn't actually make me die inside. Even though some of the effects on the vocals sound terrible. Dislike. 2/5 Take It From Here Holy hell that's the corniest lyrics I've ever heard, makes me wanna shut this song off immediately. The whispering is not sexy, it's just weird, dude. Kinda getting into the vibe of the vocal melody on the chorus. Has it's moments, but the bad far outweighs the good. Way too long. Dislike. 2/5 Cry Me A River The production here is just waaaay too much. It sounds ridiculous. The chorus is admitably catchy. The bridge does break up the monotony a bit, but it also does suck, just sounds lifeless and flat. Overproduced and annoying, but mostly inoffensive. Dislike. 2/5 Rock Your Body Sterile disco inspired instrumental, lacks any real soul or smoothness. Don't mind the chorus, though it's a bit overproduced. The duet aspect of the song strangly works pretty well. "Nekkid" is a word that should never be said by anyone ever. The outro kills any energy or dancability the song has. Makes it peter out in an unsatisfying way. Average. 2.5/5 Nothin' Else 2 minutes went by before I noticed it was even playing. Slow, monotonous, boring. Awful synths. Annoying vocal ad-libs. There are sections in there where you can find some pretty harmonies I suppose. I guess the bass is kinda memorable. Dislike. 2/5 Last Night Busy. Don't really get what the instrumental is trying to do, just sounds messy. Irritating chorus. Also commits the great sin of being bland as hell. Generic track that way overstays it welcome. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Still On My Brain So incredibly inauthentic. Hate the wind chimes. Mostly inoffensive, but bland as hell. Would rather listen to elevator music. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 (And She Said) Take Me Now Doing my best not to zone out completely. Really don't like the drums. Cringeworthy, vapid lyrics again. The additional vocals just makes the song sound busy. Hate the grunting. Who in their right mind thought this song needed to be 5 minutes and 30 seconds long. The outro section adds exactly zero value. Awful. 1/5 Right For Me Help me. This is purgatory. The rap verse is a real downer, sounds completely phoned in. Otherwise generic and bland. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Let's Take A Ride What in hell was that intro. What the hell was that first verse. This concept just doesn't work. The looping instrumental gets really repetitive. Nothing chorus. I truly don't know if this track is particularly bad or if I'm just fed up with this album, but I felt such a relief when it was over. Awful. 1/5 Never Again ... will I listen to this album! Who cares. Boring as balls. The extremely basic, generic lyrics don't help. Sounds like they're made with a generator. Approaching parody. The performance feels manifactured. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 It's times like these where I appreciate the current era of music accesibility. I can go online and find pretty much anything, from experimental german noise rock, to today's trendiest pop-star's freshest album. Music streaming has been available for around two decades now and never in that time have I wanted to listen to Justin Timberlake. And why is that? Because his music is bland as hell. It's an absolute masterclass in pandering to the lowest common denominator to the point where it approaches self parody. There's so little interesting material on here that I'd genuinely find more enjoyment out of listening to TV-static, as I could at least see it having some meditative qualities. Here you're presented with an artist who absolutely CAN sing and a producer who definitely is capable of producing, but their combined effort feels so calculated, cold and manufactured that you're left with an inauthentic, soulless experience. Each track has about a minute of dead space, that just wastes your time on unecessary additions or tasteless repetition. This bloats the album to such an extent that it drags until I'm so bored I completely zone out. And I admit that the hits on this thing have moments where they're really catchy and memorable, but even they are marred with the same blandness, or even in some cases overproduction which makes the remaining sections od those tracks nigh unlistenable. Justin Timberlake is a talented guy, and apparently puts on a pretty good live show, but this album is just not it. Judging by his future work he at least gets somewhat better before falling off a cliff again. 1/5

I can’t get thru it yuck

Nee. Gewoon nee.

Ugh.

Good God, please no.

This is a lot, and it's not good. It's big and ambitious and pandering for all the wrong reasons. It feels like JT wants to be Michael Jackson on this. It doesn't hit the mark, and feels super dated and corny.

Super uninterteresting standard electric modern r n b.

Everything that's wrong with modern music in a nutshell. In no way does it deserves its position on this list. It is shit, from start to finish.

I was on the verge of throwing up, thanks for reminding me this creature exists.

No thanks. 1/10

This sounds like the dreams of that guy in my calculus class when he’s the cool main character 😎 I haate the 2000s pop sounds even if this was produced by legends i just reaally dislike it. And Justin was cringe in eveery song maan

Thought he was over-rated in 2003. Just confirmed in 2025.

Just not my shit. Refused to listen.

Nope. Unjustified!

Nope! Unjustified!

Cringe

Another terrible disc (and another "can't I give zero stars?"). Has someone hijacked this list in order to drive music lovers insane?

Hahahahaha fuck off. This list has become a joke. Maybe one good album a week and the rest are utter dross. Life’s too short. Ol’ JT is the straw that’s broken this music loving camels back. Peace, out ✌🏻.

So he wants to be MJ. There's a cringey "singalong" in the first song. He didn't need to do it. The song was boring already, if I wasn't falling asleep i would have laughed. Now he's doing his "sexy" impersonation. Very wrong when you consider his prime audience was early teen girls. Now he's putting on his jacket and somehow that's sexy. This is tremendously awful shit.

One more reason to hate CDs: they hold more garbage.

incredibly awful absolutely garbage I loved it

Mid

Not in my edition of the book! 2002. 1 star. Bland, soulless, white "R&B" that desperately wants to be Michael Jackson but without the tunes. Who the fuck decided this was essential listening?

Hated it, baby girl.

Artiste connu de nom uniquement. Aucun intérêt musical, très répétitif et inintéressant. Et beaucoup trop long, je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

Not for me. Some interesting notes of cultural influence but it is all used in vain to create generic 2000s pop. Cry me a river is an iconic banger tho.

Merry day after Christmas. Here’s some crappy music by a crappy person.

When I used to work retail, Cry Me a River would play on the PA. It was one of the few songs I could tolerate and I still think of it fondly. I enjoyed listening to it this time too. I almost gave this album a 2 just for that song, but I disliked the other HOUR of music enough that that one good song couldn’t save it.

I have no idea how this is on the list. Yes it’s better than kid rock but that’s not difficult. This has no musical or cultural significance

Nah this sucks

Was awful in 2002. Every bit more I learn about the history of popular music makes it seem worse. I gave Michael Jackson 1 star. I wish there was a lower rating for derivative Michael Jackson. A cultural moment to be aware of for sure. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Truly a horrible time in pop music, and in hindsight, maybe a tipping point. The last little bit of human spirit squeezed out, pure grey goop. When there are hit songs that are 100% AI Generated they’ll have the hits of the early 2000s to thank. This was a primer. Remember the follow up to this album, which people insisted was Groundbreaking? More grey goop, please! Yum yum yum!

Cry me a river is a good song. Too bad it destroyed another woman's career.

no thanks justin. why is it so long

This has aged maybe the most poorly of anything we’ve had so far

At least 70% of what makes this album good is that the songs were mostly written for Michael Jackson, and a lot of the final 30% is The Neptunes and Timbaland, because absolutely none of it is Justin Timberlake deciding to do a call-and-response or beatbox in the middle of a single track. "Cry Me A River" is probably a favorite, but in retrospect this is now a song where he continued to shade Britney Spears after, at minimum, neglecting to care about her image for and treatment by the press and this all came shortly before he left Janet Jackson to bear the brunt of their Superbowl halftime show. Sonically I could imagine giving it a 2 because so much of the music/beat work is good, but I'm tired and annoyed and it's getting a one.

Señorita was actually kind of a bop in all fairness I mean the rest of it was one hour of pure cock and ball torture but that first song was alright at least

The Neptunes and Timbaland put in the work, this didn't stand a chance without them. Justin could easily be replaced on this. His voice is weaker than I remembered on these singles. Why is this an hour long!?

1. zenorita - 1 2. like - 1 3. got - 1.5 4. here - 1 5. river - 1.5 6. body - 1 7. elze - 1 8. night - 1 9. brain - 0 10. nouu - 0 11. right - 0 12. ride - 0 13. never - 0

This was not for me. I did not enjoy listening to this at all.

What an utter waste of time

This is 63 minutes of excruciating pap.

meh.

JT is a gross person and his music is mediocre.

I don't even want to listen to him

No. This is so 2002 in the most Target/Abercrombie/suburban strip mall way possible, all punctuated with a million "producers" zzzzz. Say something positive.... ok... I appreciate the organic drum sounds on many of these songs, which only occasionally add the smallest bit of humanity to this soulless product that all blends together into a boring, often-embarrassing, forgettable, and too damn long by about 12 songs album. 2/10 1 star.

Yuck!

Eugh, this reminds me of that 2002-04 period, where this sort of rubbish was playing constantly and I was an awkward early teenager. Unusual in that it's the singles that piss me off here. And it's an HOUR long, WHY?!

nope

I was bored of this by track 3 of 13. The delivery of "Baby" at the end of "Last Night" made my skin crawl. Rock Your Body is catchy but the rest of this is pap.

Aged like a cosby show reference. Not even timbaland saved this.

0. That is my rating. What a horrible mess of second rate songs sung by a second rate singer. Seems over hyped for what it is worth. Not justified being on this list.

Datado

This album is done no favors coming up shortly after Thriller. So many MJisms without the substance. Glossy sheen with a dearth of hooks. A few moments of inspiration on the funkier (not actually funky) tracks but the ballads - audio terrorism. This is the first album I genuinely don't understand why it's on the list. Pablum.

This album met all of my expectations. Enough said. Oh…and my imagination was wandering around (perhaps trying to escape?!) whilst sort of listening to JT (he asked me to call him that somewhere in there) and I thought: Art. Really. Hopefully there’s a reason why we make this sort of music. Maybe we’ll one day see the ships filling the skies over our cities and our nukes will be useless and we’ll face annihilation from our alien overlords. Failing force, we attempt to soothe them with our humanity, in efforts to have them spare us at least that. Beethoven. Makes their ears bleed. Picasso. Screaming for hours after. Fellini. Anger after befuddlement (even them). Shakespeare. Intrigued, but let down after discovering he ghost wrote. Then, jogs by a 40 something New Yorker who doesn’t give a fuck that the aliens have come for us, she needs to get her run in, as she has for everyday since 2002. Intrigued, one of the ships beams her up to probe just what’s up with her, self-betterment in the face of certain death and all. And what’s on her Walkman but her favorite album, JTs “Justified”. They are soothed. The album perfectly syncs with their harmonic centres, releasing waves of endocannibinoids and dopamine, easing them into a state a bliss they’ve never before known. All thoughts of domination and war evaporate in this “Timberlake state”. Prime directives rewired, they now heed only one thought: find this Tim-ber-lake. Once they figure out Facebook, it’s not a problem and soon they’re whisking JT away beyond the edge of the known universe. Who knew that inside every alien is a latent teenage girl, silently screaming for constant hits of misogynist-lite boy band confection. In the end, we all win.

No.

Obnoxious garbage. Turned it off half way through.

I'm the late 90s, a record label genius thought, "damn! We'd sell a lot more of these Usher CDs if he was a white guy!" So they found a handsome shape to stand in front of some literal Michael Jackson offcuts and 20+ years later we still have to listen to this guy. What a world. It's not bad, it just sucks. The production is great, but that's like saying Toyotas are well made or cinnamon toast crunch is nice and sweet. It certainly is a perfect example of what 2002 sounded like - teen pop remade with hip hop production to create the hegemonic radio sound for the next two decades. 3 huge singles and 60 minutes of filler made you 100s of millions of dollars, but does it make an album? Dire stuff, perfectly smooth predigested and inescapable.

Some fun pop songs, JT is cool but doesn't do it for me. Might as well just listen to Michael Jackson instead

i do think big bad pop zeitgeisty albums deserve to be on this list; after all, it's just "albums you must hear before you die," not "the best albums of all time." influence and significance and reach have to carry a lot of weight too that being said, this album is wholly unremarkable, there are others that would fill this niche/time period better, and I'm surprised this one ever made the list and equally unsurprised that it was removed from future editions. two thumbs way down JT

Really really not my thing but also not that good.

Okay that was utter dogshit. I've never liked Justin Timberlake but I thought I'd give this a good listen and try to appreciate it but it was full of so much crap. Yeah Cry me a river and the other hits are okay but they aren't good.

Nah

No. Just no.

Just no

Not sure why this is in the top 1001 albums. Imagine it will be forgotten pretty soon

I hate Justin's voice. I might be kinder to this album if it was sung by someone who could actually put some power but with Justin it just sounds like pathetic yelping

There is precisely one track here that holds up to the present day - 'Rock Your Body'. Even that sexy little funkster sounds pretty thin. Speaking of which, Timberlake has an absolute powder puff of a voice. It is almost funny when he reaches for his falsetto. Production is peak 2002, with some utterly grim synth strings and irritatingly trebly acoustic guitars. There are children's toys available today with better sound profiles. Lightweight, plastic and utterly disposable. There is no way on God's green earth that this ranks amongst the top 1,001 albums you need to listen to before carking it. No way.

Disco solo de "boy band" arrastado e aborrecido.

Oh my god this album has aged horrifically. Literal fuckboy music.

No es Justin Timberlake (nació el mismo día que yo... 6 años después) un artista que tenga ahora gran reconocimiento pero en su momento gozaba del beneplácito de público y crítica. Este es su debut, fuera de NSYNC (70 millones discos vendidos...) y se trata de un buen álbum de R&B-Soul-Pop-Hip Hop, producido por nada menos que The Neptunes y Timbaland. Claramente influenciado por Michael Jackson y el Funk de los años 70, además de los estilos Dance de finales de los 90-00. Colabora incluso Janet Jackson en (And She Said) Take Me Now. Señorita fue coescrita por un tal Pharell Williams. Otros grandes temas del álbum son Like I Love You, Cry Me a River y sobre todo el hitazo Rock Your Body. No es su disco más vendido ni el más reconocido ( The 20/20 Experience y FutureSex/LoveSounds) pero sí que se disfruta desde inicio a fin sin ninguna duda (ni rubor). Tal vez dentro de unos años sea citado como un disco de enorme calidad e influencia por alguna banda que todavía no ha despuntado, pero mientras esto sucede o no, simplemente puedes escucharlo. Otros discos de 2002, creo que todos ellos mejores que este de JT: Beck - Sea Change, Sigur Rós - ( ), Neko Case - Blacklisted, The Streets - Original Pirate Material, Boards of Canada - Geogaddi, Spoon - Kill The Moonlight, The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, David Bowie – Heathen, múm – Finally we are no one, Tom Waits: Alice / Blood Money, Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf, Norah Jones- Come Away with Me, También: Low: Trust, The Delgados: Hate, The Coral- The Coral, Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Out Of Season, Solomon Burke: Don’t Give Up On Me, Lambchop: Is A Woman,, Coldplay- A rush of blood to the head, Doves- Last Broadcast, Faultline: Your Love Means Everything, Death In Vegas: Scorpio Rising, Roddy Frame: Surf, Pet Shop Boys- Release, red Hot Chili Peppers- By the way, Neil Young- Are You Passionate?,

Album 407 of 1001 Justin Timberlake - Justified Rating : 1 / 5 I just didn't care for this, at all. Nothing for me here.

Adult version of Sesame Street music.

This was never for me. I'm not sure how the rest of the album compares to 2002, but the singles feel extremely dated. Forgettable.

If all the 90s American boy bands were to have a baby with a 50 year old Micheal Jackson, it would not only defy reality, it would spawn something akin to this. A sound that kills the soul and drags you into a very specific hell, an endless, waiting, souless, meaningless Hell.

How do you separate the art from the artist? No need. They both suck.

1/5

Inga hits ens... de hä va int bra

Thoughts before listening: I've seen Justin Timberlake live. It was pretty good although it was so overproduced it felt more like watching a Broadway musical than a concert. Anyway, I respect him as a singer, and I'm sure I'll recognize some songs on here, but pop music in general just isn't my thing. Review: This sounds very dated to the early 2000s which is a time I was VERY into music and VERY much opposed to stuff like Justin Timberlake. I am having flashbacks and an immediate negative reaction to this. "Cry Me a River" is the best song here, but I really don't like the rest of it. Sounds like Michael Jackson with less vocal talent. It all just sounds so bland...and the lyrics are embarrassing. 1-star

Noh... Eihän tämä ihan hirveetä ole.. mutta jooh..

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. This was abysmal. Point the first: Every song sounds the same, there is no originality or variety across this album, it's just Justin singing about girls THE WHOLE TIME. Point the second: This album gives the impression that this fool is just a total womanizer. Point the third: "Cry Me a River" is just not a very good song. It simply isn't. Lyrically it is the exact same as all the other crap on this album but it has the added bonus of terrible beatboxing in the background to try and make him seem like he's all that cause he got beatboxing on an album. Point the fourth: His voice is not that great. It sounds dumb and plastic. Point the fifth: WHY ARE ALL OF THE SONGS OVER 4:30 MINUTES LONG. I don't want to listen to any pop song that long, let alone this drivel. Absolute bunsssssssss.

Теперь я чувствую себя так себе за то, что влепил Долли Партон и компании единицу буквально пару часов назад. Настолько ли это плохая музыка? Нет. Музыка в этом альбоме норм. Но... Этот альбом инкапсулирует все то о музыке начала двухтысячных, от чего я так счастлив человечество сбежало. Кроме того... Час с чем-то? К тому моменту, когда мы дошли до ультрахита, я ощущал вес полноценного поп-альбома начала двухтысячных на моих плечах - а ведь это только середина... Хит, как бы я не хейтил его в детстве-юности, тем не менее отличная песня. Лучшая песня - Cry Me A River.

Soundtrack to a wardrobe malfunction? I like a lot of the JT you hear in the radio and his SNL and Tonight show skits are great, so had high hopes. Unfortunately, they were not met. The strangest thing happened to me with this album. Twice I put it on, was digging the opening sounds of Señorita, and then later on noticed that I had completely ignored the album like as if it wasn't on. It completely deflects my attention every time I try to to listen. I wanted to like this more but when I could force myself to pay attention it was pretty terrible. Whoever wrote the lyrics to the last song, Never Again, should heed its title.

I thought this would be a lot better. I mean, I thought I probably wouldn't like it but I had no idea it would be this bad.

Nope

Started out ok I guess but started to feel super cringe after a few songs. Justin Timberlake was younger than I am now when he released this (which is not necessarily reason to dislike it but for some reason makes it feel unauthentic to me. Idk why cause I don’t feel that way about some other albums released by young artists.) Also the super shiny production of his voice is weird and annoying. Not a fan at all. 2/10 Side note, I’m finally caught up on albums post spring break!

This album was bad and I didn’t like it. The lyrics were cringe, the beats were bad, and it was boring 2/10

Justin Timberlake is one of my least favorite artists of all time. He’s one of like 2 people on Spotify that I have the “don’t play this artist” turned on for. Why he has an album on this list is fucking beyond me; yeah he’s famous, but there are so many better r&b/pop albums from the 2000s to today. Honestly, I’d rather listen to just about any album than this. Plus, it was like an hour long. Also, what's going on on the album cover? Where is he? The moon? 1.5/10

I hated every second of this album. Don't get the appeal at all.

not bad, however JT told me I’d be naked by the end of the song on Rock Your Body with 2 minutes left - I didn’t like that.

Not even going to try to listen to this. Garbage

A little soulful in parts but overall bland, wouldn't listen to again

I know that Justin did much better in the following years. This one is just the most generic pop from the 2000s. Easy 1-star

First of all, what’s with the album name? It’s stupid and clever at the same time. And what about the songs? Well… I listened to this album after making a terrible mistake of giving ‘Purple Rain’ a two star rating, (Website-wise it’s a day later, but in real life, I listened to Purple Rain first, so…) and this didn’t help me lift my mood. A generic album, with generic songs… did not enjoy.

Turd

Cry me a River is not enough to save this

Yuck.

The fresh faced JT on the album cover has doubled in age since this album was released. The record has aged with far less style and grace than its creator. The inherent risk of going for a cutting edge sound is that your record ages horribly, as has happened here over the last 21 years. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Rock Your Body Date listened: 08/01/24

I tried. I listened to all of it. But no. I don’t like it. At all.

Bad Pop.

Out of my comfort zone this smooth music, but that is why 1001 albums is nice, discovering new music. .. Well not this one, sweeter than 10 kilogram of honey, utterly annoying. One of those for which 1 star is more than enough.

Utter dross. Spectacularly dreadful.

Waarom is dit hier hahaha Senorita is heel cringe Like I love you is saai Take it from here is wel smooth, wel veel te lang

Shit, didn't realise I was that far behind. Caught up now. What can I say about this? Typical modern pop. Uninspiring nonsense. Not unpleasant, but equally not really worth the effort of listening to it. 1

Horrible.

Meh

crap

Actually liked this a lot less than I thought I would. The whole vibe of the album is creepy and off to me. It does not have the charm of the Britney Spears album I listened to and very little interesting music stuff to go on. And his voice is dull. Standout Track: Senorita

I personally thought this was awful. This just isn't my style of music, but even objectively it's hard to find the merits in this record. The songwriting is generic and bland, and it feels overproduced and tacky.

Yeah this was like pulling teeth. I don’t get it.

Just not my type of music plus I don’t like his voice.

Noooo

No, just no. Over-produced, cynical stuff. Nostalgia for my old clubbing days almost made me give it a 2 but no....

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Truly awful.

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R&b tovet i genèric, que per alguna raó va encumbrar el seu autor, passa per ser un dels discos clau de la primera meitat dels 00's i troba el seu lloc a la llista dels discos que se suposa hem d'escoltar abans de morir. Misteris de la vida

This is horrible, rock your body was good for The first 10 seconds as it reminded me of partying with my friends.

hard to get past my dislike for JT in general

I couldn't do it. I got through 2.5 songs and had to stop. I'm not sure how this "artist" sold that many albums?

this record all sounds the same i didn’t even realize it’d looped back over to the beginning. the early 2000’s are not my cultural space.

Dull. Dull. Dull.

I went into this with very low expectations and came out of it with expectations confirmed, but also frustrated, because behind Timberlake's rather irritating delivery there was some pretty good music here and there, especially when things got funky.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Not a fan.