One spin of FutureSex/LoveSounds and it's hard to believe that Justin Timberlake was ever a boy-band barnstormer--no modern-day male artist beats him when it comes to single-minded self assurance or suavity. "SexyBack," the inescapable summer sizzler of a first single off this short and thrillingly unwholesome disc, makes that clear on its own: If there was ever any question about whether sexy was in need of reviving--a doubtful proposition at best, given the sheer … mehrvolume of JT's gyrating counterparts--he lays it to rest instantly over a small but insistent Timbaland-concocted beat. On that track, Timberlake's appeal is his sweet but newly thuggish-sounding voice--here's a good kid gone bad, and he's determined to convince us of it not only by tossing a few well-timed mother****ers our way but also with such lyrics as "I'll let you whip me if I misbehave." The rest of FutureSex will feel familiar to anyone who picked up 2002's brilliantly funk-flecked Justified: "Love Stoned/I Think She Knows Me," shifts from Michael Jackson-esque paranoid trilling to pulsating guitar rock; "Chop Me Up," a collaboration with Three 6 Mafia and Timbaland, gives up the grit rap-style but still manages to recall both Prince and Stevie Wonder; "My Love," with T.I., mines classic Timberlake territory with meltaway lyrics like "I can see us holding hands walking on the beach/Our clothes in the sand"; and the straight-up but groovy lament "Losing My Way" asks, searchingly, what may be the silliest question a squeal-inducing pop star has ever posed: "Can anybody out there feel me?" Rest assured, JT: we feel every past-, present-, and future-sexy verse. --Tammy La Gorce weniger

1 - Futuresex / Lovesound (Main Version - Clean)
2 - Sexyback (Main Version) (Explicit)
3 - Medley [Sexy Ladies / Let Me Talk To You (Prelude) (Main Version) (Clean)]
4 - My Love (Main Version) (Clean)
5 - Lovestoned / I Think She Knows (Interlude) (Main Version) (Explicit)… mehr
6 - What Goes Around... Comes Around (Interlude) (Main Version - Clean)
7 - Chop Me Up (Main Version - Clean)
8 - Damn Girl (Main Version) (Explicit: Brand New Day)
9 - Medley [Summer Love / Set The Mood (Prelude) (Main Version - Clean]
10 - Until The End Of Time (Main Version - Clean)
11 - Losing My Way (Main Version - Clean)
12 - (Another Song) All Over Again (Main Version - Clean)
13 - Pose (Main Version) (Explicit) weniger