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The latter half of the album really drags for me and there isn’t even a one song I would label a hit. I’m not a fan of the “Dirty South” musical style, but “Chop Me Up” is a decent white-guy attempt at it. However, I think it would have been more authentic if Timberlake lost the derrty South vocal affection in the verses. The same applies to “Summer Love/Set the Mood Prelude”.
“Summer Love” with its good foot hesitation boom-clap and cascading chorus synthline showcases Timberlake’s best vocal on the record: the beat drops out while he sings in perfect harmony, “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame girl.” Mackness.
The bulk of the album is focused on funk lite, but with "Summer Love/Set The Mood (Prelude)" Timberlake and Timberland slip into darkness.
A dreary central-casting pop ballad called Summer Love is enlivened only by another of Timberlake's peculiar announcements: "I'm sick and tired of trying to save the world," he cries. Sad news, especially for those of us who must have missed Timberlake's strenuous efforts on the world's behalf.

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' Cause I spent every hour just going through the motions... I don't know what to feel / I don't know how to cry I don't know-oh-oh why."

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  • < ref name="Boston review"/> - "Where am I/ Who are you/ What we do/ Last night" she wonders on "Blur," notes weaving and beats crackling like shaky ground beneath her. "I need to get up outta here/ I gotta get my head right," Spears concludes, and she sounds - for the first time in a long time - like she means it.
  • http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-11-30/news/0811280151_1_britney-spears-songs-sixth-studio-album - "What happened?" Britney Spears mutters during what is easily the most disturbing song of her career, "Blur." "Blur" describes the aftermath of what sounds like a drug- or alcohol-fueled night that ends with the narrator passing out after a date-rape encounter. The arrangement adds to the unsettling atmosphere: The keyboards sound like they were recorded underwater and a high-hat chatters like a gossip columnist. "Who are you?/What'd we do?" Spears sings in a shell-shocked voice. "Hope I didn't, but I think I might've ... Maybe I shouldn't have given in/But I just couldn't fight."
  • http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2008/12/02/britney_spears_circus.html - and her own hard-partying ways (the creepy "Blur," which opens with a dazed Spears mumbling "Who are you? Wha'd we do last night?") to cement the illusion that this is the work of a determined tigress on the comeback trail.
  • http://idolator.com/5090514/mourning-becomes-britney - even a song in which she regrets having sex (“Blur”). That no one seems to have noticed this is key to its effect. We all knew what she was doing on previous albums, so it tended to come off as forced and insincere. Here, she slips into the role so easily that it’s likely we’ll accept it. “Blur” is very good
  • http://www.mtv.com.au/news/4f037801-afa3-4603-a653-f1dc4433830b/ - Best of all is 'Blur', a dark, Danja-produced track. Some have suggested it's about date rape, and while that's debatable, it's still a deeply unsettling song - one that seems to best sum up the Britney we've witnessed over the last couple of years. "Can't remember what I did last night/everything, everything is still a blur", she mumbles, before addressing the person she's woken up next to: "What's your name, man? Can you come and hand me all my things?" It's a sobering counterpoint to the fluff that makes up much of the album, and tellingly, it's where Britney sounds most at home.
  • http://thequietus.com/articles/00816-britney-spears-circus-album-review - 'Blur' comes on with a 21st Century reworking of the melody from the Stones’ 'Let It Loose'. It’s about getting fucked up and not remembering what you did the night before, or who you just woke up next to. The production is slightly starker than usual for our man and it walks an incredibly difficult line between poignancy and confusion, Britney never putting a foot wrong. Again, no surrender.
  • http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/05/21/date-rape-anthem-britney-spears-blur/
  • http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2009/01/review-britney/ - “Blur” takes a trippy pop beat and finds Britney describing a lost night. (Ironically a “Blackout,” if you will.) “Can’t remember what I did last night” she sings backed by some interesting synth-work. If this track works even slightly, it’s not because of Britney. She spends the majority of the track singing in a strangely forced R&B-flavored tone. It doesn’t suit her. She’s never been a strong vocalist and she still can’t pull it off.
  • http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/12/03/britney-spears-circus-review - Things start to slide apart on the softer, ballad oriented offerings like "Blur" (though the lyrics are intriguing as they speak to blacking out and if intended as commentary on her erratic personal behavior over the past few years it serves as a reflective twist of self-effacing pop)
  • http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/albumreviews/a137205/britney-spears-circus.html - As befits an album whose back cover shows a child dressed as a clown handing Spears a birthday cake, Circus features several songs you just wouldn't expect from an 80-million selling pop superstar. 'Blur', which is best described as a "hangover ballad", sees Spears wake up, moan that the lights are "way too f***ing bright" and then realise she doesn't know what - or who - she did last night.
  • http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/circus-20081212 - But there are creepy ones too: Danja's "Blur" updates 2003's hungover "Early Mornin'," as the mom of two sighs, "Where the hell am I?"
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/28/britney-spears-circus - You might think she could inject a bit of pathos into Blur, a tale of hungover regret, but no. "Hope I didn't but I think I might," she sings blithely, as if singing about having an inadvisible dollop of chilli sauce on a late-night kebab, rather than say, being photographed staggering around LA at 2am without a skirt on, knickers covered in blood.
  • http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/33653/Britney-Spears-Circus/ - “Blur” is an odd choice, a stuttering, space-y cautionary tale where Spears moans “where the hell am I / who are you? What’d we do last night?” It’s a song made awkward more for its eerie, probably true depiction of Spear’s nightlife than anything else.
  • http://www.muumuse.com/2008/11/britney-spears-circus-album-review.html/ - Blur seems to be the one track that has received the most widespread criticism as far as I can tell, ranging from utter love at first play to puzzled disinterest. For me, it was fairly easy to immediately embrace Blur as the dizzying, clouded continuation of In The Zone‘s Early Mornin'.” “Turn the lights out, this shit’s way too fucking bright,” Britney murmurs into the drifting first verse. The track spins round and round in its electronica-infused manner, somewhat reminiscent of Rihanna's Rehab.” “Blur” is very modern and very well crafted; a splurge of slipping memory and incoherence.
  • http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20242634,00.html - The Danja-produced Blur is a remarkably pretty song about (finally!) an actual blackout.
  • http://www.411mania.com/music/album_reviews/91433/Britney-Spears---Circus-Review.htm - The final two highlights of this album are the trance style “Unusual You” and the slow building “Blur.” “Unusual You” is about Spears expecting her lover to leave her, but he surprises her by staying with her despite her flaws. “Blur” is about waking up from a drunken sexual encounter and trying to piece together the sordid details. The music on “Blur” is just off kilter enough it feels like you are waking up from a hangover with a pounding headache and a cup full of regret.
  • http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/1980258/Britney-Spears-Circus-album-review.html - BLUR: An anthem for all those who have misbehaved under the influence: “Can’t remember what I did last night/I gotta get my head right, where the hell am I? Who are you? What’d we do last night?” showing Britney at her brutally honest best.
  • http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/britney-spears-circus - The excellent Blur will also provide plenty of talking points, casting Britney as a hungover party animal asking “who the hell are you, and what did we do last night?”.
  • http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-britney-spears-circus-zombasony-1038411.html - There are glimmers of a more considered attitude towards relationships, with "Blur" notably depicting the morning-after anxieties of an alcoholic libertine: "Where the hell am I? Who are you? What did we do last night?".
  • http://voices.yahoo.com/britney-spears-circus-early-album-review-2214264.html - Blur is produced by Nathanial "Danja" Hills. The song is one of the better tracks on the album. The mid-tempo song works on many levels. Britney Spears delivers a solid vocal performance to go with the strong production.
  • http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/66714-britney-spears-circus/ - Blur” is almost laughable as the album’s token “regret” track; the music benefits from a sultry R&B afterglow, but the lyrics, in nuce, are ‘Shit, what in the hey did I do last night? / Everything is just a blur’.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/arts/music/01choi.html?_r=0 - In “Blur,” over dazed, wilting keyboard and guitar tones, Ms. Spears sings about a nightmarishly disoriented morning after: “Where am I? Who are you? What did we do last night?”
  • http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/1071359/britney-spears-circus - From the synthy open of "Womanizer" to the regretful ache spurring "Blur," "Circus" gives Brit pop a whole new meaning.
  • http://www.avclub.com/articles/britney-spears-circus,6704/ - Slowing it down has never been Spears' strong suit—though the R&B-laced; slow jam "Blur" finds an interesting middle ground
  • http://www.pluggedin.com/music/albums/2009/BritneySpears-Circus.aspx - All is a "Blur" for a hungover woman the morning after a one-night stand. That track and others resort to profanity.
  • http://www.nme.com/reviews/10019 - while ‘Blur’ finds Brit waking up next to someone strange and demanding: “Who are you? And what’d we do last night?”

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Top Tracks on 'Hands All Over': "Misery", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed", "How", "Get Back In My Life"

Though I don't understand the meaning of love I do not mind if I die trying, ohhh Took it for granted when you lifted me up I'm asking for your help I am going through hell Afraid nothing can save me but the sound of your voice You cut out all the noise And now that I can see mistakes so clearly now I'd kill if I could take you back

Levine strikes a strong cord with this lyric, in the bridge: "Why does the one you love/Become the one who makes you want to cry?" Isn’t that the truth, plain and simple?

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What's My Name?

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Mirrors is a nice love song, with a nice melody and a nice hook. Billboard culls the tune a more "whole" Timberlake than the brokenhearted one on his earlier song, 'Cry Me a River.' Indeed, just check out these lyrics:

Aren't you somethin' to admire? Cause your shine is somethin' like a mirror And I can't help but notice You reflect in this heart of mine If you ever feel alone and The glare makes me hard to find Just know that I'm always Parallel on the other side

Sweet, huh? Yes, this one is going to do well, I think.

  • http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/03/11/justin-timberlake-the-20-20-experience-review/ - If he’s devoted to anyone, it’s himself: “You reflect me,” he coos on “Mirrors.” “I love that about you.” All of which should make him a very convincing movie star, except that there’s ultimately not enough showbiz razzle-dazzle here.
  • http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.2051/title.justin-timberlake-the-20-20-experience - with the exception of “Mirrors,” which sounds like a more pleasant version of the noxious breed of David Guetta-esque anthems that have infiltrated the airwaves as of late.
  • http://www.vibe.com/article/justin-timberlake-20-20-experience-review-timbaland-are-you-not-entertained - And “Mirrors” is something of a new-age wedding reception song, on an album that mostly revolves around fulfillment through love and dance.
  • http://www.factmag.com/2013/03/18/justin-timberlake-the-2020-experience-fact-review/ - Suit & Tie’ (Jay-Z, you lazy for this one) and the Coldplay-does-r’n'b ‘Mirrors’ also reveal a frustration that’s already come to a head. Kanye was right. The singles kind of suck and since only three tracks are under the six minute mark, this album’s radio edits will be severe. Yet this clearly doesn’t phase him.
  • http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/justin-timberlakes-the-2020-experience-review-its-an-overbaked-letdown-2013213 - And his producer Timbaland carries out some of his most compelling R&B grooves in years (best synthesis: the smashing “Mirrors”).
  • http://www.hitfix.com/news/justin-timberlakes-the-20-20-experience-album-review - Current single, “Mirrors," is a pop marvel, and, as he’s shown by his television performances with his band, JT and the Tennessee Kids, it only gets better as it is performed live. The gorgeous melody features layer upon layer of Timberlake’s vocals stacked upon each other until it feels like they can reach the heavens. “Mirrors,” and possibly every song on here, is an ode to Timberlake’s wife, Jessica Biel.
  • http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2013/03/14/justin-timberlake-2020-experience-review-gifs/ - The shining standout of the record (apart from "Don't Hold The Wall" and "Blue Ocean Floor"): Sure, the production might as well make it a bonus track off of FutureSex/LoveSounds, but it's just as good as the best songs off of that album. "'Cause I don't wanna lose you now/ I'm lookin' right at the other half of me," Justin earnestly pleads. It's hugely catchy, and the melodies are arena-size. That breakdown at the end of the track -- with its muddled repetitions of "You are the love of my life" and a soft piano landing -- is especially beautiful.
  • http://www.rollingstone.com/music/songreviews/mirrors-20130222 - Last year Frank Ocean released a 10-minute song about a stripper. So why shouldn't Justin Timberlake be allowed to get his prog on with an eight-minute song about a girl who's just like his mirror? Produced by Timbaland, this non-single from The 20/20 Experience is certainly the artiest song Timberlake's ever wrapped his pipes around – from the emo power-ballad guitar strobes to the stark hand-clapping bridge to the orchestral flares to the electro blips, chipmunk synth chirps and vocoder-squawk backing vocals that ornament the climactic last minute or so. Yet it's still unmistakably a JT joint, replete with laidback soulfulness, mountain-climbing croon and falsetto butter – like how Kraftwerk might do Al Green, if they'd just spent a night in an Atlanta strip club.
  • http://www.allmusic.com/album/mirrors-mw0002501233 - "Mirrors" is the second song to precede Justin Timberlake's third solo album. Its most noticeable feature is its eight-minute length. The singer mentioned classic rock acts, rather than contemporaries -- such as Frank Ocean's "Pyramids" and the-Dream's flowing suites -- as his inspirations, yet this is less an epic than a drawn-out midtempo pop ballad. It could fade out or end abruptly around the four-minute mark, but it takes another four minutes to dissolve. Over Timbaland's clumpy beat (with beatboxing) and grand strings, Timberlake pleads with heartfelt devotion, but it's not one of his more remarkable singles.
  • http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=191714 - Top track: Mirrors

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