![]() ![]() Would this album nakedly ape Jackson's type? Or simply be an extension of the boy band's sound? Then there were the expectations of NSYNC fans to subvert. First, there were the comparisons to Jackson, the last male pop star of any real consequence to attempt anything like this, to overcome. It was so much fun-and I learned a lot about making music in a totally different way than I was used to." For the six weeks that we worked on these songs, I got to live in my own musical dream world and play a little hip-hop, a little old-school R&B, a little classic rock. "I was trying to make a multi-dimensional record a record that captured the vibe of my favorite time in music, the '60s. "I wasn't consciously trying to make a non-NSYNC record," he told Billboard just days ahead of the album's Novemrelease. ![]() And knew a thing or two about music history, to boot. For six weeks, Timberlake hunkered down with hip-hop stars Timbaland and The Neptunes, as well as singer Brian McKnight, to create an album that, if not purposely anti-NSYNC, at least announced to that group's fans that its star vocalist had done some growing up. For his first output without his bandmates, who were telling fans at the time they were simply on a hiatus, Timberlake followed the path to total autonomy over his artistic expression that began on NSYNC's Celebrity album, which he and JC Chasez wrote and produced several tracks on.
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