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Mar 19, 2013A pleasant and grown but tedious release from a charismatic entertainer and exceptional vocal arranger who is not a great recording artist.
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Mar 15, 2013Unfortunately, most of 20/20 falls into a rut; it sets the mood, but then fails to create tension.
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Mar 18, 2013It’s so clean, stylish and pleasant that few will rubbish it, so the spotlight is instead shone on select tracks whose impact is then over-stretched as they try to inject some gravitas into how fluffy it can be.
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Apr 3, 2013While it’s a good listen, every song drags.
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Mar 21, 2013It sounds like FutureSex, so you’ll desperately listen over and over hoping to replicate how that album made you feel and end up surrendering to its pleasant, sanitized soundscape. But you’ll feel nothing.
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Mar 18, 2013Even the most hardened of cynics have to marvel at 20/20‘s sheer musical audacity, but at the end of the day, the individual songs fail to hold up to close scrutiny.
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Mar 18, 2013More often than not, The 20/20 Experience's either chameleonic or unfocused tracks speak poorly of an icon now constantly on the lookout for his next great cross-promotional opportunity.
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Mar 14, 2013The sound of The 20/20 Experience is complex, rich and rewarding.... Then there are the album's lyrics, which are awful.
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Mar 18, 2013Unfortunately, with an appropriately filmic, best-part's-in-the-trailer irony, it seems like Timberlake gave away too much by making 'Suit & Tie' the first glimpse of the record. From hereon in, it's a fairly dull affair.
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Mar 18, 2013On 20/20, the Timberlake/Timbaland team seems content to set up a basic (and more often than not, bland) hook, repeat it ad infinitum, and tack on some superfluous bits until the desired, bloated end product comes into being.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 441 out of 493
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Mixed: 27 out of 493
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Negative: 25 out of 493
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