Pharrell Williams has carved out a career of colossal hits – comprised of classics helmed for himself and those released by others.
One of the superstar’s most notable collaborators is Justin Timberlake. Together, the pair have crafted smashes such as ‘Rock Your Body’ and ‘Like I Love You.’
The duo also teamed up for JT’s 2018 album ‘Man of the Woods’ – which didn’t fare as well on the charts. Indeed, the project served as Timberlake’s lowest-selling solo LP – prior to his latest effort, ‘Everything I Thought It Was.’
In a new interview profiling his life and career at large, Pharrell was quizzed about what went left with ‘Woods’ commercially.
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Addressing the matter candidly with THR, the music maestro shared:
“It was a complicated scenario. The body of work, the music itself, I loved. I thought that was great. But I would’ve approached all the other elements that go along with the music, to accompany the music, I would’ve approached it differently. But it wasn’t my album — you honor people as artists and their creative decisions.
But there are so many jams on that album, so many. There’s a song called “Montana” and there are so many [that I love]. I think it will age well when people go back to it and realize it’s not an R&B album. And it wasn’t a country album. It was just very Americana. We were early on that. But it needed to be communicated that way, and people needed to understand what it was going to be, you know what I mean? I think I would’ve rolled it out a little bit differently and the other accompanying elements would’ve been different.”
Interesting. For as tactful as that was, it still relayed a lot.
We weren’t particularly enamored with ‘Man of the Woods’ musically, but we are in total agreement with Pharell about there being a pronounced disconnect between the material on the album and the presentation choices made.
Enough from us. Let us know what you think.
It’s not complicated at all. People just aren’t feeling JT anymore. We see through the innocent boy act.
I think he was actually anticipated but dropped the ball. Was he as popular as 06? Of course not but he still had fans he was acting here and there so he was still present somewhat but promotion was horrible 4 that album it didn’t connect just a bad era for him and I don’t know if he can recover musically. Ppl were expecting his pop/rnb music.
“FLANNEL” went certified 3x Platinum in my household. Perfect autumn song
Pharrell is kissing cow Carter ass
and gonna talk about Justin when man in the woods really was not a flop it sold over a million with no promo
..why didn’t he direct this to cow carters. and CMA said hell nawwwwwww
Flop!!
Does Justin connect much with his audience? Why on earth would Pharrell think Justin’s core audience wanted Americana?
Don’t care.
Flop.. 🥱
Booringggg