Pharrell Williams on the Poor Performance of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Man of the Woods’: “It’s Complicated”

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.