A temporary place to discuss Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around...Comes Around" video

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dir. Sam Bayer
Watch it here.

Man, this is great! I wonder if MTV will actually play a 9:20 video on a regular basis...

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I love how everything from the beginning of the video is tied in at the end (the pool scene, the spinning tire, the fire). Some thought actually went into it.
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― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That was crazy and then some. I think I don't like it, but either way, I'm pretty stunned.

― Rodney vs Rodney FITE! (Rodney J. Greene), Monday, 12 February 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Scarlett Johansson swears more convincingly than JT does.

― Stuck in ILX Limbo (Roz), Monday, 12 February 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like this, but I guess it's kind of nice how all of the characters are so shallow and unsympathetic.

MTV will just play an edited version, a lot of videos have longer director's cuts I think.

― 31g (31g), Monday, 12 February 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

the song's been growing off me for a while now, i think this video (which manages to be both unpleasant and unconvincing) tips it even further that way.

That was crazy and then some. I think I don't like it, but either way, I'm pretty stunned.

if anything it's not crazy ENOUGH, if you're going to turn a song which strives so hard to be epic into a 10-minute short film at least add something beyond the bare bones of the song's already icky narrative? oh and yeah the 'shocking' end, wvs.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 12 February 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The "stunned" was more directed at the "Is Justin Timberlake gonna have to choke a bitch?" moment than at the predictable ending.

― The Reverend (Rodney J. Greene), Monday, 12 February 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You just know that when he leans over and whispers in her ear, he's saying "IT'S MY DICK IN A BOX!".

The first 30 seconds of this is awesomely bad, the rest of it - just bad. Lex otm.

― Stuck in ILX Limbo (Roz), Monday, 12 February 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"dick in a box" might be he's best video ever, you know (i'm almost serious since I haven't watched this one yet, I didn't like "sexyback", "senorita", "i just wanna love u", "cry me a river"... "rock ur body" and "my love" are good, though).

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone tell this man-boy to wait a few more years before attempting shit like this.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though I haven't seen it, I'm sure it lacks morphing dolphins.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

He went with manatees instead.

― The Reverend (Rodney J. Greene), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose this is as good a place to link this as any. "If I wrote you a symphony", indeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoxCDj30JSs

― The Reverend (Rodney J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus, couldn't she have at least found an in-tune piano?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Sam Bayer is a dick in a box. He'll never top "Coma White."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if MTV will actually play a 9:20 video on a regular basis...

They are playing it a lot.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's crazy, sometimes they play it twice back to back !
haven't decided what I think about it yet but I think I like the over the topness of it all... it's big hollywood, baroque ! and I don't even like the song that much (except the final which is great and to make another comparison with GnR, it reminds me the final of "november rain" !)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

sam bayer has a lustrous man-mullet, its really quite something

― ^@^ (map), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

nice cars, too. and I quite like JT's evil face at the end, during the final, when he stares at the camera with a "you're gonna bitch" look on his face !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Given JT's penchant for social climbing I'm surprised he worked with a hack like Nick Cassavetes and not, say, Oliver Assayas.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

SJ's acting is always so nonexistant that I find it hard to even tell if she's better in this than usual or not.

― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Hooray, it's cool to hate the twerpy little fuck again.

http://filmfreakcentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/friday-talkback-what-goes-around-comes.html

As Timberlake surveys the scene and cops a feel of Scarlett's corpse, the song's titular refrain adopts a malicious chuckle--and starts to conspicuously sound, in its passive-aggressive way, like an O.J.-ish warning to JT's on-again/off-again paramour Cameron Diaz. (Again we see that no black icon is sacred to Timberlake.) ...I've really had enough of this dick in a box.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I've really had enough of this dick in a box

see what he did there folks

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the incongruity of au courant Timberlake--whose co-opting of black culture is so comprehensive that he's annexed LL Cool J's lip-licking tic--

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

ah yes, the famous black lip lick

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"white people say 'au courant' and black people can't afford lip balm -- this is the natural order"

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

this 9-minute X-ray of Timberlake's petty little head single-handedly justifies every knee-jerk bit of vitriol I've wanted to spew at him. Here's the premise: claiming to have already met her no-talent assclown quota for the evening (she motions to her "date," Shawn Hatosy), a blonde, noirishly-attired Scarlett Johansson--on whom one-time fan Glenn Kenny recently closed "the iron door" for this betrayal of her gender--spurns Timberlake's advances; proving he is the true inheritor of Vanilla Ice's mantle, Timberlake basically tries the drop-the-zero-and-get-with-the-hero approach, which, though the chronology is difficult to parse, apparently works, as just a few shots later he's making out with her. Scarlett subsequently does what any sensible woman would do after coming in direct contact with Timberlake and submerges herself in the nearest body of water, an act of Karen Silkwood self-preservation that JT immediately annuls by jumping in the pool after her.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Saturday, 17 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Scarlett subsequently does what any sensible woman would do after coming in direct contact with Timberlake and submerges herself in the nearest body of water, an act of Karen Silkwood self-preservation that JT immediately annuls by jumping in the pool after her.

In the Everytime vid, Britney drowns herself in a bathtub and is pulled out by a skeezy JT-like Stephen Dorff. COINCIDENCE?

― Stuck in ILX Limbo (Roz), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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