As anticipated, Justin Timberlake has dropped his new single and video, “Egocentric,” persevering with the rollout main as much as his first album in 5 years, “All the things I Thought It Was.”

“Egocentric,” which was premiered at a particular live performance in Timberlake’s hometown of Memphis final week, was written by the singer, Louis Bell (Taylor Swift, Publish Malone), Cirkut (Maroon 5, The Weeknd), Theron Thomas and Amy Allen and produced by Timberlake, Louis Bell and Cirkut. The video was directed by Bradley J. Calder (SZA, Tinashe).

The campaigh continues in surprisingly conventional trend for Timberlake with an look on “The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon” tonight (Jan. 25) and “Saturday Night time Reside” this Saturday, and a particular free live performance at New York’s Irving Plaza subsequent week — all of which he has executed incessantly previously. The 2 NBC reveals have lengthy been platforms for the singer — he has a long-running bromance with Fallon particularly.

Nonetheless, the singer has stored a low profile lately, notably after the lukewarm response to his 2018 album “Man of the Woods.” In these years he has primarily returned for songs within the soundtracks to the “Trolls” movies, together with “The Different Facet” with SZA, launched in 2020 simply earlier than the pandemic, and late final yr with ‘Higher Place,’ which discovered him reuniting with NSYNC, the boy band that launched him to stardom within the Nineties. Whereas that track appeared to counsel a full reunion is likely to be within the offing — the group seems within the movie in animated kind — he appeared set on a full solo return as a substitute.

His longtime musical collaborator TImbaland broke the information of the approaching album to Selection final April, describing it as a return to the “enjoyable Justin” of his 2006 smash album “FutureSex/ LoveSounds” after the far more critical “Man of the Woods.”

“It’s enjoyable Justin,” he mentioned. “It’s like ‘FutureSex /LoveSounds,’ however nothing too heavy, simply providing you with what you’d count on from us: not overthought, the lyrics aren’t so deep, it’s bob-your-head, dance-to-it music. Music is a younger sport, and it’s a must to hold it enjoyable — enjoyable and younger. We’ve each seen a whole lot of life, however you may’t overthink it due to that, it’s a must to convey out the 13-year-old, 18-year-old once more, you understand? If not, you will get into the old-fogey stage actual fast. (Laughter) That’s simply the world we dwell in.

“So it’s a must to know tips on how to be genuine and true to the artwork and perceive it, and that’s what this album is,” he continued. “We took our time. We had songs that perhaps have been too sophisticated, however we mentioned “We would like it to really feel like ‘FutureSex’ half two,” so we picked songs that may match that.”