Top Ten Underrated Justin Timberlake Songs

Justin Timberlake, one of the most influential recognizable music artists in the world who has made such phenomenal joy-popping music, a huge role model in the music industry and an icon to fans across the globe, as his music (along with *NSYNC) produced alongside Pharrell Williams creating five studio albums, has earned him five Number 1 hit singles, ten Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, nine People's Choice Awards, eleven Video Music Awards, and many more nominations and wins.

After coming such a long incredible journey in music from Memphis, Tennessee with the breakthrough of his early *NSYNC days to where he is now (with the help of producers of James Fauntleroy and Pharrell Williams, collaborations of Jay Z and Timbaland, and accompanied on tour with the Tennessee Kids). His music also inspired other famous singers/songwriters and record producers globally from his famous tracks in the likes of Like I Love You, Rock Your Body, Sexyback, My Love, Mirrors, Suit & Tie, Filthy and so many other countless classy body fuelling, rhythmic tunes with the longest peak at number 1 in an estimate of nine weeks. Even featured alongside other artists with collaborations releasing incredible music of a mixture of pop, hip hop, funk and R&B which never fails to impress to be heard and played in disco's, party's, radio channels, movies etc.

Though some of his songs are often and occasionally heard on the radio at almost any place almost everywhere, alot of his tracks are so dominant that they dont even get the recognitions they deserve with these devalued tracks below, so here's a chance to know about these Timberlake songs without music videos and never thoroughly got the appreciation of his songs from his most notable albums.

#10. Midnight Summer Jam

From the album Man Of The Woods, Midnight Summer Jam of the album's second track, bears the fingerprints and work of Pharrell Williams, both in it's funky guitar line and it's falsetto coos. The rising interjections of fiddles are one of the best efforts to approach country on the project, but otherwise this is a pretty classic JT groove that doesn't feel the need to change directions unnecessarily like much of The 20/20 Experience.

Although the album failed to meet the success and impact of his other four albums, this is a more personal creation of the singer as Timberlake has spoken extensively about how Man of the Woods was inspired by his Southern upbringing in Tennessee, a point he underscores by using the slang word "y'all" four times in the first fifthteen seconds of Midnight Summer Jam. Timberlake labelled the track as Southern American Music which said of the album in 2017 as he wanted to make it sound modern. overall this song is a pretty good introduction to that dual aesthetic with the strummed guitars and howling harmonica seem fit for a campfire, yet anchored by thumping and Neptunes-approved beats. The goal seems to be to capture the feel of a backyard party in Timberlake's native Tennessee, and who's to say it doesn't succeed?

#9. Words I Say

Though this song has actually been rarely heard and released as an unreleased single, this is a rather uniquely soothing ambient to listen to chill out, especially when in the bath taking your mind of things from the world.

This track will barely hit the marks on radios let alone the fact that it is only available to listen on YouTube but still joyful and mind refreshing to listen to. It also strengthens Justin Timberlake's already impressive body of work and style of music which has seen positive changes over the years.

#8. Another Song (All Over Again)

From the second studio album FutureSex/LoveSounds, this brings a rather splendid ballad of comfort of the song itself, lovely yet very old-fashioned of soul ballad produced in an organic, anti-Timbaland style by Rick Rubin.

The last track of the album first seems like a syrupy ballad cliché, as it finally contains the most superb snare drum sound that anyone has heard from JT in years. So, only a few other tracks are as mediocre as Sexyback and even that one isn't completely bad. The song is slow all throughout the end but shows how much Timberlake can compose with greatly timed ballads to bring out a much composed outcome of the track.

#7. Never Again

On the very first studio album Justified, this song is rather similar and almost compared to the track Cry Me A River, only without beats and rhythms of body popping jams. This breakup song features piano ballads with a meaning and understanding by the lyrics just after a harsh breakup from someone you loved and cared too much about, which tells a rather sad story when listening the track.

It brings out complete soul and a warming sooth to the ears, but it is based upon a rather heartbreaking split and how love life can teach us some really tough lessons, (not to mention the rumours of whether or not JT wrote this song from a previous flame of Britney Spears or of the other track Cry Me A River).

#6. Losing My Way

From the eleventh track of the second album, Losing My Way was on a documentary Timberlake saw on meth, but in the context of a night at the club, it can fit into the overall narrative of the album with its rhythmic beats along with a choir heard in the background almost at the end of the track. The song is basically about Timberlake confessing that he’s tired of the scene of a club from his actions from the previous night and what rejection turned him into, so don’t define the him that he wants to be.

This song is JT's take on one of pop’s most tired constructs, the hamfisted stab at social commentary. In the track, he preposterously imagines himself as a crackhead in the most simplistic way possible, based on the lyric of a line “Now I got a problem with that little white rock, see I can’t put down the pipe.” But there’s something goofily endearing about Timberlake’s Bono moment as he doesn’t sound anything short of absolutely sincere and there’s a sad, searching pathos in the way he voices all these hopeless cliches. More importantly, it sounds amazing and brings out a great jammin beat as the bassline is just a loop of Timbaland humming and it has all this skeletal little drum skitters buried under sweeping layers of power-ballad strings, fluttering harps and twittering flutes. But the great moment comes when the song emerges out of an utterly gorgeous bridge and back into its chorus, except now it’s a gospel choir singing in the background yet still hits the mark with both the song and lyrics.

#5. Strawberry Bubblegum

From the memorable album of The 20/20 Experience this song contains so much pure delight with a combination of pop, R&B, slick grooves and psychedelic soul. This smooth, sensual, seductive tune finds Timberlake using sex-as-candy metaphors to pay tribute to a girl's various attributes with a cloud of electronic blips, string stabs and snappy percussion tears at the seams of a simple R&B tune. The lyrics bring sexy vibes of flirtation and compliments of beauty, examples on the lines, "She's just like nothing that I've ever seen before", "And please, don't change nothing, because your flavor's so original." Along with the refrains of "Hey hey hey hey hey".

About five minutes into the song, JT switches gears and it morphs into a delightful bossa nova slow jam that is almost certainly about cunnilingus, as the track was described like an eight minute event with the length of the song of eight minutes that is musically rich and rewarding, the lyrics are like an embarrassingly cliché yet the perfect song for a dinner date either at home or at a restaurant.

#4. Breeze Of The Pond

A personal favourite from my own of the album, this track is a rather uniquely and harmoniously catchy tune, the lyrics according to critics not quite up to standard to bring entertainment but they give a sense of a glimpse of what nature looks like in the woods, almost like one of Michael Jackson's song of Break Of Dawn (after all, it is of the title Man Of The Woods).

This song leans on a layered-harmony trick that JT has used for a solid decade as it also invites you to imagine him taking a stoned canoe trip through the woods. In general, it is set to more antiseptic disco-pop noodling bass dropping theme, like visualising a fantasy nature outing of a lover, mainly like making love outdoors in the beauty of nature.

#3. Pusher Love Girl

Me describing this track as probably one of the most underestimated songs of Timberlake's work on such an exceptional and dynamic album of The 20/20 Experience, Pusher Love Girl is an ode to the such intoxicating effects of love and sex that comes in different swirls of rhythmic sounds from beginning, middle and end, along with a drug-addled metaphor at the heart of the song produces some ravishing lyrics.

The track is a slow-tempo R&B song that goes through several different styles during its eight minute long duration. It opens with an orchestral intro before transcending round it funky main section in the middle, as the song concludes with an outro that sees Timberlake rap over futuristic hip-hop beats, compared with several narcotics to the love of his significant other. This sultry cut of the song is about a girl whom the song's narrator yearns for like an addict craves for drugs when it comes to the lyrics, the song simmers on an elastic soul groove that contains retro-synth hooks, hand claps, horns and a squelchy bass line that makes it difficult to move your body to enjoy the tune. It kicks off with a swirling of luscious strings cut straight from a Hollywood classic at the beggining until it changes differently after five minutes, to a body popping finale fading to brilliance.

Personally to me this is such a smooth laid back jam, as this track is one of the highlights of the album of retro-soul vibe with effects of body popping beats.

#2. Spaceship Coupe

This slow-jam finds Timberlake in interstellar, lover-man romance mode as he sings of an intergalactic romance from outer space onto the moon. The song received mixed reviews due to it's lack of understanding of making love to the moon with dubious lyrics and squealing vocal samples, some also say it has ridiculous lyrics making it almost bizarre, rather like JT is having more fun with thee Spaceship Coupe than actually taking it seriously. Still it nails the the intimate, incredibly funky sound to refreshen your mind and so simply sit back and relax even when travelling.

Although this does not allow for the many immediate hits which of Justin's previous albums have produced, it does still work as a whole in creating an album which continually flows so well dynamically, with the flow of an electric guitar that plays solo to the echo across the cosmos round the middle of the track and simply to just have fun to sing to when you're in a goofy mood. Everything else aside though, the song itself is incredible.

#1. Until The End Of Time

Even if many other JT fans disagree with the fact that this might not be one of his most underrated of all time, this song and I'll say it Until The End Of Time, without a doubt hits the mark to be virtually one of the best to regard of all of his hits let alone his albums.

The beat starts of slow with an accompanying string section that serves as the perfect backdrop for when Timberlake hits his high notes, the record has a sultry sound which helps offset the super futuristic sounds on the rest of the album to make it sound great and special with a stripped-down slow jam with a gorgeously simple melody. This also comes of a different version that features a duet with the Queen of R&B Beyonce, as it is a quiet storm ballad, R&B slow jam. The song utilizes Linn drums that is a total similar tribute to Prince ballads as the original flavor was already a treat and a stripped-down slow jam with a gorgeously simple melody either played on solo or duet versions.

It is quite frankly so easy to sing along to, feel the soul and rhythm of the sound the moment it is played and makes and understanding setting to the lyrics of life and love.

Overall. Justin Timberlake has practically dominated American culture to the whole world all throughout the 21st century from his multi-platinum selling music that will be remembered for a long time to honour the singers legacy right now and in later life.