Justin Timberlake going on tour with some trees and some wolves or some shit
Heralded by a teaser video in which he wandered down from the LL. Bean Mountains, loaded like an on-trend pack mule in layers of sherpa-lined denim, leather, and Navajo blankets, Justin Timberlake’s next album is all about returning him to the rural Tennessee roots that have long inspired the “Early Life” section of his Wikipedia page. That record, Man Of The Woods, “feels like mountains, trees, campfires, like the Wild West” according to the trailer—a sensation of wide open air and the invigorating threat of dysentery that runs throughout its tracks made for clubbing or plowing. And that feeling will also spread to Timberlake’s just-announced Man Of The Woods tour, where his rider in every city will demand a cooler filled with blood and soil.
“The outdoors is the inspiration for a lot of these songs. That’s the main idea. The tour will be able to bring the outside in. How can we bring that to life?” a fur-ringed Timberlake says in the just-released trailer, posing his question from atop a snow-covered, presumably to a herd of deer just off camera. “I want people to see the inspiration for how it ended up sounding. I’ve never seen that done before: Bring the outside in.”