Justin Timberlake Releases New Single “Supplies”

Justin Timberlake released a dystopian video for “Supplies” featuring Pharrell Williams on Thursday. The song is the second track the singer has revealed from his forthcoming album, Man of the Woods.

“Supplies” blends a steady beat, a sitar-like melody and onomatopoeic interjections from Williams. The Neptunes (Williams’ group with Chad Hugo) produced the single, marking a reunion of sorts for the collaborators: Man of the Woods is the first time they’ve worked together on a Timberlake album since the singer’s 2002 debut solo album, Justified.

The Dave Meyers-directed video for “Supplies”, which co-stars actress Eiza González Reyna, is set in a strange future with hints of the present. The video opens with a multitude of television screens showing images of police brutality and marchers in the streets. The words “End Racism Now” stretch across one of the TV sets. Later González Reyna disrupts a religious ritual and Timberlake joins in a scene that vaguely resembles a protest, but this is ultimately a love song. “Some shit start to go down, I’ll be the one with the level head”, he sings. “The world could end now we’ll be living in The Walking Dead/ ‘Cause I got supplies”.

Rolling Stone