Justin Timberlake is a shell of his former self on ‘Filthy’
When pop wizard Justin Timberlake announced his fourth album, Man of the Woods, earlier this week, many speculated he was signaling a reboot. Here was one of the young century’s most successful chart-toppers dropping a Revenant-style pastoral teaser lined with acoustic guitars — and promising a collection of songs honoring family life and his Tennessee roots, to boot. No matter that he’d named the impending lead single “Filthy”. Maybe the title referenced muddied Carhartts or…