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Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (2013, RCA Records)

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  Show You a Few Things I’ve been spending all night trying to pinpoint exactly when my obsession with Justin Timberlake’s 2013 album The 20/20 Experience started. I haven’t been able to piece together a logical progression or a narrative tale, but I have this tweet about a “poll” to go off of as a starting place: https://twitter.com/Jorty_Spice/status/301126362171838464 . During this period of my life I was really depressed and used the tried and true method of vomiting every thought, whether or not it was actually valuable or worth sharing, on social media to try to feel like I was expressing myself in a vulnerable way. I tend not to do that anymore, but it makes the 2012-2014 segment of my Twitter archive a fun time capsule. “Suit and Tie” dropped about a month before this tweet and, somehow, I vividly remember the bespoke poll taking place over the entire month. It took time to let “Suit and Tie” sink in. My extended college friend group was 17 (!!!) people strong, and we cover...