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| Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids - My first JT concert. |
Directed by: Jonathon Demme
Stars: Justin Timberlake
Rating: --/TV-MA
Plot
Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids' final performance of the 20/20 Experience World Tour filmed in 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Verdict
I am not the intended audience for this. When the camera pans over the crowd, it seems to be 20 and 30 year old women. I'm not an avid Timberlake fan and I kind of knew one song in the show.
Aside from that I can appreciate his talent and the great show he puts on. He went all out and you can tell he loves doing it. If you're a JT fan this geared for you. If you don't consider yourself a fan, there really is no reason to watch it.
It depends.
Review
This is exactly as described. It's a recording of his final live show performance. This doesn't go behind the scenes, other than the first few minutes that shows him and the other performers.
This starts with a lot of introductions of people I don't know, including the band, singers, dancers, etc. It's nice to give them a shout out, but this introduction would induce more excitement if he picked someone with a ticket going in and sitting down and seeing the show start from that perspective.
Justin Timberlake is a phenomenal singer and the dancing is great. It's a spectacular performance that only an established performer could put on.
The songs themselves are mundane. One of his early songs, Pusher Love Girl, takes the concept of women as a drug and attempts to include as many oblique drug references as possible. If you aren't sure what he's talking about or think, "That's a strange line." He's talking about drugs, see "Hydroponic, candy jelly bean." That's good old amphetamine slang.
At one point Timberlake goes to the crowd and calls out Tim Mosley, who I knew as the rapper and producerTimbaland from the '90s. Timbaland is still producing, having produced all of Timberlake's solo albums and shares writing credits with Timberlake and others for nearly all of the songs features in this show.
It was fun to watch him perform, but I grew tired after thirty minutes. That's not a knock on his show, I just have no connection to the music. We did get a Michael Jackson tribute song, so technically I did know a song, just not a JT song. The final song was a great close out. He's a great entertainer. No doubt he loves every minute.
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