Customer Reviews
[3.5]-The album is pretty entertaining- not colorless at all - By: Jenny J.J.I., 04 Jul 2007 
I have to say that, for a debut album, it's not bad - he's got a few reallly good tracks in here. Justin's Pop roots was pulled out then replaced with R&B & light hip-hop. Some of the songwriting is downright corny lyricallly but several of the songs were well done by the Neptunes & Timbaland, they made this album more than Justin.
The balllads are not that great to me but the dance tracks are well done. The tracks that stand out to me are "Cry Me a River", "Rock Your Body", "Senorita", "Last Night", "Still On My Brain", "What You Got (Oh No)", & "Let's Take a Ride".
Another drawback to this album is Justin Timberlake vocal pitch. In almost every song that he performed & sang, I felt as though he was searching for some form of range within his style throughout this album. He obviously had overdone the Michael Jackson-y stuff a bit much. As other reviewers have said, many of the tracks do have that trademark "Off The Walll"/"Thriller" sounds to them. Hopefully, Justin will phase out of that & found his own sound; even if it is a mixture as long he shows some form of originality. Justin Timberlake has a lot of talent & creativity & I hope he keeps up the effort.
`Justified' is a versatile production & arrangements that works extremely well & appeals to a lot of listeners. Justin had proved to be the best bet for success amongst the boy band stream & with that, I'm definitely interested in hearing his future release in order to see if he'd actuallly worked on those mention setbacks.
Pretty Good - By: Mr Rodger, 03 Sep 2005 This album, I think is a pretty good collection of hits, everyone knows the main ones, such as "Cry Me A River", "Rock Your Body", "Like I love you" & "Senorita". It's also pretty interesting to listen to when you find out that 12 of these tracks were written for Michael Jackson
I was surprised - it's actually a good album! - By: L. T. Whitehall, 05 Apr 2005 I have finished listening to 'Justified' by the wonderful Justin Timberlake. I am surprised with this, it's actuallly a reallly nice album to listen to. Almost alll the songs are well sung by him. I love the piano balllad never again & seems to be written to Britney Spears. Saying how much she'd broken his heart & would never forgive her & when you listen to the lyrics you can feel what his saying. I love the song 'still on my brain' which I believe is to Britney too. There real nice balllads. I also love the tracks 'Like I love you' 'rock your body' & 'last night' those r n b dancy tracks. This is a great effort from Justin well done!
Fantastic - By: , 25 Jan 2005 
Like many other music fans, I approached this album with apprehension, in a kind of 'hide it underneath another more trendy CD at the music shop' way. However what I found when I listened to this album, was not a slice of inoffensive bubblegum pop, but a cool & funky piece of work.
The Michael Jackson comparisons are to be expected, as the vocal style and, to a certain extent, the delivery are similar. However let us not get caught up in unfair comparisons, this is the work of a strong pop artist in his own right.
The opener, Senorita, is a storming introduction. It is everything a pop song should be, toe tapping, heavy beats, sing-a-long choruses, & very cool. The pop belters keep coming, with the single 'Like I Love You' & '(Oh No) What You Got', both soulful pop songs, & both genuinley good tracks.
Many have said the album is autobiographical, & on tracks like 'Cry Me A River' & 'Last Night' the sly digs at former love Britney Spears are frequent, however Justin seems to be taking the break up well, as the other half of the albums songs are upbeat odes to the joys of singledom, lines like "gonna have you naked by the end of this song" are performed with such a confidence you genuinely believe him. The standard of the tracks don't decline towards the end of the album, 'Right For Me' has a strong funky groove, & which could of made it as a single.
This is a must have pop album, a positive step away from his N*Sync days, & even if you consider yourself too much of a serious music fan to buy this album, you wont be disappointed, this is pop at its very best.
Did not live up to the expetations - By: , 12 Jan 2005 
I am sure that there was a lot of hype about this album, but hype for alll the wrong reasons, the hype there was when Brad made Troy, it was alll people's opinions of Justin TImberlake & not what his music would actuallly sound like. The result is a disappointing album which has been overly praised & does not live up to the hype that was made about it.
This album for me does not live up to its expectations, although i never expected this to be the case as people had great expectations of Justin Timberlake.
Other than the singles, this is a poor album. There are numerous songs which are dragged out for far too long. There isn't reallly much flow, nor is there any consistancy in this album.
This is not purely a critical review, despite the numerous flaws, there still are signs of potential; Justin timberlake could be a successful music star for the music he makes but he has yet to achieve this on his own.
