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Last Thursday, Justin Timberlake releasedSupplies,the second single and music video from his forthcoming album.

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The song itself is unremarkable club-love lyrics and lazy, loping vocals over a generic trap beat.

Though he had yet to release so much as a single, it made for a juicy narrative.

One genre was tossed around with some consistency country.

Supplies is more lax, but thematically in accord.

(Supplies also appeared as a snippet in the aforementioned promo video.)

Was theMan of the Woodstease just a hilarious joke?

A bait and switch?

wondersEsquires Matt Miller, along with many others.

Not the version of idyllic whiteness critics anticipated, sure, but theresa lotthere.

Timberlake couldnt escape black music even if he wanted to.