JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Source: www.speakup.com.br
Language level: Intermediate
Standard: American accent
Changing Places
29-year-old Justin Timberlake is chiefly known for being a singer, but recently He has also been working on his movie career, acting in films like The Love Guru and The social Network.Timberlake was asked to compare the experience of recording an album with that of making a movie:
Justin Timberlake
(Standard American accent):
Recording an album is a lot less organized. It’s a lot of more on a whim. For instance, the last album I did, I would work for two weeks and then take a week off, and then work for two weeks and then take a week off. And whatever I got out of there, I would just keep kind of pounding away at, but I find that a film takes longer to do because the process is more organized. You write the film, you get the film green lit, you find the director –that happens around the same time – you cast the players, you film the film, you edit the film, you score the film. With music, you’re sort of doing all that at the same time. I’m writing and recording, at the same time I’m going back, fixing lyrics, fixing notes, adding piano to certain songs, adding guitar to certain songs, redoing the drums. You’re constant…you’re editing, you’re producing, you’re directing, you’re writing, all at the same time.
A PIECE OF ME
He was then asked whether he managed to be objective when it came to writing and recording songs:
Justin Timberlake:
It’s completely objective. I think that, even when I write for myself, I’m very objective. It’s not as personal as you would think. I find this analogy kind of interesting and I’ve said this since I started doing film, that a lot of our favorite actors, they end up playing a lot of parts that you start…start to realize, “Oh, he was cast in that, or she was cast in that movie, because that’s kind of who she is.” And I find that the drill for acting is to find something personal that makes it relative, so that you can display the truth of the character or the emotion of the character.
DYLAN’S POETRY
And, with writing, it’s kind of the opposite, you know, so many of Dylan’s songs, I mean, they were just poems, and then, all of a sudden, they get stuck to you, like they’re supposed to be more personal. We praise actors for playing someone else, when in reality they’re using so much of themselves to play it. And then we praise musician for being so personal, when, in reality, they’re probably using someone else to write the song. I mean you look at the Bee Gees, who wrote, “To Love Somebody.” They wrote that song for Otis Redding. He died before he recorded it, so they recorded it themselves, it was one of their biggest hits. You know, and in reality they were writing for a young soul singer.
So I find that analogy kind of interesting, in the way that people perceive the art and the way that art is created.
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