Timbaland has been in the lab working on a slew of new music, and now the super-producer is opening up on what fans can expect from some highly-anticipated new projects that are on the way from Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, and more.
Timbaland sat down for a new interview with Variety where he dished on the new albums on the new music he’s working on for Missy and JT’s upcoming projects.
Speaking on the JT project, Timb says the album is done and will essentially be the sequel to 2006’s highly-successful ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ and while JT’s last album was 2018’s ‘Man of the Woods,’ Timb says they are going back to their old formula that made JT a household name.
We just finished up and everything sounds great. Now it’s really on him how and when he envisions it to come out, but it’s done and it’s coming.
It’s fun Justin — it’s like “FutureSex/LoveSounds” but nothing too heavy, just giving you what you expect from us. Music is a young sport — of course, we’ve both seen a lot of life, but you have to bring out the 13 year old kid again, you know? We had songs that maybe were too complicated, so we said we want it to feel like “FutureSex” part two, so we did songs that will fit that.
He also dished on the long-overdue Missy album, which will be her first full album in over 15 years. Her last full LP was 2005’s ‘The Cookbook’ while she released her first ever EP ‘Iconology’ in 2019, and it served as her last body of work.
According to Timb, the new album will have a fresh sound that he is calling “Missy-ton”
We’ve got a lot of songs we’re gonna start recording soon, and my dream is to have it out around her birthday in July. I want it to sound how she looks — she looks incredible right now. We both look like we 19 again — see? [Holds phone camera closer to his face.] I know how Missy works: It’s got to be new and fun — or maybe not so much new as kind of underground, and everything is upbeat. Some of it has a kind of Latin feel to it, almost a Bad Bunny effect, some of it’s kinda like underground Brazilian funk. People gonna eat it up — and it might reach a just a different demographic of people. It’s like it’s her doing… not reggaeton but Missy-ton (laughter).
Elsewhere, he dished on the status of Verzuz which he co-created with Swizz Beatz, revealing will be relaunching soon.
Yeah, we’re about to go to the to the next level, and when you do that, there’s always little bumps in the road, a few hiccups. But we’re about to make an announcement — I can’t really talk about who we got on it because the paperwork’s not in yet, but this one’s gonna be pretty cool. Me and Swizz are still involved in a big way, and we’re doing something that nobody’s ever seen — it’s not like a battle, but it’s me and him. When you see it, you’re gonna be like, Oh, that’s kind of different.
Exciting news!
