Justin Timberlake snuggles up with Riley Keough in the music video for his latest single "TKO," serves as the second single from the Memphis-born star's latest fourth studio album, "The 20/20 Experience (2 of 2)." "TKO" is largely a retread of Timberlake's past work with longtime collaborator Timbaland, opening with a tired hype-man routine that finds the producer idiotically chanting, "She kill me with that coo-coochie-coochie-coo," over a familiar mid-tempo shuffle circa 2006. The video is a knock-down, drag-out good time in a slickly produced and thematic seven-minute clip.
The song's lyrics add little to an already massive pantheon of pop songs built around a love-as-boxing metaphor, as we find Timberlake describing the flooring feeling of spotting his former girlfriend out with a new man. He addresses his former flame by telling her, "I'm out for the count/Yeah, girl, you knock me out/With a TKO." Other boxing metaphors that Timberlake utilizes on the club banger to describe his emotions at seeing the girl with another guy include, "you've been swinging after the bell," "hit the mat," and "below the belt." To cap it all, Timberlake also includes a beat-boxing breakdown.
The song works as a mid-tempo club track that doesn't have much of the old-school lover-man slickness that Timberlake brought to the last album, and the melody doesn't quite stick the way you'd hope a Timberlake melody would. "TKO" contains heavy drums and "scratchy" studio effects, which according to a staff writer of Consequence of Sound, is reminiscent of a "slightly more refined Justified." However, Timberlake isn't recycling old music material, but giving it a modernized update. There is something about how the heavy bass and snare blends with Timberlake's signature voice that taps into the soul of every pop music fan when Timbaland is in the mix that simply cannot be denied.
The 32-year-old entertainer tries to win the heart of his girlfriend, played by Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough, 24, as his love interest, in the cinematic visual directed by Ryan Reichenfeld. She didn't actually kill him with her "coo-coochie-coochie-coo", but she killed him anyway. After making out in the kitchen, Keough turns down Timberlake's further advances. She doesn't want to give him her "coo-coochie-coochie-coo" anymore. So Keough immediately develops a plan. First she knocks Timberlake out with a nasty hit on the head with a frying pan. She then drags hims through the desert on the back of a truck that she's driving, and ultimately.
The song's lyrics add little to an already massive pantheon of pop songs built around a love-as-boxing metaphor, as we find Timberlake describing the flooring feeling of spotting his former girlfriend out with a new man. He addresses his former flame by telling her, "I'm out for the count/Yeah, girl, you knock me out/With a TKO." Other boxing metaphors that Timberlake utilizes on the club banger to describe his emotions at seeing the girl with another guy include, "you've been swinging after the bell," "hit the mat," and "below the belt." To cap it all, Timberlake also includes a beat-boxing breakdown.
The song works as a mid-tempo club track that doesn't have much of the old-school lover-man slickness that Timberlake brought to the last album, and the melody doesn't quite stick the way you'd hope a Timberlake melody would. "TKO" contains heavy drums and "scratchy" studio effects, which according to a staff writer of Consequence of Sound, is reminiscent of a "slightly more refined Justified." However, Timberlake isn't recycling old music material, but giving it a modernized update. There is something about how the heavy bass and snare blends with Timberlake's signature voice that taps into the soul of every pop music fan when Timbaland is in the mix that simply cannot be denied.
The 32-year-old entertainer tries to win the heart of his girlfriend, played by Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough, 24, as his love interest, in the cinematic visual directed by Ryan Reichenfeld. She didn't actually kill him with her "coo-coochie-coochie-coo", but she killed him anyway. After making out in the kitchen, Keough turns down Timberlake's further advances. She doesn't want to give him her "coo-coochie-coochie-coo" anymore. So Keough immediately develops a plan. First she knocks Timberlake out with a nasty hit on the head with a frying pan. She then drags hims through the desert on the back of a truck that she's driving, and ultimately.
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