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Justin Timberlake: carrying stage experience across forms

Solo records, films and comedy asked for different uses of performance experience.

DOCUMENTED LIFE

Between records and programmes

After recognition in a group, Timberlake began his solo route with Like I Love You and Justified in 2002. FutureSex/LoveSounds in 2006 brought another sound with collaborators including Timbaland, while films such as The Social Network offered other performance work. Television Academy records show a music Emmy in 2007 and comedy guest acting awards in 2009 and 2011. Two 20/20 Experience albums continued his recording work in 2013. Stage timing could travel between forms, while a film character and a comedy scene still required their own treatment.

TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION

Supporting another form of work

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EDITORIAL REFLECTION

Crossing forms requires learning

The value of crossing forms may lie in discovering where an earlier method needs change. New demands from a work and its collaborators keep proficiency from becoming repetition. This route invites a distinction between being known and completing a particular task. Recognition can create an opportunity; it does not do the work.

Turning points

  1. Released his solo debut Justified. [1]

  2. Released FutureSex/LoveSounds. [1]

  3. Won an Emmy for comedy guest acting. [2]

  4. Released two The 20/20 Experience albums. [2]

Sources & record

  1. Memphis Music Hall of Fame — Justin Timberlake ↗
  2. Television Academy — Justin Timberlake award records and secondary biography ↗

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