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Cologne –
Suit and tie was yesterday. Today, Justin Timberlake is wearing a lumberjack shirt. The pop star even devoted his own song to the garment on his new album, "Man of the Woods", but "Flannel" – in stark contrast to his "Suit & Tie" anthem in 2013 – is a kitsch country ballad. , Pity! Who would have thought a few years ago that Timberlake would never part with his elegant costumes and become so down to earth?
But fashions change – and life. Especially when children start to take direction. And Timberlake named his latest and fifth studio album after his three-year-old son Silas, who in turn was named after Silvanus, the god of the woods. Since the release of the album, Timberlake will probably have less time to spy on his offspring of marriage with actress Jessica Biel. Because since March, the world tour is announced.
"The Tennessee Kids" terrible
In Cologne he appears twice, Saturday and Sunday. His concerts in Germany in August in Berlin, Frankfurt and Hamburg come in double pack. The fact that Timberlake, despite his new lyrical and musically rather weak album attracts fans en mbade, is not only due to his older catchy tunes, but also because they know: When Timberlake is on stage It is not a long torch, but a fireworks fire which in this form can ignite at best a handful of pop stars from around the world.
What is more than essentially proven in the Lanxess Arena full Saturday night: With six dancers, four brbad, four long-distance singers, two keyboardists, two guitarists and a bbadist, the 37-year-old has behind him a terrific troupe called "The Tennessee Kids". One after the other, they are walking on the stage in the fog at 9 pm. Logically, this Timberlake since the beginning of the dance: In the category pop star dance can at this level maybe even his youngest namesake Justin Bieber follow.
Timberlake takes his first dance steps in the group of boys N & # 39; Sync in the 90's, the world star But he was only as a solo artist of his debut album "Justified" (2002) . Huge video projections transport Timberlake to Cologne until the last row of the sold-out arena, gigantic contraction of laser in a virtuoso training dance. Timberlake, unlike these irresistible show refinements, remains completely committed to the natural world. He is the star to touch. That's why the arena podium, which sneaks all over the room, shakes the hands of Timberlake fans with their dancing army around them, in sneakers, in jeans and in T-shirts. shirt
"Senorita" brings fans Ausflippen
The evening in Cologne begins with "Filthy", the first piece of the new album. Musically, aside from the mighty drums and booming rock guitars, there is little left, but the dance is already a reference from the beginning. Timberlake changes in "Filthy" one of his favorite subjects, the sweaty parade on the dance floor, which turns out to be much more sensual and dancing in his older songs – fortunately also in Cologne, where the # Irresistible dancer "Senorita" from the first album fans for the first time correctly Freaky brings. Shortly after, Timberland reveals "Cry me a river", in which he sings the end of his teenage love with the fallen pop angel Britney Spears.
The tears are golden, they flow on the giant canvases. Not only the music is deafening, but also the fans, to whom Timberlake pays tribute again and again, even on their knees. In the middle of the concert, Timberlake lights a real campfire, sits down with his musicians and his tunes on the guitar and – from then on in the lumberjack shirt – says "Flannel".
Timberlake goes to bed after the small campfire party and then to the clammy finale. With "Rock your body", "Like I like you" and more recently "Can not stop feeling", his brilliant and perfectly choreographed concert ends with deafening rejoicing, topped with "I love you" ", exactly two hours later. Without additions. But what happens after this last hymn, the worthy successor of Pharell Williams, "Happy"? Oh yes! Another fireworks. Am Kölner Himmel.
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