✎ Timbaland's Top 10 Rules For Success: In this video, we're going to learn how to improve our lives by analyzing our take on Timbaland's rules for success.
-= TIMBALAND'S RULES =-
1. Be driven
2. Create passionately
3. Be a team player
4. Crawl before you walk
5. Inspire greatness
6. Overcome adversity
7. Reinvent yourself
8. Give
9. Find your creative process
10. Freestyle
-= BONUS =-
* Build your team
* Don't do stuff out of emotion
* Touch lives
"LOOSE", her collaboration with Timbaland, went platinum in 32 countries. The follow-up, a Spanish language disc called Mi Plan, may have seemed like career suicide - but it won a Grammy and topped the Latin album charts. "My goal is to always record albums where pretty much every song sounds just as good with only an acoustic guitar and a vocal, That's always the test." Furtado explains
THE SONG THAT MEANS MOST TO ME
"TRY", which is a ballad from the second album, Folklore. I was about six months pregnant with Nevis my daughter at the time. So that album has a lot of sincere, emotionally poignant moments for me. I was really inspired.
The second half of the song was totally improvisation. It captured a lot of emotion. So every time I sing it in my live show - all around the world it's had the same reaction - fans get quite emotional, and there's a lot of crying. And I have cried when I sing it. A lot of people have told me the song gave them hope or helped them through a difficult situation.
THE SONG THAT STARTED A FIRE 🔥
This is true - there are many witnesses who were there: When we recorded Maneater a speaker caught fire. It started smoking and a flame shot out of the speaker, which nobody at the Hit Factory in Miami had ever seen before in the 40 years the studio has been there.
We put that beat on, and it was so rumbling and rapturous and pagan that it incited a fire! We actually were scared of the beat. We felt like it had the devil in it, or something. We put it away for a few weeks, until we had the courage to play it again. It was life-threatening! Someone almost got first-degree burns.
THE SONG THAT WAS MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN I EXPECTED
"SAY IT RIGHT". I had no idea what a giant song it would become. The thing that still perplexes me about the song is that I still can't put into words what it's about. I think it's maybe about personal, visceral abandon. Throwing yourself into something without inhibitions.
It has a mystery to it - which is something I always wanted to do with a pop song. When Timbaland and I were creating Loose, we were really inspired by the Eurythmics and songs like Sweet Dreams. Songs that are definitely pop songs, but that draw you into certain abstract states of mind. And I think Say It Right has that quality. It's quite haunting.
We wrote it really late at night. It was four in the morning and it just kind of came out of nowhere. We'd been watching Pink Floyd's The Wall on a huge screen all day long on mute - so I think it was playing into our subconscious a little bit.
THE SONGS THE RECORD LABEL SENT BACK
When we were recording Loose, we really liked the sounds we were creating in the studio. My whole life, I had grown up making beats in my friends' basements and loving the rawness of this direct sound, before you fix what is broken. For major records, you smooth down and master the sound but on Loose we did the opposite. We wanted it raw, we wanted it visceral, we wanted the speakers to buzz. We fought for that. The label asked us to do better, smoother mixes and we refused. I said, "no, it needs to sound this way".
Sonics are everything. A lot of the beats and the sound on Loose are louder. When Timbaland put out my album and then Justin Timberlake's album, there was an actual volume increase. I think everything on the radio became louder after that, for the next five years. Because what we did in the mix stage was creating the illusion of having the speakers turned up to 11. We were maxed out on all fronts. You're getting volume - which is what people want, because that's what you feel at a live show.
THE SONG I LOVE PLAYING IN CONCERT
Turn Off The Light. We've done electro versions, hip-hop versions. Timbaland came and surprised people when we played it at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. We did my regular version, then it was Tim's urban remix, and then we rapped, and then we went into a heavy metal ending, where I played guitar and traded licks with my guitar player. It just got rowdy, and the crowd would really move and jump in that part.
It's a great festival song, too. I played it at Glastonbury and people jump and move. It's got a lot of groove potential, so if you want that, you can really get it going on that song. It's got a bluesy raunchy sounding solo in the middle. It's great for moshing to.
THE SONG THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT ONTO THE GREATEST HITS
I really wanted the Get Ur Freak On remix I did with Missy Elliot. That was really important for my career, because it opened the whole hip-hop world to me, right after I'm Like A Bird came out. So there was a cool duality going on.
There's a funny story behind it, too - People would play that remix on the seriously urban, street radio stations in New York and the DJs said: "Oh, Missy's done a duet with a Jamaican boy."
I also wanted my duet with Michael Buble, Quando Quando Quando. It's like my jazz tune. The duet with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake [Give It To Me] isn't on there, either. And I have a really cool duet with Josh Groban. We wanted to do a collaborations album for a while, because I've done so many - and I'm still doing more. I'm not in a band but I have a thirst and a desire to be around musicians. When I was 12 I would sneak out of my house and hang around with DJs and MCs. I think I spend more time hanging around and jamming than focussing on my career.
Timbaland Reveals About his Addiction to OxyContin
Timbaland is looking for his Thriller. In a revealing new interview with Rolling Stone, the influential producer got candid about his legacy and what he's doing now to help the new wave of creatives find their voice. Timbo also discussed what he describes as a near-death OxyContin overdose, which occurred during some of the most tumultuous years of his life.
"I was on drugs, dude," said Timbaland, who started taking pain meds in his 30s due to nerve issue stemming from a gunshot injury he sustained as a teen. "I was on OxyContin." Timbaland said his Oxy use eventually got out of control. Simultaneously, his presence on the charts started to take a dive and his marriage started falling apart. "The pills helped block out the noise," he said. "I'd just sleep all day." At one point, Timbaland remembered, Jay Z suggested he avoid doing interviews because he had started saying "crazy shit."
Lyrica Anderson Talks Timbaland, Signing to MMG & TiNK
Timbaland former protege Lyrica Anderson spoke about working with Timbo, and signing a one year contract to Mosley Music Group. The super-producer even gave her advice that helped her developed into the artist she is today. Watch the clip below:
Sir Rosevelt - Something 'Bout You (Co-prod by Timbaland)
Zac Brown with his new band Sir Rosevelt, releasing the group's new track, "Something 'Bout You", co-produced by Timbaland & Angel Lopez, Listen in Up:
check out the Sir Rosevelt album track list below:
"Sunday Finest"
"Something ‘Bout You" *Co-prod by Timbaland*
"The Bravest" *Co-prod by Timbaland*
"Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us"
"Hurricane"
"For My Own"
"Robert Baker"
"Take Your Love Away"
"Slow Motion"
"Let Me Go"
"Infinite & Endless"
After she released Her track "HoNY" Last Month Khelani Today Drops A New Song Called "Already Won" Produced By (Milli Beatz & Angel Lopez) from The Timbaland Team Camp Give it a Listen below:
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River (The Story Behind The Song)
"This week, we look at one of Justin Timberlake’s greatest songs – 2002’s “Cry Me A River” was released as the 2nd single from his 1st solo album “Justified” 15 years Ago, and was one of four songs which were composed by Timbaland (“(Oh No) What You Got”, "Take Me Now" and “Right for Me”. Timberlake & Scott Storch came up with the lyrics to the song and improvised the track over Timbaland’s beat.
Justin wrote this song about Britney Spears. In the song, the relationship goes bad because the girl cheated, and to get even, the boy makes sure that the girl finds out he's moved on with his life. The girl gets upset, and "cries a river" because she screwed up and lost the boy forever.
The track was written and recorded following a heated phone conversation between Timberlake and Spears. During a E! True Hollywood Story special about Timbaland, the producer explained, "He went to a concert and saw Britney, and Britney talked about him in the show and he was pissed."
Timberlake added, "I was on a phone call that was not the most enjoyable phone call. I walked into the studio and he (Timbaland) could tell I was visibly angry." The singer then poured out his furious feelings in the song.
In the video, Timberlake uses a video camera to tape him getting hot and heavy with another girl. When his girlfriend (who is played by an actress that looks very much like Britney Spears) comes in, he sets it up so she will see the tape. The video leaves little doubt that it is a message to Spears. The Britney look-a-like was played by actress Lauren Hastings. She recalled to Q magazine June 2009: "I went for a casting and they asked if I'd be comfortable 'making out' with Justin. I said Yes! I had a huge crush on him and once dated a guy just because he looked like him."
◾Scott Storch, who was working with Timbaland, played piano on this track. Storch claims he was not given proper credit for his contributions on this song and should have been listed as a co-producer. ◾After breaking up with Britney, Justin was rumored to date Alyssa Milano and Janet Jackson. ◾ Justin wrote this with Timbaland, who also helped produce it. That's Timbaland doing the rap in the middle. ◾At the 2004 Grammys, this won the award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. Exactly one week before the ceremony, Justin exposed Janet Jackson's breast on the Super Bowl halftime show, creating an uproar and big problems for CBS, who was also broadcasting the Grammys
A short film in the making of Sam Smith’s album "The Thrill of It All"will debut on Apple Music on November 3 -- the same day the album arrives. The documentary, titled On the Record: Sam Smith -- The Thrill of It All, will feature behind-the-scenes footage With Timbaland in The Studio Recording "Pray", along with interviews from Sam.
watch the Teaser below while Making "Pray" with Timbaland :
it's been a while Timbaland Haven't Previews any Stuff from The Chicago young Singer TiNK, via instagram Timbaland Announces That her Album is dropping Soon, Here you go check out those snippets of #ThinkTink!
