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9 GIFs from Justin Timberlake's new video

by Tyler Munro

July 4, 2013

The tables turn a bit on Robin Thicke’s Justin Timberlake impersonation with JT’s new video for “Tunnel Vision,” which like “Blurred Lines” is likely going to be reduced to focus on its boob-quotient, even if it does things differently.

For starters, the distinct lack of any balloons talking about Justin Timberlake’s dick bring things up a few class levels, and further than that, neither JT nor Timbaland actually appear in any shots with these girls (other than as projections).

All in all, the video takes things a little more seriously than “Blurred Lines,” using these ladies’ bodies as the canvases upon which faces, shapes and other abstracts are projected onto. The argument still exists that this is absolutely gratuitous and, of its audience, exploitative. But it’s uniquely so. Solid as the song is, the conscious choice to have beautiful, mostly-naked ladies squirming about is the talking point. It’s tastefully pulled off, if not entirely necessary.

For us, though, we want to make sure that bosoms aside we focus on those non-nudie moments from “Tunnel Vision,” among them the bonding bits between Justin and his esteemed producer and Timberlake’s little dance bursts. For starters, here’s a little compilation we made, editing out the ladies from a chunk of the clip to reduce it only to Timberlake’s solo stage presence. Get rid of the ladies and the video kind of goes from serious to silly.

But that’s cheating, since that one has a few shots we took out between. Here are some where we didn’t do that. Be sure to watch the whole video up top, assuming you’re in an environment where you can do so appropriately. Like we said: there’s nudity involved.