As plenty of people have noted, Justin Timberlake no longer glides effortlessly through the celebrity sphere. Timberlake has been building up to the release of his new solo album Everything I Thought It Was for a while now, and he’s in a vastly different place than he was when he last dropped. For one thing, the new album is the six-years-later follow up to Man Of The Woods, Timberlake’s first widely derided mega-flop. For another, the public view of Timberlake’s past actions with Britney Spears and Janet Jackson has shifted significantly. Timberlake keeps apologizing for things and then saying that he apologizes for nothing. It’s messy. But narrative is one thing, and music is another. So how is the album?