Timbaland & J.T. Eat a Girl Like She’s “Carry Out” (Video)

Yeah, I know about the sexual double meaning in the headline. It's on purpose, and frankly I didn't have to try that hard. Not with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake dropping some video girl soaked visuals to their quasi-hit single "Carry Out". Come on, we're all adults here. Adults with juvenile senses of humor.



The Refined Take:

1) First off, let me continue to extend a giant middle finger on behalf of hip-hop for Timbaland's "I'm done with hip-hop' comments. Um...well f**k you too then. I feel like Timbaland is Tiger Woods and hip-hop is his wife: we loved the man, we thought we knew him, but it turns out that he didn't love us back at all.

2) Don't we have to officially give Timbaland and Timberlake some sort of joint name, like Brangelina? Or did this already happen and I missed it. Either way, Timbalake seems like the obvious choice. It's a little more subtle than I'd like, but I don't know if we're doing any better.

3) So what's the difference between these video girls and the video girls in Slaughterhouse's "The One" video? The "Carry Out" girls can at least pretend that their "dancers." Plus they can show the video to their parents without having their mom cry. I've got a daughter on the way, and if she never appears in a music video, or a Real World episode, I'll consider my parenting mission accomplished.

4) So to summarize, Timbaland drops a terrible auto-tune verse in the beginning and then basically sits back and watches J.T. do all the real work for the rest of the video, which actually seems like an apt summary of his work on this song as a whole. Did I mention that Timbaland can go fuck himself?

5) If you had told me ten years ago that J.T. would be a legitimate musical star, and that I would find him generally likable and occasionally hilarious, I would have said you were crazy. And yet, here we are. How'd that happen?