Justin Timberlake says he now looks at the world differently since becoming a father. The artist has revealed that his recent hit, Can’t Stop the Feeling, which has remained on the charts for over nine weeks, was inspired and shaped by his son.
The 35-year-old singer talked about the tot while promoting the upcoming movie Trolls at a Comic-Con event in California.
He said: “I’d be leaving out the whole truth if I didn’t say having him shaped what the song actually is. [Having a child] gives you a different insight. It’s like The Matrix, man. You open a door and there’s this whole other world on the other side of it. And you look back through the door at the other world and you’re like, ‘What was I doing there?’”
While Timberlake plays a part in the DreamWorks movie, he also produced the soundtrack for it. He had also taken influences from the 1970s and its music, which includes classic disco.
The artist feels that Can’t Stop the Feeling was a love letter to that era, adding: “The filmmakers say they were inspired by the two sides of the 70s, the two different worlds this movie exists in. So I said let’s make a song that sounds like it could be from the 70s, but make it modern. Nothing was out that sort of sounded like that, and it just felt like it was perfect for the movie.”
The upcoming animated film is set to be released in November 2016 and stars Zooey Deschanel, Anna Kirkpatrick, Russell Brand, and James Corden.