Lenny Kravitz vs Justin Timberlake
A Pytski mashup from 2008. Often copied / recreated, this is the original. A smooth collaboration of mr Kravitz and mister Timberlake.
“Fly Away” and “What Goes Around… Comes Around” are connected by the same underlying idea: nothing stays gone. Kravitz wants to fly away from it all; Timberlake watches it all come back around. The two songs sit on opposite ends of the same arc: the departure and the return which is exactly what makes the title so clean. What flies away comes around. It was always going to.
Ingredients
This mashup / mix is a blend of these tunes:
Lenny Kravitz
Fly Away
Year: 1998
Album: 5
Genre: Funk rock / alternative rock / pop rock
About Fly Away
Released in 1998 on Lenny Kravitz’s fifth album 5, “Fly Away” won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance the following year — the second of four consecutive Grammy wins in that category for Kravitz. He wrote, produced, arranged and played virtually every instrument on the track himself, as is his custom. The fuzz-drenched guitar riff is one of the most recognisable of the late 90s: immediate, physical, built for volume. Kravitz had a gift for making modern rock feel like it was always from another era, and “Fly Away” sits comfortably in the lineage of 70s hard rock without ever being a pastiche of it.
Justin Timberlake
What Goes Around… Comes Around
Year: 2006
Album: FutureSex/LoveSounds
Genre: Psychedelic pop, sophisti-pop
About What Goes Around… Comes Around
Released as the fourth single from Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds in early 2007, “What Goes Around… Comes Around” spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Written and produced with Timbaland, it has a slow-burning, cinematic quality that sets it apart from the album’s more propulsive tracks. The nine-minute music video matched the song’s drama. FutureSex/LoveSounds is widely regarded as one of the defining pop albums of the 2000s — a record that redrew the boundaries between R&B, pop and electronic music. “What Goes Around” is its most deliberately brooding moment.
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