The original mix has an instrumentation of emo power ballad guitar strobes, hand-claps, orchestral flares, electro blips and chipmunk synth chirps accompanied with "vocoder-squawk backing vocals", and the orchestra has a noticeable much-lower volume than the percussion and electric guitars. Timberlake's vocals span from the low note of E ♭ 3 to the high note of C 5. It is composed in the key of E ♭ major, set in common time and has a moderately slow groove of 77 beats per minute. "Mirrors" is a mid-tempo progressive soul and R&B ballad with an approximate length of eight minutes and five seconds. Problems playing this file? See media help. But the way it felt to have my life be touched by her." Composition and lyrical interpretation All of that is in "Mirrors." Not the details.
I learned about long-lasting love from them. The video became a dedication to my grandparents. In his book Hindsight (2018) Timberlake elaborated about writing the song for his wife Jessica Biel, "We were living together at the time.
The strings in the song were played by Benjamin Wright and The Benjamin Wright Orchestra. Harmon provided keyboards for the song, while Elliot Ives played the guitar. The song was mixed by Jimmy Douglass, Godbey and Timberlake at Larabee Studios. Timberlake arranged and produced his vocals, which were recorded at Larabee Studios in North Hollywood, California. "Mirrors" was engineered by Chris Godbey, with assistance from Alejandro Baima. Once we got all the songs that knew he wanted on this album, then that's when we began to tie everything together, and the second part just fell in order." But then he surprised us last year and said he was ready, and he brought over to the project as well." Īlthough the final version of "Mirrors" is eight minutes long, Harmon stated that the more R&B oriented second half (in contrast with the rock-influenced first half) was made years later and independent of the original track, "We segued each piece to go into another song, so if you were to break it up, that second part of 'Mirrors' is like a song by itself. During an interview with Billboard magazine, Harmon recalled how the song was conceived in 2009, during the recording sessions for Timbaland's third studio album Shock Value II (2009), "He's like, 'I'm gonna save this one, and this is gonna go on my album.' We never knew when he was going to put it out – we were like, 'Aw man, you're in movies now!' We could have waited another 10, 15 years. "Mirrors" was written and produced by Justin Timberlake, Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley and Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, with additional writing from James Fauntleroy.
Timberlake wrote and produced the song with Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley and Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, with additional writing from James Fauntleroy. It is an eight-minute-long mid-tempo progressive soul and R&B ballad. First conceived in 2009, the track was inspired by his relationship with Jessica Biel and the marriage of his grandparents. " Mirrors" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his third studio album, The 20/20 Experience (2013).
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