Timbaland is days from unveiling the first installment in a “mobile-only album” released in conjunction with the bastards who overcharge me every month, Verizon, where (slightly less disgruntled) customers can purchase one new track a month (made on a bus, like Keith Partridge with creepy ill-gotten bodybuilder musculature) for the next 11 months. Rumored collaborators include Taylor Swift, Chris Cornell, and OneRepublic. (Naturally.) It will be precisely as crummy as Shock Value except it will be trapped on people’s phones, unless they work out a radio deal. In which case we might be looking at another “The Way I Are.” (Cool.) Which also means we might be looking at another “Apologize.” (No.) [Billboard]
