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Review: Justin Timberlake is a song-and-dance sham on the faux-folksy 'Man of the Woods'

When Justin Timberlake suggests he's going back to his roots - as he has in regards to his new album, "Man of the Woods" - what should we take that to mean?

Sure, the pop superstar was born in Memphis, where he says he learned to sing by soaking up Southern music by Johnny Cash and Al Green.

But Timberlake spent a goodly stretch of his youth as a cast member on "The All New Mickey Mouse Club," which means that show business was at least as

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