Justin Timberlake - Everything I Thought It Was (March 15, 2024) Album • Page 12

I mean, I think there’s a reason it’s not held up as a classic 2010s pop song. And i think that reason is the one we’re talking about!

 

just chiming in to say the bookend tracks on 20/20 are perfect and waste no second of their runtime. pusher love girl and blue ocean floor are all timers of all timers

 

Blue Ocean Floor is such a wild track from him, nothing like any other song of his but it's damn perfect, THAT one could last 30 minutes and I'd eat it all up

 

It's kind of crazy how I consider myself a JT fan but I really only like two of his albums in full (FS/LS and 20/20 Pt 1) and then just scattered singles. Those two albums are fantastic though, especially FS/LS which I think might be the best mainstream pop album of the 00's

Also LoveStoned is his best song

 

Other than Let The Groove Get In, Strawberry Bubblegum has my fave extended section. Listening to those two in comparison to his output in the last decade just... depresses me.

edit: Oh and Blue Ocean Floor is my favorite JT track ever. Oh how I wish he would've continued in that lane...

 

But the single/radio edit is cut down by nearly half of its original runtime. I agree that the album version overstays its welcome, but your average listener wouldn't have been familiar with the bloated 8 min version of Mirrors.

 

Haha, that's fair. I do like the radio edit more than the album version!

 

I actually remember radio playing the full thing usually

 

Even the radio edit of mirrors is too long, it should have been like 3:45...shit is so repetitive, especially that boring ass outro that's like 3 minutes long

 

This is what I remembered as well.

 

I don't get bored of any part of Mirrors really. The only song I'd cut down on 20/20 is Pusher Love Girl. I cut the last three minutes or so from that one.

 

Pushaaa lo-o-o-o-o-ve

I'm just a ju ju ju ju ju junkie for ya love

 

I also don’t like that part! I’ve been vocal about my overall distaste for “love as drug” songs, though.

 

It’s too bad that Spotify groups the deluxe in with the regular so this isn’t the closing track to casual listeners.

 

Hilarious that Spotify groups this in as a Justin Timberlake album because what in the world is this?

 

on the other hand, there's no way casual listeners get that far into the album anyway haha

 

That's the best part of the song

 

I don't like it at all, easily my least favourite part of the whole album. The first five minutes are great though.