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Originally posted by Chamber
LOL@the complaining about the song lengths. Some of you are exactly what Linda Perry was talking about when she critiqued music that can be equated to 'microwavable popcorn.' The problem here is that you've all grown a little too accustomed to a bunch of quick, peppy 3-minute radio singles released by bubblegum pop singers and aren't used to listening to full albums designed to take listeners on a journey from start to finish. You're not accustomed to listening to full length albums, because all you do is cherrypick songs at iTunes.
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Oh helllll no...
It seems as if some of these (visibly) distressed JT fans are forgetting that
he himself used to make these "quick, peppy 3-minute radio singles" with a "bubblegum pop" group called *NSYNC.
Just because Justin & Timbaland decided to foolishly bloat these songs into 7 & 8 minute territory does not mean that JT is some avant-garde, overly progressive, challenging ~artiste~.
There's a reason people have complaints about these songs being longer than they need to be: a lot of it is just repeated phrases - "If you'll be my strawberry bubblegum, then I'll be your blueberry lollipop" & "YOU ARE DA LOVE OF MY LIFE" for 2:30-3 minutes straight. It's just obviously extra. Nothing substantial is being added to the first half of the song.
'Strawberry Bubblegum's first half is already 5:03. 'Pusher Love Girl' is 5:00, too. They don't have to be edited down to 3 minute bops, but there's really no need for multiple 8 minute JT ~journeys~ when we aren't going anywhere TOO EXCITING with them. It's just a lot of excess repetition.
The songs all play out like extended mixes. And, sometimes, less is more.
@ Don't Hold The Wall. 
but it's predictable and extremely boring.)
) it gets really intense and is so amazing. I'm still not sure Spaceship Coupe, and That Girl is also good, but it's not on the level of the rest, same as Pusher Love Girl.
