And so, one that maybe is an exception to that is That Girl, which is my ode to The Temptations or The Four Tops or you know, those really soulful, vocal groups of old. And we touched on that a little bit before on the last album, but we wanted to just explore and see where each song took us. “A lot of these songs on this album are lengthened and stretched out and a lot of them are really two songs in the same song. And that’s where the idea for Strawberry Bubblegum came from.” You both kind of stop and look at each other, and there’s this moment and then maybe the two of you fall in love and you walk down this path but you’re reminding yourself of that moment of love at first sight and then just giving it something specific. When you meet someone that you become instantly infatuated with, you remember something they were doing at that moment, or something they said at that moment, or something they were wearing at that moment and for some reason, this idea popped into my head that this girl was just blowing bubbles with strawberry bubblegum and, you know, what it smelled like as you passed by her on the street. “ Strawberry Bubblegum is about meeting that girl down the block, and it’s really about love at first sight. It’s kind of innocent in that way as well.” But some record came on, and it got him… it’s about gaining that confidence, and this is about being in the middle and seeing this girl off to the side and saying, you know, come out and dance with me. And um, it’s kind of the antithesis of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up’ because that song, if you get the lyrics on that, it really is about how shy he was and how he didn’t want to get on the dance floor. And it’s about that moment, trying to get that girl on the dance floor. But once it did get under my skin, it just feels so good, that record.”
It’s not a 30 second record, it definitely takes a second to get under your skin. And so yeah, it’s definitely a grower, that song, but I think that’s why I love it so much. But there was something about it that seemed interesting and different and not like anything I’d heard recently on the radio. It didn’t really hit me when we first finished it that I wanted it to be the first single. For me, it’s like a second or third listen record. It’s going to be exciting to see what we put on stage this summer. Y’know, obviously Jay and having him and finally doing the collaboration with him was really special for me. It’s obviously one of my favorite songs on the album.
“ Suit & Tie… it’s a feeling for sure, but it also forces you to stop and think for a second when you first listen to the record. I thought it was cool to give this girl that I’d imagined in this song her own title, and it became the title of the song.”
So, I thought that was kind of.it was humorous to me, but it definitely, just kind of sang well. I started with the verse and just came up with this idea and didn’t know what I was going to call it, and then I’d blurted it out to give this girl a nickname ’cause I feel a lot of drug dealers have nicknames. I didn’t have this song title, which is obviously just the tag at the end of the hook, until I wrote it. “And so, everything is a sort of play on words.
It’s just about being so intoxicated with someone that you feel like you’re high every time you’re with them. Love is dopamine, is a drug, is…all of those things. Here is a transcript of his explanation of some of the songs on the album. If you go to Justin’s official site you can see some behind-the-scenes content from The 20/20 Experience.
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