Pusher Love Girl

[10] Five minutes into the song, "Pusher Love Girl" morphs into a spoken-word outro where Timberlake raps "Childish Gambino style" over futuristic hip hop beats.[17] Youssef stated that the outro may seem "bloated" to many, but that it enhances the atmosphere and "cross-genre" feel that Timberlake and Timbaland wanted, while also "building on and completing the ideas" that Frank Ocean experimented with on his debut studio album, Channel Orange (2012).[4] musicOMH's David Meller wrote that Timberlake's vocal had "retained some of its boyish appeal but now has a measured, kind of sophisticated charm", while Dean declared that his "trademark falsetto" sounds "as-good-as-ever".[1] Jed Gottlieb of the Boston Herald wrote that Timberlake "snatches swagger" from Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Al Green soul "with dashes of Frank Sinatra swing and Prince's heavy breathing".[21] Empire wrote that "Walt Disney meets Quincy Jones" on "Pusher Love Girl" and that the song rivals English space rock band Spiritualized for "dovetailing affection with addiction".[17] Metro's Arwa Haider declared that the song initially recalls Barry White and The Love Unlimited Orchestra, only with "the walrus of lurve's bass croon" replaced by Timberlake's "falsetto yelp".He commented that the "instrumental thump, slightly plodding in the live versions, tightens up until it's propelling the song forward" with an "elephantine self-assurance", clearing "enough space" for Timberlake's Prince impersonation to work "out its sweet shimmy"."[3] According to ABC News' Allan Raible, the lyrics to "Pusher Love Girl" are "very calculated" and the drug references are meant to give Timberlake, an artist who "somehow lives in a Tiger Beat bubble", "edge".He wrote that "just when we feel we've escaped with minor scratches", Timberlake repeats the line "I'm a junkie for your love" ad nauseam "until the song reaches its merciful resolution".[27] Robert Copsey of Digital Spy wrote that "Pusher Love Girl" begins "perky enough", but that is "hard to justify" its length when it feels repetitive after the first three minutes and "self-indulgent thereafter".[34] In celebration of passing one million subscribers on YouTube, American a cappella group Pentatonix uploaded a video of them performing a live rendition of "Pusher Love Girl".