Britney Spears stans send 2011 song ‘Selfish’ up the charts to troll Justin Timberlake’s comeback single

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1. [Fave review.](https://consequence.net/2024/01/justin-timberlakes-selfish-review-new-song/amp/)

   > Justin Timberlake has always kind of sucked, at least on a personal level, and his new song, “Selfish,” is just the latest turd to be floated across the surface of his long-stagnant career. It’s not just sanitized, Bieberized, blue-eyed R&B; it’s treacly schlock.

   >The lyrics are cliche heaped upon cliche, and he doesn’t bring even a whiff of sex, though you may still pick up the odor of bullshit. “Your lips were made for mine,” he sings, and while his heart may be “beatin’ for you all the time,” my stomach was “throwing up into my mouth.” And lest you think that he’s kept up with modern technology, the line, “Every time the phone rings, I hope that it’s you” feels like a time capsule from the days before the vibrate setting and Caller ID — the last era when Timberlake was relevant. “Selfish” isn’t even bad enough to be interesting, and it’s certainly not ambitious; it’s like he was aiming squarely for mediocre and still came up short.

2. I can’t believe he’s on snl this weekend tbh. He doesn’t seem very popular lately

3. Does she have a song called “I wish I could tell if you were in me?”

4. We’re using the word “Stans” again? Ugh.