Justin Bieber

"been you" is amazing yeah prob the best thing on here that wasn't put out in advance

really loathe the title track

on through the one with big sean i think this is pretty tight altho that one should be way better but bieber's voice can't carry it at all for whatever reason. but the travis scott song is a throwaway, the piano ballads suck and "children" sounds like legit parody (tho skrillex's riff is kinda nice). i like the halsey song a lot which seems impossible... i'm not sure i would've known she was on it if she wasn't billed. second half is really wayward from a conceptual & strategic standpoint.

the halsey song ("the feeling") ruuuules

also the sheeran co-write is just a dead stop after the build of "what do you mean" and "sorry"

if you kept the first 7 tracks, ditched the travis scott record, moved the halsey one up, kept "where are u now" and swapped the other three out with "been you", "get used to me" and "hit the ground" you'd have a great front back to album. almost there! oh well i might just do that myself anyway.

i like "love yourself" as a song but the sequencing is weird yeah. it's like 3-4 songs too early. also knowing that it's a sheeran record makes it seem a little craven. it's a good song tho.

yeah "been you" is such a breath of fresh air after all the dogshit preceding it, hard to believe it's the first bonus track

J0rdan is crazy. The Travi$ Scött song is great. As is most of this. It's about four songs too long and it has a Nas verse on it but apart from those things it's a pretty perfect pop album.

Halfway through this and really enjoying it, its like he's finally making material to justify his celebrity.

lol at the idea of Bieber advising a woman she needs to love herself.

this album seems awful whiny

"life is worth living" yikes

It's about four songs too long and it has a Nas verse on it but apart from those things it's a pretty perfect pop album

no idea what you're hearing

this album is not good and the sudden wave of critical goodwill for bieber is baffling

'Love Yourself' is immensely hateful and snide and really sets the tone of the first half.

as a fixture in a disco ball, he's sufficiently lubricious but i find Bieber unpleasant to my soul when he's doing his more thick than thicke "I'm just a talented lil' songwriter is all' schtick.

yeah, this Is a little bit disappointing. The first half Is good (except the travis one) and some of the bonus are nice. but too many fillers.
Surprisingly, i dont hate the ed sheeran one. I always laugh each time i listen "my mom dont like you and she likes everyone".

this album is not good and the sudden wave of critical goodwill for bieber is baffling

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, November 13, 2015 5:51 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i liked your "market capitulation disguised as poptimism" line on TSJ v much

album is very boring, very whiny. idk why people are going on about how vulgar the house beats are, if only there was some vulgarity here. i don't require artists to be pleasant people but biebz manifesting adulthood as a sub-drake gaslighter is deeply irritating to spend time with

this album is not good and the sudden wave of critical goodwill for bieber is baffling

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, November 13, 2015 11:51 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean it had a great set of lead-in singles

yeah -- I understand why bieber essentially has to play contrite and compare himself to jesus/gandhi, but the songs would only half-work if he didn't. (and if he could sing, but, well, yeah)

first half is solid, second half is super iffy although i like the nas song, sounds like a LTTP outtake

my only prob w/ jordan's alternate tracklist is 'no pressure' is one of those terrible oversung bieber records

okay, on my third pass through the album i finally let it play past 'where are u now' and i got to 'children' and what the fuck is this

like this is bad enough that it makes me reassess my enjoyment of 'where are u now' and 'sorry' and 'what do u mean' in that it is just a crasser more straightforward market share grab for people who found those songs too subtle
plus it allows beebs the opportunity to rah rah his vapid philanthropic pride for (if i am hearing this correctly) "making a difference"
*coughs out a throat oyster* ¡MILLENNIALS! *shakes fist at cloud*

serious lols at Purpose with his sub tuesdays with morrie life lessons
i am compelled to transcribe this for future generations:

i don't know if this is wrong because someone else is telling me that it's wrong
but i feel this so let me just like TRY my best not to let this happen again
we weren't necessarily put in the best position to make the best decisions
you can't be hard on yourself for it; these were the cards that you were given
so you have to understand that these, like, that's not who you are; you know you're trying to be the best you can be, but that's all that you can do
if you don't give it at all you got, you're only cheating yourself
give it all you got, but if it ends up happening, it ends up happening.
that's what's happening with me it's like: i don't giving it all i got, sometimes i'm weak and i'm gonna do it
and it's like, I'm not giving myself grace, I'm just understanding that's just how it is

it's like

one day future generations will figure out why we use "it's like"

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

we weren't necessarily put in the best position to make the best decisions
you can't be hard on yourself for it; these were the cards that you were given

now film me making a racist joke about chainsaws

"The feeling" is pretty awesome: "Sugar on your lips, it's hard to kill
/Jagged like a pill, so hard to swallow"

Best album he's released to date

low ba

bar, too

i dunno, i think purpose is kinda garbage except for the singles and not even all those
much prefer journals

too many of the good songs (the singles) are shoved toward the front of the album and even that section is poorly sequenced

hm maybe my expectations were unnecessarily high but the only keeper other than what was out before the album is "company" which i wouldn't be surprised to see as a radio single further down the line

the halsey collaboration threatens to be great for ~the length of its first verse but the brightness of the chorus doesn't contrast well

i'm sure the title track will make a touching closer to his live set, hopefully with the voice recording part scraped out lol

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OK, i liked--and still like--"What Do You Mean," but this album is crashing bore.

Every single song on it is in the UK Top 100 :/

i caved in to "sorry", it's the second build-and-release in the chorus that really pushes it over the top

"what do you mean" and "where are u now" still don't do anything for me, "i'll show you" remains repulsive trash

Every single song on it is in the UK Top 100 :/

Which, according to the Radio, means he takes the 'record' off Elvis for the most entries in the singles chart.

read something similar re "reading this it's too late" but doesn't make sense since the tracks are not released as singles, right? stating the obvious but album streams don't = single sales

Yes, but they still put them in the 'singles' chart.

people love records
setting records, that is

read something similar re "reading this it's too late" but doesn't make sense since the tracks are not released as singles, right? stating the obvious but album streams don't = single sales

don't know if this affects it but he also made a video for every song

I did not realize that, maybe it counts anyway! but the drake tape surely didn't...

http://www.gq.com/story/justin-bieber-gq-interview

“I feel like that’s why I have a relationship with Him, because I need it. I suck by myself. Like, when I’m by myself and I feel like I have nothing to lean on? Terrible. Terrible person. If I was doing this on my own, I would constantly be doing things that are, I mean, I still am doing things that are stupid, but… It just gives me some sort of hope and something to grasp onto, and a feeling of security, and a feeling of being wanted, and a feeling of being desired, and I feel like we can only get so much of that from a human.”

The whole interview is a Caity Weaver masterpiece.

it's definitely a good piece conjured out of mostly nothing.

I've never read Caity Weaver before. She's pretty great isn't she?