Justin Bieber

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

Veronica ‏@amorrousbieber
started from the bottom and now we're here @justinbieber #6YearsOfMyWorld

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?

caity weaver's advice column is the best thing gawker has ever published and i'm still a bit mad that she was so good that it had to end

Oh my goodness, people are really, really upset at Justin Bieber.

Found out today that my dental hygienist's sister taught Justin Bieber's mother. That's, what, about nine-and-a-half degrees of separation?

I used to wait on his uncle a lot at my old record store job. Weird guy.

Everyone's got a Bieber story.

sounds too high

doesn't live up to the stereotype that we're all relatives

i'm sure clemenza is my great great grandfather's uncle's husband's daughter's son

What a sweetly hateful ditty.

lol i love that Ed Sheeran burn. <3

Bieber's worst single for sure.

new song is out there. kinda generic, imo.

"confident" popped up on a rando playlist i was spinning and i had a moment of "oh yeah, this guy is occasionally good"

'journals' is still his best record.

New song feels like a self-parody he would make for SNL

Very wish washy. I’ll skip. Srsly you got that yummy yum? Urgh

utter crap

it's getting spammed premiered hourly on iheartmedia's top 40 stations too. the '''''pop''''' end of the industry really thinks all you need to do to get a hit these days is be white and sing complete nonsense over any old trap beat, huh

the new one with kehlani is way better, fortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI_ifdDi1R4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJ3zbKTWQ8

did anyone listen to the new album?
it's more close to journals, but it's sounding very samey overall.

I had stopped listening to him after “Yummy”, but “Peaches” sounds good at least. he’s bought all the r&b, rap and even afropop (Burna Boy on a so-so track) collabs money can buy, but I’m not sure I’m keen to indulge him and his “MLK Interlude”s.

it’s hard to keep up with the guy (if you would want to). I see that apart from a Deluxe version of the album he has now also dropped a new EP which has him channeling Wizkid of all people on the title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMts2i93-0
Justin Bieber ft. BEAM • Freedom

i can't stand "peaches"

i have more patience for Bieber than I probably should but even I think there needs to be legislation against him starting a song "BIG UP TO MY BRUDDA"

i dislike "peaches" also, no idea how it's become his most effortless hit since purpose

well it's easily the best single he's released since purpose... the other singles off this album are just totally dire, yummy was a pretty big hit despite being deathly corny, the quavo one i can barely remember how it goes. "peaches" is an up tempo summer song with a memorable chorus, i'm surprised it took them this long to find a song even this good

"yummy" and the quavo song were from the last album not this one, which kinda underscores how indistinctive his music has been and still is in these past couple years