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Justin Bieber

JUSTIN BIEBER: CHANGES REVIEW – THE SOUND OF FAME BEING SHUNNED 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars.

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He’s still one of the world’s biggest pop stars, but this subdued, fitfully lovely album suggests Bieber no longer wants chart domination

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Connoisseurs of documentaries that reveal the full horror of becoming famous – particularly at a young age – are currently spoilt for choice. Over on Netflix, there’s Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana

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a film that makes 21st-century celebrity look like something you’d mete out as a last-ditch punishment: a lonely, exhausting world of constant scrutiny, unending bullshit and dealings with people ostensibly on your side whose commitment to your best interests looks shaky to say the least. Meanwhile, on YouTube, there’s Justin Bieber’s Seasons . The latter isn’t intended as a cautionary tale. Quite the opposite. It’s a 10-part puff piece, the ruthlessly clear-eyed, non-partisan tone of which can be gleaned from the titles of its episodes: Making Magic, Bieber’s Back. It’s designed to assure all and sundry that its star is recovered from mental and physical illness, and years of drug use that apparently began when he was 13. But an ineffable unease oozes from the screen. If Bieber appears better than he was during the tour for his 2015 album Purpose

– during the

London shows, he stood miserably on stage, unable to muster the enthusiasm even to mime to a backing track – he still seems fragile and troubled, talking with his head in his hands about the effort it takes him to get out of bed in the morning, explaining how the oxygen chamber he keeps in the studio “decreases anxiety”. “Being human,” he says at one point, “is challenging”.

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For all the onscreen captions giving viewers details of how to contact mental health and substance abuse helplines, the documentaries are patently not a philanthropic exercise: they’ve been made to promote Bieber’s new album. It arrived heralded by the single Yummy, which if nothing else, offered a stark indicator of the point pop music has reached in 2020. It was apparently designed with the intention of becoming a sensation on TikTok, the vastly popular social network where kids post short video clips. The chorus – “you’ve got that yummy yum” – was meme-able nonsense, the rest went in one ear and out the other. That was the point. On its own terms, it worked a treat – TikTok ubiquity followed – although the question of whether pop music might be better off setting its artistic sights a fraction higher than coming up with a memorable 10-second jingle, a tricked-out 21st-century equivalent of “For mash, get Smash”, or “Washing machines live longer with Calgon”, hung rather heavily over the

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Justin Bieber: Changes If Yummy seemed cynical – bolstered by instructions to fans on how to game the streaming services and get it to No 1 – then at least that’s not an accusation you can level at the rest of Changes. Indeed, listening to it after watching the first few episodes of Seasons, you find yourself wondering if the man behind it really wants to be as successful as he was. The kind of big-name songwriters and producers whose efforts boosted Purpose to multi-platinum success – BloodPop, Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco – are noticeable by their absence. Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, who co-wrote the squillion-selling Sorry, were last spotted writing for the ex-girlfriend who inspired it, Selena Gomez. Also absent are sure-fire

smash hits.

Instead, it deals largely in low-key, short, floaty paeans to Bieber’s wife, Hailey Baldwin – “it’s a blessing that you’re in my life”, “you make sure I’m comfortable”, “what are our kids going to be like?”, etc – and to his faith. The title track is over almost before it begins, unexpectedly grinding to a halt with a spoken-word section: “People change, circumstances change, but God always stays the same.” > It feels subdued and unassuming, which are curious things for > mainstream pop to be You get an occasional whiff of mumble rap in the vocal delivery of Forever, which comes with a guest appearance from Post Malone, and a hint of R&B grind on Take It Out On Me, but its primary sounds are pillowy electronics and acoustic ballads. It isn’t entirely devoid of hooks – the chorus of Running Over sticks fast – and nor is it badly done: the dense mesh of synths on Second Emotion is suitably heady, the effects-laden guitar on closer At Least For Now has an intriguingly psychedelic tint. And Bieber sings it all beautifully enough to make you wish they’d dispensed with the liberal slathering of Auto-Tune that has the side-effect of rendering evidently heartfelt sentiments and performances distant and faintly robotic. It just feels subdued and unassuming, which are curious things for mainstream pop to be. It’s a tentative, rather than all-guns-blazing, return, with a by-any-means-necessary bubblegum single dutifully tacked on to throw his record label a bone. In fact, it feels exactly like the kind of album that the clearly damaged man at the centre of the Seasons documentary would make. And, like the Seasons documentary, it makes you wonder what the future holds for

Justin Bieber .

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MAppeal_62

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Seeing him last weekend on SNL, his performances were Drake Lite.

Unimpressive.

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He's had every opportunity and he just shits on everything constantly, he has talent but always aims at mediocrity, and he's just substituted drugs with a christian cult. I generally don't like to talk badly of celebrities, but the way he squanders what he has is so annoying.

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_It’s designed to assure all and sundry that its star is

recovered,,,_

Recovered? Of course he has, now that he has joined the Hillsong

Church.

It's just another religious cult that teaches the oh so neo-liberal 'prosperity doctrine'.

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Not a fan of his music, but i do enjoy his various antics i must say.

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The most worrying thing in the docu series was the co dependent relationship with his young bride, poor girl will be stuck tucking him into hyperbaric chambers and she's only 23.

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Ugh had a quick listen to some of it and hated it. Sounds robotic.

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BTL: "I have the most contempt for Justin Bieber and people who like

his music..."

"No I do!"

"No, me!! Me, me me!!!" We get it, you are cool and alternative like everyone else who doesn't

like Justin Bieber.

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even Justin Bieber doesn't seem to like Justin Bieber

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You shouldn't listen to Bieber, you should listen to *insert dinosaur band* instead, kids.

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Dinosaur Jr? T Rex, perhaps?

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I'm looking forward to Alex Petridis' peer reviewed paper on "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - A Study Of Loss, Grief & Meaning".

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"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" was the first record I ever bought. A

classic!

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The humour in your comment tells a great truth. The Guardian used to have really exceptional music coverage with a great slate of top writers. Its coverage was both wide and deep. If a really cool or much admired gig or music event was happening, you could be sure the The Guardian (along with Time Out magazine) would either preview it, report on it or both. Today that is no longer the case. These days its writers seem take their cues regarding what is cool and important from the PR agencies and press releases of the industry. It isn't just music. Starry eyed TV previews must be written up for everything new that appears on Netflix or similar. Terrestrial TV is now far too unhip for The Guardian to spend much time on. So you are right. If today's pervading ethos had been in place decades ago we would have been treated to treatises on the likes of Middle of the Road's new opus, alongside how Chas and Dave are the most profound songwriters of a generation.

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It was a tragedy that that little bird was unable to express its loss in intelligible language.

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Why no Tame Impala review? Guardian - play to your market/readership. I'm sure a tepid three star 50 word review will beckon at some stage.

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I'm old. Music was better in my day. I don't get Jason Bibler. I don't like his music. Why is he popular? Music I like should be popular again. I'm old. I have a mortgage.

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I can't read that in anything other than Grandpa Simpsons voice.

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Dirty Sanchez

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Bieber looks 40 years old in that photo

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Yeah, not really

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Some of his stuff especially with Ed Sheehan is quite catchy. But Justin Bieber has been doing this since he was just a little boy and seems lost and directionless. He has been a cash cow for many especially his mum. When children are the main breadwinner in a family like Justin and the likes of Britney Spears no wonder they end up damaged. Children should be allowed to be children with boundaries and rules. He probably has his every whim catered but never really had a

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Crabs are catchy too.

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Depends on who you associate with.

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The fact that his parents hardly featured in the interviews says a

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This music is fucking terrible.

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Less music than a 'saleable media event'.

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What a sad damaged boy.

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So on a week where Tame Impala released their first album in five years, Bieber is the album of the week?

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Tame Impala are at least as terrible as Bieber, if not more so

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I know...right...it's sooooooo unfair...

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Nope

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He was always a prick and now he's a prick with a smudge under his

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The album cover, the hair dye, the earnest r&b — it’s all such painfully blatant attempt to copy Frank Ocean’s vibe. I don’t think Bieber’s a bad guy, he just seems so lost.

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Demi and Shaunagh are both after him on Love Island anyway.

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Hi Alexis, why haven't you reviewed Louis Floplinson's new album

Walls?

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It was out in a busy release week and we decided that we had reviewed enough 1D solo albums recently! (Liam

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4yrs after 1D went on hiatus can’t we think of them as individual/solo artists yet? Do they each have to be seen as parts of

a band forever?

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It's terribly bland, uninspired music for terribly bland people. That's what you said, right? Cause none of us read the review, for

obvious reasons..

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Smooothahhhhhhhhhh... Justin Bieber ft. Quavo: Intentions (Live) - SNL https://youtu.be/jiJmC_kqXJ8

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MEGA STAR. Plus a courageous young man. Bravo!

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Huh? None of that except for 'mega star' makes sense

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DEPRESSION

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u OK hun xxx

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the night before i went to the second lollapalooza, my visiting uncle happened upon me getting psyched up by listening to the latest ministry album. "psalm 69" i think. anyway, he spent about half an hour lecturing me on why what i was listening to wasn't really music. i was respectful and didn't call him an idiot. i don't like beiber, but that's what a lot of folks on this btl sound like. i disagreed with my uncle and 100 million people disagree with

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cool story bro.

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I'm not a ministry fan and I'm a millennial, but your uncle has a point (and a lot better taste in music than most of my generation).

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My sister once drunkenly put the 12 inch of Jesus Built my Hotrod on a jukebox seven times by accident (well six were accidental!) After half an hour the pubs Ministry love/hate ratio had altered

significantly!

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