Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2021 5:23:31 GMT
It’s been one year, four weeks and two days since the release of Justin Bieber’s fifth album, Changes. During that time, the world has experienced the Covid-19 pandemic, a worsening climate emergency, continued racial injustice and gendered discrimination, and sadly, much more. Let’s be honest: as a planet, we’ve had a pretty tough time. This is something that the Canadian singer is acutely aware of, as he talked about his need to “resonate with the world” during a Zoom playback of his new album, Justice, out today.
“I hope everyone’s doing OK. It’s been a crazy time in this world, there’s a lot of uncertainty,” Bieber told journalists over Zoom from Los Angeles, where he was joined by his managers Scooter Braun and Allison Kaye. “My objective in making this album was to provide comfort to the listener […] I know a lot of people have been isolated, but music is really an outlet to bring people together,” he said, before spending 75 minutes playing and talking about the album.
Here’s what happened when Bieber (or “iPad 7” as his Zoom display name read) played Vogue the 16 tracks from his new album, Justice.
His look was ‘casual chic’ with a mystical backdrop
Unshaven yet undeniably handsome, Biebs wore a buttercream Fear of God Essentials hoodie and a couple of different hats during the call. First up was a red ‘Drew’ beanie, which he later swapped for a green and yellow snapback. In between, he did his hair in the iPad’s camera. The only visible jewellery was a small silver cross in his left ear.
We were lucky to get an IRL backdrop rather than a wacky background — a huge, red, mystical-looking rug or sheet draped from up high — and he sat very close to the camera. It wasn’t always clear exactly which part of the house he was in, though he occasionally wandered off to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water, allowing glimpses of some paintings and his (surprisingly plain) white kitchen cupboards.
The title, ‘Justice’, has a few meanings
After thanking us for joining the call, Bieber explained how and why he named his latest record. “I named it Justice because there’s so much injustice in this world and there has been since the beginning of time […] My name [Justin] actually means justice, so there’s that. I’m really honoured to play a small part and be able to make music that inspires and can uplift people in this time,” he said, introducing the album’s first track, the Skrillex-produced “2 Much”, which opens with a short sample of a Dr Martin Luther King Jr speech.
The piano-led, super-soft track is a heartfelt dedication to his wife, Hailey. “I’m a hopeless romantic. This is one of those songs where I get to talk about how much I love my wife,” he grinned, before singing along enthusiastically to lyrics such as, ‘I don’t want to fall asleep / I'd rather fall in love […] Two seconds without you is like two months,’ ‘I love the way you love your mom,’ and ‘I still relive that second I met my biggest blessing / Pray for you, look what God has done.’
“I hope everyone’s doing OK. It’s been a crazy time in this world, there’s a lot of uncertainty,” Bieber told journalists over Zoom from Los Angeles, where he was joined by his managers Scooter Braun and Allison Kaye. “My objective in making this album was to provide comfort to the listener […] I know a lot of people have been isolated, but music is really an outlet to bring people together,” he said, before spending 75 minutes playing and talking about the album.
Here’s what happened when Bieber (or “iPad 7” as his Zoom display name read) played Vogue the 16 tracks from his new album, Justice.
His look was ‘casual chic’ with a mystical backdrop
Unshaven yet undeniably handsome, Biebs wore a buttercream Fear of God Essentials hoodie and a couple of different hats during the call. First up was a red ‘Drew’ beanie, which he later swapped for a green and yellow snapback. In between, he did his hair in the iPad’s camera. The only visible jewellery was a small silver cross in his left ear.
We were lucky to get an IRL backdrop rather than a wacky background — a huge, red, mystical-looking rug or sheet draped from up high — and he sat very close to the camera. It wasn’t always clear exactly which part of the house he was in, though he occasionally wandered off to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water, allowing glimpses of some paintings and his (surprisingly plain) white kitchen cupboards.
The title, ‘Justice’, has a few meanings
After thanking us for joining the call, Bieber explained how and why he named his latest record. “I named it Justice because there’s so much injustice in this world and there has been since the beginning of time […] My name [Justin] actually means justice, so there’s that. I’m really honoured to play a small part and be able to make music that inspires and can uplift people in this time,” he said, introducing the album’s first track, the Skrillex-produced “2 Much”, which opens with a short sample of a Dr Martin Luther King Jr speech.
The piano-led, super-soft track is a heartfelt dedication to his wife, Hailey. “I’m a hopeless romantic. This is one of those songs where I get to talk about how much I love my wife,” he grinned, before singing along enthusiastically to lyrics such as, ‘I don’t want to fall asleep / I'd rather fall in love […] Two seconds without you is like two months,’ ‘I love the way you love your mom,’ and ‘I still relive that second I met my biggest blessing / Pray for you, look what God has done.’
