Justin Bieber This is a very good singer
His songs were very good at 12 years since I am listening to his songs
Keep listening to these songs in their songs all the time.
The advance singles for Justin Bieber’s Purpose showcased his best performances to date while hinting at a successful transition beyond teen pop. And yet, the full record too often comes off like a redemptive PowerPoint presentation while suggesting that the singer’s idea of adulthood involves the ability to convey pettiness without emotional intelligence.
Purpose doesn't particularly follow up on the advances suggested by his previous release, the 2013 R& B experiment Journals. That record was Bieber's first attempt at casting himself as an adult, but its efforts, alternately curious and anonymous, went largely unnoticed. For its part, Purpose mostly suggests that Bieber's idea of adulthood is the ability to convey pettiness without emotional intelligence. On new single Love Yourself, an Ed Sheeran co-write that also functions as a gentle kiss-off, Bieber sings If you like the way you look that much/ Baby, you should go and love yourself. Lyrically it's needlessly mean, neither funny nor clever, and it doesn't do much to justify the severity of its perspective.
Shortly, though, Bieber takes to a purple velvet couch with an acoustic guitar, as though it were actually important for him to display his musicianly bona fides. These songs are surprisingly enjoyable – especially Love Yourself, a stinging kiss-off to an ex that hinges on the observation that his mother never really liked her: “and she likes everyone”. Bieber’s playing isn’t always spot-on, but the pleasure he gets from it is evident. The pleasure the audience receives from his five-minute drum solo, delivered later from atop a hydraulic platform, is up for debate, however.
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