Justin Bieber Gets Real About Marriage, Growth, And Sex On New Album Changes

The wait for Justin Bieber's new album — one that started in earnest last April soon after his "album coming soon" tease at Coachella — is finally over. On Friday (February 14), Bieber released his fifth album, Changes (a.K.A. The perfect Valentine's Day present ever).


Changes is the long-awaited follow-up to 2015's Purpose, and yes it truly does chart the changes that have happened in Bieber's life throughout the past five years. Chief among them: he is a married man right now, and his partner Hailey Baldwin's presence can definitely be felt all over the new 17-song collection. Initial track "All Around Me" finds Bieber crooning about unconditional love, he sings of two worlds colliding on "That's What Love Is," and on "Habitual," he earnestly repeats, "my love for you's habitual."


But Changes isn't all weighty contemplations about lifelong commitment — JB understands how to have a little bit fun, also. On "Come Around Me," "ETA," and lead single "Yummy," horny Bieber comes out to play, and he relishes in someone making him feel "giddy" on the Travis Scott group effort "Second Emotion." It's all bound with each other by the sort of R&B-pop Bieber excelled at on his 2013 project Journals — with Changes, he abandons Purpose's EDM in favor of, as he once put it, "R&Bieber."


Key among the other changes in Bieber's life is his personalized and spiritual growth. The new album is the 25-year-old's first since his very public breakdown a couple of years back, while in which he canceled a slew of tour dates and hid from the world. Right now, he's become an enthusiastic supporter for his and others' mental and physical health, and his journey is chronicled on Changes' title track. "I just wanna be the ideal of me / although some days, I forget to breathe," he sings on the slow-burning number, which he previously teased throughout an episode of his YouTube docuseries, Seasons. "So that I can be the perfect for you / That's all I wanna do."


With Changes, Bieber manages to do just that. Stream the whole album — which also includes collaborations with Quavo, Kehlani, Lil Dicky, and Post Malone — below.