Justin Bieber's Justice Might Just Be His Most Adventurous Album Yet

Justin Bieber's Justice Might Just Be His Most Adventurous Album Yet




Last Sunday night noticed Justin Bieber picking up his second-ever Grammy, a notable accolade given the song it accompanied: "10,000 Hours," the country-pop team-up between Biebs and Dan + Shay. Considering Bieber's first Grammy win was for the EDM-pop "Where Are Ü Right now with Diplo and Skrillex, his latest win five years later is a testament to not only his versatility, yet his continued musical evolution.


Case in point: Justice, the artist's sixth studio album out today (March 19). It's loaded with collaborators, including Khalid, Chance the Rapper, Burna Boy, Dominic Fike, and more. It opens with a Martin Luther King quote and devotes an entire track to a speech he gave near the end of his life. It spans the gospel-pop we first heard on "Holy" and dips into synthpop perish For You"), acoustic songs of praise ("Ghost"), and the long-awaited studio rendition of "Peaches," which he debuted in full this week as segment of a NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert.


This is Bieber at his most multifaceted. And there's something very welcoming about seeing him continue on in a few directions, considering how last year's romantic Changes stayed more or much less in a singular lane — the same drive that caused him to call out the Grammys for nominating in the pop categories as a substitute opposed to R&B. "It isn't being acknowledged as a R&B album which is very bizarre to me," he wrote in a Instagram post any time nominations were reported in November 2020. "I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to create an assignment that would embody that sound."


The scope of Justice is wider. A first listen reveals that the varying styles might just point much less to Bieber's future and more to his state of mind while making it — or both. "My goal in making this album was to issue comfort to the listener," he mentioned on a recent Zoom, per Vogue. "I know a lot of people have been isolated, yet music is really an outlet to bring people together."


Come with each other and listen to Justice, right now that it's out in the world, below.












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