This year, Bieber has bookended the Hood By Air kids musical palette with carefully aggregated ubiquity, first fashioning the thrilling collaboration, Where Are Ü Now?, with their favoured producers, Skrillex and Diplo. More recently, he’s scored that special number one moment with his own boxfresh, Pocahontas-vibed pop smash, What Do You Mean?, a song whose positional lyrics come flavoured with something of Michael’s Wanna Be Startin’ Something up/down, high/low, right/left romantic predicament. Where Are Ü Now earned him his first New York Times vlog. There will be more of this sort of media placement the more comfortable he becomes talking up his game in a language appropriate to prospective new audiences. His adult pop record will arrive with the clear, readable, subliminal message: everyone’s invited to the party now. Like his immediate predecessors Miley and Taylor, Justin Bieber is poised at one positive Pitchfork embrace away from major intelligentsia re-evaluation.
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He met Diplo early, “when I was doing my first album. It was a little bit too grown-up. The sound just didn’t make sense for what I was doing back then.” His new record began three years ago. “I was in a different place and my music was reflecting that. When you’re in kind of a dark place you’re singing about kind of dark things. I don’t know if I’m ever going to release it. I probably will later. But I wanted to come back with hope.”
Sessions began in earnest at Rick Rubin’s Malibu mansion with a live band earlier this year. The Rubin material has been mostly canned but Bieber went through a useful period of personal release in the one and a half weeks he spent with the guru. “We did a lot of meditating. We prayed together. We got pretty close pretty quick.” All the material he’s since finished with other collaborators has been sent back to Rick for a last pass and Midas touch-up before release. He liked the mindset Rubin put him in. “He makes people feel valued when they’re in his presence, which is really a special quality. I’m working on that right now. When I’m in any situation, I want to make the person feel valued. Really engage with them. It’s been hard because there are so many people that always want something. But I’m getting better at it.” He says he is now wise to people who have arrived in the studio just for the dollar. “It can’t just be about getting your percentage.”
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Kanye West’s involvement clinched the record. “Kanye’s the best. He just talks. For so long. And it’s so dope. Even when it sounds crazy, I know that I’m listening to how he feels because he always puts things into such a different perspective.” He pauses. “He makes you wonder. To get that stamp of approval from him made me feel comfortable with the project.” The day after we meet, Bieber will fly to Greece where a specially constructed studio has been arranged for him to apply his last touches to the record while overlooking the sea. “I think we’ll be done in about five days.”
So uh this CD slays. I feel like I could blast Biebs in my car and be okay with people knowing I do. So getting the vinyl. Just found out the Vinyl from Urban has the Ariana Grande remix on it.
The album is out in jbhifi Australian stores now! The amount of screams I heard from young boys and girls when this and one direction album is out is a mess! The album is great and I hate him so well done I guess
Really shows a different side to WAUN.
listening now 
I wanna get lit first tho
Better late than never!