50. What Do You Mean?
– Justin Bieber
The last song I ever thought I’d put on my rate for top 50 songs of 2015 was a Bieber one. Last year I despised him and easily would have put him as my least favourite celebrity. In fact, I probably still would. However, not to let stan delusion and personal dislike ruin the flavour of an artistic product, “What Do You Mean?” is one of the tracks you either love to hate, or hate to love, but at the end of the day can’t stop listening to. The production is funky and it’s a bop. A shame the lyrics do seem to walk an awkward borderline of “is he talking about consent?” If so, this song does perpertuate something a little rape-culture-esque, but nothing a largely immature pop forum needs to discuss.