{"id":3472,"date":"2021-03-31T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:56:09","slug":"justin-bieber-his-sixth-album-justice-continues-the-healing-powers-of-love-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3472","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber – His Sixth Album Justice Continues The Healing Powers Of Love And Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 2020\u2019s Changes, the newly married pop star extolled the healing powers of love and faith, serving up sensual, clear-eyed R&B ballads about devotion, commitment, and inner peace. Justin Bieber\u2019s sixth album Justice continues that narrative, but finds inspiration in something arguably even more novel for one of the world\u2019s most in-demand pop stars: downtime.<\/p>\n

Like all of us, Bieber spent 2020 holed up in lockdown, unable to travel or tour due to the global pandemic. But rather than doom-scrolling social media, he embraced the relative quiet: He got rid of his cell phone, dedicated himself to therapy, and cut off work at 6 pm each night to hang out with his wife Hailey. The change proved to be nothing short of transformative, and the resulting songs\u2014a mix of soft-focus romantic reverie that recalls \u201980s pop (\u201cDeserve You,\u201d \u201cAnyone\u201d) and reflective, confessional ballads about searching for forgiveness (\u201cHold On,\u201d \u201cLonely\u201d)\u2014exude the contentment of someone who\u2019s come out on the other side.<\/p>\n

Bieber tends to use his marriage as a symbol of all his blessings, but these feel like more than wide-eyed love songs; he could be singing about any number of things\u2014religion, perspective, peace and quiet\u2014that ultimately brought him back from the brink. (In a 2020 documentary, he confessed to having endured a mental health crisis in which he felt, in his words, \u201creally suicidal.\u201d) Now, overflowing with gratitude and modesty, he sounds acutely aware of his good fortune. \u201cNever know when my mind’s gonna turn on me\/But you’re the one I call for security,\u201d he sings on \u201cUnstable,\u201d a contemplative duet with The Kid LAROI. \u201cThrough everything you\u2019ve been my rock\/I think you’re the only thing I didn’t get wrong.\u201d In track after track of heart-on-sleeve pop songs\u2014with Khalid (\u201cAs I Am\u201d), Dominic Fike (\u201cDie for You\u201d), BEAM (\u201cLove You Different\u201d), and Burna Boy (\u201cLoved by You\u201d)\u2014he apologizes for acting selfishly and promises to do better. \u201cI still relive the second I met my biggest blessing,\u201d he sings on \u201c2 Much.\u201d \u201cPrayed for you\/And look what God has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On 2020\u2019s Changes, the newly married pop star extolled the healing powers of love and faith, serving up sensual, clear-eyed R&B ballads about devotion, commitment, and inner peace. Justin Bieber\u2019s sixth album Justice continues that narrative, but finds inspiration in something arguably even more novel for one of the world\u2019s most in-demand pop stars: downtime. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86,87,466,467,279,89,468],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-album","tag-bieber","tag-continues","tag-healing","tag-justice","tag-justin","tag-sixth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}