“Die For You” leans into Duran Duran and Depeche Mode while “Somebody” is another throwback bop, albeit with a bit of grungy guitar. It looks like the glitter ball and spandex movement Dua Lipa reignited last year with Future Nostalgia will continue into 2022, and it’s worth noting that production and songwriting team The Monsters & Strangerz worked on both records.
The album directly addresses Black Lives Matter
“Die For You,” featuring Floridian singer and rapper Dominic Fike, opens with part of a speech that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in a sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on November 5, 1967—a year before his death—in which he said: “If you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.”
“What I wanted to do with this was amplify [Dr.] Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice to this generation,” Bieber explained. “Being Canadian, it wasn’t so much a part of my culture […] this speech was actually during the time when [he had] a feeling that he was going to die for the cause, and what he was standing up against was ultimately racism and division. I think his message was that a lot of people can be afraid to stand up for what is right, but if you’re not standing up for justice—for what is right—what are you doing with your life? I’m sorry to get so deep, but these are the times we’re living in. That’s why I wanted to make this album, because I think it’s very timely and very necessary.”
It also discusses loss
The lyrics might be sad, but the sonics of “Ghost” are definitely upbeat, switching from house patterns to guitar riffs. Bieber explained the song is about “losing somebody you love. And I know a lot of people have; I know this has been a really challenging year where we’ve lost loved ones and relationships too. The hook is saying, ‘If I can’t get close to you, I’ll settle for the ghost of you.’ That works for this quarantine situation […] we’re not relating and connecting in the same way. It has allowed us to only really have these memories. I hope this resonates and I hope it fills your heart up with joy or comfort in some sort of way.”
It also reflects on his own mental health
In “As I Am,” featuring Khalid, Bieber reckons with himself, but comes from a place of positivity. “I love this song because it has a really hopeful message,” he says. “A lot of us, including me at times, have felt unworthy of love and so [the hook] is saying, ‘Take me as I am and I'll do the best that I can.’ It’s that commitment that I personally made to my wife. I’m here through thick and thin—this is me, take it or leave it.”
“Unstable,” which evokes an eerie atmosphere, arrives around the halfway point and is the album’s most emotional offering. “I was in a really, really bad place maybe a year ago,” he admits. “My wife was just there for me through it all. So the whole message is, like, you’ve been there for me while I’m really unstable. So that song really resonates with where I was at. There’s probably a lot of people who have been in this position. That is always the goal: to make music that’s relatable and can touch people.”
When the song finished, Bieber added: “It was important for me to not only talk about the lovey-dovey stuff but to also talk about some of the struggles [and think about] what people are going through at this time. A lot of people have lost jobs, lost loved ones — their whole lives have been turned around. It’s caused a lot of instability. So I hope [Justice] can provide some comfort or stability.”
Justice, by Justin Bieber, is out now
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