Bieber backed up his claim a month later when he released "Anyone," his most undeniable pop song in years. Now, with Justice out , the turn looks even sharper. Released just 13 months after Changes , the new album positions Bieber's R&B phase as more of a detour. Instead, Justice picks up after Purpose , which Vulture music critic Craig Jenkins recently hailed as "one of the previous decade's finest pop projects.
It's a lot to process from Bieber, who's given few interviews on the new music. So to look behind the scenes of Justice , Vulture spoke to two of Bieber's key collaborators on the album: Bieber's band member since 2010 and current music director, Bernard "Harv" Harvey, and songwriter Gregory "Aldae" Hein. Harv co-wrote and co-produced "Somebody" and "Peaches," while Aldae co-wrote "2 Much," "As I Am," "Unstable," and "Somebody.
While you're here, how about this:
Riverside native Brooke Reese blends music and pop culture on Apple Music Hits’ ‘Pop
For nearly six years, radio personality Brooke Reese has been hosting music chart countdowns from around the world and interviewing some of the biggest stars in music on “The Chart Show,” which lands on the streaming service Apple Music 1 Monday-Thursday.
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Riverside native Brooke Reese is the current host of “The Chart Show” on Apple Music 1 and recently launched “Pop Hits Radio” on Apple Music Hits, where she discusses and shares music, fashion, movies and pop culture from the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. (Photo by Sebastian Kim)
Lil Nas X Makes a Coming-Out Statement, and 9 More New Songs - The New York Times
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter , a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.
The teenage Taylor Swift who wrote "You All Over Me" for her second album, the 2008 "Fearless," largely styled herself as a country singer. The original track was left as an outtake, still unreleased. But Swift probably wouldn't have opened it with the metronomic, Minimalistic blips that start her newly recorded version, which is part of her reclamation of the early catalog she lost to music-business machinations . "You All Over Me" was a precursor of Swift's many post-breakup songs.
How regional pop in the Hindi heartland is using Holi to push the sexual envelope
"Where is my bhabhi ?" asks a bhang -stoned Maan in the beginning of the second chapter of Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy as he sets out to get playful with his sister-in-law on Holi.
The novel is set in the early 1950s in the fictional city of Brahmpur – a place which could be imagined as somewhere located between Varanasi in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Patna in central Bihar, a region called Purva Pradesh in the novel. The narrative then unfolds telling how the regular banter between the bhabhi and her devar , or husband's younger brother, on Holi. It gets into the risqué realm of Maan's opportunist lechery, something Seth calls 'licentious attack'.
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The Musicological Zest of "Switched On Pop" | The New Yorker
The secret chord in "Switched On Pop" is that the hosts know what they are talking about. Sloan is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Southern California, specializing in pop and jazz. Harding is a songwriter. Friends from college, they had the idea for the podcast during a road trip along the California coast. When Carly Rae Jepsen 's "Call Me Maybe" came on the stereo, Sloan told Harding about how he'd used the song to teach some students the rudiments of music
A typical "Switched On Pop" episode pairs a contemporary hit with a musical topic—modal scales, descending bass lines, modulations, and so on. The strategy that Sloan used when he taught harmony by way of "Call Me Maybe" remains in play. Because the songs are so familiar to much of the audience, the hosts can wallow in technical lingo without fear of losing people.
Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor Album Review | Pitchfork
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Alicia Keys' outstanding 2001 debut, a self-produced, Chopin-inspired R&B album that blazed a unique path to mainstream superstardom.
"They wanted me, the tomboy from Hell's Kitchen, to become the next teen pop idol," Keys wrote in her memoir. The label had already brought in big-name producers to strip away the retro-soul sound that separated artists like Erykah Badu , D'Angelo , Maxwell , Jill Scott , and Keys from the stream of sex-driven R&B in the late-'90s.
How Eighties pop stars saved Tina Turner from musical purgatory
At first, Turner focused on surviving each day. She was penniless and in debt, chased for lost earnings by all the venues with cancelled Ike & Tina Turner Revue shows. She moved from one friend's house to another, earning her keep with a cleaning job. "Better to be someone else's maid than Ike Turner's wife, was my attitude," she said in her 1986 autobiography I, Tina.
But Ike had underestimated his wife again. The family slept on the floor until Turner rented some furniture, using food stamps to get by. Shockingly, even her own name didn't belong to her, as Ike had changed it from Anna Mae Bullock when she first started performing with him and promptly trademarked it. Indeed, when the former couple eventually faced each other in court in 1978, it was the one thing Turner asked for in their divorce.
How well do you know these Niall Horan lyrics?
Ever since Niall Horan dropped “This Town” in 2017, we have been obsessed with his solo work. Who couldn’t be?
Of course we have had his albums on repeat since they came out, but we have been doing a real deep dive into his incredible lyrics to pick out some of our favorite, and to test our memorization skills.
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A little Flicker , a little Heartbreak Weather , can you ace this lyrics quiz? Share your results on social media using the hashtag #RDCxNiall!
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