★★★★★
Release Date: December 23, 2013 Artists have to make a choice at some point in their career. Do they stick with the sound and image that made them popular in the first place or do they branch off, taking a chance at greater fame and a new image? Justin Bieber does the latter with mixed success. Journals is undoubtedly his greatest work to date and shows a more mature, sexual side to the Canadian pop-star...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-01-29
★★★★★
Available on: Island Say the apocalypse happened today and, years later, with the arrival of an alien race, the final remaining representation of humanity was Twitter. The second most followed person on the globe, with over 48 million devotees, would be Justin Bieber. With only smatterings of self-aggrandisement and promises of infinite love for faceless masses that sound like they were churned out by marketing experts rather than the mind of a 19-year-old, that's a little heartbreaking...
- www.factmag.com
2014-01-18
★★★★★
Of course, that doesn't really say much about the music on MWA, which is prefectly innocuous pop, inoffensive pablum that for the most part will be forgotten once the kids get back from Christmas vacation. The version of his mega-hit 'Baby' on MWA is really the only stand out, it's stripped down approach highlighting the more doo-woppy elements, though it sadly lacks another guest spot from Ludacris. The live version of 'Favorite Girl' is pretty fun as are the rest of the 2...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
You thought "Chillin' by the fire while we eatin' fondue" was the most sublimely ridiculous lyric in pop history when Justin Bieber rapped it? Wait until you hear him sing it, in a love-man croon, over delicately brushed bossa-nova-style guitar. The latest offering from the Bieber Industrial Complex, featuring eight sotto voce acoustic renditions of songs from Believe, is worth it for that "Boyfriend" remake alone - and, yes, he sings the Buzz Lightyear rap, too, and sings it damn well...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-01-29
★★★★★
Release Date: June 15, 2012 90% of teenagers today listen to Justin Bieber, thumbs up if you're part of the 10% who listen to the real music like Attack! Attack! I don't know where these people are getting their research done but I'd say most teenagers or people in general don't like Justin Bieber and act as if he is the worst living human being in the world. Why? Because "his music sucks and he sounds/looks like a girl" which obviously means he's a horrible person...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Justin Drew Bieber. Ontario born and raised. Quintuple threat: singer, songwriter, musician, actor and venture capitalist. Apparently. With more than 24 million Twitter followers, he's a benevolent Joseph Kone, and the third most powerful celebrity in the world. Fact...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-07-09
★★★★★
When people say that sounds like Justin Timberlake, what they're hearing is not just the light, slinky production, the whispered rhymes and smooth falsetto, the slow jam you can dance to; they're hearing sex. Timberlake made his records post-N*SYNC, shorn easily of the jheri curls and the squeaky-clean vibe and able to make two records about sexiness with impunity...
- www.themusicnetwork.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
You should've known it was coming. It's been suspiciously easy for anyone outside of Justin Bieber's tween demographic to dismiss him out of hand until now - and the level of hatred directed at him, especially from grown men, seems to have suspicious undertones of unresolved high school angst; aren't those guys over the fact that all the girls swooned over that cocky little classmate of yours back in Year 8 and not you...
- www.factmag.com
2012-07-05
★★★★★
When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single "Boyfriend" was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber's Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts. Unfortunately, Believe is not that, though it certainly aspires to be...
- www.avclub.com
2012-06-28
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