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There’s grabbing a cultural moment, then there’s putting one of the greatest speakers who ever lived on your album like a low wheeze. Justin Bieber’s sixth studio album, Justice, opens with Martin Luther King Jr calling for a strong stand against injustice; a subsequent interlude from the MLK urges people to meet the challenges of society with moral courage.
Either way, Bieber’s takeaways here are a solipsistic, disturbing ensemble of pop songs gushing about the redemptive powers of romantic love. “I can’t breathe without you,” he sings on Deserve You; “There were times when I couldn’t even breathe,” he adds on Unstable – not out of solidarity with victims of police brutality, but as a metaphor for his partner’s need or as a symptom of anxiety.
Dr King’s speech equates a lack of courage in the face of injustice with a kind of living death: Bieber follows up with an 80s dance-pop tune called Die for You, in which he swears to give his life for his wife. Meanwhile, songs like Peaches let fans know that Bieber is endorsing the Georgia totem fruit crop and the grass grown in California. Funniest pandemic record, hands down.
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