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Justin Bieber’s ‘Standing on Business’: The largest takeaways from ‘Swag’
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Standing on Business’: The largest takeaways from ‘Swag’

Last updated: July 12, 2025 1:02 am
Editorial Board Published July 12, 2025
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Is it lastly clocking to you? Justin Bieber is again.

The 31-year-old singer surprise-released a brand new album, “Swag,” Friday after teasing followers the earlier morning with a sequence of billboards and social media posts. Bieber’s first album since 2021’s “Justice,” the new music prompted a web-based frenzy and revived a loyal neighborhood of Beliebers.

From his marriage to his paparazzi encounters, Bieber has confronted unimaginable scrutiny over the previous couple of months, which he addresses head-on in “Swag.” After listening to all 21 tracks, listed here are our largest takeaways.

R&Bieber is again

Bieber has included R&B parts in his music since early in his profession and embraced the style totally on the 2013 compilation album “Journals.” However even after coining R&Bieber in 2019, he’s struggled to be taken severely.

When 2020’s “Changes” acquired a Grammy nomination for pop vocal album, Bieber expressed his confusion at not being nominated within the R&B class.

“To the Grammys I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry. I am very meticulous and intentional about my music. With that being said I set out to make an R&B album. ‘Changes’ was and is an R&B album,” he wrote on Instagram. “It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album which is very strange to me. I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to make a project that would embody that sound.”

“To be clear I absolutely love Pop music,” he added. “It just wasn’t what I set out to make this time around. My gratitude for feeling respected for my work remains and I am honored to be nominated either way.”

On “Swag,” Bieber reveals off his R&B chops. From opening monitor “All I Can Take” and the seemingly SZA-inspired “Yukon” to “Daisies” (which reportedly options Mk.gee on the guitar), he takes a extra intimate strategy than on earlier albums. However nonetheless, longtime followers will hear hints of “Journals” and “Changes” all through the mission.

In one of many album’s unconventional moments, comic Druski feedback on Bieber’s extra “soulful,” R&B-infused sound.

“I said this album kinda sound, you got some soul on this album too, bro,” he says on the interlude monitor “Soulful.” “Your skin white but your soul Black, Justin. I promise you, man.”

He’s not ‘Walking Away’ from his marriage

Since Justin and Hailey Bieber wed in 2018, their marriage has been below a microscope. Divorce rumors circulated inside months of them tying the knot, and it didn’t assist that many followers had been nonetheless rooting for the singer to get again with ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.

Bieber’s love for his spouse is clear all through his catalog — from 2020’s “All Around Me” to 2021’s “Hailey.” However in case anybody remains to be skeptical (they’re), Bieber units the document straight on “Swag.”

On album standout “Walking Away,” Bieber will get candid about his relationship troubles but in addition reaffirms that he’s dedicated to his marriage. “You were my diamond / Gave you a ring / I made you a promise / I told you I’d change / It’s just human nature / These growing pains / And baby, I ain’t walking away,” he sings.

Elsewhere on the album, he cheers on his spouse. On “Go Baby” (which lyrically echoes 2021’s “There She Go”), he sings, “That’s my baby, she’s iconic, iPhone case, lip gloss on it” — a reference to the Rhode founder’s well-known lip gloss-holder telephone case.

Lately, Hailey offered her skin-care firm, which she launched in 2022, to e.l.f Magnificence for $1 billion. There she goes certainly.

Justin Bieber addresses scrutiny over his marriage to Hailey Bieber all through his new album, “Swag.”

(Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The being pregnant announcement music

The Biebers’ being pregnant announcement in Could 2024 was accompanied by an unknown instrumental monitor. Now, followers have recognized it as “Devotion” that includes Dijon.

On the heartwarming monitor, Bieber sings, “When your lips and fingernails are all mine / I promise to take my time givin’ you devotion.”

The singer additionally celebrates being a father to Jack Blues Bieber, born Aug. 23, 2024, on “Dadz Love.” As rapper Lil B declares we want “less hatin’” and “more love,” Bieber repeats the monitor title (which seems like “that’s love”) again and again.

There’s no remedy for Bieber fever

Quickly after the singer introduced the shock album, followers flocked to social media to specific their pleasure.

“Justin Bieber is back… I used to pray for times like this,” singer d4vd posted on X.

Bieber fever could have been latent for years, nevertheless it’s making the rounds as soon as once more.

Bieber’s ‘Standing on Business’

Bieber’s had his justifiable share of viral paparazzi moments over the previous yr. Most notable was his encounter with photographers whereas leaving Malibu’s SoHo Home, when he declared, “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business.”

The singer’s misuse of African American Vernacular English has become an web meme, however Bieber’s in on the joke. He’s shared a number of fan edits of the encounter on his Instagram, together with one which riffs off the hilarious “I’m a mommy” second on “Love Island USA.” And on “Swag,” Bieber consists of an interlude aptly titled “Standing on Business.”

“I like that you pronounce business. Usually, when I say, ‘Standin’ on business,’ I say, ‘Standin’ on bih’ ’ness,’ ” Druski says after the now-famous audio performs. “I think that’s why he ain’t leave right there. You were pronunciatin’ every word — you can’t pronunciate every word when you doin’ that.”

Bieber samples one other paparazzi second on “Butterflies”: “You just want money. Money, money, money, money, money, money, money. Get out of here, bro. Money, that’s all you want, you don’t care about human beings. All you want is money.”

The music then transitions into an sincere reflection on cash and fame: “When the money comes and the money goes / Only thing that’s left, uh, is the love we hold,” he sings.

To be clear, Bieber’s contentious exchanges with the paparazzi are nothing new. “[What] do your parents think about what you do?” he requested one in 2012. “You tell them, ‘Yeah, I stalk people for a living’?”

However just lately, these encounters — coupled together with his typically outlandish social media exercise — have led to elevated scrutiny and hypothesis about Bieber’s psychological well being. Many have even drawn comparisons to Britney Spears.

“People are always askin’ if I’m OK, and that starts to really weigh on me,” Bieber tells Druski on the monitor “Therapy Session.” “It starts to make me feel like I’m the one with issues and everyone else is perfect.”

Maybe it lastly is.

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