Changes

by Justin Bieber

Overview

Much was made about this 2020 album marking Justin Bieber's true return to music after the 2015 release of Purpose. The singer brought more attention to the matter when he announced during the interim that he'd be taking a break, yet his high commercial standing remained between LPs -- a period of four years and three months, not exactly the five years cited in headlines -- as a featured artist on Top Ten hits by Luis Fonsi, DJ Khaled, David Guetta, Ed Sheeran, and Dan + Shay. Changes bares only a faint indication that it was made under the kind of commercial pressure applied to a "delayed follow-up." In terms of style, song structure, and lyricism, it's easily Bieber's most focused album, all percolating R&B-pop and sparser guitar ballads that articulate the newlywed's feelings of attraction, affection, and devotion. There's a key moment when Bieber works through some personal struggles (to which anyone can relate), but the singer otherwise is troubled by little more than occasional geographic distance and consequential impatience, content to embrace companionship and the prospect of spending the rest of his life with his partner. A sweet, awkward charm continues to run throughout the singer's work. He invites his lover to "get it in expeditiously," flatters her at the concession stand with "Movies all around, but you look like the feature," and elsewhere beams "Shout-out to your mom and dad for making you/Standin' ovation, they did a great job raising you." He tends to keep it so clean and nonspecific -- his co-writers, along with co-stars such as Quavo, Travis Scott, and Post Malone, are all compliant as ever -- that he could have sung most of these songs a decade earlier. While Bieber's voice still sounds like that of a mid- to late-teen, singing seems to come more naturally to him, and his falsetto pleas are neither bitter nor entitled, strictly genuine and adult. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	02/14/2020
Label:	Def Jam
UPC:	0602508692000

Tracks

1. All Around Me
2. Habitual
3. Come Around Me
4. Intentions
5. Yummy
6. Available
7. Forever
8. Running Over
9. Take It Out on Me
10. Second Emotion
11. Get Me
12. E.T.A.
13. Changes
14. Confirmation
15. That's What Love Is
16. At Least for Now

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Justin Bieber   Primary Artist
Summer Walker   Primary Artist
Phil Beaudreau   Vocals (Background)
Clever   Featured Artist,Featured Artist
Nasri Atweh   Guitar
Tom Strahle   Guitar
Bernard Harvey   Keyboards
Jason "Pooh Bear" Boyd   Vocals (Background)
Sasha Sirota   Guitar
Travis Scott   Featured Artist
Marcos Masis   Bass,Drums,Keyboards
Moses Samuels   Keyboards
Kehlani   Featured Artist
Quavo   Featured Artist
Lil Dicky   Featured Artist
Post Malone   Featured Artist
Jun Ha Kim   Bass,Guitar,Keyboards

Technical Credits

Phil Beaudreau   Engineer,Producer,Drum Programming,Composer
Sons of Sonix   Producer
Kory Welty   Engineer
David Burd   Composer,Vocal Engineer
Adam Messinger   Composer,Producer
Ali Darwish   Composer
Timothy Mosley   Composer
Static   Composer
Nasri Atweh   Composer,Producer
Josh Gudwin   A&R,Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Vocal Producer,Executive Producer
Courtney Sills   Composer
Joshua Williams   Composer,Producer
Tom Strahle   Composer,Producer
Colin Leonard   Mastering
Scott "Scooter" Braun   Executive Producer
Louis Bell   Engineer,Vocal Producer,Composer
Eazy $ign   Engineer
Chenao Wang   Assistant Engineer
JaVale McGee   Composer,Producer
Harv   Producer
Buff Monster   Lettering
Chris Shelley   Design,Packaging,Creative Director
Kid Culture   Producer
Justin Bieber   A&R,Composer,Executive Producer
Chris "Tek" O'Ryan   Engineer
Bernard Harvey   Composer
Jason "Pooh Bear" Boyd   A&R,Composer,Producer,Vocal Producer,Executive Producer
Matthew Samuels   Composer
Jahaan Sweet   Producer
Dominic Jordan   Composer
Jimmy Giannos   Composer
The Audibles   Producer
Benjamin Bush   Composer
Sasha Sirota   Composer,Producer
Ashley Boyd   Composer
Marcos Masis   Composer,Producer
Joe Termini   Photography
Daniel Daley   Composer
Anderson Hernandez   Composer
Jacques Webster   Composer
Majid Al Maskati   Composer
Moses Ayo Samuels   Composer
Olaniyi Michael Akinkunmi   Composer
Paul Jefferies   Composer
Quavious Marshall   Composer
Joshua Gudwin   Composer
Jessica Severn   Design,Packaging,Creative Director
Jason Boyd   Composer
Maneesh Bidaye   Composer
Lil Dicky   Composer
Austin Post   Composer
Billy Walsh   Composer
Derrick Milano   Composer
Summer Walker   Composer
Daniel Hackett   Composer
Elijah Marrett-Hitch   Mixing Assistant
Liza Corsey   A&R
Joshua Tyler Huie   Composer
Jun Ha Kim   Composer