“Swag II” is Justin Bieber’s rehabilitation album
No, Justin Bieber’s journey is not over yet. And it is he himself who reiterated it. He does it in “Speed Demon“, The song that opens its new album” Swag II “:” and i go speed racing, we ain’t finished, we ain’t finished just year “,” “And I run fast, we’re not done, we’re not finished yet»Sing, in a pure self-empowerment. We had left him, two months ago, struggling with the story of his crises and his dramas, between gospel and praise to Christ. “Swag”, released last July, played as an alarming cry of help, that of a lost pop star, both artistically and humanly, who seemed unable to resume control of that life that the Canadian singer -songwriter himself had defined as “a film that everyone is watching”, to whose epilogue he witnessed with a sense of impotence. But that was only a face of the moon, the hidden one: to overcome that narrative, or rather, to complete it, the songs of “Swag II” now think about it. Which is the face of the moon that reflects the light of the sun. In the new album Justin Bieber puts the self-pity that characterized the pieces of “Swag” and launches itself in a series of Self-Empowerment Solari, joyful, just like the “Speed Demon” which of “Swag II” represents not surprisingly the heads. It is a piece in which the former enfant prodige of pop grew too quickly sings of perseverance and self -confidence and in which the imagination of the car races represent a push to overcome negativity and to go on.
A tour in 2026, four years after the last?
“Swag II” contains twenty -three pieces that counterbalance the twenty -one who made up the tracklist of “Swag”: Between pop, r & b, indie-rock and ballet the atmospheres are more solar and carefree than those of the first volume of the diptych. “Swag” represented at the same time the end of a new cycle in Justin Bieber’s career and the beginning of another, in a constant loop of ascent, fall and redemption: it was the disc of redemption, in which Bieber put in music the last period of his life, between scandals, gossip and that difficulty in living constantly under the spotlight that always characterizes his career. “Swag II” is the ascent album, yet anotherand it is no coincidence that a few days after the exit of the second volume of the diptych the news arrived that the Canadian pop star will be among the headlines of the 2026 edition of the Coachella, the festival that every spring in the Desert of Indio, in California, inaugurates the season of the great summer musical rallies in the USA, among the most popular and commented on overseas media events. Who knows that it is not the appetizer of the announcement of a new world tour, four years after the last, the “Justice World Tour”, closed earlier than expected in 2022 due to a facial paresis that hit Bieber.
“Everything that comes out of his mouth is pop”
In “Swag” Justin Bieber looked inside and tried to tell his inconveniences in a flow of music in which the tracks, 21 in all, equal to 54 minutes 20 according to music, followed one another without continuity, composing a cauldron of sounds that he kept inside everything, from pop to rt & b, from rap to trap, passing through the lo-fi and gospel. In “Swag II” Justin orders. Meanwhile, we no longer look inside, but around: speaks not only from pop star, but also as a husband and father, telling the importance of relationships and what it means to grow up. And he does it with songs-canzoni, by the highly pop appeal, characterized by greater stylistic cohesion than those of “Swag”: he worked on it together with the top names of the R&B, Indie and contemporary altroma panorama such as Dijon, Carter Lang, Eddie Benjamin, Dylan Wiggins, Daniel Cherit. There is also Mk.geea real name Michael Gordon, 27 year old guitarist, producer and singer that the authoritative and prestigious New York Times last year nicknamed “An UNLIKELY Guitar God”, “an unlikely god of guitar”, who in “Swag” had contributed to “Daisies” and which produces (and co-Firma) “Love Song” here. Too bad they are the only pieces resulting from their collaboration, because they are both among the most successful of their respective records and the combo between Bieber’s pop and the MK.Gee’s Do-Yourrself Dow-Yourslf attitude works: “He is experimenting. Everything that comes out of his mouth is pop music», The guitarist and producer had missed in recent months, when the news of his collaboration with the” Baby “voice had been leaked. This is just like that: everything that comes out of Bieber’s mouth is pop music and “Swag II” confirms it.
Maturity
“Swag II” is a record full of good intentions. There is a song specifically that represents the heart of the disc and is “Better Man“(It seems almost a mandatory passage to write a song in which he tells he is a” better man “in the career of a pop star in search of a personal redemption, then also artistic: from Robbie Williams to Paolo Nutini, the pop-rock is full of pieces on the theme entitled Just like this). In the song, Justin celebrates love for Hailey Baldwin, his wife, as well as the mother of the little Jack Blues, born a year ago, as an transformative force. In the text, Bieber sings how to be with her makes the best version of himself emerge and says: “I promise you only tenderness”. The Pop enfant prodige has become great. This time for real.
