\u201cI gave you the key when the door wasn’t open, just admit it, see I gave you faith, turned your doubt into hoping, can’t deny it\u201d …Where Are U Now? (2015)<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n Nope, this was not taken from any of the old school Gospels, this is a direct quote from the assembled works of Bieber..well his album\u00a0\u2018Purpose\u2019. Justin has clearly positioned himself here as some kind of redeemer figure. Which is both brave and ironic given his position in the mass public mind-set before the release of this song. But is seeking\u00a0redemption through the act of redeeming others such an ignoble act? Yep…bit confusing!<\/p>\n\nThis is\u00a0hurting my head<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cI gave you the shirt off my back, what you sayin?\u201d<\/h3>\n Sticking with the same song…<\/p>\n
Justin offering to take his shirt off is probably enough to win over 50% of the population, but what if we drill down in to this a little deeper.\u00a0What if he\u2019s not offering to take his<\/em> shirt off \u2013 what if he\u2019s talking about the way we treated him during his period in the wilderness, or his fans at least.\u00a0<\/p>\nAnd what if the question \u2018Where are U now?\u2019 is indeed introspective, and he\u2019s seeking the whereabouts of his own inner self? To achieve any great growth or change, we must at first strip down to our most base form, understand our most central identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All those years doing English literature homework is really paying off here:\u00a0massively reading in to things that really probably aren\u2019t there!<\/p>\n\nIf this is what he looks like without a shirt…hide all his shirts immediately (said women everywhere)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“When you don’t want me to move, But you tell me to go, What do you mean?\u201d …What Do You Mean? (2015)<\/h3>\n The second single released from the album. The second posed as a question. \u00a0WHAT, INDEED, DO YOU MEAN JUSTIN? It\u2019s like a lyric within a lyric, a trail of musical breadcrumbs leading up to Christopher Nolan\u2019s house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bieber seems to be asking a lot of questions in this song, but he actually only ever asks us one, \u2018what we mean\u2019. \u00a0During the song, the question is often asked after ‘our’\u00a0seemingly erratic behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst you wanna go to the left then you want to turn right\u201d, no,\u00a0this isn\u2019t the furious response to using google maps as a sat nav, this is him commenting both on the polar nature of our opinions on him and on a simpler more human level: that our own desires are often contradictory. No I don\u2019t want any chips darling, but actually if you order them I WILL STEAL EVERY SINGLE ONE FROM YOUR PLATE.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By asking us what we mean, he is asking us to disrupt our inclinations towards indecision, vanity and excess. Either that or he\u2019s rubbish at sharing chips.<\/p>\n“Before you can learn to love someone else, you have to love yourself” …Love Yourself (2015)<\/h3>\n It\u2019s a scientific fact proved by science in science class by scientists that every teenager has, at one point said (or written, tweeted etc) the line \u2013 \u2018before you can learn to love someone else, you have to love yourself\u2019. But this is of course superficial nonsense. In reality, it means absolutely the opposite: Narcissism is a clinically certifiable mental illness. The track \u2018Love Yourself\u2019, is absolutely not an indulgence of this broken soundbite \u2013 quite the opposite, it\u2019s a critique of those too quick to love themselves. A warning to us, to perhaps not fall into the trap his own ego set for him. Either that or\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Love yourself\u2019 is a thinly veiled euphemism for asking somebody to go and [insert four letter word] themselves.<\/p>\nAnd even if somehow, defying all the odds and for the very first time, I\u2019m wrong and he\u2019s actually not an Oprah, Obama, Chopra, Dylan, Dalai Lama or Aristotle, what we can probably all agree on is that he has superhuman ability, to\u00a0at the very least, appear grounded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I cannot begin to imagine the titanic disaster of a human being that I would become if I had only a small percentage of Bieber\u2019s looks, talent and six-pack. You would probably have to kill me with fire. So when he\u2019s back in Dubai, and he will be back; he has an album to promote, lets welcome him with open arms….because despite what the messiah has said…it’s never ‘too late\u00a0to say sorry’.<\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0The six best places to get an ice-cream in Dubai<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We love Justin, then we hate him…then we love him again. We’ve all been there, right? Well, at the moment we’re pretty much obsessed with him…so we asked the office Bieber expert ‘Miles’ to really analyse this modern day marvel for us in celebration of his birthday.\u00a0 Be warned…Miles means business: What a year old … ","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/03\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-01-at-11.44.30.png?mtime=20160301114504","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/03\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-01-at-11.44.30.png?mtime=20160301114504 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"
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