It’s a tentative, rather than all-guns-blazing, return, with a by-any-means-necessary bubblegum single dutifully tacked on to throw his record label a bone.” It is an effective album, and also a deliberately unflashy one.”Īlexis Petridis ( The Guardian): “You find yourself wondering if the man behind it really wants to be as successful as he was … It just feels subdued and unassuming, which are curious things for mainstream pop to be. Jon Caramanica ( New York Times): “Can you be a superstar, and also in hiding? That’s what he’s attempting on ‘Changes,’ his sinuous, meditative and largely impressive fifth studio album … He finally stakes his claim, honing a vocal approach that’s soothing, tender although maybe slightly tentative, a middle ground between comfort and reluctance. And he’s never sounded better than he does on ‘Changes,’ his fifth studio album.”
His R&B tendencies are natural and unforced and, most importantly, never gratuitously flashy.
He’s a blue-eyed soul stirrer who somehow always has avoided sounding like a white guy trying to pass for black. Jeremy Helligar ( Variety): “That boy can sing. SEE Selena Gomez is in ‘Rare’ form: Reviews say she ‘dances out the toxins’ in ‘one of the best pop albums in recent memory’ How will fans greet the rest of the album? It currently has a 6.1 user score on MetaCritic, which is not far off of its critical average, though there’s probably a good chance of a number-one debut for “Changes” even though that eluded “Yummy.” Check out some of the reviews below, and join the discussion on this and more with your fellow music fans here in our forums. The lead single from the album, “Yummy,” was released on January 3 and debuted at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart despite Bieber’s aggressive efforts to get it to number-one in that debut week. Some critics say “his R&B tendencies are natural and unforced.” He’s “honing a vocal approach that’s soothing, tender.” It’s “an effective album,” “subdued and unassuming,” and “he’s never sounded better.” But “Changes” has also been described as “tentative,” “uninspired,” and “strangely characterless” with “mostly average beats” and “seemingly random” guest artists including Post Malone, Travis Scott and Lil Dicky.
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